Question of the week [Dec. 15-21]: What golf resolutions do you have for 2026?
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Like many of your readers, one of my resolutions will be to play more. Living in the Northeast, I hope for an early spring.
Another resolution is to finally take a lesson to work on my chipping and pitching. This will be the year.
My final resolution is to focus only on the positives in golf. I won’t read anything about the PGA Tour / LIV Golf nonsense, nothing about Tiger Woods’ latest comeback, Rory McIlroy’s latest tiffs — just focus on the majors that still have full world-class fields and playing social golf with friends and family.
Vinny Mooney
Poughkeepsie, New York
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Make golf fun again, because fun beats frustration.
Lock Kyle
Jacksonville, Florida
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I am turning 75 this coming year so will have to work more on core strength/flexibility to keep up with my golf buddies. I intend to save up to invest in a custom fit, premium shaft for the driver and, of course, more lessons. Continue to stay out of the lounge chair and to keep moving.
Steve Moore
Birmingham, Alabama
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While watching golf on TV it disturbs me to no end to see a professional golfer take so much time hitting a 12-inch putt in the hole.
I play with hacks and we don't miss these short puts, so why do they take so long? The game needs to be sped up and this particualr act contributes to slow play. And don't say they are playing for so much money and they need to concentrate. The women play faster and don't mark the short putts like the men. "Look grandma, watch me make this 1-foot putt." They are pros. Get on with it.
Bill Moreau
Almonte, Ontario
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Play more rounds for the second year in a row and move to forward tees to enjoy my rounds more.
Randy DeBolt
Fargo, North Dakota
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My resolution for 2026 is to shoot my age or better twice or more. I have been close in the past, missing it by one stroke three different times. 2026 will be the year.
Paul Vicary
The Villages, Florida
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This one’s easy, and sad: Play much more golf in 2026.
My index is 10.7 and through November I had played just six times. Six times. An early December trip to see my brother-in-law, who lives at Reynolds Lake Oconee, bumped that up to nine for the year (though all rounds in chill and some drizzle), and I won’t play again this calendar year. So it’s nine total rounds for the year. Sacre bleu.
My primary resolution for 2026 is to force myself to play at least every other week, with some attempts at every week. I have no excuses. I’m 64, kids are grown, I work for myself, wife has no problem with it, and some terrific courses are within 45 minutes of the house — in Puerto Rico, where, you ’know, golf is year round.
That’s my primary golf resolution for 2026. I’d like to play and post at least 30 scores. Would be my most ever in a year ... and that includes the year I had my index down to 4.5 a quarter century ago.
My second resolution is to gain 25 yards off the tee. I average 10 fairways in regulation, but I need more distance. Need to fix my swing path at impact to stop the side spin that kills distance, and work at swing speed training.
That’s it for me. Much more golf, and more yards off the tee.
Andrew Turnbull
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
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TRUMP AND THE BUSINESS OF GOLF
The National Links Trust has raised money and is working with Tom Doak, Gil Hanse, Jim Wagner and Beay Welling to renovate the three golf courses in Rock Creek Park of Washington, D.C.
President Donald Trump’s administration has just announced its intention to shove the Trust aside so that Trump can play golf course owner and enable the dumping of East Wing residue.
Do we, as a nation, need a President managing the renovation of three municipal golf courses when an organization is already well advanced in their work?
Mark Chatfield
Houston, Texas
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