Posts by beachcomber:
In the Bag 2013 with Tom Watson
May 24th, 2013In the coming years, when we celebrate the achievements of golfing legends, such as when the likes of Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus are honoured by ceremonially teeing off at the Masters, the name of Tom Watson should sit comfortably alongside such golfing luminaries.
Watson’s achievements in the game, allied to his warm, friendly demeanour have won him countless of fans and tournaments across the globe, yet there is a good reason why this 63-year old is not quite ready to become an iconic figurehead – and that is because the next US Ryder Cup captain is defying advancing years to still show sparkling form against the world’s best.
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Sergio Garcia’s Comments: No Place In Golf or Society for Racial Slurs
May 23rd, 2013The spat between Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia seemingly started at the recent Players Championship took a somewhat more sinister turn earlier this weeks after Garcia’s comments at the European Tour Players Awards Dinner.
Asked by the host if he would be willing to have Tiger Woods around for dinner, Garcia flippantly replied “We will have him round every night. We will serve fried chicken”.
Those words were singularly ill-advised, to put it mildly.
Sergio Garcia
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Top Ten Most Expensive Green Fees Golf in the World Today
May 22nd, 2013As most amateur golfers know, golf is a game which gets into the blood. It is like an addiction and it is one we feed willingly with our sweat, tears, toil and cash. Equipment and gear may be, in relative terms, a little more accessible to most golfers these days and the thriving second hand market means it is relatively easy to pick up good quality golf gear at low prices.
Yet there remains a place where money is no object and that is when it comes to paying for the cost of a round of golf on any of the following top ten most expensive golf course green fees for a round of golf.
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Coming Soon: Your home Golf Course’s own app?
May 20th, 2013As you know, Golf apps come in a variety of different guises, ranging from simple games, to analytical tools aimed at helping an individual golfer improve their game, right down to ‘virtual caddie’ software which not only gives you the distance of each shot, but warns you of hazards and even suggests which club to play.
We’ve looked at some of the best (and worst) apps available in a series of articles late last year and in the main most apps we come across to review tend to fit into one of the already established genres.
Gallus Golf however are changing how we view apps by developing what they term as an “app strategy” for over 200 courses in America.
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The Top Ten Weirdest Moments On a Golf Course
May 17th, 2013There are times in the world of golf when you think you really have seen it all; when the golfing gods conspire to produce an event of such strangeness that you really do believe you have seen it all. Listed below are ten such moments, things that you or the players involved would never have expected when they strolled out onto the first tee that day.
And to whet the appetite, here’s some of the more unusual, lucky or downright freaky shots of the last few years…
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App Review: The iPing Putter App
May 14th, 2013One of golf’s most famous mantra’s is “drive for show, putt for dough”, yet for the average amateur golfer, our time at the range is almost exclusively spent with an iron or wood in our hands.
So if you’ve been using one of the top golf apps that act as a caddy and your data reveals an alarming number of putts being taken each round, what can you do about it?
You probably don’t have much information about your putting other than the number of shots you take and this is where the iPing Putter App comes in.
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In the Bag 2013: Graeme McDowell
May 10th, 2013Former US Open Champion Graeme McDowell found form perhaps a week later than he would have liked. After missing the cut at The Masters, the Ulsterman returned to form with his first win on tour since the 2010 Andalucia Valderrama Masters at the RBC Heritage last weekend.
His victory came via a play-off after he tied with Webb Simpson on -9 for the tournament in testing conditions, so let’s discover a little more about the likeable Irishman and his clubs for the 2013 season.
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