FOUNTAIN HILLS

I played golf there twice last week. It's only 12 miles from my house, but I hadn't played Desert Canyon Golf Course before.

Spectacular sights from the McDowells and other mountains that surround this desert beauty. Most greens are hidden from the tee boxes forcing the player to have good course management.

For some reason, I like courses like that. Give me a huge fairway and I might just find the rough. On the right or left. But make me take aim at a spot and I can hit it on a more regular basis.

I guess it's really all about focus. Kinda like the picture in today's blog. Man or mountain? And Desert Canyon has one of those views on the 18th hole. From two different angles, it looks like the face of a man with high hair or a hat on. I needed to study it more to be certain. But I had another focus--the green, which I came well short of on Wednesday and Friday.

A third connection--a friend of mine writes Anyblog USA. He starts it with a C. S. Lewis quote stating, "Aim for heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim for earth and you get neither." Focus/aim/mountain/man: it all fits, if we let it.