CG offers up a few goals for the coming year — from the courses we can’t wait to play, to the clubs we’re eager to get our hands on. What are you most looking forward to?
By Brian Beaky, Editor
Watching the snow fall outside CG headquarters last month, it reminded me how lucky we’ve been in the last year with the weather. Hardly any snow at all fell last winter, and this spring and summer were as rain-free as any in recent memory.
It also started me thinking … as a Cascade golfer, what are the things I’m most looking forward to in the coming year, or the things I’d most like to improve? Thus, here are a few of my New Year’s resolutions:
1. To finally fix those wayward drives – this might help.
2. To drive out to Brewster and play 36 at Gamble Sands, David McLay Kidd’s first northwest course since Tetherow. It’s my No. 1 course priority this year.
3. Speaking of Kidd … To get back to Bandon. It’s been too long, and I can hear the waves calling me.
4. To stop mentally tracking my score during the round. If I know I only need bogey on the 18th hole to set a lifetime best, it’s a guarantee that I’ll double-bogey. Every time.
5. To enroll my kids in a junior golf program. They’ve expressed an interest, and I’ve taken them out to the range, and even let them chip and putt on the real course. But, as a 15 handicap, there’s only so much I can teach. A First Tee program, like the ones in Seattle, the North Sound and the South Sound, could do a lot more.
6. To dig even deeper, and work even harder, to find the best deals and breaking news stories for our readers. You’re the driving force behind everything we do, and I speak for everyone when I say that we feel a strong responsibility to keep you one step ahead of the crowd.
7. To golf in at least one state (or province) I’ve never golfed in before. In fact, I think this just might be a permanent resolution, until the day I die.
8. To make a hole-in-one. Just one. This is the year. I don’t care if I shoot 105 in the round – I just want one measly ace. As someone who has played for 25 years and never had one, every story of a golfer making one their first year playing, or golfers hitting 2-3 in a year, drives me nuts.
9. To finally break 80 … at someplace other than par-65 Lynnwood Golf Course.
10. To make the most of every day on the golf course, regardless of how I score. The ability to spend four hours under the sun with a good friend or two, enjoying some of the most scenic golf landscapes in America, without a care in the world beyond the next green, is pretty special. And who knows? Making “fun” my goal, as opposed to birdies, just might help me play better, too.
Those are a few things I’m targeting this year. What about you?
