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1.	Bookmarks: 0	Athletes Foot Thanks to an aggressive marketing plan and succession of shrewd endorsements, it has been dominated by the Nike “swoosh”. In a business saturated with players, Nike’s 36% market share represents a substantial margin over the competition.
2.	Bookmarks: 0	2008 NBA Barter Deadline Bank Perspective Thursday is the NBA barter borderline and so far we've had some huge NBA blockbuster trades. But for some odd acumen I do accept we could see two or three added trades that could affect playoff agriculture and bank trends. Let's face it, I'm attractive at all of these trades, NBA rumors, and boutique allocution and I'm apprehensive how will this affect my NBA action and handicapping. Here are some NBA Trades that accept already
3.	Bookmarks: 0	Which Program Do You Live By, Every Day Of Your Life? In the Bible, we are admonished to Love your neighbor as yourself. I contend we generally love our neighbor far more than we do ourselves because I know very well we would not inflict on our neighbor the handicapping conduct we frequently impose on ourselves.For instance, let us assume you have a neighbor who is in trouble. Things are not going well at home. He is having financial difficulties, is worried about his job, and in desperation he comes to you for some advice...
4.	Bookmarks: 0	Betting on baseball has never been better! Now that we have put the Barry Bonds/ Babe Ruth blah, blah, blah to sleep, I think it’s time that we sat back and wagered a few bucks on our favorite MLB team. Parity is here and every one of the six divisions is up for grabs this year and handicapping these teams, takes patience and talent.
5.	Bookmarks: 0	Keys To Improving Distance From The Tee Players taking my golf lessons often confuse length off the tee with muscle power. They’re not the same. While you may never drive the ball as far as John Daly, quite possibly the Tour’s longest driver, you can generate additional power off the tee—and improve your golf handicap —by developing a sounder technique.Here are 7 keys to a great drive:• Widen your stance for stability• Point your left toe slightly toward target (for right-handers)• Hover the clu...
6.	Bookmarks: 0	Why You Need A Golf Handicap Your golf handicap is a barometer for your game
7.	Bookmarks: 0	Three Tips To Help You Benefit From Golf Video Instruction Golf video instruction can be a powerful tool in helping any golfer improve their handicap. Yet many golfers do not fully benefit from them. The reason is that their approach is wrong and they are therefore unable to benefit from the practical advice and tips received through golf video instruction.
8.	Bookmarks: 0	Think Your Way to Single Figure Handicaps Stop and think ! If you don't your golf is going to be one bad shot after anotherIs that what you want, or do you want better golf leading to better scores?
9.	Bookmarks: 0	The Weekend Golfers Short Game If you're like me, a weekend warrior golfer, then no doubt you struggle with your game from about 50 feet out into the green. Every time I hit my 2nd (or 3rd shot on a par 5) into the green and land it forty to sixty feet away I cringe at the thought of having to make a chip shot to land with in two putt range from the pin. For most beginner to intermediate golfers chipping is a very difficult part of their game. This is for two reasons, it does require quite a bit of ski...
10.	Bookmarks: 0	The Types Of Grass And What It Means To Your Game The type of grass you play on affects your game. That’s especially true when it comes to putting, where the type of grass can dramatically affect your putts. Knowledge of how the different types of grass affect your game, gained through all your golf lessons, golf tips and personal experience, can help lower golf scores and golf handicaps.Although every locale is different, there are grasses that can be used on almost on any course. There are also grasses that can be used...
11.	Bookmarks: 0	The Golf Ball And Your Handicap For the regular golfer the news on the modern golf ball is all good. The ball doesn’t slice or hook anywhere near as much as it did 15 years ago and it goes a lot further. But why hasn’t the average club member’s handicap dropped. The answer is almost certainly in the golf ball you are teeing up. Today a solidly hit golf ball doesn’t move. The manufacturer’s designers have worked the long night hours to make it so. But for most of us the percentage of solidly hit sh...
12.	Bookmarks: 0	The 3 Types of Handicaps There are 3 types of handicaps out there. They include: (1) honest handicaps; (2) sandbagger handicaps and (3) Hollywood handicaps.
13.	Bookmarks: 0	Synchronizing Your Arms And Body Whatever your golf handicap is, you’ve probably experienced days when everything on the course seemed to fall into place. You’re golfing with a fun-loving foursome. You’re playing a great course on a great day. And you’re driving, chipping, and putting well. In fact, you’re doing everything well. It all seems so easy.And, then, for no apparent reason, you lose it. You can’t do anything right. Your drives miss the fairways. Your approach shots fall way short. An...
14.	Bookmarks: 0	Six Keys To Pitching From The Fairway Accurate pitching reduces your golf handicap. Turning three strokes into two by pitching close to the pin cuts strokes from your scores. Cut enough strokes and you’ll lower your handicap significantly. Learning to pitch accurately from the fairway is crucial to improving your game.Pitching accurately from the fairway, as I mention in my golf lessons, requires good distance control. That’s not easy to achieve. The tendency is for your swing to be either too long, in which ...
15.	Bookmarks: 6	Selecting The Right Putter For Your Game Buying a putter that’s right for you isn’t easy. You need to do your homework to find one that fits both your budget and your game, which means learning the different types of putters and clubheads available and their advantages. But doing your homework is worth it because having a good putter, as I often say in my golf lessons, shaves strokes off your golf handicap.The key considerations when looking for a putter are price, quality, type, clubhead, and alignment system. ...
16.	Bookmarks: 0	Rotation, Rotation, And More Rotation In Your Golf Swing In real estate, it’s location, location and location.In golf, it’s all about rotation. More power requires better rotation. To keep your body healthier, it’s about better rotation. For consistency, you’d better be able to rotate.The body rotates around a spine angle that should be fixed or stable, keeping your club on the proper swing path. Are you able to do this with your swing?This may be the idea that separates the high handicapper and low handicapper: the abi...
17.	Bookmarks: 1	Review Of Golf Training Aids- Can They Really Help Lower Your Scores? Today’s marketplace is flooded with training aids. You can find one for nearly every part of the game. And more and more are being introduced every day. While a training aid won’t lower your golf handicap overnight or replace golf tips, it will help improve your golf game if you work with it faithfully.Below are five training aids golfers often ask about in my golf lessons. Designed to improve your swing or a phase of your swing, these products help correct faults, groove...
18.	Bookmarks: 0	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 didn’t take a couple minutes on the practice green, it is like you are opening u...
19.	Bookmarks: 0	Principles Of Accurate Chipping Here’s a question I sometimes ask when giving a golf lesson. What do pro golfers Jose Maria Olazabal, Tiger Woods, and Sergio Garcia all have in common? Answer: They don’t hit into trouble often, but when they do, their short games save them, and accurate chipping is one of the most potent weapons in their short game. In fact, most players with low golf handicaps chip accurately.The chip shot is one of the easiest shots to learn in golf. It’s also one of the most crucial....
20.	Bookmarks: 0	Perform Better Golf Right In Your Home To perform better golf, you need to take a different approach. I have seen and heard time after time how much money golfers will spend in hopes to perform better golf. But according to statistics, the average USGA Handicap hasn’t gone down in over 30 years!
21.	Bookmarks: 0	Online Golf Instructions Are Cheap But Effective The number of online golf instruction programs on the net has grown tremendously in recent times. And yet they still continue to grow in leaps and bounds. One of the reasons for this phenomenal growth is that many of these online golf instructions have had very positive effects and helped many golfers improve their handicap.
22.	Bookmarks: 0	Nike Hybrid Golf Clubs Nike Hybrid Golf Clubs are available in two versions of two different models, for a total of 4 product lines. These include the Slingshot Hybrid and Slingshot Tour Hybrid, the CPR3 Wood and CPR3 Iron-Wood. This article will review the attributes of each of these hybrid golf clubs.Slingshot Hybrid and Slingshot Tour HybridBoth of these clubs have an MSRP of $199 US for either steel or graphite shafts. The Slingshot Tour is targeted for low handicap golfers, and the Sli...
23.	Bookmarks: 3	Let’s Correct That Ugly Slice The sliced golf shot is probably the most chronic problem that beginning and higher handicap golfers struggle with.It’s an easy thing to explain, but certainly a much tougher problem to correct. So, without getting into a very lengthy article on the subject of the sliced golf shot, I'll do my best to give you an understanding of what causes the slice and a couple of tips that will get you on your way to forever correcting this game robbing problem.First of all let me ...
24.	Bookmarks: 0	Learning To Control Your Swing To Improve Your Golf Handicap The most difficult thing about learning golf is to learn to distract your mind from everything except the feeling of what you are about to perform.Now no teacher can tell you in exact words how it feels when you make a certain movement correctly. You will have to use your imagination to interpret what he says, and if he is wise he will encourage you to use it.Let me give you an example. I want to teach you to pivot from the hips. Now I can show you how it is done and ...
25.	Bookmarks: 0	I've Said It Before And I'll Say It Again “If you want to take shots off your scorecard…” sounds like one of those titles for an uninvited email with the objective of selling you a performance enhancing drug of some sort. But actually it’s the start of wise words from almost every golf coach and they are referring to your putting.It doesn’t matter whether you are a scratch, low handicap, middle of the road golfer or aninexperienced beginner, for most of you the least effort, highest return improvement for you...
26.	Bookmarks: 10	Is Golf Practice All You Need for Lower Scores? Golf is a very demanding sport, both physically and mentally. Most recreational golfers would love to have a more powerful swing and lower their handicaps. Good instruction from a teaching pro and practice of what you’ve learned can help lower your scores. There is however, more to achieving consistent improvement. It’s great to go to the driving range and practice. Unfortunately, sometimes you’re further embedding the wrong movement patterns into your swing.
27.	Bookmarks: 0	Improve Your Driver Golf Swing With Drills Trying to improve the swing of your driver but you're not 100% where to start? You need to learn a few basic drills and exercises to develop the right skills to take your driver golf swing to the next level. While practice isn't as fun as playing a round of golf, but it's the where you need to put your time in to play a great game and shave strokes off of your handicap.What are golf drills?A golf drill is simply a series of exercises that are isolated to develop one p...
28.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Swing Like A Pro With The Best Golf Swing Trainers And Golf Training Aids Slice your handicap, not the ball, with the help of the best swing trainers and other golf training aids. These convenient tools can be used whenever you have a spare moment in the office or at home. The devices are also ideal for maintaining your practice routine during bad weather.The best golf swing trainers reinforce muscle memory through repetition. Look for a system that builds a familiarity with basic principles. Once you have mastered the basics, you can work on p...
29.	Bookmarks: 0	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 there’s 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.Let’s...
30.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Practice Golf Properly Practicing your golf game properly is vital to improving. Knowing how to practice increases self-confidence, reduces scores, and lowers golf handicaps. It also increases the fun of playing as you see your scores drop on each round. I consider it so important that I discuss how to practice with all my students during golf lessons. Unfortunately, some students don’t always follow my advice. They either focus on the wrong things during practice or they practice without purpo...
31.	Bookmarks: 0	How to improve your golf swing - 7 Tips, 7 Strokes, 7 Days Are you a high handicap golfer, or just an average weekend player, or maybe you like to entertain business clients on the course. Here is 7 tips that will help keep your swing in tact and not look like a fool on the golf course.
32.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Hit Lob Shot Today! All good golfers, especially those on the PGA or LPGA Tour, are very good ay hitting a lob shot or a flop shot. The lob shot we will discuss will be from about 30 yards and will be players with a 56 or 60 degree wedge. Many say the lob shot is a risky golf shot however, if pulled off correctly, it will help you to lower your scores.Most scratch and low handicap golfers will agree that it is easier to judge the distance to if a golf ball while it is rolling on the ground a...
33.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Hit Lob Shot Today! All good golfers, especially those on the PGA or LPGA Tour, are very good ay hitting a lob shot or a flop shot. The lob shot we will discuss will be from about 30 yards and will be players with a 56 or 60 degree wedge. Many say the lob shot is a risky golf shot however, if pulled off correctly, it will help you to lower your scores.Most scratch and low handicap golfers will agree that it is easier to judge the distance to if a golf ball while it is rolling on the ground a...
34.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Deal With Sloping Greens Reading slopes correctly is vital to putting well. All putts start out straight, but the green’s contour curves the ball. If you’re going to improve your putting and lower your golf handicap, then you must learn how to read a green’s slope.Reading a green’s slope comes with experience, like a lot of things in golf. The more you play, the better you’ll become at it, as I stress in my golf lessons. Nevertheless, there are some proven techniques I’ve used that wil...
35.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Cut Five Strokes From Your Game By The Weekend If you're serious about lowering your golf handicap and doing so quickly, master the three scoring clubs—the driver, the wedge, and the putter. These clubs have the greatest impact on your golf game and provide the greatest opportunity for cutting strokes from your scores. Mastering these clubs will improve your game as much as 5 strokes per round. Specifically though, let’s focus on the wedges. Knowing which wedge to hit in different situations is really the best way to ...
36.	Bookmarks: 0	How I Lowered My Golf Handicap How did I lower my golf handicap?How will you lower your golf handicap?What would your life be like if you played more Golf?Wait you say, you don't have enough time to play more golf?Have to go to that job, that You Love So Much? Now think about this for a moment, golf is one of the greatest games ever!Wouldn't you agree? The sport of Kings.Fresh air, exercise, out with friends and possibly doing a little business networking.So how are you going to play ...
37.	Bookmarks: 0	How A Hacker Developed A Winning Golf Swing I'm probably erring on the side of understatement when I say that Bob was a hacker. By his own admission he was: “one of those players who've never really had a proper golf swing.” The way he told it, his main concern was to give the ball a 'good whack'. As a result of his lack of technique, Bob had spent much of the ten years that he'd been a golfer searching for his ball in woods and long grass. High scores and a high handicap seemed to be his inevitable fate. Bob a...
38.	Bookmarks: 0	Golf Tips – What’s Your Score? If you’ve ever wondered about your composite score or your handicap, you now have an incredibly easy way to come up with those figures
39.	Bookmarks: 0	Golf Tips And Lessons On The Web-can You Really Trust Internet Sources? Today, golf tips and lessons on the Web are extremely popular, as just about everybody is putting their two cents in how to improve your golf game. Quite simply, there are literally thousands of different tips that you can find on the Internet; some of them are helpful and some of them are. Here are some important tips and information to help you to sort through the clutter and find the best tips that will really improve your game.Be very wary when searching for golf tips...
40.	Bookmarks: 0	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. You’ll struggle mightily to find a lower handicap golfer that isn’t a good chipper of the golf ball. It’s 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...
41.	Bookmarks: 0	Golf Putting Tips – Learn Ways To Make More Putts And Shoot Low Scores Putting is one of the most important aspects of golf and it is also the part of the game that can make the biggest difference to your scores regardless of whether you are a high or low or even scratch golfer. Here are a few tips to help you on your endeavor to make more putts and lower your handicap.Tip 1: Do not get obsessed with putting mechanicsPutting is an interesting part of golf because it really is primarily a mental game. Putting mechanics are important so do...
42.	Bookmarks: 3	Golf Is A Hard Enough Game Without Handicapping Yourself With Poor Instruction‏ Golf is a hard enough game without handicapping yourself with poor equipment or training. Golfers are a strange group – more optimistic than even people buying lottery tickets – each of which is convinced without a shadow of a doubt that they will win “the big one” and “be set for life”Many golfers will spend an absolute killing on golfing equipment and even golf apparel but will shudder at the thought of devoting any of their golfing budget towards proper inst...
43.	Bookmarks: 3	Golf Handicap Systems Help Even Out Scorecards For Competitive Golf Play The golf handicap system is implemented at golf courses, for golf tournament play. Trophies and prizes are awarded at the end of golf tournaments, based on golf scores. In order to make the golf game fair play, the handicap system is based on the ten lowest differentials of the last twenty games on an eighteen-hole course in one season. Some golf associations will accept fewer golf games. It can also be used for fair play outside of golf tournaments. The following is a short ...
44.	Bookmarks: 0	Golf Basics – Learn To Turn One of the biggest challenges for beginning golfers and an area of constant attention for low handicap golfers as well as professionals is consistency in their swing.
45.	Bookmarks: 0	Golf Basics For Newbies If you have decided to take up golf as a hobby you will be rewarded with the benefits of fresh air, exercise, and the addition of many new friends and acquaintances. Like any project you approach in life your attitude and expectations will determine your enjoyment of the game. Take stock of your personal traits. Are you overly competitive? If you are, remember the road to a low handicap is littered with bad shots, bunkers, water hazards and triple digit scores on your rou...
46.	Bookmarks: 4	Get Into A Routine Of Lowering Your Handicap Certainly there is no shortage of advice and tips when it comes to subject of improving your golf game. I alone am constantly being asked on how to improve on the various parts of someone’s golf game.Tips and advice, although a good place to start, aren’t the panacea for all that ails one’s golf game. All the advice in the world is only as good as the person’s desire to practice and implement the advice.Practice is essential. Just playing more and more isn’t practicin...
47.	Bookmarks: 0	Getting Fitted To Play Your Best Golf Taking that leap from a high handicap golfer to a low handicap golfer can come down to having the right clubs in your hands. Golfers come in all sizes and shapes. Yet there are a lot of golfers who attempt to play the game of golf with clubs that do not match their body type or swing style.When it comes to playing your best game hitting a bucket of balls at the golf-range or practicing your chip shot for hours will not help if the clubs you are using are not the right...
48.	Bookmarks: 0	Fix Your Finish To Improve Your Golf Handicap How you finish often reveals what’s happening during your swing In fact, I often key on a player’s finish in my golf lessons to determine exactly how to help he or she can improve their game. You can do the same for yourself—if you know what to look for.Below I describe four of the more common finishes I see when giving golf lessons, possible causes of the finish, and ideas on how to eliminate, the swing faults that cause them.High FinishThe high finish position is ...
49.	Bookmarks: 0	Do You Have A One-Plane Or Two-Plane Swing? The concept of plane confuses some players. It also confuses some players that come to me for golf lessons. Many are unclear about what it is and what its impact is on your golf swing. Whether you understand the concept of plane or not, swinging off plane is never good. Focusing on two points—spine angle at address and the position of the left arm on the downswing—clears up the confusion about swing plane and explains its effect on your golf swing and your golf handicap. ...
50.	Bookmarks: 4	Developing A Good Draw Golf Shot A good golf swing will not only lower your handicap, it will make the game more enjoyable. Now that you have cured your slice and can keep the ball in the fairway most of the time, you can now start working on controlling the ball. Putting the proper spin on the ball will allow you to draw or fade your shots. Drawing the golf ball causes it to hook to the left and fading the ball cause it to slice slightly to the right. If you have worked hard to develop a good golf swin...
51.	Bookmarks: 0	Choose The Right Golf Ball To Improve Your Golf Game Choosing a golf ball could be tricky, if you choose the ball used by Tiger Woods, it is not necessary that you can have the same handicap that he does. The choice has to be made as per you game style. The wrong ball could give you bigger handicaps and the right ball could make you feel like a champion.
52.	Bookmarks: 0	Chip Shot Boot Camp - The Fundamentals Are you frustrated with your short game? It happens quite often to amateurs and pros alike. You feel like you have put in your time at the practice facility and do not know what to do next. Knowing the fundamentals of a chip shot will help you get the golf ball close to the hole or chip in. This will quickly lower your scores and your golf handicap.Many golfers are confused on what the actual definition of a chip shot is. To make sure we are all talking about the same thi...
53.	Bookmarks: 0	Can Well-Maintained Greens Lower Your Scores? I don’t often mention green maintenance in my golf lessons. Nor do I often discuss it in my golf tips. That’s because golfers want to talk about hitting the ball instead. But the care and feeding of a club’s greens—how they are mowed, watered, fertilized— can have a major impact on a player’s 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...
54.	Bookmarks: 0	Building A Repeatable Swing Like Tiger Woods Tiger Woods hits his irons straighter and more accurately than most pros. By swinging the club exactly the same way, he’s able to repeat his golf swing again and again and again. The more he repeats his swing, the more often he generates predictable results. For Tiger, predictable results mean more tournament wins and higher earnings. For the rest of us, it means better scores and lower golf handicaps.Building a repeatable swing is ultimately the goal of all golf instruct...
55.	Bookmarks: 0	Being A Member At A Golf Course Has Its Advantages And Benefits Joining a golf club has many advantages and benefits, compared to playing at different golf clubs. Lets take a look at some of the benefits and reasons to join a local country club. (1) Most golf clubs, if not all golf clubs have a handicap tracking system, to keep track of your scores. You do not have to send your scorecard to a golf association for a legitimate handicap, to play in golf tournaments.(2) Golf clubs have a facility with a locker room and restaurant as ...
56.	Bookmarks: 0	Ball Position For Different Clubs Ball position is a critical component that’s often overlooked by players with high golf handicaps. Ball position decides a shot’s initial direction. While theories on ball position abound, you need to find one that’s right for you. Ball position affects a clubhead’s swing path, as I explain in my golf lessons. If the ball is too far back, the clubhead moves on an in-to-out swing path at impact, sending the ball to the target’s right. If the ball is too far forward, ...
57.	Bookmarks: 0	5 Golf Facts That Will Change Your Game Are you seeing the same decrease in your handicap that reflects your hard work and efforts? Do you consistently fall short on your drives or feel exhausted at the end of 18 holes? Do you carry the disappointment of a missed putt over into the next hole? If you are plagued with problems like these then it is time to give your golf game a boost. Change your golf game for the better by focusing on the following five areas: flexibility, strength, endurance, nutrition, and mental toughness.
58.	Bookmarks: 0	Breathing Problems - Natural Solutions Breathing difficulties can seriously handicap our ability to function and enjoy life. Air is our most vital source of energy and vitality. When we suffer from asthma, bronchitis, allergies, frequent colds or simply insufficient oxygen intake, we are prone to a lack of energy, vitality and /or mental clarity.Every cell within our body depends on an abundant supply of oxygen for proper metabolism and vitality.Some Causes of Breathing Problems1. Hereditary weakness m...
59.	Bookmarks: 0	March Investment Madness: The Financial Final Four (March, 2007) What correlation could there possibly be between an Annual Round Ball Tournament and an Investment Portfolio or its Management? The Final Four is comprised of the best teams, not necessarily the best players. If the legendary Greek was handicapping portfolio management teams, he would be smiling broadly and rubbing his hands together in anticipation of making odds in the Financial Markets! How cool is this, a game with no end.
60.	Bookmarks: 5	7 Essential Tips for Reviewing Copy Nothing can turn strong copy into a 97-pound weakling faster than a flawed review process. The result is severely handicapped marketing efforts and, alas, fewer sales. Find out how you can avoid this dire marketing situation.