Michael Visacki of Sarasota loses his grip on his club after teeing off on the second hole during a U.S. Open local qualifier at the Waterlefe Golf and River Club.
Golf, the popular game of smacking a small ball into a little hole while walking numerous miles with heavy metal clubs strapped to your back, is I believe, one of the most difficult sports to photograph.
Just
finding the assigned players to photograph can be a challenge. After begging, borrowing
or stealing a golf cart, you head out on a vast frontier of greens, tees and
holes. The golfers are already playing and now you’ve got to find, shoot and
identify them. To add to the challenge, by U.S. Open rules, you are not allowed
to talk to the players, whoops; here I plead the Fifth Amendment.
After
locating your subject, you hope for something interesting to photograph. Sand
flying, clubs wrapped around trees, players crying, are all good, but it always
happens on other holes.
To all
the golf photographers out there, your hard work, great photos and patience do
not go unappreciated.
By the
way, when they yell “Fore” what does that mean anyway?
-Grant
Jefferies
Grant Jefferies, a native of Palmetto and chief photographer at the Bradenton Herald, has been capturing moments in the lives of Manatee County residents for over 25 years. Images from the streets of Cuba and Haiti to the clay fields of the Little League World Series and beyond have been captured through the lenses of Jefferies' cameras. Jefferies can be found on his sailboat when his feet are not on land.
Tiffany Tompkins-Condie is in her 13th year as a photojournalist at the Bradenton Herald. Through the years she has covered crimes and carnivals; feasts and floods. Her postings will vary from events in Manatee County's back yard to the work of photojournalists covering the stories of our times from around the world. 
Paul Videla has been a staff photographer with the Bradenton Herald since 2002, when he made the move from Detroit, Mich. When he's not working,
he enjoys hunting for unique LPs at the area's plethora of thrift stores and continually works to improve his baking chops(as the records spin and his dog waits for handouts).
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