Obama’s golf game: He’s no Jack Kennedy
One thing is clear about President Barack Obama’s golf game: he clearly loves playing. In his first year as president, he’s played 25 rounds, as much as his predecessor George W. Bush played in two terms.
The state of his game is more murky. Golf Magazine’s Top 100 Teacher Brady Riggs analyzed Obama’s swing last summer and gave it a big thumbs-up for a beginner, while other reports say the commander in chief has become the hacker in chief.
Obama ties G.W. Bush in golf
President Barack Obama has only been in office for just over nine months, but he’s already hit the links as much as President Bush did in over two years.
CBS’ Mark Knoller — an unofficial documentarian and statistician of all things White House-related — wrote on his Twitter feed that, “Today – Obama ties Pres. Bush in the number of rounds of golf played in office: 24.
Took Bush 2 yrs & 10 months.”
Thanksgiving message
An oldie but goodie Thanksgiving message…
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 beers.
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him.
When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.
He then asked the students if the jar was full.
They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar He shook the jar lightly.
The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.
He then asked the students again if the jar was full.
They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar.
Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
He asked once more if the jar was full.
The students responded with a unanimous ‘yes.’
The professor then produced two Beers from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand.
The students laughed..
‘Now,’ said the professor as the laughter subsided, ‘I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life..
The golf balls are the important things—your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions—and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.
The sand is everything else—the small stuff .
‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ he continued, ‘there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.
The same goes for life.
If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.
Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.
- Spend time with your children.
- Spend time with your parents.
- Visit with grandparents.
- Take time to get medical checkups.
- Take your spouse out to dinner.
- Play another 18.
- There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal.
- Take care of the golf balls first—the things that really matter.
Set your priorities.
The rest is just sand.
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the beer represented.
The professor smiled and said, ‘I’m glad you asked.’
The beer just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of beers with a friend.
myFitnessCaddy blog now on Alltop
We’ve just been notified that we are now included in the ever popular and growing website Alltop. What is Alltop you ask?
Think of Alltop as an “online magazine rack” of the web with thousands of sources to provide “aggregation without aggravation.” Their goal is to enhance your online reading by displaying stories from sources that you’re already visiting plus helping you discover sources that you didn’t know existed.
I’ve made my Alltop page my first stop with my morning review of worldwide news, sports, google and gadgets.
We are at the end of the golf page (for now) at http://golf.alltop.com, but I am sure if you email noe@faleafine.com a nice message about the myFitnessCaddy blog, she might move us up in the page.
New way to follow myFitnessCaddy
Ah, new technology, you have got to love it (at times).
I am in the process of converting to a more robust backend connection platform called MailChimp.
If you want to join the mailing list, get the golf fitness tips, win prizes and connect with your fellow golfers, here is the new link to do so:
More exiting news soon to follow….