October 15, 2020
GAP News
Category: President’s Letter
Archived President’s Letters
June 30, 2020
President’s Letter: Summer 2020
Love in the Time of Corona Fans of world literature will immediately notice that I have stolen my title from the 1985 classic “Love in the Time of Cholera” by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia
April 1, 2020
President’s Letter: Spring 2020
Golf in a crisis We have all had our share of misery in the months of March and April as we return to the golf course. We’ve had late snow and rainy, soggy days. When we look back on those weath
July 1, 2019
President’s Letter: Summer 2019
Learning from the Scots and Irish I was in Scotland recently playing courses in and around St. Andrews with three of my closest friends. We had glorious weather (the rumors of wind and rain in Sco
April 1, 2019
President’s Letter: Spring 2019
New year, new GAP In the 1990s, I spent considerable time in Australia. One of the great things about traveling to Australia was flying Qantas Airways (obviously a distant second to Aussie beer an
December 1, 2018
President’s Letter: Winter 2018
Golf, alternative forms are alive and well The quotation “golf is a good walk spoiled” is often attributed to Mark Twain. Researchers are virtually certain that Twain never defamed our game wi
September 24, 2018
President’s Letter: Fall 2018
Ruining our reputation One of the hallmarks of our wonderful game of golf is etiquette. The ethos of respecting your fellow players, policing yourself and doing what you can to ensure that everyon
June 1, 2018
President’s Letter: Summer 2018
Champions amongst us After a brief encounter with golf in my early years, I went nearly 20 years without picking up a golf club until I was 34. At that time (1983), I was the Deputy Director of th
April 1, 2018
President’s Letter: Spring 2018
Golf is a family affair I was in Ireland this February visiting The Island Golf Club, my home club. The temperature was 48 degrees with a light rain, so given the perfect Irish weather the parking
November 1, 2017