As if anyone reads this stuff, here's about as long a post as you'll ever see from me...
I'm 50...a husband, and father to a 10 year old daughter (she's discovering golf), and a television news reporter for KGO-TV, the ABC-Owned television station in San Francisco. Occasionally, I do a golf special.
I played golf for a year with my dad, at 14, and then didn't really find the game again for 25 years. I'm a member at Richmond Country Club, an 80+ year-old, underappreciated, former PGA tour stop across the bay from my home in San Anselmo, about 10 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge.
My handicap ranges from 4 to 6, which is as good as a guy can expect when he touches a club once a week. On the course, I've been accused of being a swing-obsessed, equipment-crazy, head case. Gib Papazian got a good look at that on a rough day, last week. Sometimes, the best we can hope is to play bad golf well.
I'm a member of the Golf Writers Association of America, having written essays for the United Airlines inflight magazine, Links, Maxmimum Golf, and others. These days, I channel most of it into a golf website inside the<www. abc7news.com> main page. Peruse a bit, and you'll note that Huckaby has done some course reviews. Every three or four months our web mistress updates the contents. This is frustrating. It oughta be more often.
The subject matter in some of my essays is kind of different:
DESPERATELY SEEKING BETSY speaks to the ramifications of changing putters, when putters have the personal attibutes of wives.
THE BOYS IN 15-B talks about the lessons learned from playing golf with 80 year olds.
SHANKECTOMY explains how to cure the shanks by getting a vasectomy. It worked.
As for architecture...it's less an area of expertise than interest. I know the difference between a redan and a cape, but some of you guys, and your admirable penchants for minutae, blow me away. I believe golf holes are an educated, philosophizing man's version of pin-up girls. Unlike women, however, we can compare how we played them without getting jealous.