Remember to Protect Yourself from the Elements

G'nite

Hey, Surge
Did you consider a Auzzi hat that clips up on one side? You can clip it up when you swing and unclip it when you are done. Might work.

Awesome, Dick. Just like a Marine! Do the job once. Do it right. Do it fast. Be honest. Protect and watch over your own. You da man! R2

I think I'll give it a shot...maybe they will change their mind about my hat if they like the rythmn better...I can also rest for a while against a tree when I tire..
Ken

 Surge
Enjoyed your lesson about protecting ourselves from the sun with Hats. However I noticed that the hat you were wearing seemed to have very small holes in the rim. I could see the tree through the rim of the hat. If in fact this is true the hat you were wearing does not block UVA and UVB from your face. The hat needs to have a solid material under the rim to block out the UVA and UVB.

I say all this because I checked out all the material on hats about 14 years ago when I had to have my nose and half of my right cheek removed due to skin cancer. I had facial reconstruction and radiation treatments to prevent the return of that cancer. I do wear sunscreen every day and a hat to protect my face when out working or playing.

Hope this helps someone to prevent or reduce the chance of skin cancer.

I have not seen any response to the above message I put on this sight about 2 months ago??
Does anyone care about SKIN CANCER and how to Protect yourself???
Your HAT must block the UVA and UVB. Use your SPF 40 plus and wear the hat!!

Dick, I'm so sorry about your bad news. There are some tough times ahead, and it sounds like you're gonna have to be the strong guy for the family. My thoughts are with you and your family.

T

You hitting the sauce again coach?

Dick

Pity my Akubra of many years standing is not conducive to the SSGS swing. B*gger! As we say ; - )

Surge
Enjoyed your lesson about protecting ourselves from the sun with Hats. However I noticed that the hat you were wearing seemed to have very small holes in the rim. I could see the tree through the rim of the hat. If in fact this is true the hat you were wearing does not block UVA and UVB from your face. The hat needs to have a solid material under the rim to block out the UVA and UVB.

I say all this because I checked out all the material on hats about 14 years ago when I had to have my nose and half of my right cheek removed due to skin cancer. I had facial reconstruction and radiation treatments to prevent the return of that cancer. I do wear sunscreen every day and a hat to protect my face when out working or playing.

Hope this helps someone to prevent or reduce the chance of skin cncer.

The rhythm is all wrong for golf with a mariachi band. No wonder they got upset with you. Next time try rhumba. Much better for golf.

I've been busy and out of the loop. What ultimatum?

Roy

Just won't let up on you folks. Come on over here and play some golf with me. I have an extra room.

I will keep you guys in my prayers.
Dick

Bob

I would wear either, or both with pride.

Dick

You could always pick up a Santa beard. I bet it'd make a really bold fashion statement.

Roy

Dick will do that to you. Make you forget whatever it was...lol. I realize crap all the time, just figured it was normal. I have an emergency call in to Dr Phil. He says he'll give us a twofer.

Lynn42

Funny, funny, funny - Guts aching, eyes weeping
Oh Kenny, you shouldn't have told me that
My twisted side is creating possibilities with this
My golf mates are gonna hate you

 Eldon,
Thank you for the re-posting, I had not seen the original due to my working out of town the last 3 months.In a land with no wi-fi or internet connection, I might add.Skin cancer is and should be a major concern for all that play sports and or work outdoors, I fall into both categories at different times.I try to protect myself as much as possible with the appropriate sun screen/block.
Boog

T:

YEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Amos

Charlie

Thanks pal. Friends don't keep score. Well, just on the golf course.

Hope all is well with you,
Dick

Dragonhead

It is good to hear from you my friend. I am from the hills. We don't have seas up here. I don't like going into the ocean because there are animals in there that look at me like I look at a chicken sandwich.

Thanks for you prayers. I will keep you and your wee mum in mine as well. I guess it is always a matter of when not if. It has been said we start dying the second we are born. That is why I feel blessed to have had a great full life with so many great people in it. I count you and all my brothers and sisters in the Surge Nation amongst that group.

Like the song says, "It is not the moments we live, it is the moments that take your breath away." I don't want to leave this earth with any regrets.

I am blessed, therefore I am,
Dick

Brian

Thanks pal. We were able to talk with KP today and let him know what is going on. He let us know later that he has talked to his boss to let him know what is going on too. That way all the stuff can be in place if he needs to come home quickly. KP and I have a great relationship and I let him know I will do whatever it takes to help his dad out.

Thanks for your thoughts, and also for your service.

Dick

Hello Dick,

I am sorry to hear that you and your family are having a tough time. I've already said a prayer that things might get better for you.

I'm an Air Force guy, retired after 20 years, but have always had the utmost respect for the Corps. Semper Fi! and God be with You and Your loved ones.

Hit'em Long and Straight!
Bob

A damned good idea there TM. I have everything, WEEEEEELL almost everthing with velcro on it. Hahahaha. I scrapped an old Wilson Golf carry bag recently and cut off the velcro straps etc. Waste not, want not. Now I will go and see what I can cobble together. Thanks for the inspirational idea.

Very important message, thanks Surge. I am also a big proponent of protecting the face with a good sunscreen and a nice widebrim straw hat. I also wear glasses with transitions lenses. What i don't like doing is taking off my hat and then having to look into the sun for my shot, so after I put down my hat I have a visor, hooked to my push cart or umbrella, that I slip on for my shot and replace it with my wide brim hat the rest of the time. It's a good system.

KP is a fortunate lad to have you Dick

Dick - words fail me - I can't begin to show you my empathy - it's too big

 Eldon--thank you for reposting.  I have been playing with a hat that has small holes, and I have already had squamous cell cancer.  I'm going to get a better hat, and I plan to get an umbrella for my cart.

Dick:

My thoughts and prayers are with you in this hour of need.

Hang in there Buddy.

Amos

A couple of things on the hat: If you care about the shape do not lay a wide brimed hat down on the brim. Any cowboy will tell you to always lay them down on the crown, otherwise you will eventually ruin the brim. Straw allows air flow, but you may have less problem with a wide brimmed cloth hat where the brim is not as stiff and will give and bend with the shaft of your club. You can find cloth hats with some open air meshing and you can also wet the material; an extra benefit if playing in a hot arid environment. Sweat stained? Throw it in the wash. Just don't put it in the dryer and not a bad idea to either stuff the crown with towels when air drying, or wear it on you head as it drys to keep it from shrinking.

Jack

This new side of my family makes me a blessed man every day.

Dick

Mid 1970's visited NZ for the first time. Was there for 3 weeks acclimatizing myself from a Scottish Winter in Inverness, to the mid summer temperatures in Auckland. Every day out on the sunlounger, sun cream on and half an hour in the sun.
Up to the Bay of Islands. Crossing from Paihi to Russell on the ferry.The journey is less than 15 minutes. In that time, I was burnt to a crisp, literally. After a couple of years in Libya, parading and playing tennis, in 48degC heat, I thought NZ would be a breeze. Not so!It is something to do, I believe, with the angle the sun strikes the country [being at such a low latitude],way down under! I remember hopping from skinny tree to skinny tree, trying to find shade. For a couple of nights I stood in my underpants in the doorway of the lounge to allow the cool draught [no aircon] to cool me. Never again.

On the taboos Jackoz, In Germany my ex-Kiwi wife,then my girl-friend, was wearing slacks and I had on a kilt. I was a Sgt at the time. A Warrant Officer leaned across the bar, and said, "I say, I say, I say, I see your good lady has on trousers and you have on a skirt, who wears the pants in your relationship?" My girl-friend held my hand so tightly, I nigh on dislocated my right shoulder, attempting to take a swing at him. Just as well.Perhaps in hindsight that was the start of the problems with my right shoulder? Hmmmmm never thought of that ; - ) There is another taboo in there somewhere.

Oh and don't go into a Sydney bar like one of our Military Police did. At the time he was in the Merchant Navy. He started singing in a drunken state, "Take these chains from my....", which was followed by his collecting a plate glass window. Well deserved.
Looking forward to the All Blacks and the Wallabies, locking horns in the Rugby World Cup. Always worth the occasion.

Roy,

Did I detect a little Paul Harvey in that? ;0)

Lynn42

Dick
We don't have accents down here but we still can't understand each other (chuckles)
The hat style you refer to is called a slouch hat

While the topic is health issues - here's one that could save some lives
Every country has things of symbolic sacredness
If you have a death wish, roll into a country Oz pub (not a pretty boutique city pub) & make fun of the slouch hat
Darkness & death will descend upon you - I kid you not
There are some of us that will fill the room full of uppercuts till our arms fall off
The upside is, the sun will never cause you skin cancer ever again
Today, I kid you not

There is a jovial breed of Aussies & Kiwis that you should not mess with about such things
Poke fun at a Maori's tattoos - Darkness & death will be your best friends

I dismount & here endeth the health warning - I return to my normal stupidity

Happy golfing folks

Hey Dick,

If the Surge doesn't object, I'm gonna put his logo and your slogan on a hat. Expect to get one in the mail someday soon.

Bob

Dick,
You have it! I can't express with words my feelings as you know how close to me this subject is. May God's peace and grace be with you all!

So now you need to invent a hat with a detachable visor section so you just pull one part off, rather than changing head wear repeatedly. ;-)

Is it one of those heavy hot old b*ggers? - Tried one on once - My old scone rebelled

Dan

I have never seen the weather people break it down like that. That is funny.

I should have been a weatherman. It is the only job where you can be wrong every day and they don't fire you.

I will keep your course opening in my prayers for you.

I know all the golf bears are ready to come out of their caves.
Dick

I have not figured out why no one from Surge's staff will acknowledge my question about the Hat. Guess they just post and ignore any questions or answers to there post.
 

Amos

Thanks pal. It helps knowing this situation is being brought before the Lord by so many brothers and sisters.

We are hanging in and hanging on.
Dick

Bill

Good post and valid points.

My father used to say that is what wash and wear meant.

I always lay my hat down upside down. I don't wear my cowboy hat on the course, but I have been looking for a pair of boots with cleats on them.

The points Surge made today have been recognized by farmers and people who work live stock for a very long time. The cowboy hat was never intended to look good. It is a working hat. It's job is to keep the sun and rain off you. It is very effective for that. I always get a chuckle when I see a drug store cowboy wearing his brand new hat and thinking it makes him fit in with the guys with worn jeans, dusty boots and hats that looks like they have been run over a few times. It don't have to look pretty, just work.

Good to hear from you,
Dick

Roy

Thanks as always for your thoughts.

I can be a hard headed old Marine, hillbilly, redneck, cowboy most times. But being a father and Pop Pop comes before anything in my life, yes even golf, except my Lord.

Dick

Dick: Hope the big storm that is pounding us will miss you. We got pounded here in Utah today. I have 7 inches of fresh, very wet snow out on the deck and they say we can expect snow and lots of rain the next 3 days. Real bummer!! Maybe things will open up in a week or two....Anyway, hit some good ones for me - and thanks in advance. R2

Dick

Just a thought....Ya know, ya might just git an xtra 30 yards if ya put spurs on em.

Lynn42

Dick,
I am sorry to learn of this tragedy in your family's lives. It is times like this that strengthen the the bonds between the ones we love and remind us why those bonds exist. Bill, you and your family are in my prayers.

Coach Joe:

I hated sunscreen because when I sweated it would run into my grip. After have 3 cancers removed I started getting serious about sunnscreen and found neutrogena spray. High SPF and dries dry. Little residual odor too. Coppertone is stinky after it is on.

lynn,
send me an email off blog please. i have some news for you.