Grand Lake Winter Golf Tips

More Tips for winter golf

President Woodrow Wilson famously played golf in the snow using black golf balls. Few golfers are that dedicated, but cold weather doesn’t have to keep you off the golf course. The key is knowing how to dress. Heavy winter clothing and thick gloves will hinder your ability to swing a club. Proper cold weather golf attire provides full body warmth and protection from the elements while allowing you to make a relatively free golf swing. Layer up and swing away!

Here are a few tidbits about the history of golf .

1. The most famous left-handed golfer is actually right-handed! As a child, Phil Mickelson mirrored his father’s game and never looked back. He is known for never using right-handed clubs in his entire career.
2. Golf is one of only two sports to have been played on THE MOON. Back in February of 1971, Apollo 14 member Alan Shepard hit a ball with a six-iron, but he had to swing with only one hand due to his pressure suit. The only other sport ever played up there (at least by a human) was the javelin throw around the same time. The ball and javelin are still there! It was later in 2006 when Russian astronaut Mijail Tiurin became the first person to drive a golf ball into space.
3. Among the many celebrities who have played golf through the years, at least one – Samuel Jackson – has a special clause in all of his movie contracts that allows him to play golf twice a week while filming.
4. There wasn’t always a thing called ‘tees’ in golf. Golfers used to play off of hand-built sand piles until tees were invented and became more widely used in the 1920s.
5. Most people generally credit Annika Sorenstam as being golf’s female trailblazer. However, Babe Zaharias is the first and only female golfer to make the cut at a PGA TOUR event in 1945, shooting 76 and 81 during the first two rounds of the Los Angeles Open.
6. Augusta National Golf Club, which is one of the most famous courses in the world, closed for three years at the height of World War II. Golf was replaced by cattle and turkey on its grounds to help support the war effort. The grass was literally greener!

Golf Wit:  Last words of a golfer standing in the woods? "I can see a gap."

CHEROKEE GROVE GOLF COURSE

Weekend Skins

The starting time is 11:00 a.m (weather Permitting) and It is still the cheapest skins game in the world!  Sometimes Best Ball Scramble or Best Ball Scramble Skins. Check it out.  All are welcome.  Fair draw for partners. Saturdays and Sundays get your golf on!   40 Degrees or warmer.

LOCAL GOLF VENUES

-Cherokee Grove Golf Course (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 golf shop

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