A golfer, now into his golden years, had a lifelong ambition to play the 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Verde, Fla., exactly the way the pros do it.
The pros try to driver the ball out over the water onto the small green that is on a small spit of land. It was something the golfer had tried hundreds of times without success. His ball had always fallen short, into the water.
Because of this, he never used a new ball on this particular hole. He always picked out one that had a cut or a nick, as did many other “average” golfers when negotiating very challenging holes.Recently he went to Sawgrass to try again. When he came to the fateful hole, he teed up an old, cut ball as usual, and said a silent prayer.
However, before he could hit the ball, a powerful voice from above seemed to be booming out from the clouds, saying:“Wait! Replace that old ball with a brand new one.”
The golfer complied, with some slight misgivings, despite the fact that this same force seemed to be implying that he was going to finally achieve his lifelong ambition.
As he stepped up to the tee once more, the voice came down again:“Wait. Step back. Take a practice swing.”
So he stepped back and took a practice swing, certain now that this heavenly force was going to make his dream come true.
The voice boomed out again:“Take another practice swing.”
Dutifully, he did. He stopped expectantly and waited …A long silence followed …
Then the voice again:“Use the old ball.”
Maybe few of us have heard of The Zambia Open. But with R800,000 in prize money this year, it did raise our interest. It also attracted good golfers like Ian Woosnam, Sam Torrance, Christy O'Connor Jnr and Johan Edfors.
It's the richest event on the winter sector of the Sunshine Tour.
It has been part of the Sunshine Tour since 1996, and was co-sanctioned by the European Challenge Tour from 2001 to 2004. It was also an event on the Challenge Tour between 1991 and 1993, having previously been part of the now defunct Safari Tour.
With three Zambia Open champions in the field - defending champion Tyrone Ferreira, and former champions Steve Basson and Desvonde Botes - it's going to be a closely-contested affair, especially as the field also includes the likes of Brandon Pieters who is one of just two players on the Sunshine Tour this year to have won twice.
His victories came in the Vodacom Business Origins series events in Pretoria and George.
Ferreira claimed his maiden Sunshine Tour win in this event last year, handling the strong winds better than his pursuers to finish on eight-under 208 ahead of Charl Coetzee and Divan van den Heever.
Last year's tournament was held at Chainama Hills, and this year, it returns to Ndola Golf Club, the scene of Basson's second consecutive win. Botes also won at Ndola, but back in 1996.
Other players in good form ahead of the Zambia Open are Zimbabwean TC Charamba and South Africans Jbe' Kruger, Tyrone Mordt and Christiaan Basson.
They finished behind last week's Sunshine Tour winner Jaco van Zyl, who is not playing in Zambia this week after winning his third title in 2009 at the Telkom PGA Pro-Am.
Charamba was second with a strong closing round, with Kruger and Mordt sharing third. Basson shared fifth with Botes.
Sunshine Tour tournament director Gary Todd told Zambian media that the Tour valued the Zambia Open as an important event on its calendar and was always confident it would take place despite a postponement earlier in the year.
"We had a good event in 2008 and it is an achievement to host it again. What happened in March was a bit unfortunate and we would like to add more African events to the tour,", he said.
"We currently only have events in Swaziland, Namibia and Zambia."
Golf clubs recommended to golf pros:
TaylorMade R9 Fairway Wood
TaylorMade R9 460 Driver
49-year-old Prince Andrew’s latest golf handicap is 4, which means that he is eligible to be a member of the Pro League. Then, the Duke of York alos can make a living by teaching golf club ’s swing, or even be able to enter the British Open. Just be able to compete with other professional players such as Tiger Woods for example.
Prince Andrew is the second son of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who is the No. 4throne heir of British. Prince Andrew has been playing golf as soon as he served as the Navy. His level of golf really took off is when he began full-time personnel to the work as one of the royal family.
Despite the 628 official activities last year, Prince Andrew still had enough time for golf, almost from his estimate of 6 or 8 to 4. He is also the St. Andrews Royal and Ancient Golf Club’s former captain. He played in the world’s best golf courses, including in the USA and Barbados, to plug the state of Massa, Thailand and New Zealand's top golf course.
However, his passion for golf is a waste of British taxpayers because the money has aroused considerable controversy. Ten years ago, Andrew hiring a private jet to watch the British Open in Scotland, the British Labor MP Tony - Tony Banks described Andrew as "useless parasites overweight." In 2001, Andrew in order to watch the final stage of the British Open competition at Lytham St. Annes, who spent 10,000 pounds to use the Queen's plane. In 2004, he refused to attend the D-Day anniversary celebrations in France but to take part in a golf dinner held at St. Andrews.In 2005, Prince Andrew spent £ 32,000 so that the British Royal Air Force set him to St Andrews.
One spokesman of Prince Andrew told "The Sun": "He is a proud supporter of British golf."
The top 5 richest caddies in the world
No. 1
His name: Steve Williams
Work for:Tiger Woods
Income:＄1.27 million
No. 2
His name: Chad Reynolds
Work for: Vijay Singh
Income:＄510,236
No. 3
His name: Jim MacKay
Work for:Phil Mickelson
Income: $445,821
No.4
His name: Tony Navarro
Work for: Adam Scott
Income: $443,548
No.5
His name: Damon Green
Work for: Zach Johnson
Income: $370,716
You can know golfers are all the animal lovers from the head covers they used. They love golf for the natural feeling on the golf course, they love this gentlemen sport for the grace, they also love their golf clubs for they all have the golf club cover to protect the security of the clubs. Now let us view the what kind of head cover they have a paion for:
Els's lion club cover
Ernie Els is not only a Grand Slam winner, also the boss of a golf course design company and the liquor company.Els from South Africa with the Lion head cover protects his clubhead with the Lion head cover..jpg)
Rory McIlroy Niger steps with the dog cover to guard the safety of his clubhead.
Steve Websterhad Kermit stepped to the 1st tee with the frog in the sway
As Steve Williams designed the Kiwi head cover, it became the fashional trend to the plubic. Animal club cover is popular. No matter what kind of golf clubs you hold, you should cherish your partners in order to react to you the surprising bonus. Now there are several clubs can be your assistance to crown: 09 Burner Iron Set , FT-iQ Driver
Lady's world is always full of attractive to the man. And there are more and more female can earn as much as, or even more than male. Recently, the Forbes released a ranking about the world's 100 most powerful celebrities. Golf movement is attractive, apart from those great pros, awesome golf clubs, also owing to the lady golfers.
Angelina Jolie, an actress who has earened the top spot on Forbes' annual ranking of the world's 100 most powerful celebrities, dethroning Oprah Winfrey, who had held the No. 1 position for the past two years.
Jolie raked in $27 million in the past 12 months thanks to a movie schedule that included "Kung Fu Panda," "Wanted" and the not-yet-released spy thriller "Salt." Even more impressive: The publicity she garnered following the birth of her twins, as well as the consistent headlines she grabs for her philanthropic efforts and her relationship with actor Brad Pitt, who ranks No. 9 on the list.
Winfrey drops to No. 2 on the list. The media maven has pocketed $275 million in the last year, making her the list's top earner. Though viewership for her daily chat fest, The Oprah Winfrey Show, continues to erode, her earnings remain unchanged from a year ago.
Rounding out the top five on the list are pop icon Madonna ($110 million), singer Beyoncé Knowles ($87 million) and golfer Tiger Woods ($110 million).
The Material Girl banked the majority of her millions on the road. Her “Hard Candy” tour rounded out 2008 as the year's top-grossing international tour, raking in $280 million across 17 countries.
Knowles' haul came from album sales, tour performances, films, a fashion collection and a lengthy list of endorsement deals. Woods' pile of cash came mostly from endorsements, appearance fees and a lucrative gig designing golf courses.
U.S. President Barack Obama is the first sitting head of state to make the Forbes Celebrity 100 Power List, coming in at No. 49 with his earnings up to $2.5 million last year from his two best-selling books and many magazine covers.
The Celebrity 100, which includes film and television actors, models, chefs, athletes, authors and musicians, is a measure of entertainment-related earnings and media visibility. The earnings estimates consist of pre-tax income between June 2008 and June 2009
As the Solheim Cup takes centre stage at Rich Harvest Farms in Chicago this weekend, our familiar leading Danish shoe manufacturer ECCO release the special edition golf shoes that has designed for The European Team as they attempt to win for the first time on US soil and reclaim the trophy.
Designed specifically for the European Team by leading Danish shoe manufacturer, ECCO, these shoes incorporate elements of the European Union flag and have been inspired by the history and tradition of the Solheim Cup.
Constructed from the highest grade leathers, direct from the company's own tanneries they also feature ECCO's state of the art technology to create a stylish and functional shoe.
A leather comfort fibre system inlay sole with shock-absorbing PU provides superior walking comfort and climate control whilst Outsole engineering with enhanced lateral torque improves stability through the golf swing.
American Solheim Cup veteran and ECCO staff player, Julie Inkster, will also be wearing a distinctive all-white ECCO golf shoes with red, white and blue stitching details as she makes her eighth appearance in the event.
ECCO shoes are also worn by international Tour stars, like Carin Koch, Linda Wessberg, Iben Tinning, Fred Couples, Aaron Baddeley, Colin Montgomerie, Stuart Appleby, Arjun Atwal, Thongchai Jaidee, Thomas Bjorn, John Bickerton, Bradley Dredge and others.
Each ECCO golf shoe is touched by more than 225 sets of highly-skilled hands during production, resulting in a level of quality that cannot be matched by any major footwear manufacturer.
This labor-intensive process facilitates the brand's unrivalled attention to detail that helps discerning players look, feel and play their best.
You can choose Callaway Big Bertha Diablo Driver and Titleist AP2 Irons and more golf accessories to suit the ECCO shoes.
How to Play:
Supreme Golf: a flash web golf game
Click and hold on the golfer to start the swing, release when you have enough power, click again when the power meter reaches the arrow.
Tips:
Club Selection:
The Driver may not always be the best club to use. Sometimes you will want to hit the ball a little shorter to avoid a hazzard.
Comes to flowering season again, you can driver this luxury golf cmmercial vehicles to begin a period of golf vacation. Surrounded by the clear water and greens, you can have the top equipment under your foot, and the warmth of home life around your body.
Exposured into the spacious and luxurious living room of the car, reclining in the sofa with imported leather, listening to jazz, drinking whiskey, and to enjoy the moving scerery outside the car window wiht your friends. Pointing to the landscape, and talking about life. Touch the central computer control systems, lighting control systems, in the Opera-style lighting system to create a warm atmosphere, enjoy five-star business hotel's elegant club atmosphere.
Have a fine fruit salad in kitchen, or a glass of Italian coffee. Or maybe you can have KTV first. Mobile satellite TV sure you not miss a race. If you have official business in the hand, then you don't have to worry about missing an important video conferencing, fax or Email, the wireless network on board serve-office systems.
it is a business enterprise mobile office vehicle, or the image of the Government received for investment vehicles, a car of the VIP reception.
As an golfer, you must have to know the course, and you must have the idea about the relationship between shot and sand. Hoping you can understand more about how to manage sand, and then the delicious sandwiches is waittting for you. Not have the sand shotting become the " sandwitch".
The reason why PGA Pros different from those amateurs is that they have the ability to manage sand properly and actually use the sand to their advantage. While amateurs do not. When hitting from a bunker, there are two things that you should try to do above all else. First, strike the sand with the bottom of the clubhead (the sole) about two inches behind the ball, for example, have your R9 460 two inches behind the ball. Second, create a divot from one to one and a half inches in depth.
The main job of the clubhead is to create a pocket of sand between the ball and clubhead. As the clubhead digs, you can see the sand between the clubhead and ball actually start lifting the ball upward. Any less sand will prevent a soft landing, often resulting in skulled shots.If you dig too much, the clubhead will lose momentum, making it hard to get the ball out.
Practice makes perfect. maybe days later, you will find that hitting a great bunker shot is not so difficult as you once thought. Or maybe one day, you will find a clone club can be used like AP 2 in hand as well.
Just like him in the other contest, Scotty Cameron, with the same approach, designed a unique ball caps for the British Open in F2009, attracting eyes for his Titleist putter.
such Titleist putter head was found in their locker on Thursday night, the 2009 British Open.
Golf enthusiasts who loving collection of golf items can buy from Scotty Cameron's website this weekend, price of 72 dollars for each head.
Tell me why, why my back hurt me so much while a golfer do not. The reason is not because any great equipment do this for golfer, actually all TaylorMade is the same, all the point goes to the swing.
Show your muscles, and find the key. when you try to swing a golf club with inhibited gluteus muscles the neural signal skips right over the gluteus muscles, the largest and most powerful meuscles in our body, and is sent to your surrounding back muscles.
In fact, we may not even be strengthening but just re-educating the neuromuscular system. In reality, most early strength gains are more neural than contractile. Meaning that your body learns how to recruit more of its muscle rather than actually growing more muscle. It takes about 6-8 weeks of a training program before muscle hypertrophy (growth) begins. It is extremely important that you are able to set the core muscles in the body to properly stabilize the spine and actually fire your gluteus muscles when training, otherwise you will just revert back to your normal pattern of using your back muscles instead of your gluteus muscles and perpetuate your problem further.
To sum up, once you have the idea about the proper strengthening and also core muscles, then the condition will be better. What's more, you should rember R9 is still R9, the key is your body.
Nike always say just do it, sometimes this sentense is really great.
According to "Los Angeles Times" reported on the 12th, the wealthy often spend a large amount of money to buy a Picasso or a Pollock painting, but few to leave any mark on the lives. why not to spend money on a living body, such as Jagger? Rap singer "50 cents" go home for you own singing his "money instead of people's lives"? Rock star can also be rented out.
If you have the money, you can do anything, for a rich golfer, maybe you rich is not show on your X-20 how awesome, also not in how many Titleist clubs you can buy. If you have the money, you can directly knock the door of Tiger's father's house, and tell him you have the money, and hoping his son to be your caddy. Just for fun, but that is possible.
Holiday gatherings, wedding ceremony or adults ceremony are all can have Emmy winners come to add to the fun, as long as you have enough money to put in front of them. Yes, this is not a small sum. For example, New Year's Eve, the British pop singer George Michael sang in Russia for a wealthy businessman, in front of hundreds of guests to perform more than one hours, was paid three million U.S. dollars! Rich man named Vladimir Potanin, a mining and timber giants. Have Michael's concert in Russia for 75 minutes.
Well, this tailor is famous, and his products is also awesome. And, we call the product as TaylorMade. This summer, the great brand have show you the great products, TaylorMade R9 Driver.
For the first time, you can buy a club that can change with you. Yes, the brilliant golfers can set it up for the course that they’re playing and hit it perfect every time but the real bonus is for the average golfer. This is a driver that can grow with you. You can keep it for years.
Honestly, it's great, no matter it would be in the style, technology, looks and feeling. Maybe you have the image that you have a shot gun attached to the end of the stick. I uesed to be the fans of Tiger Woods, and the user of Nike.
We all generally want to have a golf club than can improve our poor swing, but this one is different, we can have the R9 to improve the swing.
OK... so let's see if I've got this correct. You haven't touched your golf clubs since that last warm day last fall, and you really haven't "practiced" since who knows when, and now that the PGA Tour is making it's way from Hawaii to the west coast, YOU ARE GETTING THE GOLF BUG... AGAIN !
Now that you've started watching these guys on TV make playing the game look SO easy, you can't wait to get back out there yourself. Before you do anything rash... watch the pros carefully, see how "thoughtful" they are before they hit each shot. Then they stop thinking and go into "play the shot mode" which I am going to contend is a right brain function. That is when they are PLAYING well. Yes the emphasis is on PLAYING... not THINKING. Try to remember the last good round you had, not a par round necessarily, but a good round of golf for you. You were undoubtedly just enjoying the day or the company of your friends or the golf course, or all of the above. The point is you weren't TRYING to play well you just were. Golf, as well as life, is more about being present than it is about anything else. And patience is always a virtue.
We, as a species, tend to think way too much at the times we should just be executing the shot we wish to play. Think all you have to, to come to a decision as to how to make the shot you are playing. Think of the risks and the rewards. Think of the type of lie you have and how much wind you have to play for. Think about and be confident about your club selection...then take aim and fire away. When it's time to fire... stop thinking... just be aware.
Back to watching the "big boys". Notice that none of them are swinging HARD when they are playing well. Heck, you'll rarely see ANY of them EVER swing with what appears to be any effort. Tiger has been prone to "let 'er rip" way too frequently from my perspective over the last few seasons. Whether he was frustrated that his swing mechanics weren't in order yet from making changes, or his timing was just simply off, you had to be visually impaired to not notice how hard he was swinging at times. And at those times he was not scoring any where near his potential. Whenever he is playing his best and is lapping the field he has a more noticeable fluidity to his timing and tempo than when he is "off" his game. Except for the times that the pros ARE making a swing change, they are basically focusing on their timing and their tempo. Their swings don't really change from a Thursday to a Sunday. What may change and sometimes does very noticeably is the thought process of some players. When ANY of the pros on tour are scoring well they aren't focused on anything but the present. As simple as that sounds. It isn't necessarily that easy to do at times. Jack Nicklaus was the best of the best for the longest duration of time. His mind was the best "CLUB" in his bag, or should I say, in his game. He believes that PATIENCE was the thing that separated all of the good golfers from all of the great ones.
Golf in America takes a look at the Ginn real estate bust and what it means to golf, plus the story of two junior golfers aspiring to be Tiger Woods and taught by their dad as well. These Golf in America stories and more Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET only on Golf Channel.
Women have been trying for years to be viewed as equal competition for men, especially in sports. Unfortunately, society fails to measure women’s abilities on the same scale as men’s abilities. Golf is one of few sports that show great potential for women and men to compete on the same level. Recently, there have been many developments in the world of women’s golf.
Women’s golf has been become extremely popular over the past few years and there are currently as many professional women golfers as there are men. Golf equipment companies have also recognized the amount of women interested in the sport and have customized many pieces of golf equipment including golf clubs, drivers and golf bags to be more comfortable for women. You can also have your own golf equipment custom-made; making golfing more comfortable and efficient for women since men’s clubs were often to big. These are just a few of the steps which have been taken to welcome women into the world of golf and ensure that they are comfortable and treated as equally as possible.
Women’s golf associations such as the LPGA have also contributed to the popularity of women’s golf and given women the respect they deserve. Women golfers are now featured in Golf Digest magazine, Golf for Women and a number of other magazines dedicated strictly to women’s golf. Videos and TV shows are also contributing to the popularity of this sport and giving women the “drive” they need to pursue careers in this field.
It was not until earlier this year, that women’s golf took a leaping step in the right direction when professional golfer and top LPGA player, Annika Sorenstam was told she could play against the men in a PGA tournament. Many people predicted how they thought Sorenstam would do when she teed-off against some of the best male golfers in the world. Some people had positive encouragement to contribute while others were chauvinistic and down-right rude.
Phil Mickelson, 2nd in the overall moneymaking standings last year, had no problem playing against a woman and claimed that he thought Sorenstam would end up 20th overall, when she predicted herself to be 28th. Other golf professionals were not so eager to give Sorenstam the benefit of the doubt. Vijah Singh actually resigned from the tournament because he felt he could not play with a women. He claimed that Sorenstam simply “did not belong” in a men’s tournament.
Nonetheless, having a woman play in the PGA, even for a short while, was a huge accomplishment which could potentially pave the road for future development in women’s golf.
If you look at the 11 win gap between Jack’s 70 total victories and Sam’s 81 and then figure Sam’s total of 165 victories he claims, no one even comes close. Sorry Jack. Now figure in the shape of the courses today, the equipment and the level of competition and there is no doubt in my mind that Sammy is the man. Keep in mind, Sam played against, Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan -- all born the same year - they were considered the era's Big Three. Hogan amassed 63 total wins and Nelson won 52, putting both of them in the top 5 of the all time winners list. Does anyone really thing that Tiger’s best competition today, is going to end up in that illustrious group? I think not.
Statically speaking there is a large gap between the top of the all time winners list that not even the great Walter Hagen bridges. Hagen, in 7th place with 40 wins, is eleven short of the 6th placeholder, Billy Casper. Eleven wins is an entire career for even a great player on the tour today. Again I ask you to look at the gap between number 2 on the list, Jack Nicklaus and Number 1, Sam Snead, eleven wins.
Even if you are the most vehement “Tigernite” or Nicklaus Nut, you have to admit, the real all time golf elite includes only a very few, 6 to be exact: Sam Snead, Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Byron Nelson and Billy Casper. And Billy Casper gets my vote for the greatest player with the least recognition, by far.
Now I’m going to really tick you Tigernites off. My money says he never gets there. (However, I’m not betting the really big money) Why? I think he runs out of desire. The bigger he gets, the closer he gets, the more he wins, the more the pressure will build. If he has shown any weakness at all, it is his temper that occasionally gets the best of him. As the pressures mount, and with the glare of the media of today, it will, I think that pressure will sooner or later wear him down. No, I’m not predicting he will go “postal” and toss a camera in a lake with the owner still attached, but I think the “fire in the belly” will dime. And if I am right, it will be a travesty to lose, not the greatest that ever played, but one of the greatest, that could have toppled ”the” Greatest Player That Ever Lived, Sam Snead!
Only time will tell!
Watch golf on television is very boring and Nepal itself, and occasionally appears some word begin with F in front of the audiene will feel better.
Circuit, the Supreme Court of the United States recently have 5-4 vote to determine results, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently punish on the Fox television network, the fine is legitimate. The story goes like this, in which a broadcast ceremony, Bono, Ni Chelpin and Newt Gingrich spit a large of dirty. Assistant Justice John Paul Stevens did not agree with this decision, in his view, the same words to describe sexual intercourse, discharge or similar scene is dirty, but in other cases when the description should not be regarded as such a view, " but only the expression of an emotion. "
He said, "the first kind is completely out of the mentality dirty", while the latter is just the excitement of the hearts vent. From his personal experience to the past, for example."Look at any golfer, whatever ever his golf equipment is,Nike or Callaway, if his companion to see hit a shank," he wrote, "absolutely not the F head word out of his mouth to express his view about the act of sexual or excretion, no one else would think that way at that situation. But the FCC will think this is indecent language, is really ridiculous. "
To the editor's opinion, no matter it is a out of mentality dirty or out of mind' s expression, but once you have the status as the reporter, you have the responsibility to take care of your audiences. Because the Journalism tells the truth, cares about the society, but not only the money.
