Champions
of our time

Champion defined.
- 18 majors
- 78 victories

Charge defined.
- 2 majors
- 88 victories
- 331 weeks as #1

Creativity and
imagination defined.
- 5 majors
- 62 victories

Golfer defined.
- Grand slam
- Augusta founder
- Amateur

The Majors

World championship defined.
- The Grand and Old
- Everyone invited

Major championship defined.
Most consistently producing
true champions.

fredag, augusti 26, 2005

I'd like to become a professional player!


Or would I really? This summer I played a round of golf at a wonderful course in California. I was to play alone but one guy did show up & asked me if he could play with me. I said fine & hit my teeshot.

At the moment I saw his swing I understood he could certainly play. I have been to see four different major tournaments so I do not lack experiences from seeing the best play. This guy had a better swing than many of the top professionals in the world. I asked him, and Yes. He was playing on one of the more important tours.

He was a really nice guy. I asked him a bunch of questions. One of them was: How much is it?

Answer: If you stay with your parents you can play a year at a budget of $40.000. If you live by yourself & have a house somewhere you need $70.000 a year.

No wonder the guys are eager to make results & get some good sponsors. $40K + housing is not exactly the type of financial burden you want to put on your parents year after year.

Still interested? Can play? Ok then. Just make sure to file the application no later than Sept 7, 2005.

onsdag, augusti 17, 2005

Aiming on sideslopes (Putting)

This is trivial, but I feel there is no harm in creating this pic & posting it. Have discussed this with other golfers & been surprised to hear that even pretty good golfers "never thought of it" or do not even get it if explained. Then it stunned me that even Pelz classified it (or more or less the same idea) as "research results".

Any decent golfer is capable of more or less identifying the highpoint, i.e. the point where the perfect putt will be furthest from the straight line to the hole and starting to turn back towards the hole again.

Seems the problem is that so many are occupied with determining that point that they actually take a DEAD AIM at it.

The pic should be obvious. You need to aim ABOVE the highpoint for the ball to actually pass it & make its way back to the hole.