Head First Golf

Golfing outings are a way to raise cash for associations and charities. With all of the competition today, good planning is crucial. A golfing outing includes 3 parts : Registration, the golf itself and the award party.

If this is your first golfing outing, you need to permit at least 9 months to a year for planning. It’s superb to have a positive attitude but golfing outings need a lot of work. The less efficient your board is, the more cash you want to spend out of the profits to run the outing.

One of the first things you would like to do is form a board. If this is your first outing, your panel should consist of five or 6 members. You will need to have members who are useful and will get the work done. It is useful if some of your panel members are golfers.

For the outing that continues yearly, remember that all too frequently committees have the same members.

Having the same members year on year may cause your organization to be stuck in a groove. When presented with new ideas, ask “why not” rather than “why”.

After selecting the date, securing the venue (golf course) and providing for food and drink, you need to focus on acquiring some golf tournament gifts and awards.  Moreover you’ll need to seek out some free publicity for your event.  Both need to be done at very low cost so you can preserve the bulk of what you collect from participants to donate to charity.  For the awards and gifts, look locally for donations.

Keep your car trunk neat and organized by storing your golf shoes in a bag.  This isn’t just a great idea for you, it makes a gift for any golfer.   If you have golf buddies or friends who love to play golf, you can send them golf gifts. There are golf shoe bags available online which you can browse by going to thegolfcollection.com. You can gift these golf bags to your friends and colleagues and they will definitely love the gift send by you.

There are different types of golf shoe bags available like the shoe tote, deluxe shoe bag, soft shoe bag, aromatic cedar shoe tree and the golf shoe re-new. The golf shoe renew has the capacity to penetrate leather so that it keeps your golf shoes in mint condition. The shoe tree helps to keep the shape of your shoes perfect and maintains them. The shoe bags are equipped with zips for easy storage of your golf shoes. There is a fine cloth mesh in the bag to keep your shoes breathing and fresh smelling.

If you’re in charge of this year’s company golf outing, skip the cheesy prizes and plan a better event with some unique golf trophy ideas. We’ve all done the outings and received the leftover shirts and balls from the pro shop, but how nice would it be to get a trophy with style for a change?

From a vintage ceramic jug trophy or golf cup to a crystal ball trophy (for either men or women), they’ll surely be appreciated by the golfers who spend long hours practicing and hitting buckets at the local range, but never received a trophy that’s worth anything or can be displayed. So make a change and get the good stuff! (See thegolfcollection.com for lots of options.)

Do you play golf or have a penchant for keeping Golf Scores? Ever wondered if someone would offer help by recording and analyzing your game statistics so that you can closely monitor your game? Look no further – here’s the all new G- Stats golf statistics tracker. You can now record all your Fairways hit, number of putts, greens in regulation, and other golf statistics with ease. The G- Stats golf statistics tracker is guaranteed to make statistics easy even for novices, so that you can concentrate on your game better.

This G- Stats golf statistics tracker comes in an attractive black leather like cover, and is literally the ‘little black book’. Continue Reading »

For many golfers, particularly those who have a fair amount of skill, one of the most common flaws in one’s golf game is hitting a long and straight long iron. Often, the three and four irons are tough for golfers to hit with a fair amount of power, leaving a deficiency in a player’s otherwise solid golf game.

Thanks to the advent of hybrid technology, the long irons can now be replaced with a more forgiving club that a typical golfer can hit farther and straighter than the typical long iron. The hybrid combines the loft angle of a three or four iron (usually twenty two to twenty four degrees) with the head of a long wood, allowing there to be a larger face for contact with the ball.

Golfers who have had concerns with their long game have successfully switched to a hybrid club and seen their scores drop along the way. Many golfers who have made the switch notice the biggest advantage is the ability to put more power into swinging a hybrid, allowing them to eke out a few more yards which is for them is a much better spend of money than investing in more golf accessories. Additionally, the higher ball flight makes the hybrid a better option for taking a shot at an elevated green as opposed to using a traditional wood.

It was rainy – it was brutal but in the end Ochoa pulled it off. This makes her third win at the Sybase Classic golf event. Said Ochoa:

“”It was a tough day, but I did it,” Ochoa said. “I think that was what was important. It doesn’t matter how you do it sometimes; you play really good, other players struggle, sometimes you just keep yourself in a good position. Today it was different; it was a different win, but I enjoyed it a lot.”

Ochoa won it by one stroke. That ain’t pretty but it’s enough.

Anthony Kim had a disastrous round today putting him out of contention, out of the event but not out of sorts. The young 22 year old Kim acknowledges that he has matured a bit and as such despite some really bad shots and crushing blows after he tried to rally again and again, he’s kept his temper and kept all his clubs. As he said today:

“I’m just glad I have all my clubs and I’m standing here. You know, I don’t know if I would have been able to eat dinner last year. I feel fine. It’s not the end of the world.”

In a world where bad behavior is tolerated all to often from celebrities and top sportsmen and women, it’s nice to see a young man sorting out his life and moving forward. Now that’s worthy of a newscast! Maybe even gifts are warranted. Well, maybe not.

John Daly’s golf game is considered by some to be in the toilet, but who cares?

Even by his own standards, Daly has been out of control for the first two months of the PGA Tour season. It was reported that he was a messy drunk at a tournament party the night before he withdrew from the Bob Hope.

Daly was never one to turn down some hot wings, beer and other things at Hooters. Stopping by the Hooters hospitality tent during a rain delay.

Daly was said to have the ability to “chug” beers that would make most frat boys proud.

Daly is a larger-than-life folk hero to some, which is why he continues to be a draw on tour.

You have to keep your Focus on the game.

Tiger made the following comment recently after another win (Accenture Match Play Tournament):

“If you don’t believe you can win an event,” he added, “don’t show up.”

I thought this a bit harsh for a moment but then paused to take time to consider what Tiger really meant. And I found, after a little reflection, that I agreed. The thing is we should show up believing – whether it’s for golf or any of life’s large and little challenges.

Showing up ready to win is an attitude that affects everything we do. We end up more prepared. We end up trying harder because of a simple mental outlook. We win only partly because we believed we could – we win because starting out with the premise of winning makes us do everything we can to our best. No wonder Tiger has so many trophies.

Way to go Tiger!

Funny how winning isn’t just enough. Tiger pulls off another win at the Dubai Desert Classic today and mentions to a reporter that winning by 8 strokes is “a lot less stressful”.

Duh.

I like Tiger and this comment is taken out of context a bit so I’m going to back off. But my point is that winning is winning and should be enjoyed. And beyond that, the whole point of golf is to enjoy the experience. Perhaps when we make a sport ‘professional’ we lose that enjoyment. Does it become a burden? Does it become something we start to dread – like many in the corporate world do?

Funny to think Tiger might just feel the same about his ‘job’ as many of us do about ours. And how ironic that we look at the golf themed executive gifts we got this last Christmas on our desks that we are looking fondly towards our next round as a stress reliever while Tiger is stressed when he plays.