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Instructional Golf Videos Look Good

The other day I signed up for a set of free online golf videos and I must say they're pretty good. They feature Bobby Eldridge, a golf professional who has a site called PurePointGolf.com.

How to Hit a Draw DVD from PurePoint Golf

You can sign up for the free videos (emailed to you one at a time) here.

Follow this link for information on the PurePoint Golf System. I haven't yet purchased these videos, but since I like Bobby's style of teaching so far, I'm going to give them a try.

A Bit of Success is a Good Thing

Last night Judy and I headed out to Glencairn to hit some balls on the range. It was a beautiful evening and when we got there around 7 there were only 3 or 4 other ball strikers going at it.

This was pretty unusual. Judy has never been much for hitting balls on the range. But on Sunday after our family outing at Blue Springs we stuck around for a while on the range there. She started having really good results with her driver - a recent addition to her compliment of clubs - so we just kept on hitting until they kicked us off the range.

Last night it was more of the same. We kept hitting until all the balls were gone and even went out into the range and hit some back a couple of times.

Judy doesn't get to play much - only 6 or 7 times a year for the past few years - so it always takes her a while to get back into the groove. But I'm always impressed by her swing. Teaching her the subtleties of the golf swing has been a pet project of mine for quite a few years and it is interesting to see how she has progressed. These past few days working with the driver she has taken a couple of giant steps forward, and given her a new awareness of some of the potential.

I guess that explains her eagerness to get out there and hit some more.

Golf Cart Four Point Landing

Here's a great instructional video demonstrating some of the finer points of golf cart driving.

For more funny golf videos see The WEG Funny Golf Videos

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Almost Time to Head South for a Few Rounds

Nov 29, 2006 - Golf Travel >>>

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Heron Creek, North Port, Florida

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One of my favourite winter destinations is Port Charlotte, Florida where we have spent many winter weeks playing golf and enjoying the sun. Here are some of my favourite golf courses in the Port Charlote area.

Deep Creek Golf and CC - Fairly short, and lots of water. If you go in the afternoon you can sometimes get around in 2.5 hours.

Port Charlotte Golf and CC - Closest thing to a "muni" in Port Charlotte. Older course with lots of mature trees. A number of nice holes, especially on the back. "Make sure you get the carts in before it gets dark."

Riverwood Golf Club - One of the "prestige" courses in the area with green fees to go with it.

Heron Creek Golf and CC - Recently added a third 9 for a total of 27 holes. Nice layout. Great practice facility.

Sabal Trace Golf and CC - An older community course which we played a lot until Heron Creek opened up next door. Once saw a "big 'ol gator" walk across the putting green right in front of me.

Bobcat Trail Golf and CC - An unusual layout with some interesting holes. Practice range uses floaters -- you hit the balls at island greens in a lake.

Little Bit of Chipping Practice Pays Off

One thing I've noticed about my golf game is that my chipping has gone down hill this year. I used to practise chipping quite a bit, and my short game reflected that. But starting last year it got more difficult to get out to the range and my short game really suffered as a result.

After one particularly bad round when I flubbed a number of chips that ended up costing me several strokes, I decided a bit of dedicated practice was in order. So last Friday I headed out to a local range with just one club - my sand wedge - to see if I could figure out my problems (and yes, I know the sand wedge is not always the best club to chip with.)

That little bit of practice helped a lot. The next day I even made two fairly unlikely chip-ins.

So yes, the short game is very important when it comes to scoring. And yes, it is relatively easy to make major improvements to your short game - much easier than straightening out your driver or your irons.

Golf in Bulgaria Developing Along With Tourism

Apr 17, 2007 - Golf Travel >>>

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Bulgarian golf in its developmental stages - Golf course development has essentially reached the point of saturation in North America and many of the traditional golfing countries.

Yes, there are lots of absolutely gorgeous sites that could be converted into golf courses. But who is going to play on these courses?

As a result, investors and golf course developers are looking to "underdeveloped" countries in Europe and Asia for greener pastures. There the hope is to capitalize on the thriving tourist trade as well as turn some of the largely non-golfing local population into golfing fanatics.

Bulgaria is just such a country. With its recent entry into the EU, Bulgaria's development promises to be rapid and significant in the very near future. The same will likely be true for the development of the infrastructure required for extensive travel - airports, highways, hotels, tourist destinations, and golf courses.

Currently there are only two golf courses listed on GolfEurope.com:

Ihtiman Golf Course
Ihtiman Golf Club - the original Bulgarian golf course. Ihtiman Golf Course is rated by the rating committee of USGA. 18 holes, 6345 yards, rating is 71.3 and slope 131 from the back tees.

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Sliven golf course was opened on May 24th, 2004. It is a par 71, 6563 yards. It features spectacular views to the Balkan mountain.

The Bulgarian Golf Federation hopes to gradually build more golf courses throughout Bulgaria. Golf courses in Razgrad, Varna, Burgas, Plovdiv and Sofia are in the planning stages, and other developers are planning golf course developments as part of larger tourism projects.

Golf in Marbella Spain - Golf Weather All Year Round

Nov 21, 2006 - Golf Courses >>>>

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Visit Marbella, in the heart of this world famous golf valley. The city of Marbella is surrounded by more than 150 of the best golf courses in the world. The region has all the facilities, hotels and services that golfers have come to expect in a top notch golf destination.

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The Costa del Sol in Spain has more golf courses than anywhere else in Spain. Some of these golf courses are among the most prestigious golf courses in the world.

Every year, thousands of golfers visit Marbella for golf holidays and golf excursions. Professional golfers also compete in international tournaments hosted by the surrounding golf courses.

Marbella is truly one of the most exciting golf destinations in the world. It also boasts tremendous scenery, fantastic beaches, several museums and historical sites.

Amanda Learns the "Poop" Swing

Sunday just happened to be Father's Day. But even more importantly it was Judy's birthday - and a fairly remarkable one at that. So we got the family together for a little golf outing at one of our favourite places - Blue Springs in Acton, Ontario.

This was the first time we'd all been golfing together in quite a few years. And it was definitely the first time we'd played with Peter's kids, Alex, Amanda, and Nicole. So it was a special day in more ways than one.

In fact it was the first time on a real course for Amanda and Nicole. They've both been taking lessons at the local "golf academy", so this was a chance to see how they would do.

We split up into three groups (we were playing the 9 hole par 3 course) and I was with Amanda and Scott.

The first thing I noticed about Amanda's swing is that she could actually hit the ball. Wow! That's quite an accomplishment. Of course she'd learned that big John Daly like swing that instructors like to encourage kids to use. But she was actually hitting the ball with it - something that always amazes me about kids and golf balls.

Of course it didn't take long before I felt I should show her the little partial pitch swing. "Just take it back about here, and hit the ball...'poop' like that..."

My choice of words maybe wasn't the best, but it stuck. The next time I said "you should probably use that little 'poop' swing here..." Amanda cracked "Ok, but do I have to say 'poop'...?"

Of course. It wouldn't be a 'poop' swing if you didn't.

I "Pitch" My Lob Wedge

OK, I'll admit it. There have been a couple of occasions in my golfing life when I've been frustrated enough to actually throw a club.

I know. You're not supposed to do it. While club throwing was a common occurrence 50, 30, 20 or maybe even 10 years ago, it is definitely not acceptable now - although I did hear some geezers talking about it on a recent visit to an old established private club. (Note: a "golf geezer" is anybody who either is, acts, or looks more than a couple years older than me.)

Anyway, to get back to the point. I was having a particularly bad few holes during a round a couple of weeks ago. And there I was, about 20 yards from the hole with my lob wedge in hand. Predictably I pitched it short ...or maybe it was long (I can't really remember)... and I ended up in the gnarly rough above the hole.

Since I was already looking at double bogey there was no way I was going to walk all the way over to the cart to get a different club. So I tried chipping with the LB.

One double-hit later I was steamed enough to let it fly.

Yes, that's right. I'm sorry to say I actually threw the thing. It was quite a calculated throw of course, well away from any of my fellow golfers. But en route it wrapped around a tree and snapped in half.

I can't say I was sorry it broke. I've never had much luck with the LB anyway, and am quite content to just open up my sand wedge when I need more loft. But I'm not proud about getting angry like that, and I've promised myself never to let it happen again.

As luck would have it, on the next hole - a medium length par 3 over water - I hit my tee shot into the pond. And then proceeded to chip it in from the drop area with my sand wedge.

That's right - a par. I don't think my broken lob wedge liked that one little bit.

Golf Ball Smoothie

In this video the guy from Blendtech puts some "bad" golf balls in his blender and turns them into golf chips.

Other things he's "blended" - an iPod, Coke can, crow bar, hockey pucks... you get the picture.

Why Golf is Better Than Other Sports

Here's a long list of reasons why golf is "better" than other sports.

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January Golf in Ontario

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We set another new record for winter golf - Since the real golf season ended around the third week of November our group has been heading out to Burlington Springs, located about 15 minutes from Hamilton, Burlington and Oakville.

Rick Hendershot winter golf
Winter golf. What can I say?

For the first time since dinosaurs were roaming our land, golfers all across eastern Canada and the U.S. are taking advantage of the unusual opportunity to play golf in the middle of winter. This is pretty rare in Ontario, but, hey! with no snow on the ground, and temperatures hovering around 10 celsius, rare is a good thing.

Rick Hendershot winter golf
It rained hard for about 15 minutes. Now that's golf!

Every weekend is a new record for our group. Last Saturday (January 6/07) it was raining lightly with the temperature hovering between 6 and 8 degrees -- well above the usual TT (tolerability threshold) for hard core Ontario golfers. The course was booked solid all day, as it has been most weekends since November.

I forced myself to take out the camera and shoot a few pics -- just to prove we actually did it.

Rick Hendershot winter golf

Majority of Golf Clubs Now Made in China

Mar 10, 2007 - Linknet Golf Blogs

Golf Digest article looks at dominance of China in golf club manufacturing - There's an excellent article in the April 2007 issue of Golf Digest that takes a close look at the extent to which golf club design and manufacturing has be virtually taken over by the Chinese.

Although low wages and a huge, hard working work force are important factors in this incredible shift, it's much more than just cheap labour that sends these manufacturing projects to China. It's the ability of the Chinese to consolidate massive capabilities in a few large factories, most of which are located within a few hundred miles of Hong Kong and Taiwan.

In the process these companies have developed manufacturing techniques that speed up the process of going from concept to finished product. And at the same time the quality of the end product has been improved. That makes it possible for major manufacturers to bring out new products more often; and for "boutique" companies to produce their own distinctive lines of clubs. The Chinese can take a concept or rough 3D model and turn it into a finished club within days. Or a small company without its own design team can start with "open" designs and put their own distinctive graphics and colour schemes on them.

To a large extent this has happened within just a few years. For instance, a California company, Coastcast Corporation, that was making a million+ titanium heads in 2004 was out of business two years later. Virtually all that business went to China.

As a result, of the roughly 45 million golf clubs sold every year about 75% have some Chinese content.

Pretty amazing.

Rustico Resort in South Rustico PEI

Sept 4, 06 - Linknet Travel

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As reported in a previous post, this summer Judy and I visited Prince Edwared Island and Cape Breton (in Nova Scotia) to play some of the highly rated courses in that neck of the woods.

Rustico Golf Resort

While in PEI we stayed at the Rustico Resort -- a unique golf resort where the no frills rooms are clean and roomy and very reasonably priced.

And the golf is free when you stay at the resort!

Unfortunately we only had time for one round on the home course because we had planned junkets to Crowbush Cove, and Dundarave.

The course was a lot of fun and in awfully good shape with thousands of trees and the kind of perennials you are likely to find in your own flower gardens. Both the resort and the golf course are the personal projects of the resort owners, John and Martha Langdale, who purchased the property in 1980 when it was little more than a potato field with a few ramshackle buildings.

If you are considering a trip to PEI and especially if you want to combine it with a golfing excursion, this is a perfect place to stay.

The resort has its own private beach along with a swimming pool and tennis courts. It is within minutes of many top notch restaurants, a number of which specialize in lobster dinners.

The resort is located near South Rustico, less than 30 minutes from Charlottetown, 15 minutes from the beaches on the north shore, and about 20 minutes from Cavendish, famous for its Anne of Green Gables exhibits.

Here is an interesting article featuring Rustico Resort

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