As we set our watches forward an hour today, we are still two full months or more from golf season in Alaska. With daylight hours getting longer, however, the mind starts to wander toward my favorite game.

I’m thinking about how much I will get to play this year. The past two years, I’ve barely played due to various factors. I’m hoping this summer will provide more time, but there is no way of knowing. I’m also contemplating how I could approach writing about this 2024 season, not knowing how much time I have to devote and I’ve come up with a possible idea.

In the past, I’ve been a sports writer for the local paper, where I printed official articles about State Am winners. I’ve done the more informal Alaska Golf Blog, where I wrote about many of the golfers in our community. Indeed, the focus was entirely on community, as things like the AGB ranking took a foothold. Given the uncertainty of my upcoming schedule, I’m pondering a run at a more personal writing approach.

I may try to document what it is like to be an Alaskan golfer who holds some desire to compete at the game. I’ll offer my thoughts, when time permits, on what has to be done to test one’s game against the best in Alaska.

With the pro game of golf and maybe pro sports in general kind of losing it’s soul these days, maybe amateur sports are where it’s at. If life were a video game and you were to start on level one for a golf portion of that game, Alaska is where you would start.

Alaskan’s aren’t the least talented golfers in the world, but we are the worst on the scoreboard. So, perhaps I will document competition in the Last Frontier from a personal perspective.