About a week ago, my oldest child received a mailing from the Minnesota Wild Kids Club. One sheet was an ad for an upcoming ice show, while the other had a trivia contest promising prizes for the first 50 kids to respond with the correct answers. We went through the ten questions right away (with the help of wild.com) and mailed it in the next day.

Today a package arrived with an autographed copy of the 2006-07 Wild Yearbook! We hadn’t purchased one of those this year, so it was a double treat. Brent Burns and Manny Fernandez hand-signed the cover…too cool!

GopherSports.com reports that the Gopher men’s golf team has been seeded 11th (out of 27 teams) in the central region of the NCAA golf championship. They will play May 17-19 at Rich Harvest Farms golf course in Sugar Grove, Illinois, site of the 2009 Solheim Cup.

Other Big Ten teams competing in the central regional include Michigan State (10 seed), Northwestern (13), Wisconsin (15) and Purdue (16). Penn State will play in the east regional at The Golf Club of Georgia in Alpharetta, Georgia.

Teams advancing will play May 30-June 2 at the Gold Course at Golden Horseshoe Golf Club in Williamsburg, Virginia. For some dumb reason, Golf Channel coverage will not be shown until July…

Go Gophers!

While visiting Faribault Golf Club last weekend, I picked up a complimentary copy of the April 2007 edition of Executive Golfer magazine.

Published by Pazdur Publishing, Inc., this edition contained several stories and a large national directory of private courses, including Minnesota clubs.

According to their website:

Executive Golfer is a national magazine, published bimonthly and exclusively for America’s private club members. Its readers are wealthy and cultivated. Executive Golfer delivers heads of household with higher incomes than Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, and Barron’s.

Executive Golfer is a niche publication. Its purpose is to deliver America’s richest executive golfers. Consequently, Executive Golfer’s private controlled circulation of over 100,000 is rigidly restricted to over 3,500 of America’s finest private country clubs. It is not available on the newsstand.

Personally, I found the writing and attitude hard to take. Does the world really need a private golf club with it’s own private ski area? As if those sports aren’t exclusive enough as it is…