Halloween 2007 pictures available in the private section of the photo gallery.
Have a safe one ghosts and goblins!
Since I was already getting Leopard questions from people, I decided today was the day.
There are tons of great stories online about this, so I’ll just hit the main points of my experience.
Wow, I can’t believe it’s been three weeks since I’ve written a post here. Time for a quick check-in, then I’ll write more later this week…
It’s been a beautiful fall in Minnesota. Awesome colors, warm temps and a few unexpected rounds of golf before the snow arrives.
A week ago, it was the senior professionals competing in Florida. This week it was the assistant pros.
The TaylorMade-adidas Golf PGA Assistant Professional Championship was held October 25-28 at the PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
Five Minnesota assistants qualified to play for a purse of $100,000 on the 6,754 yard Wanamaker course.
I played my first round of the year at Willingers Golf Club in Northfield and now have played back-to-back rounds there to finish the year (although the forecast does look nice next week).
The changes to the clubhouse have turned out very nice. It’s not quite Legends Club nice (also owned by the same people), but it is an improvement on the old setup.
Last weekend I took my youngest daughter on a trip to Cannon Falls that included one of the best kept golf secrets in the metro area. The Summit Golf Club has a well-maintained, entertaining par-3 short course that is perfect for kids. Best of all, up to two kids play for free with a paying adult ($10).
The kids have fun and I get to practice my short game. Plus we usually stop at Greg’s Meats for their award-winning beef jerky and the Cannon Falls Hi-Quality Bakery for mint brownies and Special K bars. How can you go wrong?
In a tournament beset by weather issues, several Minnesotans made the trip south to the PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Florida to play in the Callaway Golf Senior PGA Professional National Championship.
Mike Barge of Hazeltine National was tied for third after the first round, shooting a five-under-par 67. The next few days weren’t as kind, but Barge did make the cut and tied for 17th, shooting 67-73-74-71-285 (-3) and winning $3,230.
2004 Minnesota Section PGA Teacher of the Year, co-host of KFAN’s Tee to Green show and all-around good guy Craig Waryan left Minnesota last week for his annual winter teaching season in Arizona.
The Edinburgh USA master professional teaches at the Bird Golf Academy in Avondale, Arizona, during the winter months.
Last week we visited the private Dellwood Hills Golf Club in Dellwood, Minnesota. Located next door to the Donald Ross designed White Bear Yacht Club, Dellwood Hills is a long Don Herfort course that has several holes in the process of being upgraded based on plans by Garrett Gill and Paul Miller.
Not a great weekend weather-wise for running events, but we had a good time anyway. Saturday was rainy, a little warm and very humid, while the big races on Sunday started out at 72 degrees with 87% humidity and got worse from there.
The whole family headed down to the capital on Saturday to attend the kid events. The tall one ran the 5K with me in just under 40 minutes, while the short one ran the one miler with me for the first time. Both needed a little encouragement to finish, but everyone was very proud afterwards.
This weekend we visited Valleywood Golf Course in Apple Valley. You would have never known it was early October in Minnesota–sunny and 87 degrees with a course packed with people. Unfortunately, that also created slow play issues that required a phone call to the clubhouse to help resolve.
Aren’t you supposed to let your boss win? Edinburgh USA professional Adam Guili defeated Edinburgh Director of Golf Don Berry 1-up yesterday to win the 2007 Minnesota PGA Match Play Championship held at…Edinburgh USA.
Guili beat last year’s champion Jeff Sorenson of Columbia, while Berry earned his way to the final by defeating Mendakota’s Dale Jones 2 and 1 (full bracket here).