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Aldila makes it three in a row at the Buick Open

Posted by Big G under Features

Sweeps hybrids shaft count on PGA, Nationwide, Champions and LPGA Tours again

Ballybunion Golf Club Accomodation Recommendation

Posted by Big G under Features, Golf Travel, Ireland

The Courses within Ballybunion Area

Ballybunion (pictured above) is renowned for it’s Old Course and many famous golfers and dignitaries have played it. The Cashen Course is fast becoming a most desirable course to play also. Other courses such as Tralee, Killarney, Waterville, Ceann Sibeal, Doonbeg and Lahinch are all within easy reach of Ballybunion.

The James Andrews School of Golf

Posted by Big G under Buyers Guide, Features, Golf Coaching

Leading UK Residential Golf School

Serious about learning or improving your golf, but want a fun and relaxed atmosphere in which to do it? Then the James Andrews School of Golf at Sedlescombe Golf Course could be the place for you! Their residential golf school courses offer carefully structured lessons and tuition from our 8 PGA professionals with a maximum group size of four students. You won’t be lost in the crowd! Excellent all-weather Golf Practice facilities including a state of the art computer/video analysis centre and a covered floodlit driving range mean that golf schools run 7 days a week, all year round. Their concentrated golf programme offers the opportunity for significant improvement in as little as 2 days. The 2-5 day residential tuition programme gives you time to learn, practice and play under the watchful eyes of theirr professionals.

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Tuition Breaks From as little as £210 Click here for details Tuition breaks offer you the opportunity for intensive residential golf tuition in small groups. They cater for all abilities and run courses 7 days a week all year round. Ideal for players of all levels

Follow on Schools From as little as £185 Click here for details Follow on schools are aimed at students who have been to the golf school before and are ideal for picking up where they left off.

Junior Golf Schools From as little as £210 Click here for details Combine first class junior golf tuition with excellent practice facilities to ensure juniors can continue to improve on their natural golfing talent.

Sharpen your Putting Stroke with Golf Fitness Exercises

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By Sean Cochran
Special to PGATOUR.com

It is the peak of the golfing season for most and this week we are going to continue our series on golf fitness exercises to help improve your game during the season. It is probably safe to say that the majority of us have some areas within our game that need a little improvement so to speak. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great feeling when every aspect our game is firing on all cylinders during a round, but for most of us this occurs probably less often than we’d hope.

Players Turf Systems builds unique floating green for U.S. Open event

Posted by Big G under Buyers Guide, Features, Turf Systems

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Players Turf Systems has built greens on ridges, under domes and they’ve even built island greens. During the week of the U.S. Open, they faced a challenge they never thought they’d face. They were asked to build a green on a barge on the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh.

Keep golf simple to win: Jacklin

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FORMER European Ryder Cup captain Tony Jacklin (pictured below with the Golden Bear Jack Nicklaus) believes Argentinian Angel Cabrera’s win at the US Open last Sunday was a victory for golf over psychobabble.

‘I was thrilled he won,’ Jacklin said while competing at the London Seniors Masters in Kent.

‘All this fantastic technology that’s around, all these psychologists and swing gurus, and here is a guy coming out on top who smokes cigarettes and smashes the ball a mile.’

Jacklin offered up the Oakmont triumph of the portly Cabrera as proof that simplicity is the key to success.

‘I hope some of these young golfers - although I’m not talking about the smoking now - can take something from this and realise the whole business (of golf) is being fed by all this rubbish,’ said the 62-year-old Briton.

‘There is so much information out there these days, so many people on the periphery of the game trying to get heard, trying to make a living.

‘There is nothing wrong with trying to make a living from the game but golf is a simple game. The core of it is not complicated.’

Jacklin, who won the 1969 British Open and the US Open a year later, said there was a danger of the modern player being blinded by science.

‘I was fortunate to play with Gene Sarazen, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and they all learned by watching other golfers,’ said the Englishman.

‘They questioned some things, for sure, but now they are given so much information, there are many opportunities for young people to go in the wrong direction.

‘They (on the periphery) are all salesmen, all trying to sell you their story, their method, their thing.

‘It’s the most important thing happening today but you’ve still got to get the ball in the hole, hit it down the fairway. It’s simple stuff.’

Jacklin, who also plans to compete in next month’s British Open and British Seniors Open, said the most important facet of Cabrera’s first Major victory was his self belief.

‘It’s pure and simple, coming into the last nine holes of a Major championship, you must believe you can do it,’ he said. ‘Not who your coach is, or whether you swing the club this way, or that. It’s about getting the job done.’

PERFECT EXAMPLE

Jacklin, who captained Europe’s Ryder Cup team four times, said South African Gary Player (above) was the perfect example of a player who achieved greatness largely because of his mental strength.

‘I was with (former US Ryder Cup player) Doug Sanders the other day. He told me that in the 1950s, when Player had just arrived in America, he had told him he was going to win all the Majors, and, of course, he did.

‘Player was probably the single best example of mind over matter, of going out and getting the job done.

‘He didn’t have the ability to hit the ball that far - he was a small man - but he worked on his physique and became a champion.’ - Reuters.

PGA Tour close to Drugs Testing Areement

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The PGA Tour says it expects to have formulated an anti-doping policy by the end of this year. Tour boss Tim Finchem has previously claimed golf does not have a problem with performance-enhancing drugs but says testing for them is now a reality.

“We’re getting close to agreeing a policy. I suspect we’ll be done with that certainly this year,” he said.

“It’s unfortunate that these realities are with us, but they are. We have to deal with them.”

In the past Finchem has defended his tour’s lack of a policy, suggesting it was not worth testing without any evidence that players were doping.

The LPGA, the women’s professional tour, announced in February it planned to start drug testing players in 2008.

Golf Ball Poaching

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Recent statistics show that golf driving ranges and hazards provide good cover for a rapidly-growing problem known as golf ball poaching.

Golfers who have long-suspected that something suspicious happened to their ball after searching in vain for it can now feel some amount of vindication. But the sport’s dirty little secret remains shrouded in mystery.

This practice of poaching golf balls would not be so lucrative, except for what lies inside their shiny pock-marked exterior. Poached golf balls often end up having their internals removed to be used in the massive rubber band (or elastic) industry.