Blogs and Vlogs
Anthem of the Seas Review Part IV – Questions answered about cruising. Plus, things that were “mid” about Anthem of the Seas
By Jeffrey A. Rendall, Photos by Jeffrey A. Rendall Questions Answered about our Alaska cruise It's safe to say that booking a “warm weather” cruise virtually guarantees that you’ll get more of a “traditional” cruise experience with pools, sunny decks and weather warm...
Non-Disney Florida Excursion: Day Two brought more baseball in Lakeland Florida, visiting the Detroit Tigers’ facility.
By Jeffrey A. Rendall, Photos by Jeffrey A. Rendall First, Hang your hat at Marriott’s Harbour Lake Resort, then hit the parks (if you want). A day after attending our first major league spring training game ever, we thought we’d try another matchup since it wasn’t...
2028 is not the right time to think about the next President Trump
Political commentators are anxious to inject the Trump name into the early 2028 GOP race What qualities will conservatives and Republicans look for in the next GOP presidential nominee? It’s a concept many right-leaning voters haven’t needed to think about for a long...
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
2028 is not the right time to think about the next President Trump
One can’t help but feel it’s probably not the right moment for Donald Trump Jr.’s name to enter the 2028 Republican presidential conversation. Commentators hoping to keep the Trump outsider win streak in the discussion had better search for a different storyline to obsess over.
John Fetterman is at his best when he’s by himself. A unique kind of politician
Fetterman will probably never learn what it takes to be a Republican, but he might just be in position to use his influence to improve the public discourse while he’s open to serving. Democrats could very well try to edge him out, not because he votes against them, but because he doesn’t hate Trump. That’s more than enough to get you banished from Democrat-land these days.
A real 2028 Post-Trump GOP horserace could be taking shape. Will anyone notice?
No one ever said politics was fair, and we recognize how establishment media figures will make a big deal over any potential negative for all of the major post-Trump GOP candidates. Will us voters get better answers because of it? Time will tell. Be ready for the Republican catfight we know is on the horizon.
Latest News and Updates
The GOP’s Midterm Reversal of Fortune
Kurt Schlichter, Townhall What if you had a Democrat who stood up and refused to genuflect at the altar of Left-Wing weirdness? Well, then we would have a problem as Republicans. But for now, we don’t have to worry. With the Democrats contorting themselves like yogis...
America: The Real Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness The latest supposed Chinese existential threat is not to be assessed by how fast and impressively the nation rose from its own prior weakness, poverty, and irrelevance. What matters instead is to what degree its innate system...
Bye, Bill (Cassidy)
Scott McKay, American Spectator It was utterly bizarre. It looked like Cassidy’s political consultants hadn’t even paid attention to why he was in trouble in the first place. Or that they were treating their client like a mark while they were spending tens of millions...
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,...