Charlie Blanchard

In its basic form, intellectual property has been protected under the U.S. Constitution in Title 17 of the U.S. Code, Section 102(a), that ensures protection for “original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression,” which broadly includes everything from literature to music to photographs, and since a 1990 amendment to the Copyright Act, the architectural design of buildings.

On my first day working at a psychiatric hospital, the head doctor compulsively laid this cutie on me: “Do you know how many California shrinks it takes to change a light bulb?” “Why, no,” I said. “Only one. But the light bulb really has to want to change.” Clever, I thought, as I faked a smile out of obligation.

April in our desert means temperatures are warming and flowers are blooming, but the winds continue. More importantly, Masters week has finally arrived for the 88 th time. (The Masters was first …

It was a dark and stormy night. Actually, it was raining in the pre-dawn hours of Friday, May 17, when traffic became snarled heading near the entrance to Valhalla Golf Club on the outskirts of Louisville, Kentucky, where round two of the PGA Championship was soon to get underway.

As I write this column on this early June day, I notice that the daytime high temperatures here in Las Cruces are going to be over or hovering around 100 degrees for the next two weeks. Playing golf out in the dazzling, intense sun these days can certainly present health dangers. Those who are new to this area need to understand how hot the midday sun can be. Watch an egg fry on the hood of your car. A person or pet locked in a hot car can die in less than 20 minutes. It takes only 15 to 30 minutes for unprotected exposed skin to get painfully sunburned. You don't have to turn lobster red to suffer from sun poisoning. Overexposure to UV rays can result in pain and tingling, swelling of the skin, headache, dizziness, fever and chills, nausea and a painful rash.

The Southwest Center on Aging and Friends invite all golfers to play in and support their charity golf tournament at the New Mexico State University Golf Course on Friday, Sept. 30. All proceeds will …

Are you having difficulty finishing a round of golf with a score you're happy about? I'll just call it “closing round blues.” And it's an all-too-common lament. You play great golf on the first nine holes but you tend to lose it on the back nine – especially on the last four holes.

Within the last eight years, the USGA has updated its Rules of Golf, thereby creating several modernized rule adjustments. For example, there is no longer a penalty for accidentally moving your …

Charlie Blanchard Las Cruces Bulletin The explanation of “subconscious golf” is somewhat complicated.

The Economic Impact Study commissioned by the American Golf Industry Coalition and conducted by the National Golf Foundation in 2023 reveals that the direct impact of golf in the U.S. in 2022 was …