Many articles and photos are pulled
from the Golf pages of Out2.com, as this is their official golf
newsletter. Enjoy it!!
"Golf
is like fishing and hunting. What counts is the
companionship and fellowship of friends,
not what you catch
or shoot." George Archer
The
streak continues!
Tiger Woods has tied his own personal best by winning six
PGA Tour events that he entered in a row, also tying Ben
Hogan's second-best-ever record for consecutive wins in a
single season in the process. The record tying performance
came at the end of the week which saw the all-time record
holder, Byron Nelson, move on to greener fairways, reminding
all of just what a special record Byron's 11 in a row is.
There is still much speculation as to whether or not...more...
The Phantom
believes it's simply a lack of proper training, or bad
treatment.
Why would an old golf ball 'smile' when hit very badly? It's
obvious it was happy it wouldn't be hit any more! It simply
lacked appreciation for it's owner, or perhaps (something
more sinister) wanted to retire to a quiet place in the
pines.
Have you noticed some balls will respond to verbal urging
(Get Up! Stop! Bite!) while others will not? I have that
answer, too. When the ball doesn't listen, it can't be that
it doesn't care...they just don't have sufficient
intelligence to understand golfers that well. It's obviously
that, although they want to listen, the player must have hit
them right in the ear so they can't hear the pleas! (Golf
balls, for those without training in Surlyn biology, only
have one small ear.)
On the other hand, golf clubs misbehave because they are
confused. Hit down on the ball to make it rise, hit up on it
to make it sink, swing left to make it go right...more
Is it a hard 7 iron or a
soft 6? Do you hit a high floater, or a hard stinger? Or
maybe just run it up the fairway??
The
answer my friend, is blowing in the wind, and there's no
better way to read what evil the wind is up to than with the
new Windage, a patented ball-shaped dispenser designed to
give you a very accurate and quick idea of what the wind is
doing, and how it will affect your ball. More...
College
athletics seem to revolve around the football team, and to a
lesser extent (unless you're Duke, Indiana or UCLA), the
men's basketball team. A lot of people don't even know their
favorite college has a women's field hockey team, or
lacrosse team, or wresting team, or ski team. Some don't
even know they have a golf team (usually both men's and
women's). But GolfWeek has made a commitment to the college
game that exceeds what anyone else is doing to promote it
and cover it, and nobody does a better job than Lance
Ringler. Lance has recently started a daily TV show
dedicated to the college game, and recently covered a very
little known subject - how easy it is to break NCAA rules!
Did you know that a college golfer can't even get a special
discount on a new putter? more...
Spend A Few Minutes with Annika Sorenstam The
ADT Championship is offering the largest first place check
in LPGA history - $1,000,000!!, and it definitely has the
ladies talking! We recently had the chance to listen in on
Annika's teleconference about the ADT Championship and her
year in 2006, and thought you'd like to know what she
thinks. More...
If ever
there was a perfect golf course, La Purisima might be it.
Like many people who have played (and fallen in love with)
La Purisima, I can’t even put my finger on why.
It could be the picturesque setting, as the course spreads
out across 300 acres of quiet, rugged, sparsely wooded
rolling hills of California’s inland coastal...more...
Nestled in the fast-populating area of North
Phoenix, just south of the quaint Old West town of Cave
Creek, lies one of the more interesting golf courses in
Arizona. Dove Valley Ranch is a Robert Trent Jones, Jr.
design that plays as one of the more demanding back nines in
the game. The weird part is that you wouldn't know it by
looking. I guess that's what makes DVR such a great golf
experience, and one of the must-play courses for anyone
taking a golf vacation to the Valley of the Sun this year.
more...
Golf loses 'one of the greatest'
A look back at the golfer,
the legend, and the wonderful man behind all
those magical records.
By
JAIME ARON, AP
IRVING, Texas –
Byron Nelson's mechanics were so perfect
that the U.S. Golf Association nicknamed its
robotic swing device the "Iron Byron." He
was such a Masters icon that Augusta
National named a bridge after him in 1958,
and a few years ago a statue of him was
displayed nearby, too.
And the man known as "Lord Byron" was so
beloved in golf he became the first player
after whom a PGA Tour stop was named.
Yet what will forever define the story of
the courtly Texan with the elegant stroke
and personality to match always comes back
to 1945, when Nelson completed the greatest
year in the history of the game: 18 wins,
and a mesmerizing 11 of those...more...
Can
a pair of sunglasses really produce a better score on your
card? Absolutely, if they are a pair of PeakVision
Performance Sunglasses! I'm not sure if spokesperson
David Feherty gave a pair to all the members of the European
Ryder Cup, but it wouldn't surprise me if he did! PeakVision
is introducing new styles of these ground-breaking
sunglasses this year, inlcuding the SL8 Slate shown above.
For
more info, click here...
Nick
Faldo
to become lead analyst for CBS
Nick Faldo
joined CBS Sports as its lead golf
analyst on Tuesday, giving him more air
time
than any other golf broadcaster but a
job that
will keep him from playing in the
Masters.
Faldo, a three-time Masters and British
Open champion, replaces
Lanny Wadkins
in the tower alongside Jim Nantz.
The Masters is the highest-rated golf
tournament...
Matthew Adams has compiled a fascinating book for anyone
interested in the top performers from the game of golf and
what they thought of the game they loved so much. The most
important aspect of this book is how the lessons learned on
the golf course relate to the game of life, providing
insight, inspiration and enlightenment for anyone who needs
it. Pick up your own personalized copy of Fairways of
Life at
www.fairwaysoflife.com
Mike Weir
has been tabbed to replace
Phil Mickelson in the
PGA Grand Slam of Golf
next month. Was it because
he is also left handed??
No!
Weir was asked to play because he was third
on the PGA's major championship points list.
He was sixth in both the PGA Championship
and U.S. Open and finished 11th in the
Masters.
He will be going against Tiger Woods, who
won this year's British Open and the PGA
Championship, U.S. Open winner Geoff Ogilvy
and Jim Furyk, who led the major
championship points race.
Mickelson had qualified with his win at the
Masters. Mickelson said after the recent
Ryder Cup competition that he would not play
in the Grand Slam of Golf, the PGA said.
The 36-hole PGA Grand Slam of Golf will be
contested Nov. 21-22 at the Poipu Bay Golf
Course in Kauai, Hawaii. The winner of the
event takes home $500,000 with second place
worth $300,000, third $250,000 and fourth
$200,000.
IRON BYRON
I've never intended
this column to turn into an obituary page,
but I'm compelled to honor and remember any
of the greats in this game that have passed
on. As of this writing (9-26-06), the great
Byron Nelson died at the ripe old age of 94
- he was both an outstanding player and
gentleman that left an indelible mark for
the golf world to celebrate and long
remember! Nelson is credited with being the
father of the modern golf swing, so much so
that a golf robot was affectionately called
"Iron Byron" because...more...
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What A Blessed Game!
How often I forget
just how lucky I am to be living the life I'm living. If
you've ever wondered about your life and how you're spending
it every day, maybe it's time for you to get away into the
woods and rediscover just what's important to you.
Click here to read more...
Wartime Rules For Golf
Amazing but true WWII rules put
into place by the British, taken from The
Golfer's Handbook circa 1940.
Golfers headed to a troubled part of the
world like Lebanon,
Afghanistan, Iraq or France may want to take along a copy of
these rules just in case they're able to get a tee time!
1. Players are asked to collect bomb and shell
splinters to
save causing damage to the
mowing machines.
2. In competition, during gunfire or while bombs are
falling,
players may take cover without
penalty for ceasing play.
3. The position of known delayed-action bombs are
marked
by red and white flags placed
at a reasonably, but not
guaranteed, safe distance.
4. A ball lying in a crater may be lifted and dropped
not
nearer the hole without
penalty.
5. A ball moved by enemy action may be replaced as near
as possible to where it lay, or
if lost or destroyed, a ball
may be dropped not nearer the
hole without penalty.
6. A player whose stroke is affected by the
simultaneous
explosion of a bomb or shell,
or by machine gun fire,
may play another ball from the
same place with a
penalty of one stroke.
Good
Golfing and Good Luck! (and remember to keep
your head down!)
Random notes and observations about the game of golf. This
week you'll read about the impressive generosity of K.J.
Choi and why we hope he wins again...when he wins, He wins!!
Also - why the world won't be seeing so much of Tiger in the
near future, it's not-so-easy for the Big Easy, why you
might not see one of the hottest young players on the PGA
Tour next year, and...more...
Welcome to the
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At Least We Had One
Big Winner at the Ryder Cup!Despite
the final score, the 2006 Ryder Cup was a huge success for the USA
in terms of style and fashion!
The uniforms looked as good as I can
ever remember them looking, and off the course, the team from the
USA looked as sharp as a Johnny Miller barb.
But the very best look of all may
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of, which were built for the team by Club Glove.
Congratulations to Jeff Herold and
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