Golf has become a favorite sport of many rock musicians, including high profile golfers Alice Cooper (who has written the acclaimed autobiography, Alice Cooper, Golf Monster) and Kid Rock (who in 2007 magnanimously replaced 6 sets of young girls' golf clubs stolen from their coach's car, after reading of the incident). Alice Copper, in an interview in Juice Magazine, stated, "When I was in the band, nobody played golf. It was one of those "anti-rocker" sports. I started playing golf when I quit drinking, twenty years ago. I needed something to do to waste that time. trophy store

You chased the white ball?

Yeah, same thing. The amazing thing was that I was the closet golfer and now Iggy plays. Now, Lou Reed and all these super underground guys play golf."

So Iggy Pop and Lou Reed have also hit the fairways, along with musicians from most points in the musical spectrum, including Kenny G. Now 50, Kenny G tops Golf Digest's inaugural Top 100 in Music ranking and is a club stroke-play champion at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California. The first listing of the rankings, which began in 2007, includes Vince Gill, the Gatlin Brothers, Justin Timberlake, Huey Lewis, Dweezil Zappa, Glen Campbell, John Michael Montgomery, Michael Bolton, Johnny Mathis, Glenn Frey, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rankin, Bob Dylan, Snoop Dogg, Mick Fleetwood and Neil Young, as well as 83 other notables.

It's no coincidence that many of the top stars in business and sports all relax on the links and enjoy each other's company as they study the lie for their next shot. The combination of carefully cultivated greenery, cool concentration and predictable progression through the holes on the course are addictive in a healthy way. Chi Chi Rodriguez, a Puerto Rican pro golfer, felt that his sport also offered a way for disadvantaged and at risk youth to learn about a better way to live. He and Bill Hayes, a teacher, golfer and part-time detention officer, founded the Chi Chi Rodriguez Academy in Florida, which offers programs to help struggling youngsters through golf. Their goal is to prepare students and children for the game of life, with after school, summer and Weekend programs, teaching life skills and core values through golf.

Drummer Tre Cool of the internationally successful rock group Green Day has returned to host the 3rd Annual Music In Schools Today Golf Tournament, April 20, 2009 at Sequoyah Country Club in Oakland California. Rock Star trophies are again being given as prizes to the winning golfers. Some of the participants this year include Tre Cool, Mike Dirnt also of Green Day, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, Tom Luce (who lent the name to his group Luce), producer Butch Vig, and DJ Vinnie Hasson from RadioAlice.

As shown by these successful members of the music business, golf, music, and the game of life strike a very harmonious chord together.