8C Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Bulletin, Record, Progressive, Reporter
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GOLF PROSE
MARC TERRY
I don't know about you but
I do know about me and I
love a good laugh. So I like
to check the weather and the
ermen
and politicians can improve game of golf
double bogey is going on.
After all it's always good
to know if it's going to be
sunny, rainy, snowy or bliz-
zardy and adjust your day
accordingly. Likewise it
would be nice to know what
direction the politicians are
steering the USS America so
that we the people can adjust
our lives accordingly.
But I see too many weath-
er projections and political
promises evaporate into
nothing when they promised
economy and listen to the ex-
perts' projections and
promises. I've heard that
both weathermen and politi-
cians are necessary evils be-
cause without weathermen
we wouldn't have weather
and without politicians we
wouldn't have politics. And
on that rare occasion when
what comes out of their
mouthcoincides with reality
it can be comforting to be-
lieve there is someone out
there who knows what the
big changes or degenerate
into a storm when they fore,
cast sunny skies. So how the
triple bogey do they get
away with being wrong so
much of the time and still
keep their jobs? I wish I
could do that and still get
paid.
Now there's an idea I
could teach golf like a weath-
erman forecasts or a politi-
cian promises. For example,
I could forecast like a weath-
erman and tell my student
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Raft guide Kalima Severson, left, along with students Janae Hutchins and Amanda Nolan, navigate a fun set of rapids on
the North Fork Feather River during Feather River College's beginning whitewater rafting class earlier this month.
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he had a 50 percent chance
of hitting the ball before the
ground with a 20 percent
chance of the ball going any-
where near the target and if
he doesn't heed my advice
he has a zero percent chance
of any real improvement.
Or I could promise like a
politician and once I conned
the customer into selecting
me to the job, I could do little
or nothing during the les-
son, incorrectly assume the
student couldn't tell how
quadruple bogey useless I
was and still get paid the big
bucks. Or, even better, I
could be both, a sort of hy-
brid part weatherman and
part politician. I could be in-
correct half the time and in-
competent most of the time
and still get retirement with
health benefits for the rest of
my time. Yeah, that's the job
for me.
Now to be fair I shouldn't
lump the weather folks in
with the political.., folks.
After all, the weather is not
under the control of the
weathermen. Just as it ap-
pears politics is not under
the control of the politicians.
And if your golf game is
not under your control, you
might want to check out our
instruction program at
Graeagle Meadows, because
until I land that sweet job, I
am here to help my fellow
golf sufferers to suffer less.
Two programs I want to
point out are part of our
Play Golf America program
our Women's Clinic and
PGA Junior Sports Acade-.
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Register before May 15th and receive a free T-s:irt!
Join us for our Labor Day Weekend Famflly Camp!
August 31 - September 3, 2012
The one-hour Women's
Clinic will cover every as-
pect of the game from the
shortest putt to the longest
drive. And in addition to our
popular three-day junior golf
camps in late July and Au-
gust, we are adding a two-
hour PGA Sports Academy
for juniors who just can't get
enough golf. You can go to
the website for more details
such as, "The PGA Sports
Academy is designed to
bring the next generation of
golfers to the sport in a fun
and interactive program and
is focused on developing j u-
nior golfers using five key
areas:
--Fitness and nutrition.
Golf skills.
Sportsmanship, rules
and etiquette.
Golf and 'near golf' expe-
riences.
--Golf and physical assess-
ments.
"These five areas will be
delivered by PGA and LPGA
professionals in a fun and
engaging way. This will give
every junior the opportunity
to enjoy golf either socially
or competitively, based on
his or her individual de-
sire."
Both the womei's and ju-
niors' programs will be
mostly weekly and you can
find out more about them at
playgolfamerica.com. Just
go to the website, enter the
96103 ZIP code to check out
the programs, then sign up
and get golf ready.
Oops, I have to make this
quick because I'm running
out of space, so here are two
things I want you to do.
First, check out the remod-
eled clubhouse at Graeagle
Meadows. I guarantee you
will like what you see. Sec-
ond, take advantage of three
indispensable tools for im-
provement the video cam.
era, the divot and the ball.
These three tools won't
make predictions or promis-
es to you -- they will tell you
exactly what you did, right
or wrong. But if you're not
sure how to interpret the in-
formation these tools pro-
vide then take a lesson from
your local PGA pro, some-
one who does know how to
use these tools and others.
And in conclusion, my fel-
low golfers, after you take a
lesson you'll have to spend
50 percent more time prac-
ticing with a 15 percent
chance of actually getting
better over the next week.
But if you continue to prac-
tice, your chance of im-
provement increases to 60
percent for the following
week. And if you stay the
course, sunny skies are
ahead, although anyone who
has ever played golf knows
that patchy periods of dark-
ness will come, interspersed
with rare and fleeting mo-
ments of glory. No one said
golf or the weather were go-
ing to be easy or predictable.
And no one said anything
good about politics at
least not lately.
Need help
REPLACING
or
REPAIRING:
• DOORS
• TRIM
• WINDOWS
• PLUMBING
• ROOFING
• ELECTRICAL
If it's something we
can't fix, we'll find
somebody who can.
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