Udder Stuff

Tomorrow will be a travel day, so you'll have to muddle through without me.

Ski Blogging - I'll be making my first turns on Friday, but don't expect any proper ski blogging here until later in the season.  But to kick off the season I'll use a moment of personal privilege to brag on my nephew Zack, with whom we had dinner last night..

Zachy's first appearance on YouTube was this amateurish video I took when he was all of 8-years old:

Now 16, Zachy's the 91st ranked mogul skier (61st among juniors) in these United States.  Here's his highlight reel from last season:

It's hard to believe that I share genetic material with that....

Footwear Blogging - In our Weekend Wrap we shared a photo of the rather comely Melissa Weber Jones, a former Miss Idaho.  Maggot left a comment on that post that he wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers, though I might be paraphrasing.

But we missed something, so your thanks go to Alex Myers in his weekly feature The Grind, for sharing this:

OK, back in the day we had a very descriptive term for such shoes, but this is a family blog.  Let's just leave it that I'm guessing the kids got put to bed early that Sunday night.

Albany Blogging- No, I've little interest in that hotbed of corruption two hours North of here (Shelly, say it ain't so), but that island of pleasure newly created for those with more zeros in their net worth than your humble blogger.

From Shack's Forward Press column:

Billed as an Ernie Els design, Albany opened in 2010 as a Tavistock-developed luxury resort on the island of New Providence. The place is named after a historic pink Bahamian colonial mansion called Albany House, which served as arch villain Dimitrios' beachfront home in the James Bond movie "Casino Royale." The course can be seen in a website photo gallery and is billed by its director of golf as a "desert links" merging the best of Arizona desert golf and links-style features. 

Host Tiger Woods has a place there and figures to surface this week to talk about his recovery. Or to just enjoy the amenities, which I suspect will start looking pretty good to most of the chilly United States after watching this promo video:

Well, if you like that sort of thing...or this drone footage:

Maybe those folks outraged over income inequality have a point...

Generational Blogging - I originally missed this Bob Carney post with his helpful nine-step guide to Millennial Golfers.  Of course, if you read our weekly apocalyptic features about the state of the game, there aren't and never will be any MG's.  But I digress...

There's fun stuff to be found:

4) How do I identify one?

The first place to look is your basement. The millennial is typically moody and communicates in clever, ironic bursts. I had one who disappeared after years in my home but left the television set on its video-game function. I have no idea how to get it back to Golf Channel. Millennials start companies like PicPKT, which tells you how many ball markers you have at any time in any of your pockets, and which hand to use to get them. Clever. But keep an eye on the remote.

6) Any particular on-course habits I should be aware of?

To millennials, golf is an outdoor video game through which you drive an electric vehicle and during which you track every nugget of information from chip-shot trajectory to penalty-drop dispersion, not to mention score. Say goodbye to "Oh, it's about a 7-iron." No self-respecting millennial would ever hit a shot without data, preferably big data. One millennial I knew called his driver Big Data. Or maybe it was Big Daddy. My hearing's going.

You get the drift...but we believe in airing both sides of the issue, so Joel Beall ascends from his parent's basement to dish on the Boomers:

Speaking of equipment, what's that odd-shaped thing in their bag?

That's called a "9-wood." Since getting it up tends to be a problem for older folk, this club is used to help accomplish such an integral task.

Is it a little blue fairway wood?  And this...

Is there any benefit to playing with a Baby Boomer?

Of course! You'll get to witness firsthand the benefits of "old man's game," which is the process of making par despite hitting a 200-yard drive and chunking the approach. True, part of this practice is fluffing up your lie and giving yourself a 10-foot downhill putt, but still.

Hey, the rest of us bear no responsibility for Schrager.  All in good fun, right?

Roundball Blogging -  We touched on BBall earlier today, but are you a fan of the Monmouth Hawks?  I wasn't but I am now.... True, I don't what their record is, who the player are or even what state their school happens to be located in.  All I do know is that they have the greatest bench (and by bench I mean reserve players) in basketball.....Evah!

Heck, who knew white guys could dance?