Taylormade R1 Review, Features, Benefits On The Range @ 2013 PGA Show with Brian Bazzel:
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Friday, February 1, 2013
Taylormade R1 Review, Features, Benefits On The Range @ 2013 PGA Show with Brian Bazzel
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Meditation
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English: Meditation means “focus(ing) one’s mind for a period of time, in silence or with the aid of chanting, for religious or spiritual purposes or as a method of relaxation.”
This is a very interesting definition, but clearly for someone who has studied the matter its flaws become clear. The state of meditation, or dhyána, is a state which can be described as linear intuition. Its technique certainly allows for the mind to be focused and may use symbols (interestingly referenced in the definition as silence, for no one observing someone metalizing a symbol will be able to hear anything!) or sounds (which the definition above refers to chanting).
The purpose of meditating, however, has never been a subject of debate. Whilst the roots that influence different types of practices may be naturalistic or religious, the goal of meditation is to achieve a higher state of consciousness, that of linear intuition.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
What’s In The Bag 2013 Tiger Woods
What’s In The Bag 2013 Tiger Woods:
Here’s what’s in Tiger Woods winning bag at the 2013 Farmers Insurance Open.
DRIVER: Nike VR Tour (8.5°) with a Graphite Design Tour AD DI 6 shaft
FAIRWAY WOODS: Nike VR Pro Limited Editon (15°), SQ II (19°) with Mitsubishi Diamana Blue Board 103X shafts
IRONS: Nike VR Pro Blades (3-PW) with True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 shafts
WEDGES: Nike VR (56°), VR Pro (60°) with True Temper Dynamic Gold S400 shafts
PUTTER: Nike Method 001
BALL: Nike Tour D(Via GolfCentral Daily)
Tiger's erratic victory lap provides no answers
Tiger's erratic victory lap provides no answers:
By John Strege
The mystery that Tiger Woods' career has become remains unsolved, the enigma burnished by a quizzical performance even on a course where the outcome seems never in doubt.
Woods won the Farmers Insurance Open by four, an impressive margin were it not for the fact that he led by eight and inexplicably (inexcusably?) began spraying the ball to all fields, one of them unplayable. He shot 39 on the back nine Monday, a scattershot finish that extended a trend of them in recent months, even years.
Related: How Tiger's swing has changed
Yes, he won for the 75th time in his PGA Tour career, second only to Sam Snead's 82, and he now has four victories in his last 10 months. But each of them has come on a course with which he is comfortable and has been successful: Bay Hill, where he has won the Arnold Palmer Invitational seven times, Muirfield Village, where he has won the Memorial Tournament five times, Congressional Country Club, where he has won the AT&T National twice, and now Torrey Pines, where he's now won the Farmers Insurance Open seven times, as well as a U.S. Open and Junior World Championship.
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His dominance on the coastal San Diego courses and the inevitability of this victory, notwithstanding his Monday hijinks, prompted Graeme McDowell to post this on Twitter: "Was thinking of adding @FarmersInsOpen to my schedule next year. Maybe need to reconsider. Tiger owns the place....#tigerwoodsshow."
He does hold the mortgage on Torrey, but to what extent the Tiger Woods Show will travel beyond friendly confines is the mystery that survived his victory at Torrey Pines.
There was a time when every course was within his comfort zone, but he has developed an on-again, off-again relationship with his game, an inconsistent streak at odds with his history.
His history, too, has included a pair of hallmarks that were on display at Torrey Pines, neither of which he was able to sustain:
-- The landslide victory once was part of his repertoire and contributed to his aura: he won the Masters by 12, the U.S. Open by 15, the British Open at eight.
Related: Tiger remains golf's top earner
En route to a similar outcome, he stumbled, playing the back nine in 39, including a double-bogey at the 15th hole, when his tee shot went left and into an ice plant, leaving him an unplayable lie.
-- He was spraying the ball on Sunday afternoon and early on Monday, too, but kept extending his lead by showcasing the other hallmark of his career, his remarkable ability to get the ball in the hole from the unlikeliest of places. He frequently bent his ball around trouble, saving par and even making birdie.
"It's always fun watching Tiger in and around the lead and more fun when he scores well from everywhere isn't it?" Brad Faxon wrote on Twitter. Yet the scoring element abandoned him on Monday, turning what ought to have been an encouraging victory into one that failed to exorcise the doubts.
It accomplished this much, at least: It snapped golf from its early-season lethargy (or apathy) and provided a reason to begin to look forward to April and possibly a showdown with his new Nike stablemate Rory McIlroy.
It was not necessarily a convincing reason, but it's a start.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Sunday, January 27, 2013
O poder da mente: viva o momento!
No golfe, há um local e um momento próprio para que as coisas aconteçam. Quando estiver a jogar num torneio, simplesmente jogue; quando estiver a treinar para aperfeiçoar, auto-analise, desenvolva auto-conhecimento e mesmo quando estiver a jogar por jogar...jogue e desfrute.
Seja disciplinado para o treino, mas também seja-o para ter momentos de diversão . Viaje, leia, esteja com a família, cultive a vida de casal e dos filhos, com os amigos, passeie com o seu cão, faça outros desportos, treine meditação ou simplesmente aprenda a não fazer nada de vez em quando.
Desses momentos seja feliz e retire o máximo de prazer para que a sua mente cultive o positivismo. Cultive os opostos de frustração e raiva: alimente confiança e alegria.
Recapitulando: viva o presente e seja feliz!
Lembre-se: Tudo exige disciplina regular de treino e paciência com o seu corpo e mente. Isso é o golfe e o Método DeRose.
Dica: Tenha um diário de prática onde regista os seus avanços e recuos.
Por: Eduardo Cirilo | eduardo.cirilo@metododerose.org | Professor Certificado pelo Método DeRose
A minha escola: www.MetodoDeRose-Antas.org
Monday, January 21, 2013
iPhone Golf App Review: Stixlink – An Innovative Way to Play against Friends
iPhone Golf App Review: Stixlink – An Innovative Way to Play against Friends:
As you know, we are always on the lookout for the best golf apps for iPhone or Android and 2013 has got off to a great start in that respect when we were made aware of this handy little piece of software. It’s called Stixlink and it is one of the most innovative ways to play with friends that we’ve come across.
With it, you can organise tournaments across the globe with different players and different courses, all using one tried and trusted scoring method all by using the app on your iPhone (Android version coming shortly!)
What is Stixlink?
Stixlink is an app (downloadable here from the App store) which allows users to set up ‘virtual’ golf tournaments across the globe on a variety of courses by using a combination of their scores on the course, the course slope and tee rating and the golfers handicap (which is continually updated based on the scores they enter into the app). This then gives a player their relative handicap for this course (which is called in the app a ‘quota’).
The app then uses the “Chicago” method (European users may be more familiar with this as the ‘Stableford’ method) of scoring, where points are awarded to the golfer for how well or poorly they score on each hole when allied to their quota.
After each round, all golfers who have entered the competition (you can invite any other golfer using the app) have their score worked out using all of the factors above. Scores are then ranked on a leaderboard to show which golfer performed best on their respective course.
In essence that is the software in a nutshell, users can invite as many or as few of their friends as they like to participate in their tournaments, or just to compare scores. Indeed, you don’t even need to be friends – you can invite any user of the app to enter your tournament and play with hundreds of people from all over the world.
What we like about Stixlink
There are several features about Stixlink that we like. Firstly, it’s completely free to download and user but more importantly than that, this is an app which has the ability to turn even the simplest ‘practice round’ into something more meaningful.
The ability to set up virtual tournaments with people from all across the globe under one unified scoring system that is as fair as anything we have seen in the past, is truly impressive. While we think the app will be most used by friends or family members that are separated by distance, but who enjoy playing together, there is real scope for this app to be used by golfers across the globe to compete against each other in virtual tournaments.
However, what we really like is the ease of use. This software had the potential to be problematic and confusing to use and instead, it is very simple to follow and understand, chiefly thanks to the automation of all the key figures.
Once you have input the data of the course you are playing on (so if you play your club course every week, you’ll only need to enter it once) all that you need to do for every subsequent round is enter your score. Not only does Stixlink work out your quota, it works out your final score in the competition and better still, what your future handicap will be when playing on any other course data.
It is this flexibility of Stixlink for keeping record of you and your friends scores and the ease of use as well as the tournament options which makes it a very welcome addition to your collection of iPhone apps.
Downsides?
The only negative we found when using the app was obtaining some of the data. While many courses across the US and the world may have their Course Slope and Tee Rating figures to hand, here in the UK for example, slope rating is not used and so, golfers in the UK may need to work out what their course ‘slope rating’ would be, if it was not available.
Conclusion
We believe that Stixlink golf has real potential to become a useful tool for the golfer for a variety of reasons. Not only does the app allow you to set up virtual tournaments, it has a powerful tool for keeping track of your own handicap and to compare how you are doing across a number of courses.
The apps target demographic initially is college students but we can see this app becoming increasingly popular with older, more established golfers who enjoy virtually competing against other golfers from all over the world.
Great iPhone golf apps are ones that promise something but deliver more and in these terms, we feel that Stixlink golf certainly qualifies and best of all, it is completely free of charge to use.
Screenshots courtesy of Stixlink Golf app web page.
(Via Gorilla Golf Blog)
Friday, January 18, 2013
Fitness Friday: You need strength and power
Fitness Friday: You need strength and power:
By Ron Kaspriske
Picture two boxers. One is a mountain of a man. All muscle. Tall, too. The other is muscular, but much smaller in stature. He looks fit, but you can't help but fear for his life as he steps into the ring. Then the bell goes off. The two meet in the middle and the mountain doesn't waste any time. He winds up his right fist, getting ready to deliver a crushing blow to his smaller opponent. But before he can swing, the smaller fighter reels off three fast, but powerful punches and down goes the big guy.What just happened? The big guy had all the strength in the world but didn't have the pliability to use that strength to his advantage. And while the little guy didn't have nearly the amount of strength as his opponent, he did have the capability to effectively use what strength he possessed. That's the difference between strength and power--and golfers need both.
You need strength to stabilize your body when you swing. Otherwise, you'd fall off balance often and leave your frame susceptible to injury. But you also need power to deliver the club with enough energy to launch it off the tee, or cut through a swath of sand, or escape deep rough.
Your body has more than one type of muscle fiber. Some contract and expand faster than others. Just look at the lower bodies of sprinters and compare them to marathon runners. If all you ever do is train slow-twitch muscles, as many distance runners do, you'll never be able to explode out of the blocks the way a sprinter can.
So when you hit the gym, you should be thinking in terms of strength training and power training, says Golf Digest fitness advisor Randy Myers, who works with several PGA Tour players. Myers spoke to me about this topic and offered up six exercises that help develop strength and power in our February issue (Read: Fitness: Strength vs. Power).
(Illustration by Christian Northeast)
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