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Lowerscoregolf.com Weekly Ezine November 17/03 |
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Click Here to find out how to lower your handicap by 30% with your current skills. Our "Lowerscores Manual" will show you how.The official season is over, but there is still some great, fun golf being played. This week you had a choice of two team events, the WGC World Cup or the Franklin Templeton Shootout. The team of Rory Sabbatini and Trevor Immelman coasted for a wire to wire win for South Africa at the World Cup. They finished with a four stroke victory and $700,000 each, in spite of a mediocre 73 in the final round. The American team of Jim Furyk and Justin Leonard were in contention until they went triple bogey - bogie on the back nine. Jeff Sluman and Hank Kuehne won the"shootout" in extra holes over the teams of Micheel/Campbell and McCarron/Faxon. In Singapore at the Tiger Skins Game Retief Goosen beat Annika Sorenstam by winning ten skins, then urged Sorenstam to play in another men's event. 1 SOUTH
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"The most exquisitely satisfying act in the world of golf is that of throwing a club. The full backswing, the delayed wrist action, the flowing follow-through, followed by that unique whirring sound, reminiscent only of a passing flock of starlings, are without parallel in sport." - Henry Longhurst Winter Practice: This is the time of year that many northern golfers head to the range to beat balls for the winter months. The truth is, hitting a lot of balls over the winter can actually hurt your game on the course if you are practising wrong technique and don't have goals. The goal of winter practice is to be able to hit the course in the spring and score well. Good practice on technique is helpful but I suggest simulating games on the range. To do this you simply need a scorecard of a familiar course, or if you want, a scorecard with hole descriptions (yardage books are even better) for famous courses that you may not get to play all the time. After warming up like you would before playing a round, Play the course on your scorecard. For your tee shots pick a target area that would be similar width to a fairway. Hit your tee shot and keep track of the distance so you know how many yards you have left. For your approach to the green imagine the size of the green and be honest about whether you would have hit it or not. If you miss, practice your chip shots by choosing a target and trying to get your chip within five feet of the target. To finish give yourself a two putt unless you know you have hit it within three feet. You can keep track of penalties, and how many balls you had to hit from the rough and judge your game accordingly. At the end you can keep a score, or just keep track of fairways and greens hit. This will not only help you concentrate better, but will help you focus on target and strategy. It also slows you down between shots so you don't get into smacking one ball after the other. Get a partner to do this with you and get some competitive pressure as well. Some of your friends will love this as an alternative to beating balls. When finished you can then immediately work on shots you had trouble with during your simulated game.
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