Tallying up some New Year's golf resolutions for 2011

It's almost the new year, and that means it's time to make some resolutions that may or may not make it to mid-January. Here are a few of our golf resolutions; see which of these you'd like to adopt, and add your own in the comments below.  

Never three-putt. Not just a good idea for your golf game; a good philosophy for life in general. Plan your approach, drain your putts. You can do it. We know you can.

Write less about Tiger. Just kidding. Let's all be honest here: I love writing about him, and you love reading about him ... or complaining about him, one of the two. 

Sit kids in front of the TV for the back nine of a major. Look, non-golf fans aren't going to care about a Fall Swing or pre-Augusta tournament, and kids won't care unless chunks of the course blow up every half-hour or so. But get them interested in a golfer, get them living and dying with every putt of his in the tense final moments of a major, and you'll hook 'em for life. Just use caution if you hook them up with Dustin Johnson. He'll break your heart, he will.

Master one new technique. Learn how to hit a fried egg out of the sand. Master the downhill lie. Learn to read the green like it was lit up in neon. Whatever, pick one element of your game and fix it this year. 

Throw a club, once, just to remind yourself why I don't throw clubs. Tommy Bolt had it right – there's nothing quite as satisfying as throwing a club. Problem is, as soon as that club's left your hand, you feel like a total idiot. And no, just because Tiger does it doesn't mean I can too. There's lots of stuff that Tiger does that I can't do … the golf gods and my wife have seen to that.

Bet over your head, just to see what it's like. So you're confident you can get up and down from the fairway? Yeah? Wanna go a Benjamin on that? Do it and see how you handle the pressure.   

Bring a non-golfer to the course. This one requires a special kind of patience, but it can be phenomenally rewarding. Maybe you're bringing your significant other to the course – and a marriage that can survive one teaching the other to golf is a marriage that will last. Maybe you're bringing your kid to the course, and if so, you're creating memories that will last forever. And maybe you're just bringing your non-golfing buddy along to teach him or her the ways of the game. Just remember – teach them everything that they'll know, but not everything that you know.

Grip it and rip it. John Daly isn't always wrong. Sometimes, you've just gotta unload on the ball, no matter where it ends up. See also: the Happy Gilmore swing.

All right, your turn. What are your golf resolutions for 2010?  Have your say here, and we'll see you in 2011!

Padma Lakshmi Sarah Mutch Gabrielle Union Alessandra Ambrosio Amanda Detmer