December 31 Grand Lake Golf Report
Golf Books for Winter Reading
Harvey Penicks Little Red Book
By Harvey Penick
“Select one club, perhaps a 7-iron, and love it like a sweetheart.” When it comes to golf instruction, it isn’t always what you say but how you say it. And no one said it better than Harvey Penick, the homespun poet of the practice range. Penick made a habit of scribbling tips and observations in a red spiral-bound notebook. “Take dead aim.” “Swing the club like a weed cutter.” Late in Penick’s life, those pearly phrases became the source material for what now ranks as the best-selling golf book of all time.
Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf
By Ben Hogan
Hogan looked for answers in the dirt. Then he wrote them down in this sharply focused volume, laying out the fundamentals of golf’s most famously repeatable swing. Do exactly as he tells you. Then do it again, several million times.
My Life In & Out of the Rough: The Truth Behind All That Bull**** You Think You Know About Me
By John Daly with Glen Waggoner
The truth? You can’t handle the truth. Well, actually you can, because, sordid as it is, Long John keeps the storytelling brisk and the details entertaining. The gambling. The addiction. The multiple divorces. He even gives the down and dirty on some of the very good golf he’s played.
By Mark Frost
The year: 1913. A blue-collar kid named Francis Ouimet, who grew up across the street from The Country Club in Brookline and who learned to play the game there as a caddy, enters the U.S. Open at that very course, and against all odds, wins the title, beating two of the world’s best players in an 18-hole playoff. With a 10-year-old caddie on his bag. You can’t make this stuff up. Lucky for Mark Frost — and for us — the author didn’t have to.
Golf Quotes. “Golf is about how well you accept, respond to, and score with your misses much more so than it is a game of your perfect shots.” -Dr Bob Rotella
Martini Tees. Now in stock. Give them try.
Handwarmers are in stock 2 for $1.99. Great time to stock up.
Grand Lake Golf Venues
-Cherokee Grove Golf C.se (Grove) @ 918-786-4100+
-The Coves Golf Club (Duck Creek) @ 918-782-3220
-Grand Cherokee Golf Course (Langley) @ 918-435-8727.
-Patricia Island Golf Club (Grove) @ 918-786-3338
-Peoria Ridge Golf Club (Miami) 918-542-7676
-Shangri-La Golf Club (Monkey Island) @ 918-257-4204
-Eagle Creek Golf Club (Joplin) @ 417-623-5050
-Elk River C.C. (Noel) @ 417-475-3208
Kelly Custom Golf (Grove) @918-787-7640
Keep it in the Middle
Mike Kelly