Kyle Lograsso stood on the bridge leading to the fourth hole at Whitemarsh Valley Country Club dropping pieces of his soft pretzel off the edge, wondering if the fish in the creek below would bite.
Then he hears the call from his dad that it's his turn to tee off and he sprints over to the tee, grabs his driver from his dad, and rips one dead solid right down the middle.
In one minute he's a 5-year-old kid, chomping on cheeseburgers and chocolate chip cookies while crouching down on the floor of his golf cart.
The next, he's slapping the face of his putter, after scaring the hole on a 30-foot putt thinking he should have made it, looking like a golf pro.
He truly is a one-of-a-kind kid, blessed with both worlds that millions of golfers all over the world would love to experience, if just for one day.

Bob Kramer is a changed man.
Since coming to White Manor Country Club in Malvern, Pa. five years ago he has gone through a golf pro metamorphosis, shedding parts of the old teaching pro that included countless road trips alone in his van and endless hours out on the course and the range with his tour players and now standing tall at a point in his life that is all about balance: balance between his passion to teach the game golf, to spend cherished time with his family and to dedicate himself to his faith.
Kramer has gone from spending the winter months teaching in Fla. to now spending them coaching his son's basketball team, from sitting in church alone on Sundays on the road, to sharing that time with his family, from operating a bulldozer himself while building his own teaching facility in Douglassville, Pa. to operating a first-class facility as the director of instruction at White Manor CC.

What do you get when you combine a daily-fee public golf course with a true country club atmosphere?
You get Island Green Country Club, a refreshingly unique, exclusively public facility in Philadelphia just off Red Lion Road in the Northeast.
Think Philadelphia public golf courses and you might conger up images of friendly, affordable, but mostly small-scale municipal facilities
Think Island Green Country Club fits that bill? Uh-uh.

Let's "put the golf back in golf practice by replacing boring, counterproductive sessions with dynamic, proven exercises."
-"The Game Before the Game" Lynn Marriott and Pia Nilsson with Ron Sirak

The second annual Victory Golf Show of Philadelphia will invade the Valley Forge Convention Center, 1160 First Avenue, King of Prussia, from Friday, Feb. 29 to Sunday, March 1.
Tickets are available at the box office. They are $5 for adults on Friday, 4 to 9 p.m. and $10 on Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Juniors ages 16 and under will be admitted free of charge. Free parking will be provided all weekend long. Visit www.victorygolfshow.com or call 877-4VG-SHOW for more details and directions.

Naturally, Lou Guzzi is charged up for this coming golf season, and here's why.
Talamore Country Club in Ambler, has been bolstered by the addition of a beautiful 1,200 sq. ft state of the art teaching studio on its practice range.
It's the new home of the Lou Guzzi Golf Academy and where Guzzi, the director of instruction, has the goal of creating one of the finest high tech teaching academies and learning facilities in the country.

For many golfers, golf balls are like babies: they're precious little bundles of joy that, when handled just the right way, can provide an endless amount of happiness and countless lifelong memories.
That's when they behave themselves.
When they misbehave they can be down right rotten, refusing to listen to anything you tell them, inclined to stray off in one direction or another for apparently no good reason at all at a moment's notice and always ending up in some sort of mess.

Steve Spross likes a challenge. It's what attracted him to the golf business and what has guided him as a golf professional for nearly 20 years.
It's also a big reason why he came to Mainland Golf Course.
Spross, a Lansdale resident since moving back to the area from Orlando in 2001, took the head professional position at Mainland, a exclusively public daily-fee course in the town of Mainland, located in Montgomery County just off of the Lansdale exit of the Northeast Extension, about this time last year, ready to roll his sleeves up and join the effort.

Richard Greene saw a golden opportunity.
Looking to part ways from his longtime position at Sun Oil in favor of purchasing his own business, Greene met with a business broker in Wayne, Pa. back in 1986.
After sifting through literally hundreds of businesses from a beer distributor to an auto parts dealer to a lawn mower repair shop, Greene happened upon Valley Forge Golf Gloves, a modest operation in Malvern started by two Philadelphia area golfers 10 years earlier.

Mike Woodard is your guy.
Want to play St. Andrews? Plan a golf vacation in Scotland or Ireland? Visit Augusta National for the Masters? Woodard is your guy, for all of those trips and more.
He operates yourgolftrip.com, a franchise of Golf Scotland, one of the most tenured and respected golf travel companies in Scotland.

There was absolutely nothing not to love. Nothing.
Visitors stepped out of the insanity of Center City, out of the still shivering winter temperatures on a Friday night after a week of hard work and into pure paradise.
For eight days in mid-March Philadelphia area residents got the awesome opportunity to say goodbye to the dormant winter months and gear up for the start of the golf season in unique fashion.

A 13-year-old David Olexson glanced out the window of his school one day and saw his English teacher, Don Dwyer, sending golf balls soaring over the oak trees at the end of the schoolyard during his lunch break.
Curiosity called and Olexson finally wore Dwyer down with repeated requests to swing his 7-iron in exchange for some more cooperation in the classroom.
Olexson took a spirited swing ... and missed. He took another ... the ball dribbled 20 feet in front of him.
By 13, many of Olexson's peers were probably budding junior golfers, well on their way to breaking par for the first time. And although Olexson on the other hand was still struggling to consistently make contact with the golf ball, he was hooked.

One day last summer Todd Struse stood all alone on top of the seventh tee at LuLu Country Club and looked out across the golf course with pure joy. As the sun was just peeking over a valley Struse felt a chill run up his spine.
"There's my pride and joy," said Struse. "That's what I love."
That very moment is why Struse became a superintendent. It's why he beats the sun out of bed every morning of the golf season to get to work, why he spends seven days a week making sure his golf course is the best it can be and why after more than 30 years in the business he is more invigorated than ever before.

As spring rolls in the 2008 golf season and sets the area's courses into bloom, it's about to awaken one of the area's true sleeping beauties.
Delicately placed in one of region's prettiest settings, the dedicated staff at Skippack Golf Club at Evansburg State Park is pruning its golf course and facilities in preparation for a won't-want-to-miss awakening.

There's nothing quite like that feeling when you send that little white ball soaring into the air. Whether it's for the first time or the 5,000th time, it makes you smile and immediately pull out another ball to try to do it again.
That was the theme at the Play Golf America Day hosted by Wood's golf Center in Norristown and coordinated by the Philadelphia Section PGA on Saturday, May 12. Over 600 people tracked to Wood's to participate in free lessons and clinics, putting contests and demonstrations.

You take a golf lesson for a quick-fix and rely on the eyes of your instructor and his knowledge of the golf swing to see the problem and come up with a solution that will help you silence your slice or help you putt like a pro.
But the reality is that one change will not help you beat your buddies,lower your handicap or land you on tour. The golf swing is a complex conundrum that requires a series of solutions. And after all, golf instructors are only human.
So in steps GolfTEC (technology, equipment, conditioning), a multi-dimensional golf lesson that combines digital video, impact and motion analysis, ball flight projection and one of a kind computer software to provide its clients with the ultimate learning package.

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