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Tiger Woods readies for second phase of career
Greg Norman taking one last trip around Augusta
Sunday at Augusta changes a player’s life
Masters Tournament Timeline
Love narrowly misses chance to make Masters
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Rory’s Rewards: SHO exemption and Masters practice round with Tiger
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A Kinder, Gentler Augusta
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| Tournament Dates | Mar 20, 2009 – Mar 22, 2009 |
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| Location | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Club(s) | Bosque Real Country Club |
| Previous Champion | Louise Friberg |
| Scoring System | Stroke |
| Rounds | 3 |
| Playoff Rounds | 0 |
| Course Length | 6901 Yards |
| Prize Money | $1,300,000.00 |
| Cup Points | No |
Natalie Gulbis and Claudia Jordan
Natalie Gulbis is one of 16 celebrities competing for the title of Celebrity Apprentice. She joins a cast that includes Joan Rivers, Dennis Rodman, Jesse James and Scott Hamilton this season on NBC.
LOGO golf ball king
Lyle Clark started playing golf 17 years ago. In that time he has collected thousands of logo golf balls, all of which he displays on hand build wooded racks in his home. He even has one with his name on it … given to him as a gift from his grandson.
As an avid golf ball hunter, Lyle finds his collection in ponds and trees running along the edges of his course, Cypress Run. He’s always sure to bring along the custom ball retriever that extends 16 feet to fetch them out of the water.
Each ball is sorted by category. He has display areas for golf locales, schools ,gas companies, sports teams, car companies, liquor brands, and more. The collection has blossomed because friends and relatives send him new balls all the time. Logo balls are his passion, but thousands more are in the garage stored in egg cartons. They are the unimportant ones he gives away.
Waialae Country Club – Home Page
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Waialae Country Club
The Golf Course was opened for play on February 1, 1927.
The Royal Hawaiian Hotel and Waialae Golf Course were built by the Territorial Hotel Co. as part of a promotional program to develop luxury travel trade to Hawaii. Matson Navigation Co. built the luxury passenger liner Malolo as part of this program. The hotel and golf course lands were leased from the Bernice P. Bishop Estate.
Mr. Seth Raynor, world famous golf architect, and his associate, Mr. Charles Banks, designed and supervised the building of Waialae. Their outstanding work is reflected on many of our holes.
Local players were able to use the course, and by payment of annual fees for play became “privilege card holders” in the Territorial Hotel Company’s Waialae Golf Club. In 1930, a group of these Waialae players formed a private club within the Waialae Golf Club which they called Waialae Country Club. Waialae Country Club dates from September 29, 1930 when this group was formally organized and By-Laws were adopted. It enlarged a small service building close to the main clubhouse, installed showers, and had its own clubhouse where the swimming pool is now.
The great depression of the 1930s severely reduced travel and resulted in bankruptcy of the Territorial Hotel Co. Matson took over the obligations and interests of the Territorial Hotel Co. which included the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, the Moana Hotel, and Waialae golf Club. During these years play on the course was mainly by local privilege card holders, most of whom were members of Waialae Country Club.
In August of 1941, fire destroyed the Waialae Pavilion which was used by Waialae Golf Club for dining and dancing, and Matson decided to turn the golf course and remaining buildings over to Waialae Country Club. Before this plan was consummated, the United States had entered World War II, the military had requisitioned the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, and numerous military defenses had been installed along Oahu’s coastline including the golf course at Waialae.
Waialae Country Club was incorporated on September 30, 1942 and became lessee of the golf course acreage and a small section of land owned by Matson on which the old Isenberg home (later The Pavilion) had been located. The military built a replacement for the Pavilion because of the heavy use of the course by military personnel during the war. — Source: http://www.waialaecc.com
New Adams Golf Speedline Driver
I saw on my news page that Adams Golf has a new Speedline driver that claims to increase swing speeds by 5 – 9 miles per hour by drastically altering the drag coefficient. Pictures of the equipment were nowhere to be found. This is a screen capture I took from the Adams Golf web site.
Click on the photo to see their interactive web page with a Speedline mini site.
A man staggered into a hospital with a concussion, multiple bruises, two
black eyes, and a five iron wrapped tightly around his throat.
Naturally, the doctor asked him, ‘What happened to YOU?’
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‘Well, I was having a quiet round of golf with my wife, when at a difficult hole, we both sliced our golf balls into a field of cattle.
We went to look for them and while I was looking around I noticed one of the cows had something white at its rear end.‘I walked over, lifted its tail, and sure enough, there was a golf ball with my wife’s monogram on it – stuck right in the middle of the cow’s fanny.
Still holding the cow’s tail up, I yelled to my wife, ‘Hey, this looks like
yours!”I don’t remember much after that …..
Dave paid the beaver 100 dollars to win 50
Driving with a Utility Wood
I have one major fundamental weakness during my mental round of golf … almost every time I play. I will reach for the driver on almost every hole. While this affords me with some easy birdies on shorter holes, it also opens the door for a mistake that costs me a few shots. So many times I have taken an easy par hole and carded a double bogey by simply picking the wrong club from the tee box.
Rounds where I have scored the best, are the rounds in which I strategically planed my shots in advance, and stuck with them. During a round, you are bombarded with so many other thoughts and emotions. Most player will choose their options with emotion and snap compulsory decisions. I think that is simply human nature.
My most effective method of playing a hole with trouble on left / right sides of the fairway is with my hybrid rescue club. I retain distance, about 210 yards, and almost always hit it strait. The higher loft will afford you a much greater margin of error than a driver ~ or even a long iron. Changes in club design have also made these clubs very easy to hit from almost any lie. Hitting a crisp shot from a tee is almost effortless.
My swing thoughts for a strait shot are simple. Smooth, and balanced. Have you ever noticed that most of your best shots are attained with a balanced and smooth follow through? This is no accident, and one of the easiest pre-swing thoughts to retain. Forget the million tips you have picked up from different sources, and forget about the major swing focus groups you work on when at the driving range. Grab the rescue wood …. and swing smooth and balanced. Plan this attack agenda before your round on each and every tight driving hole. You will thank me later!
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Cape Kidnappers Golf Course
The Cape Kidnappers Golf Course has been rated as the world’s best by the Daily Telegraph. It heads a top 10 that includes, in order, Royal County Down, Northern Ireland, Pebble Beach, United States, Leopard Creek, South Africa, Green Monkey, Barbados, Domaine de Sperone, Corsica, Turnberry, Scotland, Canouan, The Grenadines, Doonbeg, Ireland, and Royal Melbourne.
With Oceanside surroundings of epic proportions and sweeping views views of Hawke’s Bay from every hole, the entire course is on a grand scale. Course designer Tom Doak said of it, “You will never play golf somewhere like this again.”
