Festivus for the Rest of Us

This week is very busy with year-end closings, getting ready for my son's wedding and having family in town, so my golf game is suffering. I am going to try to get out and play sometime this week if my deals get done in time and the weather is reasonably good.

Since my children are the product of a mixed religion marriage, my son decided that we should celebrate "Festivus for the rest of us", which was popularized by the television show, "Seinfeld". Of course, in my family, we call the show "Kramer" (and we have a cat named "Cosmo")!

I cleaned up this year at "Festivus". In addition to some cool non-golf presents, I received

• a gift certificate for the PGA Tour Superstore.
• six sleeves of Titleist Pro V1 golf balls.
• a gift certificate for a round of golf at a nice golf course.
• a compression sleeve for my aching elbow (more about that later!).
• an external battery charger so that my GolfLogix GPS does not run out of battery power on the 16th hole!
• some gag golf balls as a stocking stuffer.
• "Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons and Teachings from a Lifetime in Golf".
• "Five Lessons: Modern Fundamentals of Golf" by Ben Hogan.
• golf tees and replacement golf spikes.

According to Ben Hogan, any golfer with average coordination can learn to break 80 if he applies himself intelligently. I am going to take Ben up on his challenge!