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Buck’s Run Golf Club • Website: http://bucksrun.com • Course Video Tour with Jerry Matthews http://youtube.com/watch?v=qxuMfR0vN3o • Preview with Jon Conklin: http://tiny.cc/wnci1
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MGN on the Road - Morning Comes to True North http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrzWFLiWIZk
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Dan Olsen - Funny Guy
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Who's the 'Alice' in Nice Putt, Alice'? Go Ask Aliss By Brent Kelley, About.com Guide
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Michigan Golfer Magazine Fall Issue - Coming Soon
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EMU Eagles: Reflecting on a Successful Past, Preparing for a Bright Future By: Chris Lewis
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Minzey’s Musings
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Michigan Golfer Television Channel - 2011 Shows
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Michigan Golf Calendar
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Editor: Art McCafferty Associate Editor - Jennie McCafferty Writers and Contributors: Jack Berry, Susan Bairley, Tom Cleary Ken Devine, Rob Ford, Kelly Hill Tim Hygh, Tom Lang, Chris Lewis Jennie McCafferty, Jack Minzey, Kate Moore Terry Moore, Dave Richards, William Shelton Brad Shelton, Norm Sinclair Michigan Golfer Magazine Past Issues http://michigangolfer.com/#pastissues Michigan Golfer Television http://michigangolfer.tv ====================================================== MGN ON THE ROAD - MORNING COMES TO TRUE NORTH ====================================================== It seemed like old times this weekend when I got together with my video mentor, Tom Durant, to work on a video project for True North. For seven years I worked with Durant creating shows for our Golfing Michigan and then Golfing the Great Lakes television shows. All told, we did 75 half hour shows on Great Lakes golf courses, most located in Michigan. The shows started off being shown on commercial television and then went the PBS route. Our hosts included, Larry Adderley, Frank Beckman and finally, Tom Cleary. We had a nice run, but ran out of money to continue the shows. Durant then went on to do four years of "Ports O'Call�, a boating show, also on PBS stations, which also was truncated due to a poor economy. While, our work on True North is now in the editing stages, we did put together some footage as a teaser, and call it Morning Comes to True North. On the first day of our shoot, there was a hold on golf course play because of the fall's first frost. While others waited I took off on foot and captured the course as it was waking up and getting all gussied up with help from the grounds crew. Our camera caught some deer, wild turkeys and a beautiful golf course as a severe clear day emerged in Northern Michigan. We added the music of our composer, Jamie Fallon, to our video mix to create a three minute piece we hope you like. "Morning Comes to True North" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrzWFLiWIZk Enjoy. ======================== DAN OLSEN - FUNNY GUY ======================== Art Dan could be a stand up comic. When he got his card at Q school, I had Stoney interview him on the FAN I told Mike to ask what it was like to realize your dream to play on the PGA tour. Dan said, "that wasn't a dream. It was an organized plan to make a living. A dream is telling Anna Kornakova to get out of bed and make me some eggs!:)". You want to talk about dead air,,,,,Stony couldn't talk for minutes:) Dave Richards Resort & Golf Marketing P. 2
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============================================================================ WHO'S THE 'ALICE' IN 'NICE PUTT, ALICE'? GO ASK ALISS By Brent Kelley, About.com Guide ============================================================================= Say you're playing in a foursome with three of your buddies, when one of them lines up a putt, takes his stroke ... and doesn't even get the ball to the hole. What do you say? Well, one possibility is, "hit it, Alice!" Another is, "nice putt, Alice!" The derogatory "Alice" statement has been part of golf for decades. But who is Alice? And what did she do to get immortalized in a golf insult that frequently follows a putt left short? Contrary to one frequently offered explanation, this "Alice" has nothing to do with the Jackie Gleason sitcom The Honeymooners. Gleason was a golf fanatic, and his character on the show, Ralph Kramden, played golf, too. Ralph's wife was named Alice. It's a good guess, but the phrase does not refer to Alice Kramden. It turns out that "Alice" isn't a she at all. "Alice" is a he, and it's not "Alice," it's "Alliss." As in Peter Alliss. Peter Alliss is the famous English golf broadcaster, the voice of golf on the BBC for decades. But before he became internationally famous as a broadcaster, Alliss was famous in Britain and Europe as a touring pro. And a pretty good one, too: Alliss won 21 times on the precursor to the European Tour and played on eight Ryder Cup teams. At the 1963 Ryder Cup in Atlanta, Alliss played Arnold Palmer and Tony Lema in back-to-back singles matches and won 1.5 points, halving with Lema and beating Palmer. At some point during his match against Palmer, Alliss - for whom putting was not a strength - badly missed a 3-foot putt. Someone in the gallery yelled out, "Nice putt, Alliss!" Alliss described that moment in a brief article in a 1997 issue of Sports Illustrated, and explained how the phrase became part of the golf lexicon: The BBC, for whom I now do golf commentary, played a large part in burning the phrase into the public consciousness. I was never renowned for my putting and therefore was an easy - and frequent target for the many comedy programs on the "Beeb," where great humor was found in such kneeslappers as "That girl Alliss sure hits it a long way." So BBC programs of the early to mid-1960s liked to get punny with Alliss' name and its homonym, the female monicker Alice. Ah, that good ol' golf humor: questioning a man's, well, manliness for leaving a putt short by calling him a woman's name. They did it in the 1960s and they - ahem, we - still do it today. Except that today, most golfers - most of those outside of Britain, anyway - have no idea that "Alice" is actually Peter Alliss. But now you do. http://golf.about.com/od/faqs/a/nice-putt-alice.htm
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======================================================= MICHIGAN GOLFER MAGAZINE FALL ISSUE - COMING SOON http://michigangolfer.com ======================================================= Table of Contents LochenHeath - Doug Joy Where You Would Play - Bill Shelton Island Hills Redux - Paul Bairley Sweetgrass - How Sweet It Is - Susan Bairley Mississippi Golf - Tom Lang Houtteman Wins Boyne Tournament - Tim Hygh Eight Days a week - Art McCafferty ================================================================================= EMU EAGLES: REFLECTING ON A SUCCESSFUL PAST, PREPARING FOR A BRIGHT FUTURE By: Chris Lewis ================================================================================= For the past 18 years, Bruce Cunningham, Eastern Michigan University’s head men’s golf coach, has been focused on steadily crafting championship-level teams, time after time again. The results truly speak for themselves. During the 2006 – 2007 season, the Eagles captured the first Mid-American Conference (MAC) championship in school history. To prove such a victory was not a fluke, Cunningham’s squad successfully defended its MAC championship the following season. Since then, the Eagles have finished runner-up within the conference during two of the last three seasons. Throughout this time span, Cunningham’s squads – as well as individual team members – have achieved a variety of “success stories,” ranging from at-large individual bids to the NCAA South Central Regional to at-large team bids to the NCAA Northwest Regional. Consequently, the Eagles are now competing against some of the most revered Division I colleges and universities in the country – an honor that Cunningham does not take for granted. “We are very fortunate to have an opportunity to play a top 100 national Division I schedule now,” Cunningham said. “While competing against various top-tier university and college golf teams, the Eagles have maintained an overall Division I record of 560-373 during the last six seasons.” As Coach Cunningham prepares for the future, he is hopeful that his impending squads will continue to uphold the Eagles’ winning traditions throughout the coming months. “Current members like sophomores Brian Churchill-Smith and Jared Dalga, as well as juniors Brad Altenhoff and Casey Olsen, will be prepared to lead their teams in the future as Nick Carbary (’11) and Adam Winwood (’11) begin their post-graduate lives,” Cunningham said. “At the same time, future recruits will also be able to utilize their talents and skill sets as they strive to lead the Eagles to upcoming MAC championships.” With a full lineup of high caliber, well-experienced golfers, the team’s present – and future – capabilities
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appear to be just as bright as ever before. 2010 – 2011 Eagles Maintain Consistency and Look Ahead to the Future Although the 2010 – 2011 squad did not earn a tournament victory throughout the season, the team’s regular top-five and top-ten finishes were certainly noticed by Coach Cunningham. After a second-place finish in April’s Mizzou Tiger Intercollegiate, a tournament contested in Columbia, Missouri, and a fourth-place finish during last October’s Firestone Intercollegiate, held in Akron, Ohio, the Eagles ultimately played quite well during the final tournament of the regular season – the MAC Championship. As last year’s MAC championship runner-up, the Eagles may not have scored as well as they did during last April’s contest, but they still upheld a respectable finish nonetheless, with a total team score of 1198 for a third-place finish. In addition, the Eagles set a team record score of 273 (15-under-par) at the Hoya Intercollegiate, which was hosted in Beallsville, Maryland. “Such finishes lead me to believe that our forthcoming teams will be able to maintain the same level of success that each of our squads have upheld throughout the past decade,” Cunningham said. “Our future is very bright. An outstanding fall 2011 recruiting class, as well as a wide array of experienced golfers, will allow the Eagles to continue to be one of the top teams in the MAC conference for the unforeseeable future.” With a proper mix of both youth and experience, the Eagles, led by Nick Carbary, achieved a stable seasonal record that will only likely improve next season. “It is always challenging to lose the most-experienced members of the team as they graduate and prepare for their careers,” Cunningham said. “Each one of our seniors contributed so much to the success of our squads during the last few years, but, again, they will be replaced by many other golfers – both young and old – who will sustain the Eagles’ reputation within the MAC conference.” Coach Bruce Cunningham Reflects on the Eagles’ Successful Past From highly talented golfers like Carbary, who retained a 73.4 scoring average this past season, to former members like Korey Mahoney, Chris Ross, Graham Hill, Marty Jeppesen, and Cam Burke, a number of individuals have worked together to create formidable team units in order to achieve their ultimate goals – to qualify for NCAA regionals, to constantly improve their teams’ standings, and to, of course, add to their collection of MAC championship trophies. In a bid to do just that, many golfers’ individual performances have led to a variety of records that will be remembered by former, current, and future Eagles golfers for years to come – and have been wellrecognized by Coach Cunningham. “Korey Mahoney, who is arguably the most successful golfer in team history, has held two of the team’s best individual, seasonal scoring averages – a 72.17 and a 72.26. Meanwhile, Graham Hill, Chris Ross, Cam Burke, and Marty Jeppesen had career scoring averages of 73.24, 73.98, 74.47, and 74.67, respectively,” Cunningham said. “Such strong individual performances motivated their other team members to play to the best of their abilities each and every time they competed. This motivation and
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leadership has surely led to our teams’ latest successes.” Due to their strong performances in recent MAC championships, their regular qualifications in NCAA regional events, and their recruitment of gifted individuals like Mahoney and Carbary, the Eagles have arguably been one of the most consistent performers within the MAC conference throughout the past decade. So what will the future hold for the Eastern Michigan University men’s golf program? How will Coach Cunningham continue to achieve regular team success while also recruiting some of the state’s and region’s most talented high school golfers? By forming squads that have a variety of skill sets and experience, learning from the success of prior championship-level teams, and continuously striving to achieve their lofty goals, the Eagles’ future will remain bright throughout 2011 and well after. =================== MINZEY'S MUSINGS =================== 9 Things That Will Disappear In Our Lifetime Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come. 1. The Post Office. Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fastway, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive. Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills. 2. The Cheque. Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with cheque by 2018. It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process cheques. Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the cheque. This plays right into the death of the post office. If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business. 3. The Newspaper. The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper. They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition. That may go the way of the milkman, butcher, baker and fruit and veg man. As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services. 4. The Book. You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages. Many said the same thing about downloading music from iTunes because they wanted hard copy CD. When they discovered they get albums for half the price without ever leaving home to get the latest music they changed their minds. The same thing will happen with books. You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview chapter before you buy. And the price is less than half that of a real book. Just think of the convenience! Once you start flicking your fingers on the screen instead
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of the book, you find that you are lost in the story, can't wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding a gadget instead of a book. 5. The Land Line Telephone. Unless you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it anymore. Most people keep it simply because they've always had it. But you are paying double charges for that extra service. All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes 6. Music. This is one of the saddest parts of the change story. The music industry is dying a slow death. Not just because of illegal downloading. It's the lack of innovative new music being given a chance to get to the people who would like to hear it. Greed and corruption is the problem. The record labels and the radio conglomerates are simply self-destructing. Over 40% of the music purchased today is "catalogue items," meaning traditional music that the public is familiar with. Older established artists. This is also true on the live concert circuit. To explore this fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book, "Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the video documentary, "Before the Music Dies." 7. Television. Revenues to the networks are down dramatically. Not just because of the economy. Many people are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers. And they're playing games and doing lots of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV. Prime time shows have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common denominator. Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds. It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery. People will choose what they want to watch online and through Netflix. 8. The "Things" That You Own. Many of the very possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we may not actually own them in the future. They may simply reside in "the cloud." Today your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and documents. Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if need be. But all of that is changing. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing up their latest "cloud services." That means that when you turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system. So, Windows, Google, and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet. If you click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud. If you save something, it will be saved to the cloud. And you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the cloud provider. In this virtual world, you can access your music or your books, or your whatever from any laptop or handheld device. That's the good news. But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear at any moment in a big "Poof?" Will most of the things in our lives be disposable and whimsical? It makes you want to run to the cupboard and pull out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case and pull out the insert. 9. Privacy. If there ever was a concept that we can look back on nostalgically, it would be privacy. That's gone. It's been gone for a long time anyway. There are cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and even built into your computer and cell phone. But you can be sure that 24/7, "They" know who you are and where you are, right down to the GPS coordinates, and the Google Street View. If you buy something, your habit is put into a zillion profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those habits. "They" will try to get you to buy something else. Again and again. All we will have left that can't be changed are "Memories". And then probably Alzheimers will take that away from you too!
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============================================================ MICHIGAN GOLFER TELEVISION CHANNEL -- 2011 SHOWS http://michigangolfer.tv/archives.html ============================================================ **************************** NOW PLAYING *************************** Morning Comes to True North Paul W. Smith Golf Classic Pure Garland Garland Golf Boyne Tournament of Champions Thunder Bay Golf Resort Jack the Antler Guy Morning Comes to Fieldstone GC A Tour of the Fieldstone Golf Club's 18 Holes Swinging at a Wish Tournament Rick Smith Academy with Henry Young Ladies Golf School at Treetops Resort with Judy Mason The Treetops Cup Brian O'Neill and the Nike Golf Camp MGCOA Legislative Golf Day 100th Anniversary of Michigan Amateur Terry Moore Interview with Jennie McCafferty Terry Moore - Michigan Golf Hall of Fame - Class of 2010 Art Hills - Michigan Golf Hall of Fame - Class of 2010 Don Perne' - Michigan Golf Hall of Fame - Class of 2010 Jim Briegel - Michigan Golf Hall of Fame - Class of 2010 Vartan Kupelian and his Golf Writer's Association of America Presidency Practice Makes Perfect - Photography by Jennie McCafferty The Sundance Course at A-Ga-Ming: Narrated by Jerry Matthews Antrim Dells Becomes an A-Ga-Ming Property: Mike Brown Interviewed It Started with Chick Harbert: The Torch Course at A-Ga-Ming Antrim Dells GC: Narrated by Jerry Matthews Bucks Run Golf Club with Jon Conklin Arcadia Bluffs - A Top Stay and Play Experience Jason Guss Golf Academy Boyne Golf Schools and Boyne Golf Academy at King Par Tullymore Has New Leadership with the Returning Terry Schieber The Michigan Cup - Top Jr. Golfers Battle it out Ryder Cup Style Kevin O'Brien Joins True North Team 25th Anniversary Preview of the Jones Masterpiece at Treetops with Kevin McKinley and Jack Berry 25th Anniversary Preview of The Legend at Shanty Creek Resort with Brian Kautz and Jack Berry 100th Anniversary Preview of the Michigan Amateur with David Graham and Jack Berry Boyne's Tournament Season and Golf Packages with Jeff Ecceleston and Jack Berry Brian O'Neill's Quick Golf Tips LochenHeath is Back and Basking with Mike Husby and Jack Berry LPGA Futures Tour - Island Resort Championship at Sweetgrass with Dave Douglas and Jack Berry Railside Golf Club @ Byron Center - Club Membership on the Rise with Jim Bultema and Jack Berry
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PGA Michigan and Patriot Day with Kevin McKinley and Jack Berry The Treetops Cup: USA vs Canada - Ryder Cup Style with Kevin McKinley and Jack Berry The Madness at Marsh Ridge Resort Larry Bowden and Jack Berry The Cyber-Geezer a.k.a. Thad Gutowski with Peter Fitzsimons and Al Lynch http://michigangolfer.tv/archives.html *********************** COMING ATTRACTIONS *********************** Stowe Mountain Golf Club California Golf ====================================== MICHIGAN GOLFER CALENDAR OF EVENTS ====================================== SEPTEMBER 10-11 Walker Cup / Royal Aberdeen Golf Club / Aberdeen, Scotland http://www.usga.org/ChampsSchedule.aspx?taxid=17179869201 10-15 USGA Senior Amateur / Kinloch Golf Club / Manakin-Sabot, Va http://www.usga.org/ChampsSchedule.aspx?taxid=17179869201 12-14 Match Play Championship, Forest Akers, East Lansing http://michigan.pga.com 19-20 25th GAM Senior Championship, Spring Lake CC, Spring Lake, MI http://gam.org 22-25 The Tour Championship, East Lake CC, Atlanta, GA 22-25 41st Golf Collectors Society Meeting & Trade Show-Ann Arbor Marriott Ypsilanti at Eagle Crest Resort http://www.golfcollectors.com/events.html 25-27 Pepsi Fall Charity Invitational, Gaylord, MI http://treetops.com 25 MGCOA Golf League Championship at Hawk Hollow Golf Course, Bath http://MGCOA.org 29/10/1 2nd annual Natalie Gulbis Showcase, The Loon GC, Gaylord OCTOBER 8-9 Toughman/Princess Scramble Gaylord, MI http://treetops.com 31 PGA Fall Meeting NOVEMBER 17-20 President's Cup, Royal Melbourne, Victoria, AUS 29/12-1 MGCOA Golf Business Conference and Vendor Show at the Somerset Inn in Troy http://MGCOA.org 2012 JANUARY 13-15 Southwest Michigan Golf Show at the Kalamazoo Expo Center, Kalamazoo http://michigangolfshow.com
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FEBRUARY 10-12 West Michigan Golf Show http://westmichigangolfshow.com 25-27 28th Annual Chicago Golf Show MARCH 2-4 Michigan Golf Show, Novi http://michigangolfshow.com SEPTEMBER 25-30 Ryder Cup, Medinah CC, Chicago, IL
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