Epinions Recent Reviews for davke

Precept Tour Premiums -- A Great Buy

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:42:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author davke - Golfers often approach me and ask me, "David, how is it that you, a man with no short game, fighting a reverse-pivot and, dare I say it, a weak grip, shoot in the mid-80s while playing only a couple of times a month and rarely practicing?" I...

Challenging Country Golf

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:46:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author davke - Lambert Acres, located near Maryville, Tennessee, is a twenty-seven-hole facility, and each of the nine-hole courses has a separate entry in Epinions. Among those three nines, which include the R
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More Fun Country Golf

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:28:21 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author davke - The White Course is a nine-hole track that's part of the twenty-seven-hole Lambert Acres facility, located just outside Maryville, Tennessee, which is located near Knoxville. Epinions has the 27 holes divided up among the three nines at Lambert Acres...

Book Seven in the Pendragon Series: The Quillan Games

Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:01:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author davke - Young Bobby Pendragon, who travels between worlds and times, resurrects dead friends, and every summer opposes the mega-tyrant Saint Dane, is afraid of clowns. Yet his task at the moment is to run through a forest, collecting flags faster than his...

Nestled in the Foothills of East Tennessee...

Sat, 20 May 2006 01:20:02 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author davke - The Golf Club has been on my list of courses to play almost since I arrived in Knoxville, and I finally got to spend an afternoon on it. Two major items first brought the course to my attention: the audacious name and the greens. First, whoever named...

It's Wacky! It's Zany! It's Ponky 2!

Fri, 19 May 2006 09:03:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author davke - You know those favorite novels, the ones you’ve bought a few times but you don’t own copies because you keep foisting them off on friends? For me, those are P. G. Wodehouse’s Leave it to Psmith (hilarious), Terry Pratchett and Neil...

The 1987 Fleer U-68 Greg Maddux Rookie Card: The Book

Tue, 2 May 2006 11:06:45 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author davke - Prologue In 1992, pitcher Greg Maddux won the National League Cy Young Award, guaranteeing him extra oodles in the winter's free agent feeding frenzy. Already the greedy SOB had made headlines for turning down a five year, $27.5 million...

The Most Affordable Maddux Rookie Card

Mon, 1 May 2006 14:29:01 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author davke - Ah, the Topps of 1987. I remember it well, having decided to put together the whole set by opening packs. Topps was the only brand carried at the Little Champ, the convenience store near my home. I cleaned them out of packs on a fairly regular basis...

Wilson Makes a Comeback -- Deep Red II Fairway Woods

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 22:23:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author davke - Ever read one of those "Tips from the Pros" pieces in a golf magazine, and it actually helped? I did. It led to an epiphany. The thing was to face the target (at the driving range), hold up your 5-iron so the back of the head (for right handers) faced...

The Driver I Hate to Love -- Reconsidering the Steelhead Plus

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 02:46:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author davke - I just looked over to see what our good friends at Ebay are selling these puppies for: anywhere from $5-$65, depending on condition. Play It Again runs them around $30 in various shades of used. Callaway's Pre-Owned website has them in "like new"...

The Ironic Knoxville Muni

Sat, 1 Apr 2006 14:37:48 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author davke - This review might not make much sense -- I'm going to tell you why I don't like this course, and then I'm going to give it three stars and recommend it. My reasoning is that this is not just a review for golfers, but one for consumers. And from a...

Book Six in the Pendragon Series: Rivers of Zadaa

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:13:44 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author davke - For Bobby Pendragon, the Connecticut teenager charged with saving our world and several others, waking up in a hospital room means certain change. For a few pages there he thought his end was near -- he had goaded the arch villain, Saint Dane, too far,...

The Wee Golf Course at Williams Creek: First Tee and First Class

Sun, 19 Mar 2006 03:55:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author davke - Long story short (ha ha?), this is the finest par-3 course I ever heard of, much less played. The Wee Course at Williams Creek was designed by Tom Fazio and Bill Oliphant and offers great challenges to golfers of all levels. Its 18-hole layout...

Mizuno MP RAW Black Ox 56*08: Nearly Perfect in Every Way

Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:25:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author davke - With experience and observation I'd become a firm believer that it's not the club (or racquet or glove, etc.), it's the player. A good golfer will find a way to make a shot with a piece of rebar if necessary. That maxim recently got a test when I shot...

Topps Says Good-Bye to Mickey Mantle and Hello to Nostalgia Marketing

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:40:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author davke - The 1996 Topps Factory Set includes 449 baseball cards. Though there are no major rookie cards in the set (Sean Casey's #29 card being the possible exception), this is still a good set to add to your collection. It contains a couple of significant...

Steve Bann Tries to Simplfy Golf

Sat, 28 Jan 2006 15:52:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author davke - This is an interesting product -- though listed in Epinions under the Books category, it actually has a couple of options packages. The deluxe option includes a 50-minute DVD, an illustrated 64-page companion book, an alignment grip for a practice club,...

Weird Name -- Fun Golf

Sun, 13 Nov 2005 21:38:33 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author davke - I've asked a few people why it's called Dead Horse Lake. The consensus seems to be that a horse died there in the water, back when it used to be farm land. One golfer deadpanned that it's because he uses Horse brand golf balls, and he's drowned dozens...

Pristine Donald Ross Course

Sun, 23 Oct 2005 10:10:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author davke - The Cherokee Country Club is a rare golfing experience. Club membership is expensive and difficult to obtain, resulting in the mixed blessing of pristine, lightly-trafficked facilities combined with the high probability that you will never play there...

Fun Country Course

Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:42:03 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author davke - Lambert Acres is a 27-hole facility located near Maryville, Tennessee. It is public, laid back, fairly well maintained, and playable for a variety of player levels. The Red Course, specified in this review, refers to only one 9-hole track. I'll catch...

Mailing it In: The Guide to Some of the Territories of Halla

Sat, 14 May 2005 11:34:07 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author davke - It is not often that I'd declare a book, any book, a waste of money. This one qualifies. As a literary experience, I'd rank it somewhere around the ingredients list on a Pepsi bottle. Pendragon: The Guide to the Territories of Halla is forty...

Book Five in the Pendragon Series: Black Water

Sat, 4 Dec 2004 15:55:12 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author davke - "Fight! Fight!" yell the excited crowd of klees, a race of big jungle cats. But it isn't the klees doing the fighting. Instead, it is Our Hero, Bobby Pendragon, their prisoner, who stands facing his fellow prisoner, a knife-wielding gar. The victor...

Book Four in the Pendragon Series: Reality Bug

Thu, 2 Dec 2004 17:19:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author davke - Stampede! The enormous cattle herd, large enough to make the ground shake, is dashing up a deep and narrow canyon. Trapped in the canyon, only seconds from a certain and horrible death, is Our Hero, Bobby Pendragon, and his fellow Traveler, Loor...

Book Three in the Pendragon Series: Never War

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:35:06 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author davke - It's 1937, New York City, in a suite of the luxury Manhattan Tower Hotel. Two gun-toting gangsters are about to rub out Our Hero, Bobby Pendragon. Fortunately, the gangsters are unaware that fellow Traveler Vo Spader is preparing to topple a sofa onto...

Book Two in the Pendragon Series: Lost City of Faar

Sun, 28 Nov 2004 05:30:03 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author davke - The farming habitat is being attacked by pirates. If the habitat does not surrender its crops, it will soon be destroyed by powerful water bombs. Fortunately, there are three Travelers aboard the floating habitat, including Our Hero, Bobby Pendragon...

Book One in the Pendragon Series: Merchant of Death

Sat, 27 Nov 2004 20:33:09 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author davke - Three Travelers are hidden in a secret passage that leads into the castle through the kitchens. A heavily-armed Bedoowan knight is certain to discover them. Fortunately, one of the Travelers, young Bobby Pendragon, from Second Earth, has armed himself...