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Weekly Ezine March 1/04 |
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The Week on the tours:
Tiger showed again that he is one of the best match players of this era. He also continued his dominance of the World Golf Championship events, by winning his second straight Match Play Championship. He defeated Davis Love III 3 and 2 for his 40th PGA Tour win, and propelled himself from 18th to third on the money list. Love made the final by beating Darren Clarke in extra holes on Saturday after being down two with two to play. Woods beat Stephen Leaney on Saturday to reach the final. This was the most marquis final that the Championship has seen. Darren defeated Leaney in the consolation match to finish third.
Next Week Tiger battles jet lag, and Ernie Els in Dubai for the European Tour event. Els is a two time winner of the event, and has the course record of 61.
Meanwhile in Tucson, Heath Slocumb edged Aaron Baddeley by one shot for his first tour victory. The hot John Daly was not as he barely made the cut and finished tied for last.
Annika Sorenstam showed that she is ready for '04by shooting a pair of weekend 65's on route to a victory in Australia at the ANZ Ladies Masters. Her LPGA debut will be in two weeks at the Safeway International in Phoenix.
On the Nationwide Tour only 8 players broke par on the difficult Clearwater resort course in New Zealand. Gavin Coles came out victorious with a 6 under total.
PGA Tour:
2004
Accenture World Match Play:
1 Tiger Woods
$1,200,000
2 Davis Love III $700,000
3 Darren Clarke $530,000
4 Stephen Leaney $430,000
T5 Phil Mickelson $225,000
T5 Jerry Kelly
T5 Padraig Harrington
T5 Ian Poulter
T9 John Huston $115,000
T9 Kenny Perry
T9 David Toms
T9 Chris DiMarco
T9 Colin Montgomerie
T9 Chad Campbell
T9 Fredrik Jacobson
T9 Adam Scott
Chrysler Classic of Tucson:
1 Heath Slocum
-22 $540,000
2 Aaron Baddeley -21
T3 Rory Sabbatini -18
T3 Harrison Frazar -18
T3 Mark Hensby -18
T6 Bill Glasson -17
T6 Per-Ulrik Johansson -17
T8 Tim Clark -16
T8 Todd Fischer -16
T8 Carlos Franco -16
T8 Mike Heinen -16
European
Tour:
same as above click
here for results
Champion's
Tour:
No event scheduled click
here for results
Nationwide
Tour:
2004 New Zealand PGA Championship click
here for results
For full field scores and stats on all the tours, go to PGA
Tour.com.
This week:
PGA tour:
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2004
Ford Championship |
TV
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European Tour:
2004 Dubai
Desert Classic
Mar. 4 - 7
Emirates Golf Course
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Defending: Robert-Jan Derksen
Purse: $2,000,000 ($333,330 to winner)
Champion's Tour:
2004 MasterCard Classic
Mar. 5 - 7
BosqueReal Country Club
Mexico City, Mexico
Defending: David Eger
Purse: $2,000,000 ($300,000 to winner)
Nationwide Tour:
No event scheduled
LPGA Tour:
March 11 - 14
Welch's/Fry's Championship
Randolph Golf Course Complex
Tucson, Arizona
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Weight shift is crucial in the golf swing. It is crucial for power and
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Fortunately it is also one of the easiest things to learn to do properly. In order to get a feel for proper weight shift you have to completely forget about what you are doing with your upper body for a while. To start, I suggest just holding your golf club in the setup position without the club touching the ground. Then simply rock your body side to side by putting your weight from one foot to the other, not unlike dancing. While doing this, just relax your hands, wrists, arms and shoulders and let them move with your movement. The club should start swinging in front of you as you step from foot to foot.
Now just increase the movement until the swing starts get bigger. You will be much like a pendulum, and if you are doing it right, you will be making about a three quarter swing. Continue this movement for about thirty swings with the same easy tempo, then start putting balls in place and hit them with the same motion. As you get the feel for this motion, you can begin to increase the length of your swing while maintaining the weight shift and rhythm.
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Top Ten PGA Tour money winners:
1 Vijay Singh
7 events $2,078,140
2 Phil Mickelson 5 events $1,737,100
3 Tiger Woods 4 events $1,731,000
4 Stuart Appleby 5 events $1,480,120
5 Mike Weir 6 events $1,446,867
6 Jonathan Kaye 7 events $1,356,470
7 Davis Love III 4 events $1,181,400
8 John Daly 5 events $1,139,646
9 Ernie Els 2 events $943,000
10 Darren Clarke 5 events $930,000
Good Golfing,
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