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OAKLEY RADAR SHOES 9bbTuesday, February 24, 2004 Women Need Equipment Tailored To Their Game One of the most upsetting statistics in golf is that one out of every two women who take up the game quit after 24 months. There are a number of reasons for this, but one of the most common is that the game is made hard for women because many of them play with inferior equipment. Sometimes it is the arrow and not the Indian that's responsible for a bad shot. Many women players have difficulty generating enough club head speed to consistently get the ball airborne with the longer clubs, which have less face loft. They have no trouble with the 5-iron through pitching wedge, but they hit the rest of their clubs all about the same distance. This begs a ques- tion from an inquiring mind: "Why do I need all those other clubs in the set if they all go the same distance?" I've asked club manufacturers about this, but they have always responded with a shrug -- until now. Finally, using the information provided by modern-day launch monitors, club manufacturers such as Callaway are making sets available this year that are more suitable for golfers with slow swing speed. Here's how it works. A woman who hits her driver about 120 yards spins the ball at about 4,000 rpms (revolutions per minute). Her spin rate for the pitching wedge is about 5,000 rpms. The rate is fairly constant throughout the set, meaning she has only a 40-yard gap between her longest and shortest clubs (by contrast, the average man hits his pitching wedge 100 yards and his driver 220 yards -- a 120-yard gap). The strategy for these women is to have fewer clubs (more woods and fewer irons) and to space the lofts far differently than the spacing in a traditional set. For example, a woman's set of clubs would include: a 14-degree driver, 18-degree 3-wood, 20-degree 5-wood, 24-degree 7-wood, 28-degree 9-wood, 32- degree 7-iron, 38-degree 8-iron, 44-degree 9-iron and a 50- degree pitching wedge. Throw in a sand wedge and a putter and you have a set that numbers 11, but fills in the 40-yard gap more evenly (and with more versatility). 'No Real Rush' For Duval To Return To Competition Despite a recent report that David Duval likely will return to competition for The Players Championship March 25-28, instructor David Leadbetter, while optimistic about the former No. 1 player's improvement, says that "nothing is automatic right now." Not even playing in the Masters. Indeed, there's nothing to keep Duval from waiting until summer, if that's what it takes. It all depends on his con- fidence and progress. "There's no real rush," Leadbetter said Wednesday from Orlando. "It's not do-or-die that it has to be TPC or Augusta. It's going to be when he feels his game and his head are ready for it." The only apparent sure thing is that Duval, 32, who made only four cuts in 20 events last year and fell to 242nd in the world rankings, is getting married during the first week of March to Susie Persichitte, an interior designer from Denver he met last summer at The International. While Leadbetter is encouraged that Duval has started to fade the ball again, he's concern- ed about the timing of Duval's return. If Duval eventually eyes TPC, it might be smarter to start back at, say, either the Honda Classic or Bay Hill, rather than face the pressure of a debut at Ponte Vedra Beach in his hometown tournament. QUOTE OF THE WEEK "If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." -Jack Lemmon |
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OAKLEY RADAR SHOES TODAY'S GOLF - Tuesday, May 18, 2004"Tips... News... And More... All For The Love Of The Game" ------------------------------------------------------------ To SUBSCRIBE visit: http://www.gophercentral.com/sub/sub-golf.html Subscribe ------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE: 1. TEEING OFF - Yips are no disease 2. PRO REPORT - NICKLAUS, PLAYER PRESIDENTS CUP CAPTAINS AGAIN 3. QUOTE OF THE WEEK TEEING OFF Yips are no disease In 2003, the Mayo Clinic published a study of the yips and, as you can read below, it didn't sit to well with Chuck Hogan, one of the most original thinkers in the golf business. Chuck believes that the yips are just a piece of learning, not a disease. It's human nature to seek pleasure and avoid pain, and in most cases the choice is clear-cut: We see a snake and run; we see a comfy chair and curl up in it. But when it comes to a short putt, the brain of the yipper is in a quandary. It must stroke the putt to finish the hole and get its reward, but it doesn't want to experience the pain of the miss, a pain that the golfer has blown so completely out of proportion that it must be avoided. Enter Mr. Hogan and his open letter to the clinic: "It is well-documented that golf went from a game played in Scotland to a matter of money, politics, bio-mechanics and a self-esteem issue in the United States. I must say that your recent article regarding the 'yips' was a giant step backward for golf and golfers. "The yips syndrome, regardless of research by the Mayo Clinic, is simply a learned behavior. The human system ... moves away from pain and toward pleasure. When golfers 'learn' that a 2-foot putt is dangerous, the perception generates a vascular shutoff. While the golfer's subcon- scious is moving away, the golfer's conscious mind still moves 'toward' to execute the putt. The simultaneous 'toward-away' demands are manifest and expressed as a spasmodic response. "Then, along comes ... the Mayo Clinic to 'discover' the 'problem. What they find, sure enough, is evidence of fear in the brain-scan imagery. Now they give it a name -- 'dystonia.'" "No solution was offered ... so the golfer is left with the idea that s/he could be the victim at any moment. And, there is no controlling this monster. This is another ADPD (Attention Deficit Putting Disorder -- don't you just love labels?). Isn't it enough that Americans have taken a game (G-A-M-E) and turned it into a job? Isn't it enough that your self-esteem and pecking order is at stake and all about a putt? Well, apparently not - now they've invented a disease. "Suffice it to say that you (Mayo) have taken more joy out of Mudville and added more anxiety to golfers. Since the brain researchers are more interested in research for the sake of research, can't we just keep it in academia where it won't give little golfers nightmares?" ------------------------------------------------------------ * Flag Day Is June 14th! Show Your AMERICAN PRIDE * 3 x 5 ft flag for just $2.99 The American Flag embodies our American freedom. It is the symbol of our national unity and tells of sacrifices that brave men and women of this nation have made to fight for our freedoms. Now is the time to fly our symbol of American Pride in the "Land of the Free, Home of the Brave!" This Flag Day show your neighborhood that you are proud to live in this great country. Wave your very own 3 x 5 ft. (standard size) flag for just $2.99. Order Yours Today. (Limit 5 per order) Fly Your U.S. Flag ------------------------------------------------------------ PRO REPORT NICKLAUS, PLAYER PRESIDENTS CUP CAPTAINS AGAIN West Palm Beach, Fla. -- Between them, they've won 27 major championships, 94 PGA Tour titles and almost 300 worldwide events. But to hear Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player talk, their greatest moment in golf came last fall when they never touched a club. Six months after their controversial decision to end the Presidents Cup in a tie, Nicklaus and Player are still almost giddy about what happened in South Africa. That explains their recent decision to take sort of a mulligan by agreeing to once again be captains for the 2005 Presidents Cup matches near Washington. The PGA Tour will no doubt hype the matches as "Unfinished Business," making them seem more like a prize fight. But the captains saw nothing incomplete about what happened in South Africa when the United States and International teams finished in a tie. "It was the most exciting and most rewarding event that I have ever been involved with in the game of golf," Nicklaus said. "I've won a lot of golf tournaments, (but) I've never had one that I enjoyed more and enjoyed being part of for what it did for the game of golf, what it did for South Africa, and in general bringing the golfers of the world together. It was sensational." Player, one of South Africa's greatest athletes, echoed those thoughts. "What transpired ... was something that I will never for- get in my life, one of the three greatest moments in my career as a golfer," Player said. "To be playing in South Africa, a country that had been barred due to its apartheid policies from participating worldwide for 48 years, and now having formed this great democracy ... was something that was vitally important, far more important than the golf. And to have an ending as we did was most appropriate. And everybody left feeling very satisfied." PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem said it didn't take long to con- sider asking Nicklaus and Player to return, even though there are plenty of other qualified candidates. Guys like Greg Norman and Nick Price. "That was something we thought about the night after the matches concluded," Finchem said. "We thought it was fitting that Jack and Gary have a chance to finish this, if you will, and go at it again." The Americans have never seemed to take the Presidents Cup matches with the same passion as the Ryder Cup, perhaps because the latter has been around about 65 more years. But that may be changing as well. Nicklaus said Phil Mickelson was one of the unsung heroes of his team even though Mickelson was 0-5 in his matches. Nicklaus said Mickelson was extremely supportive of his teammates, even though he was having a forgettable week, and he thinks that helped Mickelson finally win that first major last month at the Masters. 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Take a look at their selection by visiting: Dakota Sunglasses Introductory Offer ------------------------------------------------------------ QUOTE OF THE WEEK I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot. -- Don Adams ------------------------------------------------------------ Questions? Comments? 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