By ED TRAVIS We all know golf can be an expensive game. The cost of clubs, club membership, green fees not to mention clothes and shoes and travel and…well you get the idea. I may hold the record for expensive golf rounds and I’m not referring to the new outfit my wife bought in the pro shop when we were caught in a sudden rainstorm nor ponying up to play Shadow Creek. To set this up for you, I have travelled a lot in my life and as a seasoned flyer have the usual tales of delayed flights, bumpy landings
By ED TRAVIS Before relating a true golf story, a moment to talk about baseball, my former favorite sport. As a kid I was a mediocre infielder and probably never had a batting average above .220 but loved the game especially the New York Yankees and Mickey Mantle. I even had a Mantle rookie baseball card that would be worth lots today if I hadn’t pitched it about the time George Steinbrenner took over. The baseball question in my mind is, are the much hyped “torpedo” bats in the same category as 500cc titanium-carbon fiber-tungsten 48” long drivers that are