Your best bet is to hang out by the players’ car lot after a winning game, though.

Food: Also no aluminum, and technically no open liquid containers. Usually this open-container rule is not enforced, except during a Dodgers series.

Seating: I disagree with the fact that if you can afford to sit behind home plate you always should – there is a net in the way. I would prefer to sit behind the Giants dugout, but obviously this is personal preference. But I do agree bleachers would probably be best for a family because of its proximity to the Coca-Cola Fan Lot.

Elevators: Keep in mind that if you don’t need to use the elevator and you’re just lazy, it will still probably be about 10X faster to use the ramp or stairs when everyone is entering or leaving the ballpark. The elevators take FOREVER.

Kids Run the Bases: If you stay for the entire game and it takes you awhile to get out of the park, I would suggest exiting through the 2nd St gate because the line wraps around to there. Otherwise, you’ll have to follow the line back there anyway.

Hope that helps! :)

BTW, were you out at Harding for the Presidents Cup this past week? I took my son there on Sunday and we had a blast Tiger hunting. On Hole #6, I had my son up on my golf seat stick (he stood about 8′ tall) so that he could see Tiger from a good vantage point. A young Asian female, who identified herself as an Examiner photographer, shot a few photos of us and took our names. Do you know how I could reach her to inquire whether those photos were published, etc. Since we weren’t allowed to take cameras in, it would be wonderful to have such a photo as a souvenier of the first time that my son saw his golf idol, Tiger Woods, live.

Bruce

Lauren L.
San Francisco

You are correct that your feet are aimed for a shot that starts out down the right hand side of the fairway , now take a look at the line that your shoulders are making – as you can see they are actually aimed down the left side of the fairway.

Think about the swing of Fred Couples…he always lines his feet up with an open stance (sometimes looks like he is aiming 20-30 yards left of his target) but if you pay attention to his mechanics, his shoulders will always be lined up along his target line or intended starting line.

Lesson here is that the shoulders are actually a more important alignment than the feet. You can aim your feet correctly, but if the shoulders are not aiming right, you will not start the ball down the intended line of flight.

In contrast, you can aim your feet incorrectly and aim your shoulders correctly and you still can hit the ball down the intended line.

I shot 8 over on the front with 3 doubles…he shot 1 over.

I got to thinking that I neededed to change my ‘tude and decided to “ride that horse” into the stable – and I told myself that I needed to shoot even par or better on the back (to beat the old man’s score) – I used it as a motivation, and even though I was not able to shoot even on the back, I was 2 over through 15 – 3 over through 16, birdie 17 to get back to 2 over…..

On 18 (playing the whites) I unloaded an ungodly power fade starting over the corner tree – career drive for me on that hole…left me 141 to the middle of the green. Hit a choked up 8 iron right over the pin, released to 30 feet…3 jacked (first of the day) for a bogey and a 3 over on the back

11 over for the day felt strangely satisfying after the 8 over front. Realized that the pure will to keep things focused really helped me to avoid the doubles that have been plaguing my scores of late.

By the way…he shot 1 under on the back for an even par round and was within 4 shots of shooting his age.

Did I mention that he was 68 years old? Or that I was outdriving him by 40-50 yards on each hole? Or that he needed some type of hybrid to hit 150 yards?

Just inspiring…