By Jesse. S. Lyons (Delta Alpha – Western Carolina '98)
In golf terminology, “the takeaway” is a reference
to the beginning of one’s backswing. The takeaway is the first step to overcoming your last hole. It is the first step to addressing your next hole. It is the start of a new round, a new season. It is the fulcrum connecting what was, to what will be. Welcome to spring! As the season turns, another year of the PGA Tour arrives. A few tournaments have already provided us with excitement on the links. Now, we’re right dead on with the granddaddy of them all, The Masters, at Augusta National. So few of us have stridden amongst the azaleas and walked the rope line throughout these hallowed grounds. So many of us, though, have attended annually in our living rooms, marveling at the beauty as presented by the one, the only, CBS. Imagining the scenes on your television screen, you hear Jim Nance whispering through the pines, announcing another birdie, another bogey, another commercial. We’ll be right back. This year, why don’t you approach your love of golf or your fascination with the Tour with KA in mind? Brandt Snedeker is in the hunt again this year. He’s tearing it up, everyone knows—and this year, a major is his aim. Can he overcome the 2008 Masters final round? The Journal thinks so. Lets cheer on the defending FedEx Cup Champion as fellow golfers and fellow brothers. Know that one of the key leaders running the Tour is also a KA. Ross Berlin, Senior VP of the Tour, just might literally know everyone out there. Of all the golfers and folks we’ve
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The Kappa Alpha Journal