You don't see this very often on a golf course: A player who putts for eagle on a par four AND catches a five-pound bass during the round. Jake Bailey, a Palm City, FL, real estate manager for a local brokerage, may not be ready for the PGA Tour, despite making birdie on the aforementioned par 4, but the boy can fish. Carrying his fishing pole atop the golf cart, he made his first cast beside the 3rd hole at Harbour Ridge Golf and Yacht Club in Palm City, and pulled out three bass within two minutes or so. He would go on to catch a dozen more during the round, sitting out some shots on a few of the holes.
       Jake, whose business card reads "Coach," is a former college baseball player (College of Charleston) who manages a local high school baseball team and is also responsible for training and guiding a staff of 200 real estate agents for a local branch of Keller Williams. If I ever take up fishing in a serious way, I know who to call.
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Jake Bailey, with one of a dozen bass he caught during a casual round of golf at Harbour Ridge in Palm City, FL.

        There are two politicians running for the highest office in the land whom we can be sure will play golf as President. One is evident: Donald J. Trump, who owns some of the most lavish country clubs around the world. The other is a quieter, more modest sort –- who isn’t, compared to Trump? –- who loves the game, tinkers constantly with grips and equipment and advice, and has pledged to continue to play if he becomes President –- even in the face of the drubbing the current President has taken whenever he steals out for a round at Congressional or on vacation.
        John Kasich is the candidate, and it was clear from an appearance on the Golf Channel last year that he has a regular-guy passion for the game. And when you watch the lesson he takes from Charlie Rymer at the end of the interview, you understand that he is also a quick learner, a trait we all should look for when we vet our potential Commander in Chief.  (In just a couple of swings, Kasich went from a hard left pull to a straight ball.)
        President is a complicated job, and no series of motions are more complicated in sports than the golf swing. John Kasich seems to know what he is doing with a golf club in his hands.
        Video interview of John Kasich on Golf Channel [click here].
Kasich in PawleysRepublican Presidential candidate John Kasich addresses a few hundred residents in Pawleys Island last week.