Randal Hunhoff
Recent Stories by Randal Hunhoff
Disc golf course opens in LR park
posted: 05/21/2012 2:25 a.m. Comment 1
Almost overnight, property owners adjacent to Reservoir Park have found themselves owning golf course lots.
Putt to work
posted: 03/19/2012 2:49 a.m. Discuss
There’s an attractive rock outcropping atop a cliff about 100 yards into Hindman Park’s Long Trail, and Norm Berner was about to point out its unusual no vaculite formation. But his guest, disc golf course designer John Houck, interrupted.
Disc maestro’s conception? Challenging, yet innovative
posted: 03/19/2012 2:46 a.m. Discuss
Disc golf course designer John Houck of Austin, Texas, has designed more than 100 courses for municipal parks and private resorts, and his courses have often been used to stage national and world championship events.
Ready to play? Here’s the when, where and how
posted: 03/19/2012 2:34 a.m. Discuss
Disc golf provides outdoor exercise; the rules are simple; it’s not difficult to play competently ; and the courses are compact enough that an 18-hole round can be played in an hour.
Russellville will host national tournament
posted: 03/19/2012 2:32 a.m. Discuss
If he had the time, Doug Trantham might be apprehensive about having the nation’s most experienced disc golf course designer surveying a course he set up.
125 acres of ugly receive face-lift
posted: 03/12/2012 3:30 a.m. Discuss
Nature can quickly overrun a 125-acre park that’s left fallow for a couple of years, and Westwood Park in southwest Little Rock shows the neglect.
Book gets golfers back in the swing
posted: 02/07/2011 4:04 a.m. Discuss
Body 4 Golf by Dawn Lipori (Diva Dog Publishing, 2010), 147 pages with index, $27.95 Physical therapist Dawn Lipori wants your golf swing looser, longer and stronger, along with the muscles that produce it.
Costly DVD fails to slice it as golf lesson or exercise
posted: 08/02/2010 3:50 a.m. Discuss
Marketers of golf gear are a famously ruthless lot who take vampiric pleasure in draining the wallets of desperate hackers who can’t square the club face and are willing to pay nearly any price to do so.
Modern yoga far stretch from ancient philosophy
posted: 07/26/2010 4:04 a.m. Discuss
It’s amazing that yoga has a firm foothold in the West given the deep suspicion of the pursuit that existed for hundreds of years, up to the late 1960s.
Giving the officials some respect is fair play
posted: 07/08/2009 4:01 a.m. Discuss
Consider the humble umpire. Ballfields have to post signs to remind spectators and teams to treat umpires with respect. A New York court once ruled that impugning umpires is an inviolable American tradition. Yet, a baseball or softball game without an umpire has about the same chance of coming to a satisfactory conclusion as a horse race without jockeys.
