Sure, Christmas is just around the corner, and behind that a brandy-new year but pardon me if I’m not that much into the Christmas spirit this year. In some ways it seems like last Christmas just left; in other ways it seems like 2014 has been interminable. At any rate it’s not going on my list of great years, that’s for sure. Which is why it is so exciting to have locked up my arrangements for the annual Goodboys weekend in Las Vegas.

From February 27 through March 2 we’ll be doing up “Sin City” right this year at The Venetian. I know, I know, what happened to the Wynn Las Vegas haunts we enjoyed so much the past two years? Well, cost had a lot to do with it. And it’s not like we’ll need a camel and full week of water to trod our way over to the Parasol Up – its just a 20-minute walk away. If the weather’s good we might play a little more golf than we have done the past few years. The plans are still being firmed up, but TPC Summerlin and a return to Primm Valley don’t sound out of the question.

I tell ya, I really can’t wait. 2014 has been a long, hard slog from start to finish, and weekend in Las Vegas, baby, sounds really great right now.