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Holiday Golf Gift Idea for Chicks

December 10, 2010 / / 1 Comment

Looking for something special for the golf chick in your life for Christmas or another holiday? Try this!

It seems like when I’m shopping for golf chicks, it’s difficult to find something beyond the usual array of equipment, clothing and gadgets. It’s rare to come across something truly unique AND useful. Did I mention affordable? That’s right – if you’re one of the lucky ones with a large holiday gift budget, this makes a great stocking stuffer. But if you’re like a lot of people right now and are spending less this year on presents, this makes a great standalone gift!

It’s sparkly, girly, practical and fabulous, and I bet you’d be hard pressed to find a golf chick who wouldn’t enjoy receiving a Putterflys ball marker necklace. Beautiful Swarovski crystals adorn the ball marker to provide the sparkle. The marker is easy to slide off the enhanced magnetic clip (bit stays put when you don’t need it), which hangs from the necklace cord.

Some women don’t like to wear hats when they golf, and find themselves digging in a pocket or fiddling with their gloves to find a ball marker when they need it, so this provides a fashionable and functional solution for them. They come in many different designs and colors (the picture here is only a sampling) so she can get several and always have one that works well with the outfit of the day. The cords are also available in different colors.

Starting at only $21.95, these unique pieces of golf jewelry come in their own pretty little pouches – perfect for a gift! You can also get packages that come with multiple markers & necklaces. And as of now, they offer free standard shipping. How can you beat that?

She’ll look good on and off the course wearing one of these. Sparkly, girly, unique and fabulous? No surprise Christina Kim wears them on the LPGA Tour. I think those words describe her, too.

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Join The Golf Chick at the Mesquite Amateur!

November 29, 2010 / / 58 Comments

It’s official! I had so much fun playing in the last two Mesquite Amateur tournaments, I decided to join forces with the Mesquite Am and The Golf Chick is now one of this fabulous event’s sponsors. And the best news is what’s in it for YOU.

Fun & Games & Prizes
There will be a “tournament within the tournament” for all Mesquite Am participants who sign up as part of The Golf Chick group. You still get paired up and play on the appropriate course according to your gender and handicap, but your scores will also be counted in a separate contest which will provide special prizes for individual women, men and couples winners. Look out for some fun, bonus side games as well – you may be awarded for unusual accomplishments for your play (or style) throughout the event!

Plus – everyone who signs up as a Golf Chick participant by March 31st will be entered into a drawing – one lucky winner will have their entire hotel stay comped for the event!

And – everyone who signs up as a Golf Chick participant will receive a special bonus swag package – in addition to your usual Mesquite Am swag!

But there’s still more – Meet the rest of the Golf Chick participants at the dinner event the first night with our premium reserved seating for our group! We’ll also have a drawing for all Golf Chick participants right then and there – the winner will receive a special golf gift that just might come in handy for the tournament! We know you’ll be making new friends and maybe reconnecting with others so after the first night, we won’t bother to reserve seats for the group but we can sit together wherever we want.

What’s the catch? – THERE ISN’T ONE! None of this costs a penny more than if you signed up without all these bonuses. And take it from someone who has finished this event in dead freaking last – you can’t lose! Even if you lose – you’ll go home happy with a bunch of great memories, gifts and new friends.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP, AND SIMPLY WRITE “GOLF CHICK” in the “how did you hear of the event” or the “promo code” box of the registration form to get in on all the specials.

Can’t wait to see you there! Feel free to send me a message if you have any questions, comments or just want to let me know I’ll be seeing you there! You can get me on twitter @TheGolfChick or e-mail me at Kristen (at) TheGolfChick (dot) com.

FYI:  If you already registered and didn’t write “Golf Chick” in the comments, you can still get in on this if you let us know you you forgot, the box wasn’t available, or you otherwise heard about the tournament from The GolfChick (website, flyer, ad, etc.) but didn’t know about the code.

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Read all about my previous adventures at this great event:

Article on my 2010 last place finish – starts on page 18.

Blog posts from 2009 & 2010 Mesquite Am events

About the Mesquite Am

Entering its 9th year of competition, the Mesquite Amateur is one of the largest handicapped amateur tournaments in the nation. Located in Mesquite, NV (about an hour from Las Vegas), The Mesquite Amateur consists of a five-day 54-hole, net, stroke play tournament. Participants compete against a field of players with a similar handicap, and play is governed by USGA rules. Finalist rankings will be determined by comparing the three-day cumulative score. The top four participants from each flight will complete in the 18-hole championship round.

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Remembering September 11 2001

September 11, 2010 / / 5 Comments

On September 11, 2001, I was not a golfer. I took up golf in late 2004. Now I can’t imagine a better way to spend the anniversary of that day than by playing golf, so I’m glad my golf club is holding its annual Open tournament tomorrow. I will be honoring all Americans – including those who died and their families – by doing what I love best and wishing they could be doing the same.

I wrote the following on September 11, 2002 and, up until now, only shared it with the group of people I happened to be stranded with on that terrible day and my other loved ones. Now I put it out for all.

September 11, 2002

The sun is making its journey to light up the entire country as if it needs to.

One year ago today, something far darker than the absence of light struck our towering beliefs.

As our horror heightened, so did our true spirit. Our heroes emerged, saving thousands of lives, many at the cost of their own. Too many lives were lost, but not a soul.

Our symbols were attacked, our routines suspended. Lives were forever altered by the senseless loss of loved ones. We haven’t yet noticed the births.

Symbols are just symbols. By destroying them, our enemies’ effect was to strengthen our cause. The ideas rooting the symbols were fortified. Their essence, our freedom, was reborn.

We shook in fear as we imagined the terror of the victims and witnessed the horror ourselves. We looked in awe at the bravery of our heroes, yet wept at the sacrifice. We wondered if our own lives were meaningful enough to have been spared.

Energy was released from each heart that stopped that day. Every victim’s last breath would be collectively drawn in by a grieving nation. As it felt like our hearts were broken, our spirit was gathering force.

Eventually, people returned to the business of their lives. For a time, it seemed like just going through the motions. For some, routines sneaked back until it was business as usual. Others charted brand new courses in light of the events that occurred. Despite some appearances, not a single American has forgotten, nor will they ever.

We either honor the lives lost by making our own lives more meaningful, or our own lives are more meaningful because we honor the lives lost. This fact excludes no true American. We will continue to fight the battles to preserve our ideals and prevent future blows, but one strike against us has already won us the war. The very nature of our beliefs determined this inevitable outcome, and always will.

Day or night, this country is lit from within its core, its people.

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Amateur Golf Tips from Bobby Cobb

August 3, 2010 / / 10 Comments

You may be asking, “Who is Bobby Cobb?” He’s the dim, crass buffoon that you somehow can’t even hate to love on ABC’s unfortunately named sitcom Cougar Town. An aspiring pro golfer who lives on a boat in a parking lot, he’s now giving golf tips to amateurs with his “caddy,” the friend who worships him. Tips? Well, it’s comedy. I wouldn’t mind seeing some inventive dances on the greens around here, but I don’t know how many other golfers would appreciate it.

So here’s the video clip “Bobby’s Bag of Tricks” from the new Cougar Town DVD. Enjoy!

Cougar Town: The Complete First Season on DVD comes out on August 17th.

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Red Envelope: Expect Good (Golf) Things

July 31, 2010 / / 12 Comments

If you’ve never received a gift that came from Red Envelope, you are missing out. And if you’re reading this, you’re probably a golfer, so you’ll want to put golf gifts from Red Envelope on your wish list.

I am delighted to have recently received this gorgeous two-piece monogrammed set of golf gifts. The only way I could be happier with them is if they had my cute little golf chick logo on them. Custom embroidery isn’t an option but I love that they are personalized with my initials. If it isn’t obvious from the photo, they’re a golf shoe bag and a cooler bag. I happen to love the colors which are classy and neutral and both bags are big enough to hold plenty of stuff. The cooler bag is plenty tall to hold long necks, wine bottles (yes, of course I tried!) or a nice cold pitcher of your favorite beverage. The bottles are only sticking out in the photo for effect – I stuffed the bottom. They’re both made out of the same sturdy material with strong zippers, pockets, handles and straps. The cooler bag also has a handy clip so you can secure it to your bag, cart, basket, whatever. The shoe bag has subtle side vents to air out your shoes.

Everyone who sees me with these items wants some of their own. Bonus: I think the monogramming will help prevent theft!

Red Elvelope golf gifts

I’ve received gifts from RedEnvelope before and they’ve always been first class. This time was no exception. They have a lot of new golf items in their collection so if you haven’t seen them lately, take a peek at their website. Not that there’s a shortage of gift ideas for golfers, but many of these are unique and have available personalization to give the golfer(s) in your life -including you – something truly special.

Whenever I see a package or box from RedEnvelope, I know it’s gonna be good. I know I must be sounding like their marketing mouth but this is simply an honest assessment. If I was on their marketing team, I would make the headline of this blog post their slogan (after assuring it’s not already trademarked by someone else): “Red Envelope: Expect Good Things.”

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Precious Little Golf Chick at it again

June 8, 2010 / / 6 Comments

I’m not a big facebook-er. Signed up a few years back and just never really saw the point. I know, with this website and all you’d think I’d be more active with ALL social media. Something about facebook just always rubbed me the wrong way. I think I have a whopping 5 friends on it and never pay it any attention. I recently had to get more involved in it on behalf of the candidate whose campaign I’m working on and had a really bad experience with a silly punk who decided to use it as a harassment tool. Tool is right. The whole mess just kind of reinforced my feeling about the level of maturity of people on the site (present company excluded, of course). Now facebook is somewhat under fire for their new (lack of) privacy issues so I think I’m just going to sit on my heels awhile longer and wish for the trend to dissipate. Yeah right, right? Anyway…

I just had another experience that made me actually ENJOY the level of maturity on facebook when I got an email informing me that someone posted a link on my wall. I had to look:

jenna facebook post

Oh Jenna – I mean Peacechick – you rock! You’re very welcome for the thing a maging. Let’s get back out on the course again soon so you can use it! I’m sure you didn’t get in much trouble for posting on your mom’s facebook – after all, you didn’t give yourself unsupervised access to it. :-)

Note to readers: Jenna’s one of my favorite little golfchicks, a terrific big sister to Kate, and they along with their mother Darla and dog Bailey are wonderful neighbors. The “thing a maging” in question is a golfchick logo’d divot tool. I’m working on some posts covering my recent trip to the 2010 Mesquite Am (if you were there you just might have your own “thing a maging,” which is now its official name) so stay tuned!

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In town for the Mesquite Amateur

May 31, 2010 / / 6 Comments

I arrived tonight in Mesquite for this year’s Mesquite Am. If you don’t know, it’s a fun amateur tournament in which anyone with an established handicap can compete. People come from all over the country and some even cross oceans to be here. I played last year and had a brilliant time so I’m back again for more.

I remember last year there was little time for blogging during my stay because there was just so much going on in addition to the golf and so much more I didn’t even get to do! I blogged about it plenty when I got home, but Mesquite is a Nevada city with resorts, spas and casinos and I expect this year to be much the same with regards to blogging time. However…

Not to get too carried away with the chick references, but tweeting is so easy to do on the fly, so watch for my tweets from Mesquite! Follow me on Twitter @TheGolfChick for frequent updates this week. So many great courses and events for a chick to peep tweet about!

BTW: Last year I flew out here, this year I drove. Going through Las Vegas I noticed the giant Nike billboard for their factory store there. Such a prominent location surely used to feature Tiger in this “Just Do It” image, but I was happy to see that it now features what looked like Suzann Petterson. Hard to tell because she was sporting a fierce victory face & pose (and I was going 65 70 80 90? mph (shhh… don’t tell the po-po). Great billboard, Nike.

Tomorrow I start with a warm-up round at the brand new course Conestoga, and I’m so excited to check it out! Gotta get to sleep now so I can be fresh and ready for that!

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Elkins Ranch is looking great!

May 26, 2010 / / 1 Comment

Without giving you a dreary blow-by-blow, occurrences over the last year or so have pounded me pretty hard. While I think I’ve done pretty well keeping my chin up and looking for a bright side most of the time, I had admitted to myself that I most likely wouldn’t be surprised by anything ever again. Happily, I have been proven wrong by an unlikely source. I’ll try to just let that stand on its own and not worry that it’s probably only the “happy” angle that caught me off guard. The happy surprise was Elkins Ranch Golf Course.

Elkins Ranch is a course in nearby Fillmore, CA, where locals go to sneak in a round at a full length golf course without paying a fortune or expecting the biggest challenge or best conditions. The course is literally on property owned by ranchers and its conditioning and patrons never seemed to be their biggest concern, if you know what I mean. All along, though, people have traveled far and wide just to enjoy one of the finest cheeseburgers in the county if not beyond. The golf course? Not so much. Like I indicated – we kept it on our rotation for its affordability, friendly service and change of scenery. Well, I just played there on Saturday and have never seen it looking so good! The greens were always in decent shape but the fairways and the rest of the course left much to be desired. This time, the fairways were beautiful, the rough was actually rough and separate from those fairways and the greens were in terrific form. There are still those holes where you might should don a hardhat due to the proximity of the adjacent holes, but that’s Elkins and you go there knowing that. I was so appreciative of the course’s conditioning that I could actually appreciate the challenge it presents by its design, which is interesting. I never really noticed that before because hitting from patchy, holey fairways is difficult enough that I never had the time or inclination to consider the thought behind the architecture.

I’m telling you, if you haven’t played Elkins in awhile, get out there soon. I don’t know if it’s the economy forcing them to focus on their golf business instead of their ranch or just a newfound interest in the golf side, but this place is looking and playing fine! I never planned on blogging about Elkins Ranch so I didn’t have a camera with me. I guess you’ll just have to trust me on this. Check it out! And don’t forget to order their famous cheeseburger at the turn.

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Nike Makes Bad Call on Tiger Commercial

April 8, 2010 / / 11 Comments

Yes, Nike’s foible spurred me to write before Tiger’s did. I’m more forgiving of human flaws and mistakes than corporations trying to make a buck off them. Of course this wouldn’t have been possible without Tiger’s reprehensible behavior, and if he had anything to do with this ad other than that, I blame him for it as well. Either way, I’m in no way expressing sympathy for Tiger because of this ad.

I’ve been quiet on everything lately. Even the Tiger “scandal” couldn’t draw me out to discuss my thoughts, of which I have plenty, I assure you. Then, just as I’m getting ready to share my thoughts on that as well as the Masters and everything else, out pops Nike’s controversial Tiger advertisement that seems to depict Earl Woods, Tiger’s deceased father, asking his son questions about Tiger’s intentions and moral charactertiger woods nike ad that, of course, Tiger never answers because they were completely out of context. Distasteful? Opportunistic? I think so. And if Tiger actually posed for this current ad wearing his Nike garb rather than Nike taking it upon themselves to use past images, that’s disgusting as well. (Not that Tiger doesn’t have disgusting in him.) Throughout Tiger’s troubles, Nike was one sponsor that stuck by him. Now Nike is trying to rebuild their Tiger-related image after all they already have, and plan to continue to, invest in him – I get that.

The Honest Review I Hate to Give

Truth be told, I’m actually a pretty big fan of Nike Golf products. For a long time I have enjoyed their golf balls. Plus, awhile back, they were kind enough to send me their VR STR8-FIT Tour Driver to review it against the TaylorMade competitor and simply asked for an honest review. It was still on my list of things to do because not only do I owe them some feedback (which would have been positive for them) but I felt compelled to give them any mention at all in this blog for the beneficial impact it had on my game. Here you go, Nike: you replaced TaylorMade in my bag in the driver section. Club vs. club, you win. The review would have been much longer and much more glowing had you not blown it with this Tiger thing (or had I done it sooner – but then I surely would have referenced back on it in this post). Here’s your bone – if I had a better driver, I’d gladly use. Sadly, I’m wont for better gear even though it pains me to say so. I truly wish I didn’t like it as much as I did. My TaylorMade driver practically screams to me to get back in my bag and the way I’m playing I’m tempted to listen especially since my game and swing suck so much lately it really doesn’t matter what club(s) I use.

Now What?

Now that Nike put such a sour taste in my mouth with this Tiger thing, I really wish everyone would stop buying Nike products, no matter how much you like them. At least until they do something to redeem themselves after “THE TIGER AD.” Strong stance, I know, especially from someone who has been dormant for so long and benefited from Nike’s generosity. Tell you what: if I don’t see some redemptive ad in the next few days (they’re bound to have follow-ups during the Masters this week and I’ll let you know how I feel), my old driver is going back in my bag.

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Same sh!t, different year, renewed attitude

January 5, 2010 / / 11 Comments

In case you were wondering…

It’s coming up on six months that I’ve been displaced from my home due to a sewage flood. Don’t worry, the golf clubs were rescued. Anyway, since I haven’t been working in the traditional sense, I decided to take on the job myself of repairing my home. Work only began in earnest about 5 weeks ago when I finally got the money from the responsible party (HOA – tree roots). The new year arrived and I had just finished getting all the wallboard up and mudded, and scheduled a friend to come in and help with the texturing. Then…

I arrive at the jobsite to complete a final sanding and mask prep the day before the big texture and – can you believe it? – water had seeped in through the brand new walls from the adjoining condo. Today was texture day and we got most of it done but the plumber has been out twice now and cannot locate the leak. I may have to seal up the wall and just cross my fingers but I haven’t quite wrapped my head around my options and solutions and it’s just so frustrating that I can’t think straight. Happy birthday to me. Yep, today actually is my birthday. I’m physically and emotionally exhausted so once again I’m opting out of social celebrations in favor of some quality Wii time. And there’s a very special someone coming over to make me a nice dinner and pamper me in general. We worked late so he’s at the store now picking up the goods while I squeeze in this little martini blogging session.

Progress report on my journey to the PGA Tour in virtual land

I attained phenom status and a new sponsor in Precept. I won the European Shootout at St. Andrews by a 10 stroke margin even though I think Sabbatini cheated after seeing my first round 58. I finished 50 under and set birdie and putting records and he managed to go low every subsequent day to finish at -40. Easiest course I’ve played on this thing yet. I wish I could putt like this in real life. I also have enough wins to go straight to Q school but I think I’m gonna play some more tourneys and gain some more experience. And unlock some more clothes, shoes and gear. Speaking of which – that’s not very realistic. A beginning golfer can go out and purchase whatever they want. I have to prove myself in order to unlock the good stuff. Oh well, I guess they need to have some “rewards” in there. I do like the Precision putting feature better than the “classic.”

Now that I got some golf related material in there, I just want to say this:

Just like every day starts a new year, one doesn’t have to reserve thankfulness for Thanksgiving. I know I probably sound like I complain a lot but I am very thankful to have so many people in my life who care about me. I have had a lot of help and support from friends and family during these trying times and I feel extremely fortunate. It’s not always easy to focus on these positive things when other crap keeps piling up around me but I have my health, shelter, and love around me and I know the value of that. I also very much appreciate all of you who continue to check in here and especially the nice comments and emails you have sent. I’m glad you’re still here and I will strive to be better for you this year than last.

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