Category: Leisure
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White Oak Conservation & Golf
A dozen of us from The Golf Club of Amelia Island wandered off our home grounds recently to play golf at White Oak Conservation, in the extreme northeast corner of Florida. The whisper was that the place provided golf, but we learned that there are actually two golf courses there: a private 18-hole course and…
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Jack Cooper versus the Goose
Jack Cooper, a “Royal and Ancient” member of the Sunday Couples Golf Group at The Golf Club of Amelia Island, recently had a calamitous moment on the eighth fairway. Instead of his unrealistically expected graceful arc of the ball, reaching an appropriate apex on its way to the green, the offending sphere skittered across the…
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The Golf Battle of the Sexes
The Sunday Couples Group at the Golf Club of Amelia Island played an epic Battle of the Sexes for the 2020 Christmas Cup. Immediately following the 9-hole, Sunday competition, two lines were formed on the practice putting green behind their respective captains, Ron and Taura Lindhart. Men in one line and women in the other.…
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Custom Putter Putt-Off on Amelia Island
As members of The Sunday Couples Golf Group at The Golf Club of Amelia Island, we usually gather after the regular Sunday competition for a putt-off on the practice putting green. Over the past few months 11 custom painted and bedazzled, custom putters began appearing at the club. Emily Gordon inherited a dozen or so…