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What’s Your Favorite Season For Golf?

October 8, 2014 | By Chris Chirico | Leave a Comment

Sleeping Giant Golf Course, Connecticut
Sleeping Giant Golf Course, Connecticut (Photo by Greg D’Andrea)

Well, we’re into my favorite part of the year – autumn.  You can have the spring and summer.  Being a native New Englander, I live for the cooler temperatures, crisp night air, the changing of the leaves, breaking out the jackets and sweaters.  This is the weather I wait all summer for.  So not surprisingly, it’s also my favorite season for golf.  Besides the cooler temperatures and no humidity, making your round of golf much more comfortable, it’s the changing of the leaves that can help make your favorite course even prettier, or bring an ordinarily dull course much more to life.  But what about you?  What’s your favorite golf season?

Is it spring?  I can understand why may golfers are fans of the spring time.  The spring usually means the beginning of the golf season.  A fresh, new start.  The winter chill is gone, temps are rising.  Trees and flowers are blooming and the courses are drying out.  It’s a chance to get a good bunch of golf in until the real summer heat and humidity kick in.

Maybe it’s the summer?  The summer is probably the time of year when you have the most consistent good weather.  Some of us can’t think of a better way to beat the summer heat than to head out for a ride in the old golf cart, grab a couple of beers from the Mofobete, and hope to whack your ball into a shady spot.  Just, no one writing this post.  But others…sure.  But mid-summer golf, for me, can be summed up in five simple words once uttered by Stinky Golfer Pete after a missed putt – “It’s too hot to miss.”

For me it’s the fall.  For all of the reasons mentioned above, and then some, the fall is far and away my favorite time of year for golf.  Really, who wants to sweat in places where you can’t quite get your towel to while in a public place?  Who wants to play golf when you feel like you just stepped out of a hot shower each time you walk to your ball?  I’d rather wait out the heat in order to play a little more golf in weather like this!  Hey, it’s fall in New England.  There’s a reason people travel here at this time of year.

Maybe you enjoy the winter for golf.  Wait…what?  OK, so no one (or very few anyway) are out playing golf in the snow.  But for many golfers who live in the northern portion of the country, maybe the winter means traveling south to play golf.  Maybe you have a second home or a timeshare.  Maybe the winter is simply time for your yearly big golf trip.  If you live in the south, then maybe you’re waiting for the cooler winter temperatures to play more often.  Whatever the reason, maybe the winter’s your time.

No matter your choice or your favorite season, to each their own.  Whatever gets you out on the course is good reason enough.  Whether you prefer the heat or the cooler weather.  Be it the lush green of mid-summer or the vibrant colors of the fall.  Hell, maybe your out there in the freezing mid-winter temperatures.  Whatever it is that gets you out there, enjoy it!

Swing ’til you’re happy! And take the poll below!

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Filed Under: Golf Life Tagged With: autumn, fall, golf trip, poll, seasons, spring, summer, winter

Losing Your Grip On Your Clubs…No Sweat.

September 30, 2013 | By Chris Chirico | 1 Comment

no-sweatOne of the most common excuses we all hear from our golfing buddies after a bad shot is “The club slipped.”  Hey, it’s not really an excuse though.  It happens.  It’s happened to me several times.  After the first couple of times it happened, I was given the old “you should try wearing a glove” advice.  So I gave it a shot, but just found it to be a bit uncomfortable.  So, gloveless, I just had to keep my hands as dry as possible throughout the round and learn to live with it.  And, as many people know, keeping your hands dry in a humid New England summer is no easy task.  Enter No Sweat.

We here at golfstinks.com are sent lots of products to try out.  So far, luckily enough, just about all of them have been useful, done what they were supposed to do and worked as advertised.  Well, you can now add No Sweat to the list.  No Sweat is a spray-on lotion which, with one application, claims to keep your hands dry throughout your golf round.  And, as mentioned earlier, that’s exactly what it did.  As a matter of fact, No Sweat lived up to all of it’s claims – there’s no odor, it’s not sticky and there’s no powder.  It’s also non-toxic, but rather than test that out the only way I know how, I just took their word for it.

Another of their claims is that the effect will last all day.  And again, No Sweat lived up to it’s claim.  I sprayed No Sweat on my hands just a few moments before my first swing, and nine holes later, there was no need for reapplication.  Now I can’t say it would have fully lasted 18 holes without another spray because I didn’t play 18.  However, if it required another shot to each hand…then so be it.  It’s doing it’s job, so it’s well worth it.

Speaking of worth it, that’s another term worthy of describing No Sweat.  At only $8.99 per bottle and with a claimed use amount of up to 50 applications per bottle, how can you go wrong?  Even if it’s a super-humid day and you do have to reapply it for the back nine, that works out to only 36 cents per eighteen hole round.  Now that is a good value.

What about uses for non-golfers?  You can put No Sweat to use in just about any situation where having sweaty hands would be a problem.  Maybe in football, baseball or, basketball.  Or how about billiards?  That’s a terrible sport in which to have sweaty hands.  Or maybe you’re on a job interview.  You can’t have sweaty hands for the initial handshake.  And you sure can’t keep wiping your hands on your pants all interview long.  Heck, even holding hands with your girlfriend, boys!

So all-in-all, No Sweat is a winner in my opinion.  And at only $8.99 per bottle, which will likely last you throughout your golf season, it’s a no-brainer.  And being the good-hearted, sharing bunch we are, we here at Golfstinks don’t want to hog all of the good stuff.  So as usual, we are going to choose one lucky winner who will be awarded a free bottle of No Sweat.  Just click here to head over to our Facebook page and “like” the post on our wall entitled “Golfers! Win a free bottle of No Sweat!” We’ll pick a random winner and put their hand-sweat problems and concerns to rest.  Well, for at least a golf season anyway.

Swing ’til you’re happy!

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: baseball, basketball, billiards, football, New England, No Sweat, summer

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