I have a hard enough time just hitting straight, accurate shots. I can’t even begin to imagine how much practice something like this would take, but it sure is amazing.
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An ailing knee couldn’t stop Tiger Woods from winning the 2008 U.S. Open, and it hasn’t slowed his golf course design career, either. Woods announced Tuesday that Tiger Woods Design is building an 18-hole private course on the tip of a jagged peninsula near the Mexican resort town of Ensenada, about 65 miles south of San Diego.
The 6,835-yard, par-70 course will be the centerpiece of a high-end community named Punta Brava ( “Wild Point”) and Woods’s first design in Latin America. It is his third project overall, joining Al Ruwaya Golf Course at the Tiger Woods Dubai, which is scheduled to open late next year, and The Cliffs at High Carolina in Asheville, N.C., slated to debut in the middle of 2010. Punta Brava should be completed in 2011.
Though the three sites are all works in progress, they are decidedly distinct. Al Ruwaya is set in the middle of a desert, The Cliffs is nestled in a tree-lined mountain range, and Punta Brava clings to the edge of a rocky spit of land framed by the Pacific Ocean and the Bay of Todos Santos. From a peak 1,200 feet above the crashing tide, the 264-acre property cascades down a steep mountainside to a craggy coastline pocked by inlets and sea coves. Nowhere on the routing ‘ or the entire property, for that matter ‘ is the ocean out of view.
“As soon as I got on site, I was in,” Woods said Tuesday as he stood next to a giant rendering of Punta Brava at a press conference at the swank Hotel Bel-Air. More.
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Steve Williams has the best view of the world’s best golfer, but he says being able to afford to chip in $1 million to help rebuild a child cancer ward is the highlight of his “exceptional” life.
Williams, Tiger Woods’caddie since 1999, handed over a $1 million cheque to Starship children’s hospital in Auckland yesterday.
He has witnessed his boss’meteoric rise in world golf but told The Dominion Post yesterday: “I’ve been very fortunate to have an exceptional life … but nothing will compare to the feeling of being able to help and possibly save some lives.”
Williams said his cut of Woods’earnings had contributed but he and wife Kirsty had worked hard to raise the donation they pledged a year ago. More.
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Your divots are speaking to you, in this context we are referring to a divot as the mark your club leaves on the grass after making your shot. There are many things we can learn from our divots, including angle of attack, swing path, lag creation, ball position and wrist release. It’s funny to think that something we rarely think about can give us so much insight into our swing faults.
Take a look at the picture to the right, what can you see? My first comment would be the position of the tee in relation to the divot. This swing, made ball first contact, and proceeded to make contact with the ground afterwards. This means this player was creating lag and had a solid, well timed wrist release. Furthermore, the divot is not too deep, meaning this player’s swing arc is bottoming out in a good spot, which tells me their ball position is close to bang on target. Do your divots look like this? With a little wider view we can see even more details about a swing.
The next time you’re hitting balls at the range, start by setting a club down along your feet line, parallel to your target line. Start making some swings, then take a step back and look at your divot. Is your divot parallel to your feet line? If the divot is pointing to the right, your swing path is in to out ‘ which means you’re hitting a push. If it’s pointing left, your swing path is out to in, the common over the top path ‘ which means you’re likely losing distance due to an early release, and hitting a pull slice. More.
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