Archive for June, 2009

Bob, it really pisses me off that you got such a short retirement. I knew when you left your on-course announcing position with ABC Sports Golf you were not the kind of guy who would enjoy retirement but, jeez Bob. What did you have to go and die for?

I knew Bob Rosburg well just by being a TV Golf Spotter on numerous occasions where ABC Sports was following the PGA or LPGA Tour. Ah, for the old days huh, Sal?

Bob was a crusty old curmudgeon to some but he had a soft spot in his heart for spotters, considered by most to be the lowest form of human being to be allowed in a TV compound, just ask Johnny K. about those early years with ABC Sports, Sal on the radio, giving us all hell in his own inimitable style. Rossi and Judy Rankin in the fairways, Mark Lumis and Jack Graham in the production trailer (yes Sal, I was wrong that day when you asked me for the order, and I forgive you for the stream of F bombs that you laid on me).

I remember a tournament in the desert once where, as a veteran spotter,  I got the cush job of driving Rossi's golf cart. I soon discovered that man, you better hop to it or he would have your ass good. There were many horror stories of him dressing down a dipshit spotter that was chatting with the gallery instead of watching Rossi. But I made sure that I was like his shadow during the Nabisco Dinah Shore Tournament and as we rolled up to a fairway position that he liked he would then say, "Dickie boy, stay close and watch me."  I will always remember that day Rossi, God bless you, I think that it was the first day in history that Rossi bought a spotter a drink at the end of 72 holes.

He was a cynical guy, loathe to answer questions from the gallery and he would say what he thought, he would walk up to a ball in the rough and say, "no way is he getting this ball on the green" more times than not he would be right but there were some who knocked it stiff from impossible lies. He would say, "well, that's golf."

That Doesn't Taste Like a Diet Drink

Here is a mouth-watering chocolate milkshake recipe supplied by our friends at South Beach Living. It's low-carb, low-calorie and low-fat. Since I have been making this I have managed to avoid countless calories from the carbs I would have consumed had I not been completely satisfied with this particluar substitution. I used Nature Sweet as my sugar substitute but otherwise followed their recipe. (the secret ingredient here is; a touch of vanilla extract). I have made the same shake using other flavors too: cherry, peppermint, almond and rasberry but I keep coming back to the one with vanilla.

Have this one for desert and savor it like you would a fine brandy or as a snack to ward off the sugar-monster. It's a guilt-free way of satisfying your cravings for sweets and it works for me. I have already lost over 120 pounds while enjoying recipes like this. The key to my weight loss success has been substitution – find a way to replace the bad with the good and if it don't taste good – forget about it!

Here is the actual recipe:

3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

2 tablespoons granular sugar substitute

Pinch salt

3 cups cold 1% milk

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Ice cubes

Instructions:

In a medium bowl, stir together cocoa powder, sugar substitute, and salt. Slowly pour in 1 cup of the milk. Whisk until smooth, and then whisk in remaining 2 cups milk and vanilla.Fill 4 (8-ounce) glasses with ice. Pour Chilly Chocolate over ice and serve.

The bottom line: Per ¾-cup serving: 90 calories, 2.5 g fat (1.5 g sat), 12 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 95 mg sodium

For more mouth-watering recipes like this visit our friends at South Beach Living  

That Doesn't Taste Like a Diet Drink

Here is a mouth-watering chocolate milkshake recipe supplied by our friends at South Beach Living. It's low-carb, low-calorie and low-fat. Since I have been making this I have managed to avoid countless calories from the carbs I would have consumed had I not been completely satisfied with this particluar substitution. I used Nature Sweet as my sugar substitute but otherwise followed their recipe. (the secret ingredient here is; a touch of vanilla extract). I have made the same shake using other flavors too: cherry, peppermint, almond and rasberry but I keep coming back to the one with vanilla.

Have this one for desert and savor it like you would a fine brandy or as a snack to ward off the sugar-monster. It's a guilt-free way of satisfying your cravings for sweets and it works for me. I have already lost over 120 pounds while enjoying recipes like this. The key to my weight loss success has been substitution – find a way to replace the bad with the good and if it don't taste good – forget about it!

Here is the actual recipe:

3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

2 tablespoons granular sugar substitute

Pinch salt

3 cups cold 1% milk

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Ice cubes

Instructions:

In a medium bowl, stir together cocoa powder, sugar substitute, and salt. Slowly pour in 1 cup of the milk. Whisk until smooth, and then whisk in remaining 2 cups milk and vanilla.Fill 4 (8-ounce) glasses with ice. Pour Chilly Chocolate over ice and serve.

The bottom line: Per ¾-cup serving: 90 calories, 2.5 g fat (1.5 g sat), 12 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 95 mg sodium

For more mouth-watering recipes like this visit our friends at South Beach Living  

My good friend John just returned from a temp job as an on-course spotter with CBS Sports Golf at the Colonial Invitational in FT. Worth, Texas. I had to sit this one out due to a bum knee but spotting major PGA Tour events is something that we have done together on numerous occasions over the last 20 years, from the British Open to the U.S. Open and numerous tournaments in between.

On his way home he stopped here for a round of golf at my club and since he had spent the last five days at Colonial and was on his way to play Riviera CC, the subject of Ben Hogan came up. Neither of us were sure how two different golf courses got the nickname, Hogan's Alley, so I promised to check it out.

Simple really, thanks to Wikipedia. In 1948 alone, Ben Hogan won 10 tournaments, including the U.S. Open at Riviera Country Club, a course known as "Hogan's Alley" because of his success there. Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, a modern PGA tournament venue, is also known as "Hogan's Alley" and may have the better claim to the nickname.

Reason being that Mr. Hogan was born in Texas, lived there, played there, won there and died there. Colonial and Dallas/Ft. Worth area are the real Hogan's Alley, just ask any Texan. 

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