The 2013 True Linkswear Chukka ($209.99) is just such a shoe and will probably not replace the low profile spikes we’ve all been wearing sing birth but a few cool cats will be sporting these this fall.

You’ll know because they’ll be smoking a good cigar, wearing striped socks , and their belt will match their pants.

Buy them here

Get ready golf crazos…the 2013 Golf Digest Hot List is about to hit your newsstand, mailbox, iPad, Kindle, iPhone…OK you get the drift.

Every year this ranking and rating of new equipment is the number one, side by side comparison and analysis of golf’s new bats, scoops, and blades…and don’t worry, there’s plenty of pretty pictures.

Now go down to the basement and dump out that staff bag full of the last decade’s purchases.  You’re going to need the room.

Have more fun in 2013.  Go buy yourself some new clubs and play more golf!

#2 – Arcadian Shores

Years ago I was sitting in the bar at a golf resort in the middle of January.  There on business it was me and the bartender, maybe in the entire house.  I learned a valuable lesson about wine that evening.

He taught me that when you go into a grocery store and look behind the first bottle on the shelf, you just might find a gem…the same winery but a better year.  What in the world does that have to do with golf in Myrtle Beach?  Here’s what.

In the mid 1990′s golf was booming.  The NGF predicted boldly that a course a day would have to be built to keep up with the impending crush of the gap wedge wielding baby boomer.  Golf courses indeed did pop up at that rate and no moreso than in Myrtle.  But pre – 1990 many of the area’s courses were not just good enough, but just plain good…and they still are.

While several of the big courses are more well known and regarded, courses like Arcadian Shores deserve your attention.  Why?  Because for roughly seventy bucks you can play a Rees Jones layout that is solid on all fronts.  I’m not telling you to stay away from the marquee courses, but mix in a few like Arcadian and you just might find a gem at the back of the shelf…and have a little more money for chicken wings and Yuengling drafts.

Read more here

It couldn’t be more appropriate that Sam Snead’s namesake beer was introduced this summer at The Greenbrier.

Although he loved and represented this great American icon for most of his life, his home lies just over the mountain in Virginia.

It’s an amazing site and one of the great drives in golf to be winding down Hwy. 220 and suddenly come across a sweeping piece of property which has a green all its own.  It’s surrounded by a fence and down the hill a beautiful white house with a huge American flag flapping in the wind.

This is where Snead lived.  And I’ll bet he would be sitting in a rocker on the front porch, telling a dirty joke, and sipping a Slammin’ Sams.

Now I’m not much for “craft” beer, it’s usually a little too bitter for my taste but I just returned from a trip to Pinehurst where they are serving up this brew and it is really good and worth a gulp.

But if the sneaker look has passed you by or your just too stodgy to take the plunge, ECCO gets it.

In stores this Fall is the Tour Hybrid ($190), a transition from sneakers to sneaky cool.

These are going to be a hit, at least with me.

Just in time for the PGA Championship comes a brand new mobile app for the Ocean Course and Kiawah Island Golf  Resort.

Download it and have a fully functional look at the Ocean Course including hole flyovers.  Cool if you’re going to be there or watching it on the 55.

Download here

Just because I’m a square and drive a 2004 VW Bug convertible, baby blue, doesn’t mean I don’t know cool when I see it.

We love a good contest and here’s a beauty.  Just in time for a fall buddy trip, win a 2012 Camaro  ragtop, a 6-day golf trip, and two sets of Taylor Made bats.

Enter here

Putting courses have a long history in the game.  See our post on The Himalayas in St. Andrews here

The latest resides at the home of American golf at Pinehurst Resort.  This place just keeps getting better and better.  The renovation of famed course #2 should put this trip on the first tee of your bucket list.  It was great before and otherworldly after…and now this.

Get your brains beat in on “The Deuce” followed by a cigar and lager on the putting course…now that’s a day we can back.

Check Pinehurst out here

New for fall is the William Suede Penny.  They aren’t cheap at $245 but will last you a lot longer than the last belly putter you installed.

Buy them here