Winter Suggestions for the Golf Enthusiast

Now that the golf season is finished for another year, what is the golfer going to do with their idle time during the winter months?  Here are some suggestions, as supplied by our resident Caledon Country Club golf addicts.  Feel free to add your own ideas to this list, and drop us a note and let us know what you’ll be up to over the winter!

During the long winter months a golf addict can…

• Read about golf - in books, magazines and online.
  
• Watch golf on TV - the 2009 PGA Tour starts on January 5th with the Mercedes-Benz Championship.
  
• Putt in your living room or down the hallway - your family will love you for it!
  
• Play the golf course in your head when you can’t get to sleep - beats counting sheep!
  
• Go to your favourite indoor golf facility - your family will be glad to get you out of the hallway!
  
• Plan to play the Headwaters Golf Trail in 2009!
  
• Plan to attend the Toronto Golf & Travel Show,
  February 27th to March 1st, 2009
  
• Take up “yoga for golf” - or at least meditate about it!
  
• Track your 2008 putting statistics - that should be interesting!
  
• Set realistic golf goals for 2009 - and write them down
  (you can analyze them next winter to see how you did).
  
• Make a golf gear “wish” list - if you get this done before Christmas and leave it lying around you may get a better gift than a soap-on-a-rope!
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• Consider a golf junket to the sunny south - it’s what all the Club Pros do!

And if you wonder what your local Golf Professional does during the off season, you’d be surprised to hear that it’s not all leisure and golf junkets. We spend time cleaning up from the past season and then planning for the upcoming season including reviewing and ordering new product for the Pro Shop, planning events, activities and tournaments, and getting ready for the annual Toronto Golf & Travel show.  That being said, I do take the opportunity every year to take a group of golfers from our club to a Pro-Am tournament down south.  Our upcoming trip to the Dominican Republic is already full, but if you’re interested in future trips, please let me know and we’ll add you to our list.
I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family a happy holiday season, and I look forward to catching up with you in the spring and seeing you at the course once again in 2009!
Yours in golf,
Kevin Purcell
CPGA Professional

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