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As Donald Trump led a fleet of golf carts on a tour of his newly remodeled Loudoun County course Tuesday, he was asked by a staffer whether it was okay to have the helicopter take off.
“Yes, tell him to take off,” said the magnate, in a baseball gap and sport coat despite near 100-degree heat. “Have him swing around in a big circle, real low.”
Minutes later the helicopter — “TRUMP” emblazoned on the side — took off from its landing spot near the clubhouse and buzzed around the course in plain view of the 15 golf carts, filled with reporters, photographers, golf critics, sponsors and Trump staffers.
The hovering advertisement was part of the theater Tuesday as the newly announced presidential contender formally showed off his $25 million overhaul of the Trump National Golf Club, Washington, D.C., an 800-acre property along the Potomac River in Sterling that is set to host the 2017 Senior PGA Championship.
Read more: Trump tees up $25 million in upgrades at Loudoun golf club - The Washington Post
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In the golf world, Donald Trump is regarded as a successful operator of first-rate courses. In the rest of the world, he’s widely known as a relentless promoter with an outsize opinion of his own worth, net and otherwise. Reading the Republican presidential candidate’s personal financial disclosure forms, it’s possible to find evidence supporting both of those reputations.
According to the forms, Trump owns at least 15 golf clubs with about $190 million in revenue. Let’s call that an average of $10 million per golf course—some of the clubs, like Doral, in Miami, have more than one course—and let’s assume, for a moment, that the disclosure described 12-month revenue data (it isn't entirely clear).
That's more than triple the revenue of a typical golf course, said Steven Ekovich, national managing director for the Leisure Investment Properties Group at real estate brokerage firm Marcus & Millichap. Many of Trump’s courses charge hefty membership fees, and can expect to make more on food and beverages, and by hosting special events, than the average municipal course, which relies on collecting daily greens fees. Still, Ekovich said, Trump’s golf revenues stand out.
“Most people in the golf industry would be salivating at those revenue numbers,” he said.
Read more: In Defense of Donald Trump (as a Golf Course Owner) - Bloomberg Business
According to the forms, Trump owns at least 15 golf clubs with about $190 million in revenue. Let’s call that an average of $10 million per golf course—some of the clubs, like Doral, in Miami, have more than one course—and let’s assume, for a moment, that the disclosure described 12-month revenue data (it isn't entirely clear).
That's more than triple the revenue of a typical golf course, said Steven Ekovich, national managing director for the Leisure Investment Properties Group at real estate brokerage firm Marcus & Millichap. Many of Trump’s courses charge hefty membership fees, and can expect to make more on food and beverages, and by hosting special events, than the average municipal course, which relies on collecting daily greens fees. Still, Ekovich said, Trump’s golf revenues stand out.
“Most people in the golf industry would be salivating at those revenue numbers,” he said.
Read more: In Defense of Donald Trump (as a Golf Course Owner) - Bloomberg Business
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Whichever side they were on, everyone with an opinion on a proposal to build 38 new homes on 5 acres of Rocklin Golf Club property agreed on one thing: They wanted the golf course to remain open.
Yet Rocklin Golf Club closed Monday. Staff was busy cleaning out the pro shop and restaurant. Driving range mats had been pulled up, tee blocks were gone and each green sported a hole in what turned out to be the final location but no flagstick.
The water was turned off with the intention of letting the grass areas of the 187-acre parcel return to their natural state.
The closure comes after the Rocklin City Council voted 5-0 in June to deny the development and puts an abrupt end to a contentious year-long campaign.
Read more here: Rocklin Golf Club closes after 52-year run | The Sacramento Bee
Yet Rocklin Golf Club closed Monday. Staff was busy cleaning out the pro shop and restaurant. Driving range mats had been pulled up, tee blocks were gone and each green sported a hole in what turned out to be the final location but no flagstick.
The water was turned off with the intention of letting the grass areas of the 187-acre parcel return to their natural state.
The closure comes after the Rocklin City Council voted 5-0 in June to deny the development and puts an abrupt end to a contentious year-long campaign.
Read more here: Rocklin Golf Club closes after 52-year run | The Sacramento Bee
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By Kit Eaton - The New York Times
Here’s a conversation topic for you and your golfing buddies as you kick back at the 19th hole on a summer’s evening and look back over your day on the course: all the apps that can help with your golfing game.
Of the many golf-related apps, some are intended to improve your technique and mastery of the sport, while others are aimed at increasing a golfer’s knowledge of the rules. Still other apps will teach you tricks about your favorite golf course.
For all the rules of the game, people can go straight to the source - the R&A, one of golf’s governing bodies - with the official Rules of Golf app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7. The free app is simple, even austere in design, with muted colors, simple text and a plain graphical interface.
The first page is a guide to the most common issues and questions that may arise during a round of golf, telling you what to do, for example, if the ball is accidentally moved during play. There is also a section on etiquette, as well as one on the main rules. Selecting a rule from the list shows you more detail, and each one has clearly written text, plus videos and diagrams where necessary. To help memorize the rules, take the quiz with multiple choice answers in the app.
Golf GPS & Scorecard from Swing by Swing is one of the most popular golfing apps. As its name suggests, the app has two main features.
Read more: Golf apps can improve your game | www-myajc-com
Here’s a conversation topic for you and your golfing buddies as you kick back at the 19th hole on a summer’s evening and look back over your day on the course: all the apps that can help with your golfing game.
Of the many golf-related apps, some are intended to improve your technique and mastery of the sport, while others are aimed at increasing a golfer’s knowledge of the rules. Still other apps will teach you tricks about your favorite golf course.
For all the rules of the game, people can go straight to the source - the R&A, one of golf’s governing bodies - with the official Rules of Golf app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7. The free app is simple, even austere in design, with muted colors, simple text and a plain graphical interface.
The first page is a guide to the most common issues and questions that may arise during a round of golf, telling you what to do, for example, if the ball is accidentally moved during play. There is also a section on etiquette, as well as one on the main rules. Selecting a rule from the list shows you more detail, and each one has clearly written text, plus videos and diagrams where necessary. To help memorize the rules, take the quiz with multiple choice answers in the app.
Golf GPS & Scorecard from Swing by Swing is one of the most popular golfing apps. As its name suggests, the app has two main features.
Read more: Golf apps can improve your game | www-myajc-com
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This year’s enduring good weather has been a bonus for golf-barmy enthusiasts like myself but we’ve finally seen the golf season sink below the horizon to be replaced by what I call the Fantasy Season. Calling what others refer to as “Winter” by another euphemistic name infers that the conditions that define that season don’t exist in the opposite months of the year Just as freezing rain and snow do not occur in summer.
Fantasizing, for me at least, is strictly a November to April phenomenon. Never have I sat on my screened porch in the middle of summer and fantasized about getting the snow blower out – maybe clean it up, do some dry runs up and down the driveway. Not once have I sought out an indoor facility that would allow me to get in some serious snowshoeing during August. I can’t remember ever walking a golf course in brilliant July sunshine and thinking, “In only four or five months this will all be slush and ice! Maybe we’ll get a real early Winter – wouldn’t that be great?”
There are several levels of Fantasy Golf we can participate in during the What-the-Hell’s-the-Point? season. Last year I conducted a four man fantasy golf league with the guys who go on our annual Pinehurst Golf Orgy, with the winner (my innate humility prevents me from naming this person, but it certainly wasn’t any of the other three guys I go with), getting two free breakfasts at The Track Diner in Pinehurst. It got us thinking about and participating in the sport if only cerebrally (except for Ed, who only accumulated points when he persuaded his wife to make his choices).
The next level involves actually using a club. Putting on a carpet is definitely a sign of pathetic desperation, but most of us do it at some point during the Colder-Than-a-Tin-Tibetan-Toilet-Seat season. I have to admit it gets pretty boring for me, despite my attempts at fantasizing situations such as “It’s the 72nd hole at Augusta National and I need this putt to wrest the Masters Tournament from Jordan’s tenacious grasp”. If I could get something other than straight putts it might be a tad more interesting, although there are some nasty grain issues with some forms of carpeting.
The next step is creating whole holes in your home. I used to do a lot of golf that involved the “Okay, this hole is tee off from the ottoman, bank a putt off the hall wall into the bathroom and chip into the bathtub” kind of holes, but that was back when I was a foolish youth. My current geezer foolishness mode is a different animal entirely.
Next we have the driving net. I made some subtle hints many Christmases ago to my wife, The Amazing Max, that I would like one of these (“I want a driving net for Christmas.”), but once I had one, it became just as boring as carpet putting. At least with the flatstick you can see a result. With a net, pretty much every shot appears to be straight and I used the theory that I could be developing bad habits with the net without realizing it, to eventually rationalize abandoning it.
Finally we have the indoor Golf Simulator, the ultimate answer to how we can survive our hibernation. There are many who embrace this form of fantasy, joining Wednesday Night Leagues that allow them to keep in touch with their buddies and buddettes, keep their charm-the-cart-girl skills honed and of course maintain their swing so they can hit the course right out of the blocks with their usual crappy game without going through the early season pre-crappy phase.
My problem is, these don’t work for me. Aside from the anomaly of putting my clubs in my car in the middle of the Dark-and-By-the-Way-Where-Did-I-Put-those-Razor-Blades? season in freezing weather, I just can’t score on these suckers. Everyone else can; the last time I tried simulator golf my two friends had scores just under their handicap, while I was about twenty strokes over mine. The problem is that I hit the ball too high. In desperation I resorted to hitting driver off the deck, which was low enough for the sensors to pick up, but naturally cost me significant distance.
There is just one other component that is a given during Fantasy season. Without fail, I know my best friends will continue sending me pictures of themselves cavorting in the Florida sunshine. They know I won’t be golfing for several months so they try to boost my moral by reminding me that they are currently on the 5th hole in 80 degree weather at the Coral Reef Palm Court Ocean Breeze Course of the Sand Dollar Sun City Pina Colada Resort.
This of course triggers other, non-golf fantasies that involve a lot of pain and suffering and in which they play a major role. Not that I’m bitter.
Read more: Fantasy Golf - Golf
Fantasizing, for me at least, is strictly a November to April phenomenon. Never have I sat on my screened porch in the middle of summer and fantasized about getting the snow blower out – maybe clean it up, do some dry runs up and down the driveway. Not once have I sought out an indoor facility that would allow me to get in some serious snowshoeing during August. I can’t remember ever walking a golf course in brilliant July sunshine and thinking, “In only four or five months this will all be slush and ice! Maybe we’ll get a real early Winter – wouldn’t that be great?”
There are several levels of Fantasy Golf we can participate in during the What-the-Hell’s-the-Point? season. Last year I conducted a four man fantasy golf league with the guys who go on our annual Pinehurst Golf Orgy, with the winner (my innate humility prevents me from naming this person, but it certainly wasn’t any of the other three guys I go with), getting two free breakfasts at The Track Diner in Pinehurst. It got us thinking about and participating in the sport if only cerebrally (except for Ed, who only accumulated points when he persuaded his wife to make his choices).
The next level involves actually using a club. Putting on a carpet is definitely a sign of pathetic desperation, but most of us do it at some point during the Colder-Than-a-Tin-Tibetan-Toilet-Seat season. I have to admit it gets pretty boring for me, despite my attempts at fantasizing situations such as “It’s the 72nd hole at Augusta National and I need this putt to wrest the Masters Tournament from Jordan’s tenacious grasp”. If I could get something other than straight putts it might be a tad more interesting, although there are some nasty grain issues with some forms of carpeting.
The next step is creating whole holes in your home. I used to do a lot of golf that involved the “Okay, this hole is tee off from the ottoman, bank a putt off the hall wall into the bathroom and chip into the bathtub” kind of holes, but that was back when I was a foolish youth. My current geezer foolishness mode is a different animal entirely.
Next we have the driving net. I made some subtle hints many Christmases ago to my wife, The Amazing Max, that I would like one of these (“I want a driving net for Christmas.”), but once I had one, it became just as boring as carpet putting. At least with the flatstick you can see a result. With a net, pretty much every shot appears to be straight and I used the theory that I could be developing bad habits with the net without realizing it, to eventually rationalize abandoning it.
Finally we have the indoor Golf Simulator, the ultimate answer to how we can survive our hibernation. There are many who embrace this form of fantasy, joining Wednesday Night Leagues that allow them to keep in touch with their buddies and buddettes, keep their charm-the-cart-girl skills honed and of course maintain their swing so they can hit the course right out of the blocks with their usual crappy game without going through the early season pre-crappy phase.
My problem is, these don’t work for me. Aside from the anomaly of putting my clubs in my car in the middle of the Dark-and-By-the-Way-Where-Did-I-Put-those-Razor-Blades? season in freezing weather, I just can’t score on these suckers. Everyone else can; the last time I tried simulator golf my two friends had scores just under their handicap, while I was about twenty strokes over mine. The problem is that I hit the ball too high. In desperation I resorted to hitting driver off the deck, which was low enough for the sensors to pick up, but naturally cost me significant distance.
There is just one other component that is a given during Fantasy season. Without fail, I know my best friends will continue sending me pictures of themselves cavorting in the Florida sunshine. They know I won’t be golfing for several months so they try to boost my moral by reminding me that they are currently on the 5th hole in 80 degree weather at the Coral Reef Palm Court Ocean Breeze Course of the Sand Dollar Sun City Pina Colada Resort.
This of course triggers other, non-golf fantasies that involve a lot of pain and suffering and in which they play a major role. Not that I’m bitter.
Read more: Fantasy Golf - Golf
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The first thing I considered when I learned that Tiger Woods had withdrawn from the upcoming Masters Tournament wasn't that the event would suffer from the absence of its four-time champion.
Sure, it's a big deal for the game that Tiger won't play in Augusta next week, but the Masters is bigger than any one player.
Instead, I began to wonder how this latest injury, which will keep Woods out of his first Masters in 20 years, is a setback that could severely hurt his chances of breaking Jack Nicklaus' record of 18 major championships.
Nicklaus' record is all that keeps Tiger playing. It's not to win FedEx Cups or to break Sam Snead's mark of 82 career PGA Tour wins or to amass more millions in earnings.
Nicklaus' record alone holds our attention.
This was supposed to be a special year in the majors for Tiger -- one that was sure to end his six-year winless drought in these events.
Woods had won six of his 14 majors on 2014's major courses. Even with the incredible depth in the game, it was a good bet that Tiger was going to win on at least one of these courses.
Now nothing is certain about his season of majors.
The back surgery this week is just one more calamity to derail Tiger's path to Jack in a long line of injuries and personal trials over the past several years.
How is Tiger going to beat kids nearly half his age with a bad back?
It's a shame.
Can you imagine if Henry Aaron got to 550 home runs and injuries kept him from reaching Babe Ruth's all-time record of 714? Or if Pete Rose had been kicked out of baseball nearly 1,000 hits shy of Ty Cobb's record?
Wouldn't it put a small blemish on one of the greatest sports stories of all time if Tiger couldn't complete the fairy tale and best Nicklaus? Wouldn't Tiger getting to 19 majors complete that wonderful arc that started with his 12-shot win at the 1997 Masters?
This injury and absence from Augusta has to scare the hell out of Tiger. How many more majors does he have to realistically be a top contender?
It's very presumptuous to think that Tiger would have won next week at Augusta. He had three victories last year going into Augusta and didn't break 70 in a tie for fourth. At the next three majors, his play was uninspired.
Withdrawing from the Masters just renders a win that was doubtful in the first place merely impossible to achieve because he's not in the field to create buzz about what he will do.
No need now to get your hopes up that he will do something miraculous to win his fifth green jacket.
For Tiger, Nicklaus' record must now feel like a very difficult climb at this point in his career. He turns 39 in December, and no matter what you do in terms of diet and exercise, the body continues to age.
But the good news is that when Tiger is healthy and in the field, he has at least a chance of competing. What's for sure is that he can't break the record if he is not healthy enough to play.
The game is at its best when he is competing at his best in the majors, and even better when he is winning these tournaments.
Down the line, what we may remember most about this time is not whether Tiger broke Nicklaus' record, but everything that he went through to try to do it.
After all the injuries that he has struggled through over the years, it's likely that whatever befalls him in his remaining days on tour will be borne out of great struggle and some pain.
Tiger Woods' record chase slipping away? -- golf - ESPN
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“Yes, tell him to take off,” said the magnate, in a baseball gap and sport coat despite near 100-degree heat. “Have him swing around in a big circle, real low.”
Minutes later the helicopter — “TRUMP” emblazoned on the side — took off from its landing spot near the clubhouse and buzzed around the course in plain view of the 15 golf carts, filled with reporters, photographers, golf critics, sponsors and Trump staffers.
The hovering advertisement was part of the theater Tuesday as the newly announced presidential contender formally showed off his $25 million overhaul of the Trump National Golf Club, Washington, D.C., an 800-acre property along the Potomac River in Sterling that is set to host the 2017 Senior PGA Championship.
Read more: Trump tees up $25 million in upgrades at Loudoun golf club - The Washington Post