How will a distinct difference in generations affect the travel industry, asks a story at Delaware Online. The Baby Boomers and Generation X are at a crossroads when it comes to travel ability and interests, and just one can emerge victorious, while the other must be pummeled into submission. Ok, it’s not that dramatic, but it is interesting. We are at the cusp of a generational switchover, and those generations have much different tastes and interests. On one side, you have the Baby Boomers who tend to go for the more classical, opulent style of luxury and travel. On the other ...

There is an obscure federal mandate that declares that all golf bloggers must have some type of year-ending awards presentation. It’s a Patriot Act thing and yet more proof that the best laws are ones that are actually read by those doing the passing. So, in order to keep with federal regulations and to keep myself out of a secret Romanian gulag, I figured it was time to announce the “William K. Wolfrum Most Important Golfer of 2005″ award. There were the obvious choices, of course. Tiger Woods and Annika Sorenstam again blitzed their respective tours and are worthy of consideration. John ...

As we enter 2006, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that golf needs one thing more than anything else: a competent bad boy. John Daly had the title for a while, but he’s gone way too mainstream. They could find Daly passed out naked with a brigade of hookers at the first tee of the U.S. Open this year, and everyone would laugh it off. “Oh that John, isn’t he colorful. Grip it and rip it, eh John?” At least the LPGA has their bevy of bodacious babies to keep an eye on. But really, how controversial do you expect Michelle Wie, Paula Creamer ...

To update: The “Gulf Opportunity Zone Act of 2005,” which will create eight billion dollars in tax relief for Gulf Coast businesses affected by Hurricane Katrina, has passed through congress and will likely be passed into law. The Bill will exclude casinos, liquor stores, massage parlors, racetracks, tanning parlors – and golf courses. “They are so flush with cash they really don’t need the benefit like many other businesses need them so Congress made the right call and decided it just wasn’t appropriate to subsidize those kinds of businesses,” moralized Barrett Duke with the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling. So sorry Gulf Coast golf ...

From the Department of “Man I Wish There Was Video of This": According to the Island Packet, a 49-year-old Hilton Head Island woman was arrested recently, facing charges of vandalizing her neighbor’s property and assaulting a police officer. It appears one Rita Miguel Caruso had some troubles with her neighbor and decided to resolve the issue by imploding spectacularly. First Caruso pulled her golf clubs out and started smacking golf balls into her neighbor’s house, which, even in a golf-liberal environment like Hilton Head, is frowned upon. Then it was just off to the races. Caruso then started knocking over her neighbor’s plants, then ...

After basically choking away his chance at winning the Target World Challenge this past weekend, Northern Ireland’s Darren Clarke was pragmatic regarding his downfall. “I swung it pretty poorly all day and it was going left a bit, and then bogeying two holes of the last three was not really the way I wanted to finish. I should have went out last night,” said Clarke. “I hit it all over the place. It was the lack of alcohol.” While the $800,000 Clarke pocketed for his second-place finish likely gave him the green light for glibness, something much more important can be ...

Gulf Coast golf courses are no different from a massage parlor, liquor store, casino or hot tub facility. At least not in the eyes of the U.S. House of Representatives. In voting through a multibillion-dollar tax package of tax breaks to revive hurricane-destroyed businesses, the House excluded casinos and country clubs, two stalwarts of the region’s tourism industry. According to the Associated Press, Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., said Congress should not allow ‘‘our constituents’ hard-earned tax dollars, in these kinds of record deficits, to subsidize the rebuilding of a massage parlor, a liquor store or a casino.’’ Or a golf course, it ...

There’s nothing quite like curling up with a good book, or so they say. Right now, I’m reading The Morris Men by Stephen E. Mitchell. And I’m reading it, because I told the guy I’d review it. The Morris Men is the riveting tale of two lifelong English rivals and their battles for dominance on the golf course. Ok, that’s all I have. I’m only on page 17. Both main characters have died already by page 17, though I’m assuming there will be some serious flashbacking coming up. The problem is, I’ve had this book for a month. Reading 17 pages in ...

According to the News Herald in Ohio, Army Spc. Allen J. Knop of Munson Township was killed in Iraq recently, after spending 13 months in combat, then reenlisting. From the News Herald: “He was a golfer and he was always very careful with his money. He didn’t like to spend it freely,” Allen’s father William Knop said. “But before he left this time, he went and bought a new golf set for himself.” William said he also bought an expensive new driver with the set. “It was this brand new driver, like a $300 driver, which was really kind of out of character for ...

So lets say you have the gross national product of South Africa stuffed in your bank account, and use krugerrands in vending machines just for the rush. If that’s the case, here’s a potential Holidays gift idea – a private Caribbean golf resort designed by Pete Dye and P.B. Dye. According to Robb Report magazine’s “Ultimate gift guide,” the resort includes it’s own island, the Dye-designed 18-hole course, a 5,000 square-foot clubhouse, which comes with eight bedrooms. The price tag: $62 million. Now, I figured this out, and all I need is to get every human being on the planet to ...