Here is a great deal for the golfer on your Christmas list and it won't break the bank! Experienced golf balls from Nike. 60 balls for less than the price for a dozen new golf balls.

These balls are perfect for the new golfer and golfers love balls that look and feel like new.

If you don't want to worry about losing expensive golf balls get these, the cost works out to about 33 cents each and the reviews from golfers have been great.

Great balls to use for practice and most look and feel like new.

I have been following Marty's career since he started dating my daughter-in-laws best friend Meagan. He has been a factor in a number of events since joining the Tour but this was his first win. Great player, great guy!

Get Me OUTSIDE!

I don't like treadmills in the spare bedroom, garage, working out at health clubs or other forms of indoor exercise,  other than they are boring, boring, boring, wall mounted TV or not. I don't care if Oprah has Michelle Obama, Tom Cruise, David Letterman, Ellen, Donald Trump and Tiger Woods on the same show! (wouldn't that be a show?), indoor workouts just don't work for me, even if I have a window to look out of.

If you ever wondered why your new year's resolution to exercise and lose weight lost it's momentum after only a few weeks here is a clue:

Hello! It's winter out there, cold, rainy, gloomy, etc. Your brain wants to be doing something outdoors, walking, hiking, just about anything as long as it's outside while your body cringes at the thought. Some refer to exercising outdoors as eco-therapy, or green exercise, although I think that word green is overused. Did you know for example that the color green balances the nervous system and is supposed to have a calm, soothing, effect?

When there isn't a whole lot of green around during winter where you live it can be tough to get motivated, much less stay that way until spring. But don't despair, just by seeking the natural world you can reap the benefits of re-connecting with the environment – a reduction in anger and stress levels only to mention a couple. Take the dog for a walk, bundle up and breathe the fresh air.

The only way to find that out is to read what people such as Charlie King, Director of the Reynolds Golf Academy at Reynolds Plantation, in Greensboro, GA have to say about them. (see his article in the November issue of Golf Magazine) The other is to invite those golfers (amateurs only please)  who have actually used them in play – to take our poll concerning their usability – remedy or gimmick?

By the way, there is good news on the golf instruction front, Charlie King, one of Golf Magazine's Top 100 Teachers has a new golf instruction blog! I like his style and his inventive approach to golf instruction. So much so that one of these days (soon) I'm sending my friend the Golftrekker down to Reynolds Plantation disguised as a chubby, 60 year-old 15 handicapper with a nasty snap hook. If Mr. King can help this guy (with an adjustable driver or not) AND he guesses correctly that the aforementioned golfer is associated with the Golftrekker he will be honored on this blog with the LCGolfer's, Golf Instructor Of The Year award and be presented with a new Cadillac!  Sorry Charlie!  Just testing your sense of humor with the Cadillac thing.

On to the Poll!

I happen to enjoy seeing the pro's check it up on the green out of the rough with a wedge or nine-iron. AND I am not alone in admiring those guys on tour considered "bombers" of the ball, guys like John Daly, Phil Mickelson, Anthony Kim and others. That's what a lot of golf fans are paying to see and they don't care if their drives end up in the fairway or not.

Other considerations:

Driving Accuracy No Longer A Factor?

The USGA thinks that certain grooves are causing these bombers of the ball to be less concerned about driving accuracy because they know that their grooved irons will get them out of trouble. I for one would not like to see these players laying off with the driver because they are afraid that if they hit it offline into the rough they won't be able to get the spin they need to hold the green? Anyone remember that little golf ditty, drive for show -putt for dough?

Shouldn't really matter much to the amateurs, they still need to make a good swing. Hitting a ball out of the rough is not just about grooves, I don't care how deep they are!

The chicken or the egg theory as it applies to golf…

Technology gave us grooves that would assist in shots from the rough.
Courses grew higher rough.
Technology invents V grooves to overcome that.
Course grows more snarly and deeper rough.
Technology invents…and so on.

I think you get the picture. So that brings up another golf world opinion poll fellow golfers: Tell us what you think of this rule change. Will it mean a new shift to driving accuracy, what Greg Norman refers to as the "art" of golf or will today's pro's still bomb it?

So once again I turn to a golf WOP to ask my readers what they think. Among the new players playing the PGATour, who do you think is the most exciting to watch?

The Masters has always been a special event for me, having attended it twice, before they made all the changes to it. I would dearly love to play Pine Valley & Spyglass before hanging up the spikes. So many courses, so little time. Vote for your favorite and feel free to leave a comment as to why you chose that particular course.

By the way, I borrowed the image of Moses as a golfer with permission of Pargazer which is a hilarious website that offers golf horoscopes of all things! Very humorous.

Be careful out there, no golf ball is worth your life, especially the crappy ones that I have seen people using! C'mon, play a decent ball, it's good for your game.

Golfers be careful out there and be aware of what is happening around you. You do NOT want to get hit by a golf ball.

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This dude can still play! He shows up on my doorstep after 20 years since I last saw him and what does he want to do, why, go play golf of course.

After holing out for a sweet 79 the Chuckster himself let me buy him a cold one (he won) and proceeded to catch me up on what he has been up to since becoming human. (watch for the full, exclusive story here only on the LowCarb Golfer)

After not making it in Hollywood with the film horror crowd, (he couldn't compete with the likes of Jason) and being told that his image "really wasn't a good fit" for the PGATour snobs, he decided to go it alone.

And it's good news, especially for golfers , Chucky has signed a multi-year agreement with the newly formed CNBC (Chucky News Broadcasting Corp,) to host his own news and sports program. He is a HUGE fan of golf, once scoring in the low 80's using only a hatchet!

Chucky will review golf equipment, do some interesting commercial endorsements and give us some news we wish we hadn't heard about. But, that's our Chucky!

And being the great guy he is he agreed to help me promote my Amazon Golf Store – Golf Smitten.  

Thanks, Chuck (he let's me call him that)