Articles, tagged with "water hazards", page 4
03rd March 2010
You may be surprised learning that there is a new instrument for your trusty golf arsenal, an electronic device that truly lives up to the claim that it might actually improve your golf game. There are now GPS models exclusively designed for use on the go...
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Author:
Robert Bell
26th February 2010
In a golf course, we find bunkers and water bodies. We wonder why they are there in the course. They are called hazards or obstacles, laid in the golf course to make the game more difficult for the players. Depressions are created in the ground and filled...
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Author:
Conrad Nguyen
26th February 2010
Maui is home to lush green oceanfront courses, mountainside links and much more. You can even golf while taking in the view of a volcano! Maui is referred to as the "valley Isle" because of the two volcanic mountain ranges that for the east and west of th...
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Author:
Jeff Parrish
22nd February 2010
Sometimes I think back of the days when I started playing golf. Things were simple then. A wood was still made of wood, and a 5-iron was a 5-iron. Or at least that's what I thought until I learned more about equipment. Still, things were relatively simple...
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Author:
Daren Hopkins
04th February 2010
Las Vegas is normally just associated with casinos and bright lights but behind this facade is one of the best kept golfing scenes around. Although many golfers have yet to try their hand on them, those who have played there rave about the Nevada courses....
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Author:
Paul Buchanan
14th January 2010
Water hazards probably account for more penalty strokes than anything else in golf. But water hazards-as dealt with under Rule 26-often lead to controversy when interpreting the rule. So I'm careful to review the topic in my golf lessons and discuss it in...
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Author:
Jeff Parrish
12th January 2010
Finding the right golf course to consider your home course is often a matter of finding the one closes to the home and playing it consistently. However, even the most disastrous duffers will tire of playing the same course over and over and after a few do...
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Author:
Larry Y. Hodge
27th November 2009
One of the great things I enjoy about golf is the fact that the playing conditions on the course can change at any moment due to the weather. Now some of you might be wondering why rain, wind, or extreme temperatures gets me excited on the golf course. We...
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Author:
adezexperthevk
21st September 2009
Billions of golf balls go missing every year around the world so what happens to them all and where do they all go?
Death, taxes and golf balls
Golfers joke there are three definite things in life death, taxes and loosing your golf balls. Are the ...
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Author:
Duncan White
21st September 2009
In effect of a change made by USGA (United States Golf Association), golfers are now allowed to use the help of GPS devices ' in fact the United States of America Golf test had received numerous requests in order to evaluate many of the manually handled G...
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Author:
Gen Wright
16th September 2009
Much more than a golf club, Santa Maria is an impressive resort based around a charming 19th century Andalusian finca, now its clubhouse. Once the owners of the finca would have woken to the sound of birdsong, rather than golf buggies abd shoes crunching ...
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Author:
Zengolfer
16th September 2009
Poniente golf course is one of the oldest and original courses in Mallorca, Spain and it is very popular with ardent golfers as it offers a challenging but reasonable test of golf. Spain is lucky to have amongst the best golf courses in the world and Poni...
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Author:
Zengolfer
16th September 2009
The number of course in the Mijas area has grown so fast in recent years that the area is now known collectively as ´golf valley`. Around half a dozen different courses within minutes of each other, stretch all the way from La Cala Golf to the west, to M...
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Author:
Zengolfer
19th August 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Jack Moorehouse
Every one likes hitting bombs off the tee. There's nothing more satisfying in golf than that, especially if there's a crowd watching. But you don't have to be a long hitter to have a low golf handicap. In fact, one fo...
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Author:
Jack Moorehouse
02nd August 2009
Being very familiar with the characteristics of all fairway is central. You
Need to know everyplace:
' troublesome trees are located,
' the rough is the the pits
' the ground is the hardest or else softest, and
' exactly wherever bunkers (sand traps)...
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Author:
gary+holly