For players, second Sunday in March marks a joyful case

I heard half a dozen date that is supposed to mark the beginning of the new golf season. Regular PGA Tour winners – a Justin Thomas, one day Jason, a Jordan Spieth – can talk about the first round on More genuine In early January. Greg Norman, again at his peak, said the new season began in early March, with the first round in Doral, then the first stop of Swing in Florida. Some quote the onset of Merchandise PGA show At the end of January and others the first round of masters in early April. So options.

But for this eternal northeast, the golf season begins on Sunday in March when we come forward. This year, Sunday, March 9. You wake up. Your reliable analogue glossy in the dark says he is 7 years old. Your phone knows better. Is 8.

The sun in Philadelphia, where I live, was 7pm on Sunday. You can start at 5, play nine and the pizza would still be warm from the time you returned home.

Dylan Dothier recognizes this routine. If you read its moon column-media-march (Monday’s ending), you have chosen this. “I’m a twilight golf playing training and preference,” he said another day by email. He grew up in Williamstown, Mass. It is a short season, the one in the north, and in the spring and autumn, if you want to catch the warmth of the day, start late and end late, stopping in the faded light and the dying wind.

I surveyed other colleagues, over the weekend, about the understanding of the extra watch. David Denunzio, editor of Golf magazine, He reported that his son named Sunday was at night, seeking the swinging that will help him while trying for the Golf team in the high school named Montclair, a course architect Rees Jones He played Golf at Montclair High 60ish years ago. The rees thing is to swing from the inside, to swing from the inside, to swing from the inside. DD2 certainly has one thing all of his own.

“Golf has deep roots in the history of daytime saving time, which starts for most states at 2am on Sunday when the ‘Spring Ahead” hours, “AP reported the next day. “Some loans go to William Willett, a British builder and the thirsty golf player who in 1905 published a pamphlet defending for the movement of the front hours in April and turning them back into their regular environments in September.” Yes, AP is dedicated to column inch on this subject. That story was raised in Omaha, Neb.

On our Sunday spring-in front of Philadelphia, as Russell Henley was taking his way around Bay Hill, was cute and windy, but I felt the equation of the afternoon verse and course. I have the good fortune to be a member of Philadelphia Cricket Club. (Joined as a bachelor under the age of 30 and that made all the difference.) When I arrived on Sunday afternoon, Skeet shooter were still shooting skeet. One of the regular cadites was working with a shooter and after seeing me he said, “Welcome to the new golf season.”

Right, bro.

The Cricket Club has two courses with 18 holes and one of them, the Tilinghast course, was below endings on Sunday, Tees and Greens covered by plastic tarps in the name of spring grass. The course will be the scene in early May for a tour event, the Truist championship, filling for Quail Hollow, the regular tour of the tournament. Quail Hollow will be the PGA Championship host site later in May, so the cricket club is completing.

The members of the club, the best I can say, are quite excited about our complementary role in this year’s tournament. But it was strange on Sunday, standing in the rank and seeing a half-large about our fourth greenery, which will be the 18th for the tournament. Sunset on Mother’s Day, when the tour ends, is on 8 afternoon spring in Philadelphia is spectacular.

On Sunday, I hit the balls and played a few holes for the first time in almost four months. This is one of the longest breaks I have ever had, if not the longest. I am pleased to say that my shaky progress from 2024 was torn down, resting and ready. I wish you share it with you, I really do it because I know it will be a magical progress for you too. Unfortunately, I am forced to sit in this mirror of my golf, at least for now. You don’t want me to sue, right? I will find out all come in June. Try to contain your excitement.

My colleague Jack Hirsh, who also lives in Philadelphia, entered his first round with 18 holes of the year in this second Sunday in March. Our colleague Josh Sens, famous in agronomy circles for his passionate Regarding the art of grass growth, reports from Oakland, Calif., Now, with the extra hour of light, he can play nine -holes after work and before dinner. Yes, one of the requests to get a job at Golf.com is to be a golf bump, with some ability to disguise it in the polite company.

On Sunday evening, at the witch clock, Johnny Wunder, our general gear, was falling through the box, looking for a 5-head Callaway head that he first knew when, asking himself if he could make the initial lineup for ’25. Tim Reilly, our head of digital content, a Long Islander with access to a New Yorker Bethpage Black and other New York state courses were making a plan to get there before Russell Henley and Co. take the place for Ryder Cup. James Colan’s clubs winter in the garage of his parents, also in Long Island, and on Sunday they saw the day’s light for the first time in this New Year. Alan Bastable, the Golf editor, found himself consulting with a New Jersey weather app and booking a game for his 12-year-old Golf and two Paul in promised Tuesday.

Oh, and zak. People always want to know about zak. People will stop me in the pros stores and say, “What about zak?” Well, that’s a lot of questions. As for his new golf season, no Golf for the Sean until April, due to a hand injury done during skiing. Fortunately, he can still write. On Sunday, he watched Arnold Palmer Invitational with his father in Dunedin, Fla. On Monday, he motivated Tpc saw. Stadium course, if needed. His first event of the new season.

Claire Rogers, also in the players, reports that she will return to Boston after the tournament and expects to see the first spring signs, and the new Golf season in her new England hometown.

I played some holes with a caddy of the Gana Club by the name of Terry on Sunday. Terry is 21 years old, a student in one of our local community colleges, and he can hit a 3-hook in front of my driver. It was very cute and smell to play without a coat of a kind, and I wore a skis cap and a swollen coat down. Terry was wearing a heavy, heavy fur jacket, but he removed it before any shakes he made.

When Terry and I shared ways around 5:30 pm, after rising to nine, the course was brown and dormant and winter, but washed in yellow light. There was a lot of light day left. I continued.

I would say that my new golf season set off for a good start. I had a three -legged for the first in my first New Year’s hole, and I almost did it.

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