Blogs and Vlogs
Anthem of the Seas Review Part III — Onboard Shopping – Regrets from our Alaska Cruise – Plus, Suite, Balcony, or Inside Cabin, you be the judge
By Jeffrey A. Rendall, Photos by Jeff Rendall Onboard Shopping – You’re good if you want Royal Caribbean logos on your take-homes I certainly haven’t seem ‘em all, but I’m guessing every cruise ship has shops to buy things. Anthem of the Seas was no different. There...
Florida Spring Part I – Family friendly major league baseball spring training and why we decided to avoid Disney
By Jeffrey A. Rendall; Photos by Jeff Rendall Spring break in Florida sometimes means spotty weather and sub-optimal conditions. Not this year. “Spring Break in Orlando… no thanks!” This is what a friend wrote to me when I told him I was planning a trip to central...
Democrats’ “close the deal” campaigner is an 85-year-old senile old coot (Bernie Sanders)
By Jeffrey A. Rendall Bernie Sanders was the butt of many a joke, but now he’s the Democrats’ go-to campaigner Who woulda thunk it? If you needed yet another reminder of just how far today’s Democrat party has slipped into socialist ideological oblivion, simply look...
The Pacific Dunes Course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort – Still Golf’s Quasi-Religious Awakening After a Quarter-Century
Note: GolfintheUSA.com first ventured to Bandon Dunes in the summer of 2005. We revisited the Pacific Dunes Course again in 2025. The course is largely the same since its creation and launch. The change in impressions are ours. BANDON, OR – Many have portrayed golf in...
Commentary, Current Events and Politics
Democrats’ “close the deal” campaigner is an 85-year-old senile old coot (Bernie Sanders)
Sanders is the perfect example of a politician who’s never accomplished anything in life enticing the disgruntled and gullible with the intoxicating elixir of socialism. Only in this case, subjects wake up with a hangover that won’t ever go away, and could be lethal. The way to combat it is with truth and better policies.
Dreaming of a life before – and after – cellphones invaded earthly existence
It makes sense that individuals, like Curl described, are in control of their own phone habits. Re-watch those old movies and recollect that maybe life wasn’t so bad – back then – without today’s invasive communications technology shaping our perception of events. Take the good with the bad – take advantage of the phones, but place parameters on your own usage.
Governor Ron DeSantis – and Florida – to the rescue in the gerrymandering controversy
Gerrymandering/redistricting back-and-forth can’t go on indefinitely. A few states, such as Indiana, refused to reopen the map re-drawing this year. President Trump has let it be known that Republicans deserve to win seats they’d be competitive for but for poor elections monitoring or no longer relevantly distributed districts. This year’s elections are crucial to the future of the republic. Let’s hope Florida serves as a trendsetter on the redistricting issue, too.
Latest News and Updates
What Happened in Indiana Wasn’t a Win for Trump. It Was a Win for the People.
Scott McKay, American Spectator Those Indiana state senators were told by the people who voted them into office, some of whom four or five times before, that if the Democrats were going to become a predatory political party attacking the basic cultural, economic, and...
The Democratic Party Is Dead, Long Live the Jacobins!
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness The current Democrat Party is no longer truly democratic at all. Its new spirit and methods resemble the radical Jacobin Party of the French Revolution. Today, Democrats claim that if any opponent gives a Roman salute, he is a...
Surging Healthcare Costs Will Have ‘Major Impact’ on MAHA Voters’ Decisions in Midterms, Poll Shows
Daily Caller News Foundation (Ireland Owens), The Star News Network Fifty-one percent of “Make America Healthy Again” voters said the cost of healthcare will have a “major impact” on their decisions in this year’s midterm elections, according to a KFF poll released...
Where we’ve been
Mid Pines Restored — Donald Ross is back in Southern Pines
By Jeffrey A. Rendall; photos by Kevin Gaydosh and Jeff Rendall SOUTHERN PINES, NC – “It was really a dream come true to work on and be a part of the restoration of Mid Pines,” remarked course architect Kyle Franz, the lead mind behind returning the Donald...
The Oconee Course at Reynolds Lake Oconee – Golf’s Hippocratic Oath taken to its logical extreme
By Jeffrey A. Rendall, Photos by Matthew Rendall GREENSBORO, GA – When a medical student is ready to embark on a career as a physician, he or she must first take the Hippocratic oath, which originated in ancient Greece and roughly translated today means “First, do no...
Maui Nui Golf Club — A Hawaii golf experience that won’t break your wallet
By Jeffrey A. Rendall, Photos by Charles Rendall KIHEI, MAUI, HI – I don’t know about you, but one of the things I dread most about traveling to a touristy destination like Hawaii is the prospect of paying supersized prices for products and activities that just don’t...
Kinloch Golf Club — Nourishment for Future Comparisons
By Jeffrey A. Rendall, Photos By Kevin Gaydosh and Jeffrey A. Rendall Kinloch's Website MANAKIN-SABOT, VA -- Kinloch Golf Club's been called the 'Augusta National' of Virginia. Most folks, when talking about golf courses, categorize...
Kiawah Island Golf Resort’s Ocean Course — An Exhilarating Pounding
By Jeffrey A. Rendall; Photos By Kevin Gaydosh CONGRATULATIONS to Phil Mickelson for winning the 2021 PGA Championship. It's often said that golf is the sport of a lifetime, and Mickelson proved it. If a 50-year-old can compete with the best a sport has to offer, it...
PGA West Stadium Course — The Hardest Examination You’ll Ever Love
By Jeffrey A. Rendall, Photos by Scot Rendall LA QUINTA, CA – It isn’t often you walk off a golf course having struggled mightily and subsequently learn your troubles were exactly what the owners had planned from the beginning, but it’s not every day you see a layout...
Stuff that’s useful – and fun
Miura Golf’s Series 1957 Wedges — Good golfers will find them
By Jeffrey A. Rendall, Images Courtesy of Miura Golf HEMIJI, JAPAN – Japanese golf club-making guru Katsuhiro Miura is a confident fellow, and has adopted a philosophy for the company which bears his name: ‘The good golfer will find me.’ Miura has a reason to be...
Brava Driver Shaft from Breakthrough Golf Technology – Long and Straight adds years to your life
By Jeffrey A. Rendall, Images from Breakthrough Golf Technology RICHARDSON, TX – “I’m 83 and would gladly welcome an advanced blend of ingredients in pill form that would move me back to 73,” remarked innovative golf club design legend Barney Adams when I asked him if...
ASICS GEL-ACE PRO M STANDARD Golf Shoes — No need to think about it
By Jeffrey A. Rendall, Images from ASICS HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA -- Don’t think, just do. It’s something Tom Cruise’s Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell character instructed his students to do in the aptly named box office hit “Top Gun: Maverick”. I can’t speak for Pete,...