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It’s so refreshing to watch a golf tournament that isn’t reduced to a driver-wedge contest. Great greens make great golf.

Jr Golf Offerings for the 2026 season are here!

Visit https://pelicanlakeswindsor.com/junior-golf/ to learn more and register.

Pelican Lakes & RainDance National Golf Course have some exciting Junior Golf opportunities coming up this season. From summer camps to skill-building clinics and league play, there are plenty of ways for young golfers to learn, build confidence, and have fun on the course.

Our Junior Golf programs help kids learn the game in a fun, supportive environment while building skills and confidence!

Been saying it for years

‘Not going to be very popular’: Jim Furyk called for major driver rule change ahead of TV debut — Golf.com Just two weeks ago, Golf Channel announced it would have a new lead analyst in the TV booth for the 2026 Arnold Palmer Invitational and this week’s Players Championship: Jim Furyk.

Prioritize sleep Recent article from Lou Stagner:

How Does Sleep Impact Your Scores?

A new study looked to see if the quality of your sleep/recovery impact how you perform on the golf course?
The study authors were Gregory J. Grosicki, William von Hippel, Finnbarr Fielding, Jeongeun Kim, Christopher Chapman, and Kristen E. Holmes.
This study was done on professional golfers, but the lessons apply to the rest of us.
The study
The researchers connected wearable data (sleep plus cardiac metrics like resting heart rate and HRV) to actual competitive results. Not practice, not “how you felt,” but real tournament performance.
They had a big sample: 389 male professional golfers, 521 competitive events, and 35,140 nights of sleep and biometric monitoring.
The stats
Here are the averages across the group in key metrics:
Sleep duration (7.21 hours per night): How many hours they slept
Sleep consistency (69.1%): How steady your sleep schedule is. Higher means you go to bed and wake up at similar times most days.
Recovery score (59.1%): A “how ready is your body today?” number based on sleep and other body signals. 59% means somewhat recovered, but not fully recharged.
Resting heart rate (55.9 bpm): How fast your heart beats when you’re truly resting (usually during sleep). Lower often suggests you’re calmer and more recovered; higher can signal stress or fatigue.
HRV (64.2 ms): A measure of how much variation there is between heartbeats, which reflects stress and recovery. Higher is usually a sign your body is handling things well, but your personal baseline matters most.
Then they wanted to know, when golfers have better sleep and better recovery, do they tend to play better?
Their answer was yes. Sleep and measures of heart “function” were associated with performance for tour pros, and this showed up both between golfers and within the same golfer over time.

When you look at the same golfer over time, a 10-point improvement in sleep consistency was linked to about 0.19 fewer strokes per round, and a 10-point improvement in recovery was linked to about 0.24 fewer strokes per round. HRV helped a little. A 1 ms increase in HRV was linked to about 0.02 fewer strokes.

You need to remember that pro golfers are working hard to shave fractions of a stroke from their scores. While two or three tenths of a stroke may not seem like much, at the PGA Tour level that is going to make you a nice extra chunk of cash.
My thoughts
“I’m tired today.”
“I didn’t sleep great.”
“I’ll be fine once I warm up.”
This study suggests there is more going on. If sleep consistency and recovery can correlate with performance for pros who already have everything dialed in, it is hard to argue it does not matter for amateurs who juggle work, kids, stress, travel, late meals, early tee times, etc...
What does this mean for you?
Chase consistency more than the perfect night. Try to keep your sleep and wake times within about an hour, especially leading up to rounds that matter.
Use recovery as a planning tool. If you track anything (WHOOP, Oura, Garmin, even just resting heart rate), use it to give you guidance. On low recovery days, you may want to avoid a marathon range session for example.
Limitations
This is observational research, not a controlled experiment, and the data is from male professionals. The study was funded by WHOOP, and the authors are WHOOP employees with stock options, and the data is not publicly available. None of that invalidates the findings, but it is context you should know.

Absolutely. If the golf isn’t enjoyable, what’s the point?

Would you accept below average clubhouse facilities if the course was in pristine condition? — Golf Monthly Says Fergus Bisset

We need more quality public golf in Northern Colorado. It’s great to have Bella Ridge open. That place is incredible. .

Record Rounds Again in 2025, with 2K Fewer Courses - National Golf Foundation The post-pandemic surge has proven more durable than some initially expected, with rounds of golf at U.S. courses climbing to yet another all-time high in 2025. It's a run that has similarities to the early 2000s "Tiger Boom," but is far from apples-to-apples comparison.

The future of indoor golf?

‘Nothing like this in the world:’ Inside the plans for a wild, indoor golf course — Golf.com In Montreal this week, temperatures lingered in the single digits.

Looking for a buddies trip close to Denver with incredible golf that won’t break the bank? Do not overlook western Nebraska.

Spending the day at the CO PGA Teaching & Coaching Summit. Some of the best golf instructors in the state sharing their wisdom. Any time you get Ed Oldham, Trent Wearner and Steve Atherton in the same room I want to be in that room. Thanks FT for your hospitality🤙