"Lacing them up" is often referred to by sports talk hosts for those individuals who have participated in some type of athletic endeavor at a high level. But it is a literal term used when trying to follow Superintendent Kevin Breen around one of his bi-weekly walking tours of his golf course in the Sierra Mountains.
Last summer, I stopped by Lahontan GC in Truckee to visit Kevin and catch up on his latest activities. The guys at the shop said Breen was out on the course and that I could go join him. An assistant on the course drove me out to the 13th hole where I was dropped off near the middle of the fairway.
I immediately saw a slender man wearing a bucket hat ...