I was looking at my personal blog today and remembered I met Mark Parrish at the 2006 Minnesota State Fair (post here).

He was a nice guy to talk to and I remember he asked me what “DK” stood for and always liked to hear stories about how people got their nicknames.

I understand the cap explanation and the player-coach tension, but I’m sorry to see him go. We still have a need for junk goals from in front of the crease and that was a Parrish specialty. His off year was in large part due to the injuries suffered by getting in there and battling. It’s hard for me to not see how you at least give him a chance with the new teammates–especially with the contract he had.

By the way, where do I sign up for one of those deals? Five million to not do anything is pretty sweet…

Good luck Grumpy, wherever you end up.

Last week at StoneRidge Golf Club in Stillwater, we mentioned the starter handed out and recommended we use a new divot repair tool: the GreenFix Ball Mark Elimination System (pictured above).

You can watch the instructional video on the GreenFix site, but basically you just push the divot mark back towards the middle instead of lift and twisting like other tools. It took a few times to get used to it, but the end results seemed to be good.

Scott Turtinen, the executive director of the Minnesota Golf Course Superintendents Association, said that he hasn’t personally used the GreenFix tool, but said Spring Hill Golf Club (site of the upcoming Gopher Invitational) uses them and are very pleased with the results.

“The MGCSA believes that any player that fixes their mark is great and any tool that would help them do this is a good thing,” said Turtinen.