First, They Came For The Golf Courses - Krugman at NYTimes.com Comments on Politicians and Similar Gone Awry (i.e. "off course")

The world is full of people with all kinds of ridiculous ideas and Krugman comments on one such inane idea at First, They Came For The Golf Courses.

Do Golfing Execs Earn More in Business? Yes, They Do

Yes, it pays to read The Economist,
which has a brilliant article
by their business editor and golf blogger at
Golf and business: Why golfers get ahead.

That editor and golfer notes, e.g.,
that
"a recent study found that bosses who don’t play golf
are paid 17% less on average than those who do,"
-- incredible --
although no verifiable reason was found for that discrepancy.

Gee. The answer is easy.
My own experience is that people who do not play golf are not as trustworthy as golfers are.
Would YOU hire a non-golfer as a CEO?
Caveat emptor.
Really.
Show me a man on a golf course and you have a Rorschach test in place.
How can a man NOT play golf if he has the opportunity and means to do so?
What is he hiding?

Just to prove the honesty of golfers,
let me ask the rhetorical question as to whether I wrote this posting
so that the business editor at The Economist
might be motivated to invite me for a round of golf at Wentworth?

I did, definitely. You see, that is golfing honesty. CEO worthy.

Make sure you read the invigorating article at The Economist here.

Query About Experience with the Mobitee Mobile GPS Golf Assistant

We ran across a golf GPS app at Mobitee
which describes Mobitee as a "Mobile Golf Assistant"
and "Your GPS golf" in a mobile phone.

Anybody out there have any experience with this app?

RocketBallz? One of the New Forces of Golf Innovation? That's What is Claimed by TaylorMade. Really.

Many commentators think it is a joke of a name, but look at

TaylorMade Introduces RocketBallz Driver, Fairway Woods and Rescues

Sharp Park Golf Course in Pacifica Endangered by Wayward Environmentalists

Few of man's achievements honor nature as much as golf courses do, and it is always remarkable to see wayward environmentalists trying to replace golf courses with what is called "managed wilderness", i.e. pet projects of alleged nature do-gooders which serve virtually no useful purpose other than to inflate the self-serving moralistic egos of those same wayward environmentalists.

Those same people should be attacking the big multi-national corporations who are devastating the planet by things like fracking. But that might be a bit tough for these environmentalists to handle.

It is much easier to go after golfers and golf courses, who are bothering no one, and causing no harm to nature. Quite the contrary, many a golf course has "reclaimed" land otherwise not particularly well used as a matter of nature.

See the battle under way for the Sharp Park Golf Course in Pacifica in an article by John Upton at Golfers Promise a Fight on Sharp Park - The Bay Citizen.

U.S. Presidents as Golfers

William Browning has done the honors at Yahoo! Sports
in authoring a short piece on
Golfer-in-Chief: Fan Look at Golf and Presidents of the United States.

Gifts For The Golfer

Larry Olmsted has s piece at Forbes on 10 Great Gifts For The Golfer On Your List.