| Best golf tips are fundamental | | Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 12:56:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | The average golfer gets so bogged down in details that he or she often ignores simple fundamentals that would lower scores. Magazines, books and Web sites devoted to the game bombard golf fans with tips that tend to be oversimplified or unnecessarily technical. In either case, weekend hacks wind up confused and no nearer to lasting improvement than before they read the words. As sound as those bits of advice may be for specific players, they're of little use to the golfer who wants only to move from triple- to double-digit scoring, or maybe escape the 90s and breathe the sweet smell of the 80s. What single piece of advice that counts most toward lowering scores would seven Houston-area pros give a room full of wide-eyed chops? The old 'P-G-A'"I don't think enough amateurs work on the old P-G-A checklist: posture, grip and alignment," said Dave Altemus of Royal Oaks Country Club.... | |
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| | | Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Anna Nicole Smith Buy Raytheon Co. | | Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 2:58:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | Today, January 23, 2007 the Iranian National News Agency IRNA, the Islamic Republic News Agency issued a statement from the Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said: People of Earth. First of all I am extremely tired of seeing my name constantly misspelled in the newspapers outside of Iran. It isnt Khomeini, Khameini, Hameini, or Chameini, its Khamenei. Think of it this way. The K which stands for King is silent. I normally remain silent and let my puppet president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad do my speaking for me. Think of President Mahmoud Ahmidinejad, the titular head of Iran as my consigliore, Don Corleones mouthpiece in the Godfather, Tom Hagen played by Robert Duvall. Robert Duvall is 76 years old. My new wife Anna Nicole Smith keeps telling me that I look much older than my 69 years because of the way that I dress in my black Robe and black turban, and my long white beard and because I walk hunched over with my cane.... | |
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| | | Golf Tips: Play Golf America Days | | Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 1:02:21 PM by Blog57 Team | | The 10th PGA Teaching & Coaching Summit at the PGA Learning Center in Port St. Lucie, Fla. was completed over the weekend. Many of the world's top PGA Professionals spent much of three days giving and receiving live lessons on how golf professionals can better teach their students. Attendees also took part in some very special events tied to the Summit. .... | |
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| | | November 15, 2006 | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:59:52 AM by Blog57 Team | | From the tee boxes, all you can see for miles and miles around is the aqua-blue splendor of the Caribbean, two miles straight down and 100 miles straight out toward Cuba. This the White Witch golf course, which Robert Von Hagge and Rick Baril have carved out of native rock from the sides of mountain terrain. And from the fairways, all you can see are the remnants of the Rose Hall Plantation of the 1800s, the early aqueducts and sugar mills in this historic acreage just outside Montego Bay, Jamaica. This is the Three Palms Ocean Course of the Wyndham Rose Hall Resort and Country Club, sister course of the White Witch. The caddies will tell you the story of Annee Palmer, the notorious former owner of Rose Hall who murdered her three husbands one by one and had them secretly buried near the beach, each under a palm tree.... | |
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| | | Readers' Retreats | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 11:12:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | Book lovers have their own special system for rating hotels. Naturally, top points go to rooms with good lamps, cheery fireplaces and chairs you can plop into with ease. But what tips reader-friendly lodging into the premier category are serenity and literary spirit. Now that we've put away the beach novels and taken to more substantial books, we went hunting for accommodations with just the right amenities for a good, relaxing read. Alexander House Booklovers Bed & Breakfast Princess Anne, Md. .... | |
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| | | Sehwag in the greens in search of lost touch | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:13:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | Clearly not in the pink of his batting health, Team India opener Virender Sehwag hit the golf greens hoping to resurrect the hand-eye co-ordination that makes him, despite a not-so-sound technique, one of the most destructive batsmen around. Sehwag, who took to the game some six months back, attended a golf clinic at the DLF Links here today and was seen picking up tricks of the trades from former cricket captain Kapil Dev. ''There are lot in common between cricket and golf, like the hand-eye co-ordination. And it helps you concentrate. In fact I find you need a higher concentration level here than in cricket. There, you can afford to relax at the non-striker's end. But in golf, you need unwavering concentration while playing each and every shot,'' Sehwag explained.... | |
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| | | Golf Tips: More on lightning safety | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 1:07:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | Thanks to both the National Weather Service and struckbylightning.org, we discovered that some information presented last week did not reflect the most current recommendations for dealing with lighting safety. So, I would like to share with you information sent to me by a spokesperson for the National Weather Service: .... | |
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| | | Golf: Jeev excited over Tiger reward | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:14:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | SHANGHAI: Fresh from his breakthrough European tour win, Indias Jeev Milka Singh said yesterday he was excited at playing alongside World No 1 Tiger Woods at this weeks HSBC Champions tournament. Jeev, who outclassed Europes best to win the Volvo Masters in Spain last month, said he would not be intimidated at walking the fairways with Woods for the first two rounds of Asias richest golf tournament today and tomorrow. "I think its a reward that I am playing with Tiger, with the performances I have had this year," said Jeev, who is also leading the Asian tour standings with nearly US$470,000 in prize money for the year. "Im obviously really excited to be paired with Tiger. Its going to be the first time for me that Im going to be playing with him." Jeev, 34, said he hoped to pick up a few tips from Woods, who he knows only from a few "hellos" in the locker room and on the practice green.... | |
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| | | Trip Tips | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:02:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | Another victim of Hurricane Katrina, The Grand Hotel, officially subtitled the Marriott Resort, Golf Club & Spa, in Point Clear, Ala., completely reopened Wednesday after a $50 million restoration and renovation. Half of the resort's 405 rooms, the pool and the golf club and course reopened in April. But more repairs were needed on the bayside of the hotel, which was hit by a storm surge from Katrina that pushed the pier into the convention hall, and drenched the main part of the hotel that's drawn generations of New Orleanians. Despite the renovations, a spokesman said the lobby, with its wood paneling and fireplaces, looks the same. There's a new chef and a new restaurant, the Saltwater Grill. The Grand's spa is ranked No. 1, its golf course No. 2 and its pool No. 3 among the more than 340 Marriott and JW Marriott hotels in North America.... | |
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| | | Reeling in shoppers | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 2:58:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | With a thousand fishing rods angling toward a blue ceiling punctuated by boat bottoms and propellers, customers looking up as they cruise the huge Bass Pro Outdoor World here have the odd sensation that they are standing under water. That's the same feeling Sacramento retailers fear is ahead for them should Bass Pro Shops Inc., one of the country's biggest outdoor equipment sellers, follow through on a plan to open a mammoth store in the city's downtown railyard development. Such a move would likely sink some of the region's locally owned fishing, camping and hunting shops. Although fewer Americans are outdoor enthusiasts these days, Bass Pro, based in Springfield, Mo., is on an expansion binge with a mix of scale, showmanship and unrivaled stock that shoppers drive hundreds of miles to buy.... | |
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