New golf gizmos

Avid Salt Lake golfer Drew Hall has only one complaint about his high tech golf global positioning device.
"It takes away any excuses you have," he said.
That's one of the big reasons golfers are forking out anywhere between $189 to $500 to purchase either a laser distance finder or a global positioning system loaded with the layouts of nearly every public and private course in the United States.
Good golfers know how far they hit each club. The electronic gizmos can tell tell them distance to the pin within a few feet. In the case of GPS devices, golfers can also get a look at each hole before playing it, learning the location of such hazards as traps, bunkers, lakes or rough.
But in a tradition-bound game like golf, do those who set the rules think such devices are ethical?

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Mastering golf basics is key to cracking 100 barrier

A playing partner and friend once sank a 45-foot putt on the 18th hole at Walden Lake Golf and Country Club in Plant City to shoot 99 for the first time. He celebrated by running around the perimeter of the green with his arms and putter over his head. And his shirt off.

This is not an endorsement for that kind of celebration, but for most golfers, breaking 100 on a regulation par-70 to par-72 course is a big deal. Depending on which study you read, 75-85 per cent of golfers don't break 100 regularly. That percentage could go down if golfers made some basic changes to their swing as well as their mental approach.

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Speedboat crashes into Scottish golf course

These pictures show what happened when a speedboat went out of control, flew through the air and landed in the bunker of a golf course.

Golfers on the course at Loch Lomond, Dunbartonshire were lucky not to be hit when the boat hit the ground.

The skipper of the boat, which was called The Final Fling, was forced to abandon ship and jump into the water after it was sent off course by waves from another vessel.

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Cal's Hale, Stanford's Kim: Fresh faces of the Pac-10

Stephen Hale stood on the fringe at Cal's short-game practice facility one day last week. As the wind swirled and his iPod piped in background music, Hale meticulously worked through his bag - using every club but his driver to chip balls toward a miniature flagstick about 30 feet away.

There was a purpose to Hale's uncommon drill: Sometimes, strange lies call for strange shots. He found his ball sitting down in a footprint during one tournament earlier this season, so he intentionally bladed a sand wedge onto the green and saved par.

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Golf: Sergio back in the swing

SERGIO Garcia had been all but forgotten by the golfing public, which is just another reason he savoured his victory at the Players Championship at Sawgrass.

But Garcia was clearly the best player in the field from tee to green, hitting more fairways and finding more greens in regulation than anyone else.

The Spaniard sank one of the biggest putts of his life, a seven-footer at the final regulation hole that earned him a play-off with Paul Goydos.

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Golf Tips: Understanding your swing arc

The noted designer of the Tournament Players Club course in Ponte Vedra, Fla. with its famous "Island Green" on No. 17, Pete Dye will be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame later this year.

At layouts such as Sawgrass, Dye surely took into consideration how a player's swing arc affects distance both on and off the tee.

The width of the golf swing arc is the space that the grip end of the club travels in both the backswing and forward swing, which directly affects distance and club speed.

At address, the player sets the distance between the grip end of the club and the lead shoulder joint. This distance needs to be maintained to maximize the swing arc. If the elbow of the lead arm bends, the radius of the swing arc is shortened and potential speed is lost.

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Tiger, Tiger burning bright - but at what cost?

Tiger Woods is a sporting phenomenon, but his complete monopolisation of the sport is tedious and makes a classic game all but unwatchable. Still, you can't blame the guy for being so brilliant.

Tiger Woods is on track to become the world’s first billionaire athlete, earning over $100m, with barely 10 per cent from actual golf earnings.

The world number one is all but unbeatable, and for a man in his early 30s he will, if he continues, literally strangle the life out of golf and break every major record by some margin.

Born in California, the prodigy grew up in California, was shooting less than 50 over nine holes by his fourth birthday, and won international golf tournaments before he was 15.

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Golf Pride top grip choice at Players and the Michelob Ultra Open

Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation announced today that according to authoritative Darrell Survey results, the majority of professionals who played in The Players Championship and LPGA Michelob Ultra Open depended on Golf Pride® grips to play their best.

At the 2008 Players Championship, 85 percent (122 of 144) of golfers in the field used Golf Pride grips on the majority of clubs in their bag during the prestigious tournament. Of the top 31 finishers, 28 players chose Golf Pride grips to compete in the windy conditions at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.

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Top Golf Teaching Professional for the Amateur golfer The Center of Gravity Golf Method is all the rage in the golfing world. More than 20,000 people in 36 countries have already taken the Center of Gravity Challenge and people are raving about it.

I am so sure of the COG Method that if you are not satisfied after putting the COG Method to use that I will refund your money, no questions asked! And you can keep what you ordered. That's right you will cut 7-12 strokes off your handicap or your money back!