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KGIS Investment Education Packages - Save 45% on Greens Fees & Win a FREE round at the World Famous Ocean Course!
The KGIS investment education package includes: Dinner & cocktails; optional Q & A on the golf course, one (optional) personal investment meeting that can cover anything you want to talk about, and two private, on-line, workshops at your convenience. If your spouses are traveling with you, they are welcome to participate in the investment meeting and workshops.
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Gardening Your Personality: The Greens Of Growth
Many gardeners are the nurturing type: just like Mother Nature. People say they have green thumbs because they can make anything grow. Is your personality the growth type? Are you the kind of person who wants to see others grow and develop? If so, you probably love to be around children and, though you are exhausted at the end of the day, you feel like it is all worth it if you have helped other people. So is there green in your garden?It seems to be a silly question: i...
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Tourism Season In Full Bloom On Prince Edward Island
Tourism is in full bloom on Prince Edward Island so it only makes sense that along with it youll discover the Lady Slipper, the provinces official but delicate flower that blooms in late May and early June.Flora and fauna abound, not the least of which includes the closely cropped fairways and greens of the world renowned golf courses that populate this gentle island. Over26 on an land surface just over 2100 square miles. With a course for every golfer, from world clas...
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Professional Golf College Your Key To Happiness
You love golf. If you had the chance to play every day of the week and make money at the game, you would jump at the opportunity. Sound's too good to be true. It doesn't have to be. Not if you decide to enroll in a professional golf college.You don't have to be the next Tiger Woods to have a lucrative career in golf. There are plenty of jobs involved in this sport. If it weren't for the greens-keepers and managers, courses would fall into disrepair. With no pros in the sh...
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Women's Golf Clubs
Golf used to be considered the gentlemen's game. But everyone knows as many women grace the greens as their male counterparts. Many golf clubs have as many women or more women members. There are women-only tournaments and mixed contests. The popularity of the sport transcends gender, and women flock to the course, every bit as thirsty for pars and birdies as the men are.As more women began to take up the sport of golf, manufacturers realized that there was an increasing...
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Why multilayer golf balls spin less off the tee and more around the greens?
Technical information about golf balls, golf courses and the effects of the balls. Detailed informaiton and tricks to play better.
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What To Know About Golf Lessons
No one ever said the game of golf was cheap! First, theres the clubs, then the clothes and, oh yeah.....how about the greens fees? Unless youre Bill Gates, youll probably want to make sure the money you spend on your beloved game gives you the biggest bang for your buck. If youre a new player, youre going to need lessons too, which is an expensive and time- consuming activity.First, you need to find a golf instructor. You should be as careful about finding the ...
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Unusual Places To Tee Up The Next Time You Travel
Golf--it's been called the ultimate traveler's sport. More than 17 million people hit the links while they are away on vacation or a business trip. While Arizona, Hawaii and California are typically known for their expansive, breathtaking greens, there are many top-rated courses that can be found in the most unexpected of places.
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Unsure How To Get Started In Golf
Its Not Surgery
Those who are interested in golf but are unsure how to get started will discover that it is not spinal surgery with blinders on. The first question you probably have is 'Where can I play?' Most communities have a few options. Many people who love to golf, and tend to play often, will become members of a private club, but for beginners that may be too much too soon. Many state and local parks offer golfing greens for players to use for free, or for a nominal fee.Another th...
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The Heel/Toe Weighting Concept For Golf Putters Is Here To Stay
The TOWD (True Orbit Weighting Dynamics) design family of putting instruments are for those players seeking an advanced skill level. By inducing a precise and repeatable putting stroke, through a near perfect arced pendulum effect, with a consistent, passive face rotation, The TOWD putters generate optimal passive feel, making TOWD putters the most advanced and easiest to use putting instruments in the game. Playing on undulating greens, of variable speed, the feel from TOWD ...
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The Health Benefits Of Golf
Believe it or not, golf is actually good for your health. Even the United States Golf Association thinks so; they also advise that you should walk the golf course and try to avoid as much as possible riding golf carts. Although riding golf carts is the most convenient way to get yourself from one hole to the next, it will actually be good for your body if you walk your legs along the greens. Doing so pumps your heart, circulates the blood all over your body, and is a ...
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The Golf Ball Shag Bag Making Practice Fun Again, Guaranteed!
Any golfer looking to improve needs to get a golf ball shag bag. It doesnt matter if you have a driving range at your home course or not you still need to practice your approach shots and short game around the greens. This little innovative piece of equipment makes things a lot easier to pick up and store the golf balls you use during practice. These great little bags are skinny and cylindrical in shape. They stand about two feet tall and have a small little tube (usuall...
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Read Greens Like The Pros
Putting is a combination of the mind, reading and execution. I have maintained my 12 handicap over the last twenty years simply by increasing my prowess on the green, while age has negatively impacted most of the other parts of my game. This article deals with the second aspect of the putting triad, reading greens.A golf green is like a book, not a sentence. If you are on a strange course and didnt take a couple minutes on the practice green, it is like you are opening u...
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Making The Right Golf Community Decision
For golfers, choosing to buy a home in a golf course community might seem as easy as swinging the club on a fine spring morning. Over 2700 golf course communities have been built across the United States, with more anticipated each year. With over 26 million golfers in this country, builders clearly have a ready-made clientele for homes designed with a view of the greens. But golf course communities have an appeal for buyers who are not avid golfers, too. Many people enjoy th...
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Know Your Course: Greens
Golfers are very picky of the golf course where they want play. They don't like playing in areas where the greens were just punched. That is why keepers of the greens implement a lot of methods to make sure expert care is given and golfers play golf without being annoyed.There are a lot of problems that resemble a nightmare if no perfect trouble shooting tips are used. One aspect that is very important in keeping a good greens is the drainage. Although, this is often over...
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How To Use Golf Training Aids To Assist With Your Warm Up And Stretching
How many times has this happened to you?You get to the course 15 minutes before your tee time. By the time you get all your stuff together, pay the greens fees, etc., and then get yourself to the putting green there is less than 10 minutes left before game time. You hit some putts, some chips, and then take a few swings to loosen up. Feeling pretty good, you stroll to the first tee, put your bag down, and look down the fairway.It's a dogleg right with OB on the right ...
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How To Read Greens Like A Pro
Ever hit a putt you thought was going in only to have it drift wide right? If you have, chances are you misread the green. My golf lessons teach that reading greens takes skill, good judgment, and experience. Since theres no formula for determining the direction a ball must start based on the slope of the green and the distance to the hole, reading greens is key to sinking more putts. And sinking more putts, as my golf tips emphasize, produces a lower golf handicap.Lets...
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How To Improve Your Golf Game
When it comes to your skills at golf, it is important to have both strength and flexibility. Both of these attributes can be honed through outside exercise beyond putting the greens.
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How To Find The Golf Shoe That Is Right For You
It all depends on your feet. Basically, golf shoe or not, shoes must be comfortable to wear and should fit good. Also, the shoes should fit your budget as well as your lifestyle.Out with the oldOld golf shoes have those spikes that are made out of metal. These types of foot wear are no longer allowed on the golf greens. Throw them out and get a new pair of great golf shoes. Current makers of golf shoes use spikes that are soft and made of plastic. Brand it or not...
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How To Deal With Sloping Greens
Reading slopes correctly is vital to putting well. All putts start out straight, but the greens contour curves the ball. If youre going to improve your putting and lower your golf handicap, then you must learn how to read a greens slope.Reading a greens slope comes with experience, like a lot of things in golf. The more you play, the better youll become at it, as I stress in my golf lessons. Nevertheless, there are some proven techniques Ive used that wil...
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How To Choose The Best Golf School
More people are becoming enamored with watching and playing golf. Even children are taking to this laidback sport that has become a household word, thanks to Tiger Woods and other famous and charismatic golfers.Most people find golf interesting because it gives them a chance to indulge in sports while keeping themselves physically fit at the same time. True enough; golfers prefer to walk the greens than take a ride in one of those fancy golf carts.A person who wants ...
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Greens Equipment: Update Golf Course Mowers and Tractors with a Toro or Kohler Small Engine Rebuild Kit
Those that deal with golf course management know that it is important to have quality greens equipment at all times. This article outlines the benefits of repowering a Toro mower with a Kohler rebuild kit.
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Golf Tips - Chipping For Score
In golf, chipping is probably one of the more - less glamorous shots that you come in contact with on a regular basis yet it is one of the most important areas of competency when it comes to shaving strokes off your game. Youll struggle mightily to find a lower handicap golfer that isnt a good chipper of the golf ball. Its curious irony to me when I see and work with mid to higher handicappers that spend so little time on improving their merit around the greens. If thi...
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Golf Jobs: What A Great Life!
So you love the game of golf. The idea of spending all of your time on the greens is your idea of paradise on earth. Perhaps all of those Saturdays playing your favorite game aren't enough anymore. For people with this deep love of the game, considering a career in the golf industry may be a perfect fit. Like any other sports industry, golf jobs run the gauntlet from caddy to CEO of major companies.Many people, such as students and retirees, have found ways to use their p...
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Golf In South Africa
South Africa golfing has seen huge growth since the 1980s when our courses compared dismally with those of international standards in the rest of the world. Following negative feedback from local golfers who traveled abroad and reported back on the high quality of courses in other countries, local courses started major overhauling of the greens and facilities, and the effect snowballed as other courses followed suit.The results have been spectacular. Today South Africa st...
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Golf Club Head Covers
Golf is a game of great concentration and precision, of accuracy and control and also of some routine building and constant practice on the greens and the driving range. May golfers are extremely passionate about the game of golf and will invest large sum of money in the golf equipment, golf training aids and golf club fees and green fees they pay during the year.Because of this necessary precision, golfers' accessories have to be carefully chosen, cared for, and maintain...
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Golf Basics - About Greens
Knowing how to drive and putt are not the only things you need to learn about playing golf.Golf being an outdoor activity you play on a living portion of land, and as in everything else out of doors, Mother Nature loves to play this game.Grasses are different; you might encounter a plush putting green or a weed patch with little growth at all. The putt can be altered by the texture, length and texture of the grass, and how much grass is actually there.A true golfe...
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Golf Apparel More Than Just Looking Good
Clothing is important, but just because you look like a pro golfer, it does not mean that you will suddenly be ready to compete with your pros, but, in some ways, it can help your game. Proper apparel can make you look better, and make other golfers take you more seriously. It can also make the walk between holes easier, and provide you with better grounding when it comes to putting on the greens.Golf shoes tend to have spikes on the bottom of the soles to help you main...
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Golf - Useful Tips On Golf Clubs
You can't ignore the role of the club when playing golf. Here are some useful tips on golf clubs.When you do hit a shot to the right or left, you may not want it to go as far as if you hit it straight. This is a big selling point for these clubs. But think about it. Ninety percent of the time if you hit the ball left or right of the green you are better off being short than pin high or long right or left. Not to mention, how many greens have slopes on the side that you re...
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Five Steps For Improving Bunker Technique
Although hitting from a bunker is straightforward once you learn the basics of stance and posture, the thought of hitting into a greenside sand trap unsettles many golfers. Improving your technique reduces the fear of bunker play and builds self-confidence in your shot-making capabilities.Assuming the texture of the sand is similar, and the ball is not plugged, the technique for hitting out of a greenside bunker remains the same for shots up to 30 yards (27m). The key to ...
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Can Well-Maintained Greens Lower Your Scores?
I dont often mention green maintenance in my golf lessons. Nor do I often discuss it in my golf tips. Thats because golfers want to talk about hitting the ball instead. But the care and feeding of a clubs greenshow they are mowed, watered, fertilized can have a major impact on a players golf handicap, especially if he or she plays the same course a lot.Speed is the key factor when considering green maintenance. Usually, players want a superintendent to in...
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A Budding Golfers Guide To A Good Pair Of Golf Shoes
Golf is a low impact sport that is normally for leisure. But playing the greens can be psychologically intensive as it can be physically demanding. Golf is normally played by professionals and executives to unwind and take time off from the hassle and bustle of the corporate world. But for some who indulge in the sport, it can be an activity where they can make or break business deals.Golf has been a man's game, with all that metal involved. These are the equipments that ...
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Pei Golf Resorts Rank Among The Worlds Best
It has been said that from the air, Prince Edward Island might appear to be one giant golf course. It is truly a golfers paradise, really. Our intimate Island may well be small, in fact the smallest province in Canada, but it is nothing if not big on hospitality and Prince Edward Island is often said to offer the best golf experiences in the country. In fact, its been voted the best golf experience not once, but two years in a row.It could well be the rolling greens, o...
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