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John Daly, Dean Wilson and the spirit of the "law" with the new stretch marks

2010-01-16T13:48:00.001-08:00

The history of John Daly and Dean Wilson with his Ping-Eyed 2, of almost 20 years ago, in Sony Open of Hawaii is of these histories that they have his crumb. To do to you an idea of the anitgüedad of these sticks, there are the same model as John Daly it was using when it was a sophomore in 1986.

But to extract the whole juice to this situation, we need to know the first pair of things. The first one is that these Ping-Eyed 2 have a few square stretch marks, and not in V like those who demand the new rules, but in spite of that any player can keep on playing them. How is this possible?

We have to go back a year 1990 when Ping and the USGA faced in a judgment for the topic of the square stretch marks and where the judge passed that any Ping-Eyed 2 done before April 1, 1990 they were legal according to the rules of the golf and according to Digg Rugge, the Director Técnico Senior of the USGA, the above mentioned resolution keeps on being valid to today.

John Daly says that to today approximately 8 or 9 has sets that are perfect to play, since the first thing that John Daly does when a new Ping-Eyed 2 comes to his power, is to call to the Ping head office to give him the serial number so that they confirm to him his date of manufacture. If it is before April 1, 1990, it will be valid, and on him it will be possible to be employed at his adaptation, rod, I tied up … Of course, Ping cannot make new "legal" units of this model.

The question that we rise to ourselves great it is if a wedge with more than 20 years keeps on having a few stretch marks it sufficiently sharp or in the good state so that it deserves to play with them. As it looks like the units that have John Daly and Dean Wilson seems to be that yes, therefore it is possible that sayings wedges could begin to rise of price in Ebay, therefore if you belong to those from which you keep all the sticks in the garage, perhaps you could extract an extra pin money, since these wedges in Europe will not be valid.

Another question that someone will rise to himself it is if this is to do pitfalls or not. For me not, although it is clear that to play with these wedges goes against the spirit of the new rules of the stretch marks, but to my judgment, only it does pitfalls that one that in spite of knowing the rules, violates them to extract an advantage, while John Daly and Dean Wilson take advantage of a particular situation of a rule that is even approved by Ruling Body. The rules knowing each other well to you allow sometimes to extract certain advantages, without for it, pitfalls being done and of that itself these two players having could extract party to my judgment.

It notices: John Daly did not spend the cut and Dean Wilson yes.

Official place | PGA Tour
Image | 360 Pair

Ogio Grom Golf Bag: the result of being adding details

2010-01-15T17:08:00.001-08:00

At the end of October I asked how much must last a golf bag immediately after awful result that to my judgment there had given me my last bag Taylor Made, who lost his paws in our visit to Coast Teguise Golf and after a time taking it without paws, there came the hour of withdrawing it from his daily visit to the golf course.

If there was a mark of bags that was wanting to try, that one they were those of Ogio, for what I got in touch with them across twiter so that they were recommending to me a bag for a player who plays practically every day. This was his answer. although the bag that I have bought is not the model of 2010, if not of 2007, but in spite of his "anitgüedad", it gives us the opportunity so that you could observe the taken care of his design.

After having already played a few golf rounds with Ogio Grom, the sensation that I have left is that of having a bag that has been designed by a meticulous golfer. Why do I say this?

Because to today there are numerous the bags of sticks that have spent for me hands, all with positive and negative things, but Ogio Grom, it is the bag that more has attracted attention of me for his details. Details that facilitate the access to the things that we transport in her or up to the same transport, what in the end one ends up by transforming into a user's big experience.

To those players that it likes taking enough things in the bag, in spite of taking it to the shoulder, Ogio Grom will not limit to them what tranportarán, since his pockets are wide and numerous, but that also had had it in other bags, but what any more difference to this bag, is the different way in which Ogio has solved the needs of the golfer, what does that it is very satisfied with her.

Ogio Grom has details that are visible at first sight, how the system of sujección of the balls or of the tees, but in following lines I will tell you these details that are not seen so easily. The pocket to keep the balls, is not of zipper, if not that simply in spite of pulling the revers is opened so that you have a rapid access to he. In the base of the pocket for the balls, it has a grip, lift grip, for those that when they are going to load the bag on the car it need to do with two arms, a small detail, which will serve to more than one person not to give a blow to the porter of his car.

When one loads the bag on the shoulders, in spite of just stretching lightly the left hand it will have access to his bottle of drink, which is covered with isothermal material to support it to good temperature. Also, to side of the bottle, also you have a pocket to take the card and a flexible gum where to keep the pencil always to have it to hand, detail that can be seen in the photos, as a small tag in which it is indicated so that it serves every detail.

Another curious detail of Ogio Grom is the way of holding the towel to the bag, since in Ogio Grom, as you can see in the photos, the towel holds with a flexible gum for which it interferes, favoring this that the towel does not hang so much of the bag, what reduces the engaches of the towel when we introduce this one in cochitos or that simply we her mislead if the harnessing of the towel is of this cash that they always end up by being opened.

In the photos also you can see the organization of the sticks in the bag, but what you cannot go so far as to see, it is that these divisions are finished up to the fund of the bag, what does that there do not get damaged for example the rods of graphite of the wood or hybrids.

After a pair of weeks playing with Ogio Grom I have to recognize that is the sum of these small details of the design, what does that my big doubt is really satisfied with it, nevertheless, is if Ogio Grom will bear the work that has been entrusted to him, that is not different that to take me the sticks almost 7 times a week, and undoubtedly, this is an important acid test, that the time will decide if it happens or not.

Official place | Ogio
Imagénes | Ovidio Vidal

Collision in the leadership of Sony Open

2010-01-15T11:06:00.001-08:00

Davis Love III has not played any tournament in two months. Robert Allenby I joust the opposite. And also there is Troy Merrit, which has never played an event of the PGA Tour up to yesterday on Thursday in Sony Open. These three players are between six players who lead the Sony Open in Waialae Country Club, in which yesterday it was one day of a lot of, a lot of wind.

The first day of the first finished tournament (the SBS Championship only was receiving 28 players) of the year has left the classification with a good clogging, with Allenby with a crooked ankle and to John Merrick like the last one to join the leadership, with five blows under the pair. Others two players in the highest sound Zach Johnson, defending champion, and Ryan Palmer.

When the sun disappeared of the Waikiki coasts everything turned a chaos on the field. Not only there are six leaders in Sony Open, but there are ten players more joined in the second position and: do you want that he says something to you? This promises. There imagines that of returns that can give the tournament in scarcely a pair of holes.

John Merrick y Troy Merrit, both players almost not known for the big public, have a surname that almost is pronounced equally (it is difficult to distinguish it) and also almost he writes himself equally. “We have the box offices in the wardrobe one next to other one,” Merrick said. “Probably we will have them the whole year.”

It was already missing that the two were leading a tournament together. There was some problem in the scoreboards.

When the return was just on the verge of ending, Tom Guillis met a putt of approximately seven meters for Eagle and decided that the day was the sufficiently dark thing as not to see anything. Today it will return to the point where it left it and his second return will begin. Sony Open had a beginning to atypical.

Davis Love III did a clean, free bogeys return, and it was the first one in ending with 65 blows.

“It was optimistic,” Love said. “But it was anxious for competing. Once I began, once below the pair … I Have been it was a long time, and you do not forget it.”

Allenby was the only player who was coming to Waialae with a good victories gust. It gained the Nedbank Challenge, then the Australian PGA and it was going for a walk with his wife, Sandy, when he trod on evil and the ankle twisted.

The Australian was not sure if it might play this week or even following. The case is that yes it did it, with the bandaged ankle, and spent it badly when it had to give it with fade. But we go, that was capable of giving an iron impressive 4 in the hole 4, pair 3, and of leaving it next to flag (birdie).

“My putt was the best part of the day,” Allenby said. “I gave some good blows really, but my putt was good. Just as I left it last year.”

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Sony Open: a new opportunity for John Daly

2010-01-14T16:37:00.001-08:00

Today Sony Open begins in Hawaii. Practically the first tournament of the year in which there appear all the players who will be part of the circuit this year, since the SBS Championship only lodges the winners of a tournament the previous year.

One of the principal attractions this year will be John Daly. And you will think: "Very well, it is not going to win, neither it is for so much”. The case is that John Daly has surrendered to surgery to lose weight and has managed to lose 45 kilos in the last nine months. It received an invitation of a sponsor for Sony Open and gained access to be present at a holiday of the pro-am last Tuesday in a hotel of Honolulu, with Rich Beem.

And fix you as soon as it has changed Daly, which “did not allow me to enter” the enclosure. “If it will weigh 140 kilos and it was dragging chains, it had not had any problem. Nobody was recognizing me,” the American said.

Also, it seems that John Daly has taken seriously the beginning of period and even has released new look. The big question is if it will have changed a little his game of last years.

In any case it looks like good news, after Tour has spent six months of suspension in the PGA, Daly has a new opportunity (I do not know how many more him are going to keep on arising). This year is already 44 years and it seems that slightly more of pressure sits that when it was a rookie in 1991, when Championship gained the PGA.

“I feel a tremendous pressure above, and not on the part of my sponsors, but for mine,” Daly said. “My target is to obtain the card. If I obtain enough money, good. If I win, perfect. This way I will manage to begin 2011 with a good calendar.”

We will see if Daly is capable of being reinvented (again) and of extracting the best thing if the same in this Sony Open. It seems that it has begun with good foot.

A début in the European Circuit with 62 blows

2010-01-14T13:30:00.001-08:00

The second tournament of the year has already begun in the Europaean Tour, Joburg Open, which is played in the South African field of Royal Johannesbrug Kensignton Golf Club, in Johannesburg. The first day has ended with a local player leading the tournament: Neil Schietekat. And the young South African has done it with an impressive return, neither more nor less than 62 blows in the one that has been his the first 18 as professional in the Europaean Tour.

Schietekat normally plays in South African Sunshine Tour and it has not managed to win in this circuit yet. Nevertheless, it seems that to play at home before his people has come to him very well: nine birdies and not only one bogey in his return to turn into the lowest return of the tournament up to the date.

Sufficient to lead the tournament for a blow on the winner of African Open Charl Scwartzel, who is in an incredible form, as well as Darren Clarke, Jbe’ Kruger and the English duo formed by David Lynn and Simon Khan.

Most of these players already had a role emphasized in the first tournament of the year last week and they demonstrate that they have started the year with a lot of illusion and force, concentrates in South Africa and doing, topcoat this week, an enormous birdies quantity.

Joburg Open stakes in two fields alternatively, and it will change on Saturday and Sunday to dispute the final in East Course of Royal Johannesbrug Kensignton Golf Club.

Schietekat, number 1074 of the world, has revealed that has been employed at some important changes in his game during the last year that they are bringing good turned out lately.

“In the game it has very much I weigh the putt, and I changed my grip just before Alfred Dunhill Championship and it is beginning working very well,” he said.

“When I went out to play today, I thought that we were in the easiest field, West Course, and he knew that a return near to five or six blows down the pair would be good, and I joust then I began doing a heap of putts. I stuck to the quite solid ball and stamped on enough good.”

Clarke managed to do five birdies in the first return (31 blows) and ended with three more for the second nine.

To last time that did such a low number it went when it equalled the record of 60 blows in the Europaean Open of 1999, closer to his country, in Dublin.

“I left it close often, and the only one putt that really emboqué was in the hole 17 from approximately 6 meters,” Clark said on his return.

Schwartzel did nothing more and neither more nor less than seven followed birdies and eight blows were placed under the pair after 11 holes, but any opportunity to come to 59 blows went away to the fret when it made 12 a double - bogey in the hole when it did three putts in scarcely a few meters.

But the current number one of the Career to Dubai, 51 of the world ranking, did two blows in the pairs 3 of the holes 13 and 16, ending with eight under.

More Information | Europaean Tour

The blows of the week in the PGA Tour: SBS Championship

2010-01-13T13:10:00.001-08:00

The first tournament of the year and one day before the second one begins, Sony Open in Hawaii, the PGA Tour brings to us the five best blows that we could have seen in the SBS Championship.

Curiously this compilation does not bring any blow of the players who fought for the victory and none of them was in last days of the tournament either. They all gave themselves in the first one and in the second days. Well it is true to be that the leaders won neither by means of spectacle nor semi-impossible blows but it was more a consistency question. Now then, a few whacks have happened this week.

- John Rollins: in the number five we have an incredible putt. On the second day of tournament, in the hole 15, John Rollins puts the longest putt to which it was not enough to have several falls but, as you can see, it has the final trajectory to the hole costs below. It looks like a lie as, after turning, the ball ends up by entering the center of the hole.

- Ryan Moore: also on the second day of tournament, in the exit of the pair 3 of the hole 2, Moore dumps his perfect ball to the beginning of the green and the ball is falling down gently with the outline of the green and approaching very much the hole. I joust up to the rim.

- Ángel Cabrera: on the first day of tournament, in the hole 11, Angel has an uncomfortable stance, with the feet and the shoulders at different level. That did not prevent him from supporting the balance and making to roll perfectly the ball up to the fund of the hole.

- Stewart Cink: silver medal for the third shot that Cink gave in the pair 5 of the hole 9. Book move in the pair 5, demonstrating that not only it is possible to do eagle pulling two to green. Blessed backspin.

- Jerry Kelly: not how did Jerry kelly order his ball so close to the step in his second blow in the hole 4, pair 5, how it happened to him to do a balloon from there but the move worked out for him perfect not also. A blow marks Phil Mickelson and a beautiful eagle.

Linkage | Original Video in YouTube

In Out of Limits | Blows of the week

The phrases of the week: SBS Championship

2010-01-12T17:56:00.001-08:00

New period and the first compilation of phrases of the best thing that has left the week to us. In spite of there talks each other of the first tournament of this year and of the exciting thing that there was the end of the SBS Championship, the Ogilvy victory has not allowed to be evident as for declarations refers. Once again Tiger has been the protagonist and the one that has left opinions more impactantes. And the true thing is that he would say that it is almost logical since it is the first time that the number one of the world has not begun the period as applicant to everything.

“Where is Tiger?” Probably it has been the question most repeated by all the means that were in Hawaii. But the phrases of this week also gather Montgomerie leading the victory of Europe in Royal Trophy, Charl Schwartzel African Open commenting on his victory in and Stewart Cink speaking of what watch in the lounge of his house.

“If Tiger is going to overcome my record, this is a good year to obtain it.” – Jack Nicklaus, speaking about the target of Tiger Woods to obtain 19 big ones and about that this year three of four tournaments stake in the favorite fields of Woods – Augusta National, Pebble Beach and Saint Andrews.

“When is it going to turn Tiger? And where demons is it?” – Pat Perez, speaking about Woods and asking about two big doubts of this period.

“There the same, across these trees.” – A caddie, in the inaugural day of the SBS Championship in Hawaii, joking on where Tiger might be.

“All the merits for my team for fighting as they have done it.” – Colin Montgomerie, after leading the European team in Royal Trophy in Thailand and winning to Asia for 8.5 – 7.5

“Only he needed little luck.” – Carl Scwartzel, South African, after obtaining his fourth victory in the European Circuit, in African Open.

“Very well, it is just in the way of my house therefore I cannot avoid it … Is beautiful.” – Stewart Cink, speaking of well that there stays the silver pitcher that credits him like winner of Open Británico of last year.

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In Out of Limits | Phrases of the week

Titleist VS Callaway and Taylor Made: two positions much differentiated opposite to the new stretch marks of 2010

2010-01-12T11:48:00.001-08:00

The period has already begun 2010 in the two most important circuits, implying the above mentioned beginning the change to the new stretch marks as the rules of the USGA and R&A.

As we mention in his moment that the new stretch marks should affect especially to the shots with the wedges that are not carried out from the street but about what we have not spoken it is of the exposition so different that ball manufacturers like Callaway, Taylor Made or Titliest have had opposite to the decrease of spin of the new stretch marks.

Titleist comments that

he has no sense to change the characteristics of spin of the balls, affecting to all the blows, to compensate a change of rules in the stretch marks that only they end up by affecting to a pair suddenly for round

For his part, Taylor Made already threw last year the Penta, a ball of 5 layers, having been designed to increase the spin about green without affecting at the distance of the long blows. Being exactly the same target with which Callaway has designed his new Tour i (s), a ball of four pieces, which presents what Callaway has named “Dual Core Technology”

Dual Core Technology allows a different behavior if the blow takes place with a driver or with a wedge, since the biggest force that the driver prints will provoke that the internal, softer nucleus, is compressed, the ball being compressed this way, preventing so the spin increases too much. If the blow happens with a wedge, to the minor being the force, the exterior, harder nucleus, it allows the ball to support his form, what a major generation of spin allows, when the face of the stick crashes with the covering of the ball.

We cannot deny that Titleist with his Pro V1 is the leaders of the market and is the balls most played by the professionals, while Callaway and Taylor Made fight every year to clean out the ProV1 of the first position, being more needed from the innovation to scratch players who use his balls. But everything previous, it does not mean that I was not surprised the Titleist immobilism with regard to the new stretch marks and the design of his balls, because so much the target chased by Callaway and Taylor Made in the design of his new balls seems to me much according to the needs that they raise the new stretch marks. More spin in short blows, without this affecting me to the long blows.

I have to admit that I still have proved neither Taylor Made Penta nor the Callaway Tour i (s) but these positions so diferencidas between these companies it does that I wonder the following thing: Is it the ProV1 so superior to the rest of balls that do not need changes for the new stretch marks? Are they wrong Taylor Made y Callaway to look for a ball with different behaviors in short and long blows?

Official place | Titleist, Callaway, Taylor Made

Image | Callaway Golf

Geoff Ogilvy gains the SBS Championship another year more

2010-01-11T02:25:00.001-08:00

The Australian Geoff Ogilvy happened of being to two blows of the head and ten holes for Championship to play at gaining the SBS, thanks to intelligent decisions and a very fluid golf. Six blows under the pair, 67 in whole and a blow of advantage opposite to Rory Sabbatini, which was an unexpected guest yesterday.

So one year, after winning here for neither more nor less than six blows, Ogilvy obtained yesterday his eighth consecutive round in the ten 60 blows in Plantation Course. It joined another Australian, Stuart Appleby, like winning only ones repeated in Kapalua from 1999 and also he was the seventh player in 58 years in winning in the consecutive years.

“We all knew what we had to do,” Ogilvy said, that between other things, already FedEx Cup leads. “I have never been in this situation. I am happy and thrilled of doing it. He needed to do birdies and I did them.”

Even after puncturing in half of the return, Ogilvy still had opposite many holes and his game demonstrated that he could be patient, and greatly.

4 of the hole played shortly the pair 14, approximately 250 meters to green where almost all the players give the driver, and it left the wedge to one meter of the flag for birdie. Later in 15 there gave a wood 5 that ended to 7 meters of the hole and it was allowing him to do birdie with two putts.

Sabbatini, which began the final round six blows behind, obtained five birdies continued in the second nine holes almost to reach the leadership and to close his return with 63 blows. The green of the longest pair could not reach 5 of the hole 18 and it trumped a putt of approximately 4 meters for birdie, which in the end a possible playoff ended up by costing him.

“I said to my caddie, ‘We need to do birdie to two last ones to have an opportunity,’” Sabbatini said. “The situation was that you had to continue forward to put pressure in the leaders. I had my opportunity, and unfortunately, did not make use of it.”

Ogilvy gave two drawing-pens in 17 and the pair was extracted and in 18 it had some problems on having failed for the left and to be finished with the pair. It ended with 22 under the pair: 270 blows and Tour is placed in the Top10 of Ranking Mundial with his seventh victory in the PGA.

It was his first victory from World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play, last February. The challenge now for Ogilvy is to support this form state during the whole year, and to learn of past errors like trying it too much and practising more habitual thing.

The next week will take it of rest before playing in Abu Dhabi, to return then to house to Arizona where his wife is waiting for his third son.

The champion of the U.S. Open Lucas Glover ended with his options very quickly, when it went away to a hazard in two consecutive holes and lost three blows. It closed his return with 76 and it was fourteenth in the tournament in a whole of 28 men. Yesterday the American threw for the hut three very good working days and the final score was that, mediocre.

Matt Kuchar did a good tournament and ended third alone, although 67 yesterday blows could have been better if he goes so far as to make use of some of his opportunities in the second nine holes.

Curious the phrase that there left to us Rory Sabbatini, which already lost the opportunity to force a playoff in the hole 18 in 2002 when it trumped a putt of scarcely 2 meters: "I swear that one year of these I will put a putt in 18.”

In conclusion, the first tournament of the period ended and as it has happening in the last years it turned into non-American territory, with many international players into the dispute. We will see if Ogilvy, Sabbatini and company are capable of bearing the level that they demonstrated yesterday and do not end up by being diluted to half of period.

More Information | PGA Tour

Photo | Kapalua News

Charl Schwartzel gains the first tournament of the year, the African Open

2010-01-10T11:29:00.001-08:00

Yesterday I wrote to you that one of the favorites to gain this week was Charl Schwartzel. Well, it seems that all the prognoses have been fulfilled and African Open has taken it one of the favorites. 67 blows have been sufficiently good to take him to the victory in East London.

The South African, which was occupying the highest position in Ranking Mundial this week, ended with 272 blows (20 blows under the pair) and set on itself on Thomas Aiken, who ended yesterday like leader of the tournament, for only one blow.

Aiken was not today at a height of the appointment although it was playing in the last party with his ex-caddie, Trevor Fisher Junior, and it could only end with 70 impacts. Possibly his decisive moment in the return came in the hole 5, pair 4, where it did a dobe-bogey and sank a little in the classification.

Another South African, Jbe’ Kruger ended third with 18 blows under the pair while Fisher Jr did 72 blows and finished in the fourth square, joined with Chris Swanepoel and two foreign players who better played in South Africa: the Englishman James Morrison and the Australian Rick Kulacz.

It is not the first championship with which there becomes Schwartzel, which Alfred Dunhill Championship had already gained in 2005, the Open of Spain in 2007 and Madrid Master's degree of 2008 (one gives him well our country, go). The 25-year-old player had to hope that they should finish two parties that were staying in the field to ratify his victory, although it had been simpler if it does not go so far as to trump in the hole 18.

A slice pronounced enough in the exit took him close to the tee of the hole 9 and it was difficult to come to the green in four blows. Nevertheless, it supported his nerves to the margin and managed to do 5, one bogey that was still giving his options to Aiken. Nevertheless, it was not to the height and trumped a putt of approximately four meters to force the playoff.

Schwartzel said: "Obviously today I played brilliantly during the whole day, practically I did not trump a shot up to 18, but I managed to solve it.”

“This was not for what he was looking and I put myself something of pressure above to do five in the last putt. I said to my caddie Wynand after giving my second short blow and to the right: ' we are still two ahead, we are going to do five and to force them to which they do birdie’. The move went out for me well.”

More Information | Europaean Tour

Lucas Glover is still a leader, but it can gain anyone.

2010-01-10T05:07:00.001-08:00

Even with three blows of advantage in Kapalua and a return for playing, Lucas Glover imagines that it will be hard to obtain the victory. Since yes, one more day, Glover supports his advantage and he is only one day ahead of turning into champion of the SBS Championship, and also to do it to the big thing: leading it from beginning to end.

And it will be hard, there is no doubt. There are very good players in the field. Yesterday the same, Glover happened of having three blows of advantage to a deficit of two blows with regard to the first one and his luck changed so rapidly as her it was yesterday windy in Kapalua, which finally did presence act. Three birdies in the last five holes helped him to save his return with two blows under the pair (71 blows) and a difference blow on Geoff Ogilvy. A last round with many alternatives and possibilities.

“Everybody wants to have his opportunity on Sunday, and I hate that,” Glover said.

Glover says that due to his end, when the wind changed and did that the hole 18, pair 5, and it did that his exit drive was reaching more enough than 300 meters. It reached the green easily and two putts: a birdie and the leadership for another day.

“He knew that it was going to put itself hard,” Glover said. “Some players were going to play very well and others not. It spent the above mentioned to me.”

Glover is a leader with 17 under the pair (202 blows in whole) and it will play in the last party with the defending champion.

Ogilvy managed to end with five blows under the pair: 68. His seventh consecutive return in Kapalua in the ten 60. His only error was in the hole 16, when he realized – late - that the wind had changed direction and was committing bogey.

But this is not finished here. Martin Laird did yesterday 69 and one finds two of the head. Ryan Moore did 68 and a blow is behind Laird. And three champions meet 206 blows of Big: Retief Goosen, Stewart Cink and Ángel Cabrera. To add all these names to the wind that can go so far as to blow and to change in Kapalua and you will have a final score of the most uncertain thing.

To sum it up more clearly, what Ogilvy said on having finished yesterday: "East is a field where 10 players can still win.”

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Thomas Aiken and his ex-caddie share leadership in African Open

2010-01-09T15:38:00.001-08:00

Thomas Aiken and Trevor Fisher Junior are in the pole position to dispute the first tournament of the European Circuit of the year: African Open, and that stakes in East London GC, in Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Two players, both South Africans, delivered cards of 69 (Aiken) and 71 blows (Fisher). It is curious to see that the first tournament of the European Circuit is played in Africa and the first classified five are South African. Nevertheless, this does not stop being an anecdote since the golf level is the highest, and everything is prepared so that tomorrow it is possible to enjoy a big end.

I joust behind Aiken and Fisher is Charl Schwartzel and Jake Ross, favorites for the victory this week. Both obtained the best return of the day: 66 blows, and they are to only one blow of the leaders. We will see what sound capable of doing tomorrow.

The best classified European is thousands Tunicliff. To his returns of 68 and 71 blows the first two days a big one 67 added. Darren Clarke for his part, was not lucky. It was taking a big day until there came to the hole 18, where it trumped the street for the left and needed two chips to extract it to the street. Two putts and a triple bogey that was making him happen of two took 5 blows under the pair to a discreet one less.

The leaders, nevertheless, ended more than contentments, especially Aiken, which finished his return with three birdies in the last four holes. “I have not gained a tournament of the circuit yet and it would be something incredible that to take from here. It is something that took a lot of time trying to do.”

And the fact is that Aiken has an emotions miscellany in this African Open since his friend and rival Trevor Fisher Junior was his caddie the same last year. On this, he added: "I meet Trevor since we were 12 years old and we are very good friends. Not only that, but it did of caddie for me last year in the CA Championships in Miami, a very important event for me.”

“Tomorrow it is going to be one very exciting day. To go out to play with him and with luck to spend good good and one to relax to other.”

For his part, Trevor Fisher Jr added: "I had a stomach virus añoche and could not sleep well. Also I had something of fever before going out to play therefore I lay down in the car a little bit before going out. Perhaps it was quite good for me because I went out to play and I was very relaxed, and I hope to do tomorrow the same playing with Thomas.”

More Information | Europaean Tour

They cannot with Lucas Glover

2010-01-09T01:28:00.001-08:00

Surprisingly in Kapalua, the wind does not blow in these dates. The Pacific Ocean is giving him a breather to the SBS and that always translates Championship for itself in the shape of birdies. Lucas Glover knows it also and the most minimal thing could not relax. If he wants to win, he knows what it has to do: more birdies.

As yesterday, it had a good gust to half of his round that led him to doing 8 blows under the pair (65 blows), and it gives him the result the most under which it has happened in Kapalua in five years and an advantage of three blows to the beginning of the weekend.

But even with 15 blows under the pair in two days, Glover cannot relax the most minimal thing.

John Rollins did 66 blows and it is the second, followed by the defending champion Geoff Ogilvy (66 blows yesterday), Sean O'Hair (67), Matt Kuchar (68) and Martin Laid (68) who are to four of the leader, with 11 blows under the pair.

“I am quite aggressive anyway, therefore I am going to choose where to attack,” Glover said. “I am going to have to do some birdies. These boys are the best players of the world, and they are going to try to overcome me.”

With a few so good climatological conditions and with the most inoffensive Plantation Course of Kapalua of last years, 11 players gone so far as to be joined in the leadership in a point of the tournament (imagine that birdies festival). But that changed his Glover quickly.

There were extracted of the sleeve three followed birdies, all with putts near to two meters and a half, extracted a pair that he should to him have known like a birdie, since it had to extract his ball of the bunker with the feet out of the same one, leaving the ball to approximately four meters of the hole and embocándola later.

Very solid, playing calmly and supporting his return under control. O'Hair could see the table in the hole 13 and see Glover with 11 blows under the pair, when it looked again in the hole 17, Glover it was already with 14 under the pair. “There are many players who can gain this tournament and some of them are playing very well,” O'Hair said.

But as I have already commented to you, all this is thanks to the excellent climate that one is living in Hawaii these days. “We were speaking about this in the breakfast,” Glover said. “Nobody who has been in Hawaii in these dates has seen this calmness. It is very good for us. We can be more aggressive, the sticks election is much simpler …”

We will see if Glover is capable of bearing two days in the highest thing, with the avalanche of good players that they come behind and with a weather report very similar to these two days of tournament, although with something more about wind.

More Information | PGA Tour

Photo | The Guardian

Lucas Glover only had a bad hole in the SBS Championship

2010-01-08T01:44:00.001-08:00

The champion of the past U.S. Open, Lucas Glover, returned to Kapalua and began just as other years: fatal. The difference takes root in the end back that it had yesterday.

Glover recovered of a double bogey in his first hole to manage to do nine blows under the pair in a stretch of nine holes in half of his round. It ended with-7 (66 blows) and the leadership for a blow of advantage in the first day of the SBS Championship.

The last time that qualified for this tournament (in which there take part the winners of last year), Glover began the year with four bogeys continued. This time, an iron gave very weak 4 that disappeared in a few shrubs and led it to committing a double bogey.

“It was pointing at approximately 8 meters to the left of the hole and I her gave 8 meters to the right of the same one,” he said. “I had what it was deserving.”

Nevertheless it recovered to the big thing.

Glover, which only did two eagles in 26 tournaments last year, did two yesterday in a stretch of five holes of Plantation Course of Kapalua and that changed his luck very rapidly. Then it made four birdies continued to open the second nine holes and managed to do with the leadership with a chip at the edge of the green of the hole 18 to him. Not for you but these returns are those that really I like seeing. To see a situation in which you say: "These boys are human” and then to see as they excel themselves themselves and extract an incredible return moves forward.

The Australian Nathan Green and the Scot Martin Laird, two of seven players who were making debut in the tournament, joined Dustin Johnson and Nick Watney in 67 blows. The champion of the past British Open Stewart Cink and the champion of the Master's degrees Ángel Cabrera remained in 68 blows. You see already, almost all the winners of big last year arrives in the table.

The defending champion, Geoff Ogilvy, remained in 69.

The wind is always an important factor in Kapalua and only there were two players over the pair: Mark Wilson (74 blows) and Heath Slocum (75 blows).

But turning the leader. He said himself last year, when he gained the U.S. Open, that the key had been non-being very hard with itself. In this first tournament of the year it turned out to be very rapid if it was following the same strategy and this first double bogey seemed not to affect his most minimal thing.

“He knew that there were many birdies,” he said. “It had seen some results early and knew that there were players doing birdies, and I played well, could obtain something good. So you do not hurry, patient.”

And the birdies and the eagles came rapidly.

The players mentioned that it had been a beginning of period of the most normal, enclosed thing although Tiger Woods was in the air (although it does not present) in Kapalua. All the players know that when the golf returns to the competition he will monopolize all the foci, but that does not seem to affect them, they fight each one for his and prove to be optimists for the new year.

More Information | PGA Tour

SBS Championship: that begins the spectacle.

2010-01-07T13:22:00.001-08:00

Today the period begins (finally) 2010 of the PGA Tour, and it does not begin with any insipid tournament but with the SBS Championship and with all the players who gained a big one last year prepared to begin the period of a best possible way: winning. In Plantation Course of Kapalua everything is prepared.

Leading the way of the beginning of the tour there is Geoff Ogilvy, champion last year for six difference blows. The Australian is one of six not American players who has gained in the last eight SBS Championships. This week, Ogilvy will be one of nine international players (of 28 players in whole) that hope to give the first blow on the table. A group that also includes the champion of the Master's degrees, Ángel Cabrera, and the champion of the PGA Championship Y.E. Yang.

One year ago, Ogilvy was capable of setting on itself on Anthony Kim and on Davis Love III in his way to one of his two victories in 2009. Remember that also it gained the World Golf Championships - Accenture Match Play. And the fact is that to gain the SBS Championship has been throughout the years a very good sign of the period that the winner will do. Of the last 18 winners of the tournament, only Daniel Chopra in 2008 remained without beginning to play the The Tour Championship, the last event of FedEx Cup.

And the fact is that to begin the year with good foot is fundamental to enter with confidence in the new period and makes us see the fans who has done the duties and who not during the Christmas shutdown (here it is when head Tiger Woods comes to my mind: will he have trained anything?) and the ambition with which there is begun a period that comes to us with many questions. Who will join again the club of the last winners of the circuit? Will they be different capable of being supported in the highest thing? Who will gain the FedEx Cup now when the number one is out? And the Ryder? (Yes!, this year tenemo Ryder Cup).

In any case, this starts already. That opens the curtain to himself and that begins the spectacle.

More Information | PGA Tour

Calendar Out of Limits: January, 2010

2010-01-06T18:25:00.001-08:00

A new year begins golfístico loaded with tournaments and two days before the two first ones in the PGA begin Tour and the Europaean Tour, in Out of Limits we want to offer you an easy and simple form so that you could know about everything what this period happens. For it, we have prepared four calendars for you with the most important circuits: the PGA Tour, the Europaean Tour, the LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour. You can subscribe to the calendars across Google Calendar or even synchronize them in your mobile phone.

In this January, we have four tournaments of the PGA Tour: the SBS Championship, Sony Open in Hawaii, Bob Hope Classic and Century Club of San Diego Invitational. In the Europaean Tour there stake the Africa Open, Joburg Open, Abu Dhabi Golf Classic and the Commercialbank Qatar Master's degrees presented by Dolphin Energy. So that the feminine circuits should begin we will have to wait until the next month.

Come it goes... The Yahoo we sign up to! Fantasy Golf

2010-01-06T12:21:00.001-08:00

This year I was leaving it, was leaving it, was leaving it and … in the end almost it passes to me to sign up to the Yahoo! Fantasy Golf and to create the group of Out of Limits, so that the community of readership of the page we stick every week to be seen the one who knows more. Less evil that several persons you have reminded it to us.

The procedure to enter is the everlasting one: With your Yahoo account! you discharge yourself in the Yahoo! Fantasy Golf, you create your team and can join the groups that you want. To join ours, you need the following information:

Group ID: #8667
Password: golfgolf

For the time being little more it is necessary to count on the Fantasy. This week starts, so it is necessary to hurry up and not to leave it if it wants to be begun loudly. Ah, yes, a thing: Does anybody know any form (application, web address...) to manage it from the mobile? That would facilitate very much to continue it.

PD: Thanks to all that you have warned us these days so that we do the group ;-)

In Out of Limits | Yahoo! Fantasy Golf

Swing At'Em Golf: he analyzes your swing from your mobile phone

2010-01-05T02:38:00.001-08:00

Mountainous Pol, member of the American PGA from 1994, announced to me a few days ago the throwing of a mobile application to analyze the swing: "Swing At'em”. It is a question of the first application that the swing analyzes from a mobile phone and puts into practice an idea that Pol was taking chewing from last summer: you can analyze your swing in any moment and with something that fits in your pocket.

The application leaves destined for “teachers and serious golfers” and stands out in that we could have in our swing newly recorded in our e-mail, with lines on the same screen that draw our swing plane and even with written or spoken comments. The use of the new technologies applied to the education of the golf.

“Imagine in one of these days that you do not raise the ball of the soil, sending a mail to your teacher and asking him for a solution for the last three holes.” This is what Pol Montano said to me this summer and it seems that it has managed to take it to the practice after getting in touch with other professionals like Jim Hardy, Stan Utley, Rick Sellers or Chris O'Connell.

This is what Jim Hardy has said about the application: "I use Swing At'Em Golf with all my students. It is a big tool that your swing allows you to analyze in any moment. Pudes to record the video from your iPhone, to use the swing analyzer and to draw lines, circles to see your swing still to still, to slow camera or to normal speed. Then I send it for email to my pupils. It is instantaneous and with a tool: your phone.”

I have had the opportunity to prove this application in an iPhone 3GS and can say to you that it works surprisingly well. My video lasted approximately 3 minutes and I was capable of sending it for email almost to the moment therefore the size of the files is not a problem. It looks like to me a big application bearing in mind that the market of the analyzers of swing is still in a deadlock and I have been only capable of finding a pair of them that are worth it at an exhorbitant price.

Swing At'Em is free for the time being only for the iPhone 3GS (the only one that incorporates video) but I have asked Pol and has said to me that it is already working for an application for Android and Blackberry, and that also an office client will exist for Mac (in which it is very complicated to find a swing analyzer) and Windows.

It takes the Rules and Decisions of golf in your mobile phone

2010-01-04T17:14:00.001-08:00

A few days ago he was mentioning to you that the Rules and Decisions of golf are published in format PDF in the web of the RFEG. Today I have seen that in App Store of Apple they sell for something more about 3 dollars an application of Rules and Decisions of golf for the Iphone and Ipod Touch. With her you will be able to navigate and look for solutions to the problems that contain both books, but in electronic format.

They say that it is the first step and that soon the application will be free for other platforms, like Blackberry or Android. You even can leave your email direction to them so that they warn you when they are available. At the moment, since I could have seen the only available language it is English, although I would not be surprised that soon we see it in Castilian.

Now when we know that this tool exists, the moment of the discussion comes from if it is suitable or not to walk with the mobile on the field. In my opinion, the good thing is that it is not of more having this type of applications. To we allow to have the updated regulation, to hand and with functions of search that will facilitate the life to us in case of doubt. It seems much easier to take a mobile in the bag to me that 2 books (Rules and Decisions) and, also, on having gone in electronic format, we will prevent a few trees from being felled.

The bad side I see it in the difficulty of using a phone with agility, not the whole world has the same dexterity, and in rainy days: After there sees the one who is the one that extracts his flaming phone so that he is wetted! The typical problem also is that of the battery, insurance that one exhausts in the hole 9 to you the day that you have a doubt of the fat women in the hole 12. It is already known, the Law of Murphy. In any case, I believe that the pros are much more powerful than the contras and that he is worth paying a few dollars and taking something like that above. It looks what good is going to come to us to discuss in the hole 19.

Certainly, if someone is interested in golf applications for the Iphone, which spends to itself for this Galaxy thread Golf, where they speak about someone that have tried.

In Out of Limits | New Book of Decisions on the Rules of Golf 2010-2011
Route | AppShopper

Out of Limits in Facebook and Twitter

2010-01-03T17:04:00.001-08:00

In addition to in our habitual direction of Internet, Out of Limits it is present in the most popular social networks at present, Facebook and Twitter. I do not know if all those that you usually read us it are known by you, but if not, it serves this reminder entry and to cheer you up to which you do fans of ours, your, page in Facebook or that make to yourselves our followers in Twitter.

To what are you waiting? Do not get lost not only one brought in ours: Add to us in your favorite social network!

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Out of Limits a Happy New Year wishes you all

2009-12-31T10:31:00.001-08:00

It has to close 2009, one year more that it happens in the calendar and new other that begins, 2010. Time to goals and good intentions be marked, the desire of improving things of our lives is never missing.

In Out of Limits embocamos already the last putt of 2009, but we are thinking of puncturing the ball in the first tee of 2010, year in which we will keep on telling you our vision of the golf. There will be more new fields for our Guide of Golf courses, we will mention on the tournaments that we should see, will speak from what it happens to the big players and will keep on spoiling the material without any piety.

On behalf of the whole team of Out of Limits we want to make use of this moment of the year to be grateful to you that you keep on reading to us every day and to wish you the best thing for the year that it brings in.

Happy new year!

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The acts of the personal life of Tiger Woods do not cost 12.000 millions to his sponsors

2009-12-30T16:55:00.001-08:00

In my opinion, to affirm that the acts of the personal life Tiger Woods him cost 12.000 millions to the sponsors, as they count today many means, it is one of the biggest bullshit that have been published in the last times. A few teachers of the University of UC DAvis (use) have published a study (PDF, in English) of that numerous means have done echo to themselves, affirming things like:

In accordance with the investigators of the University of California-Davis, the actions of companies like Gillette, AT&T and Nike lost 12.000 million dollars during 13 working days that happened to the beginning of the scandal at the end of November, after the strange Woods car accident opposite to his residence that uncovered a series of sexual scandals of the sportsman.

(The World)

Not of joke. Ni-de-co-ña …

Of entry, it turns out to be difficult to believe the holder of The World “The Woods infidelities cost 12.000 millions to the sponsors”. Million but: Of what? Of dollars, although we are in Europe, where one speaks in euros. But skylight, to say 8.362 million euros reduces hook. Do not leave that the reality spoils good news to you.

If you read the study, you will be able to verify the system continued by the authors, who compared the evolution of the actions in these days, they compared them with those of the competition and with information of past periods. It costs: And …? Is not it possible that any other cause different from those of the scandal Tiger has been the causer of the fall of the value of the shares that they say themselves that it took place? On a market as turbulent as the current one, in a situation of world crisis, it gives to me that yes.

Really: Has anybody stopped drinking Gatorade, buying products of the marks Gillete or Nike or has been dismissed of AT&T by the facts of the life deprived of Tiger Woods? In USA it is possible that he tipples, but here not. Another story more that they want to strain us, in that they have fallen down a few more and that it demonstrates that in these cases the biggest fault of everything is of the means that without conscience they devote themselves to set to give birth to sportsmen, without importing for them another thing that has to do with the sport, in this case, of the golf. Is this the quality journalism that they want to sell to us of payment?

In Out of Limits | The World: Spectacular growth of the golf in Spain in the last year and a half?
Image | AMagill

Published a new version of the Green Book of the RFEG

2009-12-30T10:45:00.000-08:00

There has been published a new version of the Green Book of the RFEG, document that gathers the relative regulations with the competitions of this sport: Information about concepts and definitions, tests and competitions, system of hándicap, regulation and a practical guide for the organization of competitions, are the principal chapters of this Green Book of the RFEG.

If you have thought to come to some official tournament of the RFEG or if you are employed at a golf club, this document is of forced consultation and reading, at least in the part that it corresponds to you. You can unload it in format PDF from the official web of the RFEG and this way you consult it when you want.

In Out of Limits | New Book of Decisions on the Rules of Golf 2010-2011

New Book of Decisions on the Rules of Golf 2010-2011

2009-12-30T04:31:00.001-08:00

The RFEG has published in his web the new Book of Decisions on the Rules of Golf for the period 2010-2011, edited by the Technical Committee of Rules and in accordance with the version approved for R&A Bums Limited and United States Golf Association. Since you already know many, this document is of big importance for the golfers, since it contains the solution to numerous situations that happen for the field explained and commented.

The Book of Decisions on the Rules of Golf unifies the criteria of interpretation of the Rules of the Golf. When you read it, you always finish surprised by some situation that it has happened to you and you have not been able to resolve correctly. It is a complement necessary for the Regulation of the Golf and very usefully to go in the bag. Now, how is life in electronic format, you can take it even in the mobile: To what waiting to unload it? (PDF).

In Out of Limits | The new Rules of Golf, in force from January 1, 2008

From today I will fight for my biggest sleep: I am going to play in the Europaean Tour (PRACTICAL JOKE 28-D)

2009-12-29T22:17:00.001-08:00

I do not know if you remember when there appeared in the scene golfística Phil Bundy, this player already brought in in years who wanted to bring in in the PGA Tour and who decided to bet for himself on everything or nothing. At the moment there have not been big innovations in his career towards the American circuit, but it keeps on giving that to speak.

It looked like to me a very brave bet and the thing is that it seemed to me that I might do the same. I take more than 20 years playing the golf and, although now he trains little, I am sure entirely that, if I propose it, it might go so far as to play in the Europaean Tour. Yes, this is a moment “Yes, we dog”, but do not believe that I am writing this entry under the effects of the Christmas champagne or that it has given me a sugar subidón. I am speaking about a reality: After speaking with a few sponsors I have found some very interested in supporting my challenge, have asked for the leave in the work and I am going to turn into European Phil Bundy, although I wait that with something more about success.

To tell truth, I have to thank all of you because you are one of the principal reasons that has led me to taking this decision. It was taking time him turning and, now when I have obtained the necessary financing to put into practice my sleep, I am not going to allow to escape the opportunity. I go already training hard a few months, that's why you see something to me less somewhere here and my idea is to begin this year in the National Circuit, to attack at the end of 2010 the always exciting Tour School.

I am going to suffer, know it, it is not going to be easy at all, but I do not lack desire. I will be already telling you how it me goes and you should not believe that I am going to stop Out of Limits, on the contrary, I will count my experiences here so that we them should comment on all. Thank you also to my partners of blog, Ovidio, Enrique and Gonzalo, for the support that they have offered to me lately and for giving me the final empujoncito to try to fulfill my sleep.

Image | Pablo Herrero

UPDATE: It was a practical joke of December 28.

Tiger Woods will not return to the competition up to the JJOO of 2016 (PRACTICAL JOKE 28-D)

2009-12-29T16:04:00.001-08:00

I am still that I do not believe it completely. According to a bulletin expressed by the new representative of the player only a few hours ago, Tiger Woods is still completely depressed. After speaking with his confidence people, he has decided to keep on trying to recover his family and disappear during a long period of time, to meet again the way of the happiness along with his dear beings.

The surprising of the announcement is that Tiger Woods has given himself the longest term, nothing more and neither more nor less than up to the JJOO of 2016, where the golf will be present. It is the only competition that he lacks to the Tiger for winning, hence he is not in the hurry to return to the fields and wants to center on his family. Sincerely, it is understandable, although I believe that it is going to be very difficult that his wife could forget everything events.

In Out of Limits | The golf will be an Olympian sport but …
Linkage | original Video in YouTube

UPDATE: It was a practical joke of December 28.

There comes the charge of the quota of the license of the RFEG

2009-12-29T04:33:00.001-08:00

Like every year, in these dates there begin to come the charges of the quota of the license of the RFEG to our bank accounts. If throughout the year we have changed account, it is necessary to notify it to the RFEG, so that they could to load the amount to us in the one that corresponds. If to the RFEG they return him your receipt, according to his procedure, in a few months you will remain without license, with all the consequences that this has.

Last year, after consulting it with the RFEG, they told us the procedure that they continue before returned receipts: If you do not pay the receipt for the motive that is, the RFEG offer a moratorium of 5 months before dismissing him in a definitive way. In this period the RFEG it puts itself in communication with these persons to warn them about the incidence and about the consequence (the fall). Until the fall does not become effective, somewhere near May, in case the corresponding amount is not paid and after two communications with the person who has not realized the payment, the insurance that includes the license keeps on supporting his validity with all his conditions.

On the amounts, to pay, depending on your territorial federation, the license can have a different cost. It is still without updating the official table of prices of the web of the RFEG, but we already publish here an advance some months ago. Since you know already, this year yes touches price increase, after a period remains suspended.

Linkage | Real Spanish Federation of Golf
In Out of Limits | The RFEG raises the quotas of the licenses of golf for the next year

Precaution! Tiger Woods, hook to steal information from Internet users

2009-12-28T22:30:00.001-08:00

The whole action that has been mounted by Tiger Woods has provoked of that the spammers are making use to send messages with false news on matters of the player, with the target that the e-mail users sting and remain caught in his networks. To the parrot, any message can be malignant and it is not necessary to give credit not even on those who feign to be good for having a well-known sender.

Between the targets of these damned poor wretches of the network, they are the theft of information of access to services in Internet (email, electronic banking, services of instantaneous courier service...) and operations with credit cards, so it is convenient not to lower the custody and to be a little more cautious these days. In my opinió, before the doubt, it erases the mail and goes on to another thing, unless you prefer to risk and that they put a stick to you in your checking account or card.

Route | SPAMfighter
In Out of Limits | Tiger Woods: accident, infidelity and image
Image | Keith Allison

Day of the innocent persons in Out of Limits: Thanks to all for your good humor

2009-12-28T16:26:00.001-08:00

Since it has being traditional, in Out of Limits we have been slightly loutish and publish several prank earnings in this December 28, Saint Innocents' Day. For those that you should read us from the outside of Spain, I remind to you that in this date it is traditional in our country to spend pranks to the people who surrounds you. It is the equivalent to the Anglo-Saxon fools day that is celebrated in April.

This year a pair of practical jokes has fallen down, in the first one he was saying to you that the Europaean Tour was going to play me and in the second one it was repeating that of last year on the Tiger return, but changing JJOO edition. The thing had his crumb because many you do not meet me and to someone the Europaean Tour has strained his that thing about, that thing about Tiger was very clear that it was a lantern. Thanks to the help of Ovidio and to which you have caught some of you from the first one and without saying anything to you you have collaborated to extend the prank, the thing seems that it has worked and we have amused ourselves. Even some absent-minded friend has called me also they have telephoned Ovidio and, we have made use of our partner Enrique to annoy it a little and to do a small practical joke to him. The poor person went so far as to say that he was not going to support 2 uncles in the morning saying that they were going to play the golf, while he had to expire with his obligations and remain at home. I feel it Enrique, you know that we love you. ;-)

In fact to play in the Europaean Tour for me is a sleep, as for many of you, but … snif, snif... Who be possible play at this level! I already would like having the necessary quality to go so far as to play in the Circuit, but it is going to be that not. “Quén che dera”, who would say to me in Gallicia. Of course, if someone wants to put pasta so that I try it: I allow myself to want eh!!

Thanks to all for the big sense of humor that you have showed in the comments, sms, Twitter, Facebook, BB Messenger, Gtalk called of phone … has called Me a good mentireiro and even has remembered my mother and my dead persons when I have told the truth to some person, but with good rollito. Also for having ;-) patience with our pranks. I hope that we should not have bothered anybody and that we should have started at least a smile to you. A greeting and a strong hug to all.

PD: Taken care the next year because we will keep on innovating and being some little twerps with the practical jokes … ;-)
PD 2: Now when I think it, if you have doubted so many people: Will it be that you trust in me if I mount a movie of these really? Hmmm … I think it to Myself and I say already to you. Meanwhile, do warn me if possible sponsors appear ;-)

In Out of Limits | Practical joke 28-D

From today I will fight for my biggest sleep: I am going to play in the Europaean Tour

2009-12-28T06:58:00.001-08:00

Image | Pablo Herrero

Tiger Woods will not return to the competition up to the JJOO of 2016

2009-12-28T00:56:00.001-08:00

In Out of Limits | The golf will be an Olympian sport but …
Linkage | original Video in YouTube

Out of Limits he wishes one Happy Christmas all

2009-12-26T13:39:00.001-08:00

One more year comes the Christmas and the team of Out of Limits we want to send our best desires to all.

We hope that you should have been good and that Santa Claus should have left many golf regalitos to you, that soon you could release them and that it is evident in your hándicap.

Happy Christmas to all!

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Golf courses guide: Golf club of The Toja

2009-12-26T07:35:00.001-08:00

The Golf club of The Toja is placed in the Ría of Arosa, in the north end of the Island of The Toja, just person opposite O Grove (province of Pontevedra). Area of excellent shellfish and fish, it is not less his golf course, work of the designer Ramón Espinosa. The trip, example of coexistence between golf and nature, counts with 9 spectacular holes, of nicer that you can be in the whole Spain.

Anyone that plays in this field the perfect integration of the trip impresses with the sea, which borders on it in 6 of his 9 streets, entering game so much in blows from the tee, as in shots to green. It is easy to end up by playing some ball from the beach, whenever the tide is low. It is a field in which the climatology also plays, being able to go on easily from a paradise under the agreeable sun of the Lower Estuaries, to a hell in the worst days of wind and winter rain.

TRIP

The trip of the Golf club of The Toja is pulling to short and narrow, with wind some hole can make enough long to itself. From the quarter the sea enters game, but it is necessary to begin dry sherry from the hole 1, since in the first ones it is fundamental to go for street not to get involved. The second hole is for me the easiest, a pair that it is not possible to allow to happen and a green that it is necessary to attack to try the birdie. The third one is a pair narrow 5 that can bring serious complications if the ball does not get into exit street or if it finishes in the rough after the second blow.

When 4 goes over to the hole, one begins seeing the water close, in fact, in this hole enters game in the blow of exit and in the shot a green very well protected by trees by the left side and a quite high "piano" in the way. His 2 platforms and the inclination of the street, they have always to be provided with the marked left fall to right in the approach shots. The following hole, the fifth one, is known in abundance by many golfers for his by-name: Top Cabreira. The one who plays in this field, never forgets it.

Top Cabreira (that of the photo of front of this entry) is a hole pair 122 meters 3 that stakes from a tee in high place, with a few spectacular conference of the Ría of Arosa. Of photo. The green is protected dangerously by the sea in all his perimeter, except in the entry, and has a considerable fall, which can provoke some grief with the putt. It is a hole of which it is possible to work out pleased, with an easy pair, or with an important "car" suddenly, if the thing does not go out so well.

After Top Cabreira there comes the sixth hole, which is a marvel and which has for me the most difficult blow from the tee in this field. 4 talks each other of a pair with form of dogleg to rights, with beach for the right margin from the tee up to the green and straight ahead in the area of fall of the blow of exit. It is a hole that he reminds to 18 of Course Tour of Pebble Beach. The wood is necessary to fit very well to put the ball in street and to have a good laying to attack the green of 2.

The following 2 holes are a pair slightly complicated 5 and a pair 3, both with beach for the whole right margin. It is one of the key moments of the return, especially if our card has gone out unpolluted of 2 previous ones. It ends, as it is typical, in front of the house a club, in a hole in which there does not enter already game the sea, but that gives him emotion to any game that is a little disputed, for out of limits that exist to the right.

SERVICES

In addition to being provided with a trip of the most appetizing thing, to play in any season, on having finished the return you can choose for a meal in the agreeable patio of the club or, if you get bored with so many golf, you can cross the bridge that joins the Island of The Toja with the people of O Grove and “to give you a homage” by means of good fish and shellfish. You will take less than 5 minutes in car in coming to any of the multiple restaurants from the area. For the dessert or the night, a called place is very advisable The Nautical one, in the Beach of the Muddy one (San Vicente do Sea), the only place in his species.

The Toja has influx of tourists great in the summer epoch, for what it is better to reserve with advance the accommodation and the green fees to avoid the cartel of finished. In August it is difficult to find a hollow to play and sometimes there are restrictions for not associates. In proper Isla de La Toja there are good hotels, but there remain quite comfortable also those of O Grove, San Vicente and the area of the Beach of The Lance thrust, which also offer a few better beaches.

SITUATION

The Golf club of The Toja is placed in the Island of The Toja, just person opposite O Grove, in the province of Pontevedra (Google Maps). It is a very animated area, in which the good weather is habitual in spring and summer and to which it is possible to gain access for highway easily from any point of Gallicia. That of Alvedro (Corunna) is easy to come from any of 3 Galician airports, being one hour and a quarter in car desdel the most remote.

CONCLUSION

The Golf club of The Toja is of the first, 5 you cover with stars Fuera de Límites. We are speaking about one of the best of Gallicia and of Spain, both for his beautiful trip, and for his emplacement and the quality of the field. Do visit it if you approach to Gallicia, you will have only to bring the desire of playing the golf and enjoying the sea because of the rest they take charge already in the club. Finally, to close the entry, the gallery of photos of the field, that I recommend to see you in way “finished screen”:

Linkage | Golf club of The Toja
In Out of Limits | Guide of Golf courses
Images | Pablo Herrero | Eva L.R.

Golf courses guide: Lanzarote Golf

2009-12-26T01:29:00.001-08:00

Lanzarote Golf is located between Port of Carmen and Aunts (Google Maps) being the youngest field of the island of Lanzarote, since Lanzarote Golf counts with little more than one year of life.

Lanzarote Golf is a design of Ron Kirby, in which the conference of a still distant sea are mixed, with indigenous Lanzarorte details, as there are the walls of volcanic stone that accompany us in some of the holes of Lanzarote Golf. In his short life, Lanzarote Golf has already got over to important problems, as it has been a bad initial election of the grass of his greenes.

THE FIELD

Lanzarote Golf is a pair 72 that from the tee of yellow presents a 5.796 meters distance, what wide, flat and straight streets join, although it is true, that some escapes will have punishment, since the volcanic stones, they can go so far as to enter game, his presence rarely they provoke tense blows, favoring this that the tallest handicaps enjoy this trip.

The state of conservation of Lanzarote Golf the day that we play our return, the first day of high period, was improvable. We are with tees, where the grass was so high that we had problems for pichar the tee to give a driver, while in other tees the ground and the grass were distributing the space to equal parts.

The maintenance of the streets was correct, that not uniform, although it is true that in some streets big grass remains could be observed reaped without having being gathered along the whole street, what did not also help to improve the image of the caress that receives the field.

The part of the field that better aspect was presenting there were the greenes, where the ball was rolling in a correct way, and where only one green had not recovered yet of the problems that they had in the election of the grass of his greenes.

In most of the tees of exit of Lanzarote Golf, our only worry will be to beat him for forward, nevertheless, for two occasions, we meet two completely blind exits, in that the presence in our party of a local friend, became essential to know where we had to give the ball. It helps the one that we appealed again in numerous occasions at the time of going to the following hole, since both for the design of the field, and for the scarce signaling that we are along the trip, his indications turned out to be essential.

The field of Lanzarote Golf would be capable of being played walking due to few inclination of his trip, but for his long transitions, I would advise to play it in coshush, although they have not GPS. In the reception of the house club will be where we will have to do gathering of the water until they finish the works of the house club, but neither for the time being was available stroke savers.

SITUATION

Lanzarote Golf is placed between Port of Carmen and Aunts, but to come to him, as it happened to us when we play on Coast Teguise Golf we had to ask several times, since the signaling to come to the field, if it existed did not do his function, therefore it is convenient not to go with the just time if we were going so far as to get lost.

CONCLUSION

To be able to analyze Lanzarote Golf I bring again the same remarks that I did when we speak about Coast Teguise Golf, which Lanzarote has a population of 140.000 inhabitants and little more than 200 golfers, for what the presence of two golf courses in Lanzarote, does not stop being an authentic luxury.

My conclusion of Lanzarote Golf is that it is a young field, that it has had very important problems with his greenes of those that one has recovered very well, and where the tall handicaps will enjoy the trip, for the width of his streets and the benevolence of his design. While the players of handicaps of a number perhaps find the trip of monotonous Lanzarote Golf, preferring to play on Coast Teguise Golf, since the green fees of both fields are very similar.

The note that we grant to Lanzarote Golf is 5,5 having a wide progress capacity in his signaling, care and services that it brings to the client.

Official place | Lanzarote Golf
In Out of Limits |Guía of golf courses

The World: Spectacular growth of the golf in Spain in the last year and a half?

2009-12-18T05:41:00.001-08:00

Yesterday in the night he was reading in The World this article that it was treating about the economic impact that the indefinite retreat of Tiger Woods could have. Nevertheless, I do not bring this article to Out of Limits, for the above mentioned impact, if not for the "pearls" that the above mentioned article contains.

He had sworn that Tiger Woods put an impressive putt to go out to go out to play a historical play off of 18 holes with Roco Mediate, but not, The World comments to us that saying play off Tiger Woods disputed them against Chris DiMarco …

And it continues with his pearls:

The calculations are devastating. Criminals for a 'hobby' that has experienced a growth without precedents (in Spain 330.000 federative licenses have been reached at a frenzied speed in the last year and a half)

Here there are several pearls in the same paragraph:

hobby? It turns out to be curious, because this "hobby" will be Olympian in Rio de Janeiro 2016. Can anybody imagine that to another Olympian sport as the soccer, basketball or cycling were cataloguing it like hobby?

Spectacular growth? In the last year the number of licenses of golf in Spain grew a whole of 18.284 licenses, a growth of 6,1 %. The minor growth in the last three years. Is this a spectacular growth for a country with more than forty million persons?

Linkage | The World
Image | Walknboston

The best blows of the LPGA Tour 2009

2009-12-16T09:05:00.001-08:00

I hope that next year, when they begin realizing summaries of the LPGA Tour 2010 some of these blows should have been realized by our girls, meanwhile, I hope that you should enjoy the 10 best blows of the LPGA Tour 2009.

Official place | LPGA Tour
Original video | Youtube

Pablo Martín gains Alfred Dunhill Championship

2009-12-14T10:28:00.001-08:00

Two years, after turning into the first amateur that 23-year-old Pablo Martín gained in the European Circuit (Open of Portugal, year 2007), it has already gained his first tournament like professional: Alfred Dunhill Championship, in Leopard Creek (South Africa). It has happened of almost without supporting his card one month ago to be gained yesterday in South Africa and to take this worry from him of above (it will preserve his card until 2012), in addition to taking an award of 143,000 pounds (approximately 157,000 euros).

Pablo, number 448 of the world to the beginning of the tournament, did not begin the year of a best possible way: it trumped the first seven cuts of the year. Now 2009 ends winning at the previous champion's of the tournament, Charl Schwartzel's, for only one blow and in a very exciting end.

After the person from Malaga was gaining the Open sea of Portugal in 2007, only it had managed to stay once between the ten first ones, two years practically in target that they changed suddenly yesterday. A return of 69 blows and a whole of 17 blows under the pair gave him the victory.

“It is an incredible sensation,” he said. “I am very happy, there was many emotion today.”

While Pablo finished the hole 18 and exploited of happiness, many other golfers were doing the opposite thanks to the last hole of the trip: a pair 5 of more than 500 meters and one of the ends most complicated in 18 holes.

The Welshman Sion Bebb, who was finding only one blow behind in the hole 13, did neither more nor less than 11 blows in this hole beast after visiting the exit trees and ordering two balls to the water that the green surrounds.

That left in the position 17 and nearby to Ernie Els, that, after beginning, last day tying in the second position did 77 blows.

Pablo played the hole of perfect form. A big drive, length, to the center of the street. The second short blow of the water and a third shot to green followed by two putts. The pair and the victory in a very complicated tournament (it is no any more that to see the results of the hole 18) and what we hope that it should be an inflection point in Pablo's career, that amateur has gained everything at level and that insurance will make us happy in the future. Congratulations!

Sebastián García Grout: champion of Professional and record Spain of the world

2009-12-14T04:22:00.001-08:00

An incredible week of Sebastián García Grout. The Majorcan was not satisfied with realizing the lowest return of the history of the golf (58 blows) but also he was proclaimed a champion of Professional Spain 2009.

The news about the record about blows in 18 holes to exceeded many borders and we could have seen the echo of the big return of Spanish all over the world, from Australia, to The India, England, the rest of Europe and the United States. It did not allow to take for the unexpected mediatización of the tournament and despite the pressure that Álvaro Velasco put in the third day, Sebastián bore the type and was proclaimed a champion. I believe that he is going to find it hard to forget very much of one so incredible week.

The key yesterday the hole was 3. García Grout was coming of doing bogey in the hole 2 and that was leaving Álvaro Velasco at a reasonable distance. It was nevertheless, in the hole 3, where this distance became unattainable: eagle of Sebastián and bogey of Álvaro. Two new wise moves in the shape of birdie in two following holes finished practically with the hopes of any applicant.

In conclusion, it was not enough in spite of doing 58 blows the first day to Sebastián García Grout but another two returns of 66 and 65 blows were marked. A big authority of the Majorcan, who ended with 24 blows under the pair of the field and a difference of 6 blows with regard to secondly classified.

Final classification:

1. - Sebastián García Grout 260 (58+66+71+65)
2. - Álvaro Velasco 266 (62+69+65+70)
3. - Luis Claverie 267 (68+66+68+65)
4. - Borja Etchart 268 (65+70+65+68)
5. - Raúl Quirós 273 (66+69+73+65)

“It has been a round day, because it is not easy at all to win after one day like that of yesterday, in which scarcely yes I retained the leadership,” García Grout said. “I have returned to the mental dynamics of the first two days, and believe that that has merit great. The eagle in 3 has placed trust in me and insurance has made me go more, I have calmed down and have gone so far as to enjoy, but without losing the tension. Undoubtedly, it is my most prestigious victory”.

For his part, Velasco recognized the value of Sebastián's victory and added: "Yesterday I approached a blow, and I thought that it might have some option more, but the true thing is that today I have not played well. Nevertheless, it was impossible to take Sebastián, because it has demonstrated a magnificent game throughout four days. It has been the best and the title is deserved. Sebastián's good beginning has not affected me for anything, the only thing that has affected me there has been my own game, which has not been like that of yesterday.”

Photo | Double Bogey

Four Spaniards will play the LPGA Tour in 2010

2009-12-11T03:43:00.001-08:00

The best the news that come to us from Daytona Beach (Florida), where Tour of the next year has disputed for five days the final of The School of Classification for the LPGA. Four Spaniards will be able to play the next year in the United States along with the best of the world: Azahara Muñoz, Maria Hernández, Beatriz Recari and Tania Elósegui.

Thus Spain stays like the foreign country that more players contributes the next year the LPGA Tour along with South Korea, and demonstrates us (if someone had left some doubt) the level and the effort of our players. Inside 40 players who will make debut the next year 16 they will be foreign and of these, four Spaniards.

Big role in the tournament of Azahara Muñoz and Maria Hernández, which remained fifth with 355 blows in whole in five played and very similar rounds between themselves. None of the two overcame 73 blows in any of his returns and they ended with a global one of 5 blows under the pair of the field.

Also very meritorious the tournament that there did Tania Elósegui and Beatriz Recari, who in spite of beginning the first day of the tournament with 76 and 79 blows respectively could mend them even sixteenth position and ninth (respectively).

Worse luck had Canary Emma Cabrera - Beautiful, that ended with six blows over the pair and to only two one had left of obtaining his card. One punishes his card of the third day (78 blows) and that darkened a quite regular game on having seen the rest of results of the Canary one (71, 72, 74 and 71 blows).

The final victory was for the American Amanda Blumenherst, that it finished of a spectacular form the tournament with 67 and 68 blows last two days. A whole of nine blows under the pair.

Congratulations to the Spaniards for the obtained exploit. I at least, I want to see them the next year along with the best.

More Information | LPGA Tour

The phrases of the week: the accident of Tiger Woods

2009-12-10T09:32:00.001-08:00

Normally the section of the phrases of the week has accompanied the name of the tournament that has raised most of the expectations and allusions during the week, but in the one that today occupies us only one has spoken about Tiger Woods. From support phrases to the number one as quasi-declarations of eternal hate.

A few years ago this was unthinkable but today the personal life of the best of the world is also a public matter (there is not any more that to remember the whole support that the wife of Phil Mickelson received when a cancer diagnosed him). A new situation in the world of the golf and the most excellent declarations on the topic.

“It lost all my respect. The whole respect that he was feeling for him has gone away.” – Jesper Parnevik, speaking about Tiger Woods. Parnevik and his wife Mia presented Elin to Tiger eight years behind.

“That is for what the friends are. You support them in the good thing and in the bad thing.” – Steve Williams, caddie of Tiger Woods last ten years, offering his support to his chief.

“My wife is fair-haired and she uses sunglasses in Florida therefore whenever it tries to go out for the door photos are doing it.” – Player of the Minnesota Vikings (American soccer), who lives in the same community as Tiger, speaking about the situation of his wife when it goes out of Isleworth.

“I have not spoken with him.” – Mark O'Meara, who made Tiger friend when this one became a professional in 1996, at the age of 20.

“What he needs to see is that whatever happens he has to tell the truth.” – John Daly, who has already been an object several times of the judgment of the press, offering his experience.

“It is the human nature. We are intrigued by the life of other persons.” – Padraig Harrington, in a press conference to the beginning of Chevron World Challenge, discussing the unusual presence of means and questions on Tiger Woods.

“Hard times.” – Jim Furyk, speaking about the Tiger situation, after gaining the trophy that organizes the number one.

“In spite of the status of Mister Woods and his reputation, the patrol of highways of the State of Florida has completed his investigation with the same professionalism that it attributes to any of his other cases.” – The sergeant Kim Montes, closing the investigation last week.

More Information | Golf Channel
Image | NY Daily News
In Out of Limits | Phrases of the week

And if the Tiger turns into cat

2009-12-08T18:44:00.001-08:00

It is quite worrying to see what there is happening about the number one of the world golf. If we rely on the released news, almost all without contrasting, we see like the world idol Tiger Woods, there is crumbling which house constructed on props of mud. The scarce official information facilitated by the environment of the player and the juicy of a scandal of this type for the means more amarillistas and those of the world of the pink cutrerío, have provoked that the list of scandals that assume to the player grows non-stop. Everybody wants to do box at the cost of the Tiger and the career for extracting slice is already quite advanced.

But let's be clear: Were we waiting for a scandal of these dimensions about Tiger Woods? I, to tell truth, no. Between what it is possible to see round there, there is a photo in which they say that Tiger is the man who comes closer (because nothing more is seen) a barmaid in a holiday in Las Vegas, a video of the CBS in which one hints that it is addicted to the sex and to some medicines, a few images with explicit content that the magazine Playgirl is trying to find out if they belong to Tiger with another woman, you parody in television programs and up to a rapper, Rusty J, who has done a topic on the history of the car accident. Rare, very rare is all this, but if we allow ourselves to guide for the collection of proverbs and remember that one who says “when the river sounds …”.

And if it was all this true? Or half of what there is, well, enclosed a tenth part: Would we see Tiger just as we have done it till now? Would it keep on gaining tournaments and being been afraid by the rest of players? Or would the awesome Tiger turn into a simple kitten? More it costs that all this history clears up soon because, of not doing it, it seems to me that the number position one of the world golf is going to be within reach of whom he wants it in 2010 and that the epoch of absolute mastery of Tiger Woods will go down in history.

It would be sad that was finishing this way, but I believe that to lose your family or to be the center of attention of all the cameras at any time, must not be agreeable at all for anybody, less if you have to be concentrated to play to the golf to the maximum level. There fell down already others that were looking like untouchable gods, see Michael Jackson, who had just touched fund the same year and it still keeps on being a front motive: Will Tiger be the following myth in crumbling? Do not misinterpret me, neither I want that it happens badly at all as to Jackson.

Disclaimer: To allow to me not to put any linkage in this entry, considering the absence of rigor that usually exists in the traditional means at the time of treating these topics. My intention is to reflect on if Tiger will be capable of overcoming this or not (I hope that yes), but if someone has curiosity to see the photos or videos that I mention, which passes for The Golf Blog and there it will find a compilation of material of this topic. They are good the people those of this page, but I prefer not to connect to this out of deference material.

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Jim Furyk gains the Chevron World Challenge, Graeme McDowell obtains his target

2009-12-07T12:49:00.001-08:00

Jim Furyk dressed himself of red and in the last hole, in his best blow of the day, managed to do the pair and gain the Chevron World Challenge in what it is his first victory in more than two years.

He said that his color election was a coincidence, not a declaration of intentions.

Woods, the organizer of the tournament, did not present in the delivery of the trophy to one of his favorite players of the PGA Tour alleging a few injuries of his car accident. What is clear is that it escaped from all the foci for one more day.

Woods wrote on his web page while the last day of the tournament was passing being grateful to the sponsors, personnel and volunteers. “I am really regretful of not being able to be present like organizer and player in this event,” he declared.

It was an important day for Furyk, the winner, and Graeme McDowell in two different senses.

Furyk, which closed with five blows under pair (67 blows), managed to gain a tournament recognized by Ranking Mundial for the first time from Canadian Open of the year 2007. It was the first time that was playing from Presidents Cup of this year.

The form in which it played the last two holes they demonstrated that Furyk has not stopped training these weeks.

A blow of advantage and one tie up horribly in a bunker near to the green of the hole 17. Furyk played insurance to the center of the green and he was hoping that a very complicated putt should not give him any more problems than what was meaning a bogey. Nevertheless, his ball was breaking towards the right and got into the hole, what was meaning to save the pair.

“He supposed a tremendous sigh of mitigation that the ball was bringing in,” Furyk said. “He supposed that the tournament was still in my hands, and I played tremendously aggressively in the final straight line.”

It continued with an iron 9 from little more than 120 meters that landed close to the hole and braked to almost two meters of the hole. Before it could stamp, Furyk looked at the classification and 17 saw that Lee Westwood had done birdie in the hole, what was making him joined by the leadership. Peacefully, it put his putt for birdie.

Westwood, which is finishing the period of an incredible form, had the option to force the playoff until it trumped his chip from the same rim of the green. It trumped his putt for pair and ended with 70 blows that were making him joined in the third place with Padraig Harrington. The Irish embocó two chips throughout the day (two eagles) to end with the same result as Westwood.

McDowell, the Woods spare for the tournament, had that embocar from the street of the hole 18 to tie with Furyk. His shot seemed the best until it jumped just next to the hole. The birdie was making him second alone.

Nevertheless, it must be satisfied: his target is complete. It happens to be the number 38 of the world and puts him in all the football pools to play him Master's degrees the next year.

Furyk anticipated to the questions on Woods this week. He said that he had written to Woods a message during the week, when the accident listened to that thing about, and it had not obtained answer so he decided to leave his space to him. He said that it would not be surprised to receive a Woods message congratulating him on the victory and that he “would answer and would wish the best thing”.

“Hard times,” Furyk said. “They need support of his friends in these moments, and that the people are thinking about them.”

More Information | Golf.com
Photo | The Globe and Mail

Graeme McDowell and Y.E. Yang joined in Chevron World Challenge

2009-12-06T13:18:00.001-08:00

Graeme McDowell would be surprised, as we all did it, on having listened to the news that were coming last week on Tiger Woods and his car accident, without having it does not even design what it might mean to him.

Woods was hunted by accusations of having had several adventures out of his marriage that filled the fronts of many newspapers of the whole world. McDowell, meanwhile, was getting into the list of participants for Chevron World Challenge, which might turn as the things are in his big victory of this year.

McDowell played on Saturday, the six consecutive holes in Sherwood (California) in six blows under pair, in his way for ending with 66 blows and sharing leadership with Y.E. Yang (71 blows) and to enter the final round of the struggle the tournament that provides the winner in 5,75 million dollars.

They were in 10 under the pair (206 blows), two blows over Padraig Harrington and the winner of the Order of Merit of the European Circuit, Lee Westwood, with Ian Poulter and Jim Furyk to a blow behind.

“ Obviously, it is a big breather for the tournament not to have Tiger here, ”McDowell said.“ I feel very lucky to receive the invitation. It was a big opportunity for me.”

The time it is almost quite for McDowell, 30-year-old player proceeding from Northern Ireland, number 55 of the world. Why? So because it is the first time that Chevron World Challenge, the tournament of Tiger, distributes points for Ranking Mundial and a victory for Graeme it might lead him to playing the Master's degrees the next year, or at least give him many opportunities.

It seemed that the Cup of the World celebrated in China last week would be the last participation of McDowell this year. It was gliding to go to Florida instead of looking for points for the Ranking in Australia (where finally there has won Adam Scott Australian Open, the first time in his native country). To be prepared for the next year and to be confident of breaking the barrier of the 50 first ones of the world to manage to be in August.

Just in this moment it received a call: Tiger Woods would not play.

He traveled to Los Angeles in his way to house and when Sunday night came they asked him one more day to remain to know what was going to do definitely Woods.

McDowell marked three birdies continued in his second nine holes. 3 left whacks as a chip to us with wood in the pair 5 of the hole 13 for eagle, to approximately 6 meters of the hole or a big putt in 15 for birdie. His only bassoon came in the pair 5 of the hole 16, where it went away to a hazard and committed double - bogey.

Yang also came from China, of the Cup of the World but he knew that it would play in Sherwood. It has had some problems this week with something of fever but none would say it with the result that it has obtained.

The champion of the PGA Championship opened his round with a birdie and hopes of a big day of golf but it got stuck up to obtaining two more birdies in the second nine holes.

“ While the day was passing my body was going at least, I did bogey in several holes, ”he said.

Curiously, only a few players felt worse than Harrington, which ended with 70 blows and lost the opportunity to gain for the first time this period. Why such a sad face? Harrington was not very sure.

The Irish did not coordinate well any of his shots, one of these days in which you tread on the street of the hole 1 and want to come to the house club.

“ I must have gone out of the bed in a bad position or something, ”Harrington said.“ Something was not fine today. I played brilliant yesterday, the first day and horrible today. Who knows what will happen tomorrow? ”.

Everything for is decided in these moments in California and that coronorá to a champion of a tournament in which “Tiger Woods was not”. Although we will keep on listening to histories of the number 1 during (I am afraid) a lot of time, more it costs to speak about golf, which is the nicest thing of all this.

More Information | Golf.com

Tiger Woods: accident, infidelity and image

2009-12-04T21:14:00.001-08:00

Departing from the idea that little imports for me if Tiger Woods has been or not a believer and that little imports his private life for me, I cannot obviate the hard criticism that Tiger Woods is receiving in the North American press, not so much for the facts, if not for his management of the case and for the image that till now we had had of him.

Tiger Woods for many of us is one of the best golfers of the history if not the best, but for a moment, olvidémonos of his sports achievements, of his number of victories and of the big ones conquered to center on his image, this image of a player perfecionista, which leaves a minimal detail at random neither in the rounds of practices nor in the trainings, this insatiable thirst of victories. This image taken care by IMG, us was showing to a perfect Tiger Woods, with his perfect smile, they are his perfect wife and his perfect life.

The bulletin of Tiger Woods where he admits that it has trumped his family, which is not perfect, sure that has been a difficult step for a person who in addition to his sports capacities, had always stood out for his perfectionism, but in the same bulletin Tiger Woods he speaks more of his privacy and the mass media that of your own errors, what provokes that some publications as the USA Today in the column of Christine Brennan reproach him that it seems that he is sorry more that everybody has found out about what him is sorry to have been an unbeliever to his wife. Golf Week also extracts similar conclusions.

But of everything above mentioned in the means, undoubtedly I remain with the words of the one that till recently was one of his friends, in addition to having been who presented Tiger Woods to his wife, this one is not different that the Swedish Jesper Parnevick, who can say it higher but clearer:

It is a private topic, of course, but when you are the man who is he, – one of the best athletes about the world - you should think more before doing certain things, and not simply “Just do it” as Nike says

I am not interested in the life deprived of Tiger Woods, but I believe that after this week, a Tiger Woods we have known to that we were not imagining many. Till now, Tiger Woods had an immaculate image first of all the world of the one that has been able to extract profit like nobody, but there are already the people, as the NY counts Steal, that he wonders that aftereffect can have all this in the income that it generates for his image.

We will have still to wait for enough to see if all this foul-up affects or not Tiger Woods, but what if that seems clear, is that if till now we were thinking many of us that Tiger Woods was like Superman, now it looks alike more, because all this has demonstrated to us that Tiger Woods also has his particular kriptonita.

It notices: I have put the scheme of the accident realized by the police because, after having seen it, it seems complicated to believe that in this accident that the alcohol has not had anything in common to me. What would you have thought if someone teaches you this graph of an accident?

Linkage | Geoff Shackelford
Image | TMZ

In defense of the rights of the citizens in Internet

2009-12-02T03:27:00.001-08:00

In WeblogsSL we believe that we are in a moment especially delicately as for the Internet development in Spain. The project of Law of the sustainable Economy we have surprised to a big group of citizens, companies and organizations that we know, construct and love the Internet that so much value is bringing to our society. Some of the changes that have been included in the above mentioned project can transform it and to inaugurate in period with less rights for the citizens, less privacy and less freedom of expression, and with a big insecurity for the companies that at her we are employed. We can find some analyses of these changes in Marauding, Blog Salmón, Journalists 21, Netoratón, Public, Enrique Dans or The Country.

In view of this event, we have taken part in the making of a Manifesto “In defense of the fundamental rights in Internet”, whose text we take up office and support like the point of starter of a critical opposition to all the attempts, they avenge on behalf of who they come, of reducing the rights of the citizens and the companies in Internet in favor of few ones.

I show “In defense of the fundamental rights in Internet”

Before the inclusion in the Draft of Law of sustainable Economy of legislative modifications that they affect to the free exercise of the freedoms of expression, information and the right of access to the culture across Internet, the journalists, bloggers, users, professionals and Internet creators we show our firm opposition to the project, and declare that …

1. - The copyright cannot be located over the fundamental rights of the citizens, like the right to the privacy, to the safety, to the presumption of innocence, to the effective judicial tutelage and to the freedom of expression.

2. - The suspension of fundamental rights is and it must keep on being an exclusive competition of the judicial power. Not even a closing without judgment. This draft, against the established in the article 20.5 of the Constitution, puts in hands of not judicial organ – an organism dependent on the department of Culture - the power to the access to any web page prevent the Spanish citizens.

3. - The new legislation will create juridical insecurity in the whole Spanish technological sector, harming one of few fields of development and future of our economy, obstructing the business undertaking, introducing hobbles to the free competition and slowing down his international projection.

4. - The new proposed legislation threatens the new creators and obstructs the cultural creation. With Internet and the successive technological advances there has been democratized extraordinarily the creation and emission of contents of all kinds, which do not come already prevalentemente from the traditional cultural industries, but from multitude of different sources.

5. - The authors, like all the workers, have right to live of his work with new creative ideas, business models and activities associated with his creations. To try to support with legislative changes to an obsolete industry that he cannot adapt himself to this new environment is neither just nor realistic. If his business model was basing on the control of the copies of the works and in Internet it is not possible without damaging fundamental rights, they should look for another model.

6. - We think that the cultural industries need to survive modern, effective, believable and accessible alternatives and that are adapted to the new social uses, instead of limitations as disproportionate as ineffective for the end that they say to chase.

7. - Internet must work of free form and without political interferences protected by sectors that obsolete business models try to perpetuate and disable that the human knowledge keeps on being free.

8. - We demand that the Government should guarantee for law the neutrality of the Network in Spain, before any pressure that could take place, like frame for the development of a sustainable and realistic economy facing the future.

9. - We propose a real reform of the right of intellectual property faced to his end: to return to the society the knowledge, to promote the public domain and to limit the abuses of the managing entities.

10. - In democracy the laws and his modifications must be approved after the opportune public debate and having consulted previously to all the implied parts. It is not of receipt that there are realized legislative changes that they affect to fundamental rights in not organic law and that it turns on another matter.

The phrases of the week: Omega Missions Hills World Cup

2009-12-01T06:12:00.001-08:00

Controversial week where they are. To start we had the Cup of the World of the Golf: the Omega Mission Hills World Cup in China, and that although it ended of awful form for the Spanish offered us a magnificent spectacle, a frenetic struggle between Italy and Ireland and the highest number of birdies. The brothers Molinari (Eduardo and Francesco) played brilliantly and they are just winning, with what Rory McIlroy coincides also.

It dawned on Friday in Florida and the thing changed. All the newspapers of the world were gathering it: Tiger Woods covers his car with stars close to his domicile. Of the initial fright the thing is returning to hard pure gossip and is speculated with all sorts of histories that could lead Tiger to covering his car with stars. Obviously, the phrases of this week have gathered many opinions on this matter.

“ I am human and I am not perfect. ”– Tiger Woods, breaking finally his silence after his car accident on the early Friday in his Cadillac Escalade.

“ My woman, Elin, I act with value when it saw that was hurt and in problems. ”– Tiger again, giving credit to his wife Elin him for coming to rescue after the accident.

“ It had someone hurt opposite my house. ”– A neighbor of Tiger Woods without identifying, that called the police on Friday morning when he found out about the accident.

“ We have been playing against some of the best golfers of the world … It is truly good for Italy.” – Francesco Molinari, who was paired by his brother Eduardo and they gained the Omega Mission Hills World Cup in China.

“ I am very happy for them (Italy). For two brothers to go out here out and to gain a title as this one is incredible. There will be a big satisfaction in the family this night, but for also the whole country. If it was we who were not going to win, they had to be the Italians. They played brilliant today and it is deserved.” – Rory McIlroy chivalrous in the defeat, after losing the Cup of the World having led it during big part of the tournament.

“ It is special to do it here. Obviously, it is where I grew and where everything began for me. ”– Mike Weir, after being included in the Entrance hall of the Reputation of the Golf of Canada, in Ferret Oaks, the field where he said that he fell in love with the golf.

“ Looking at the list of names that have gained this title I can appreciate that I am in good company. “– Chris Wood, after being nominated Rookie of the Year in the European Circuit, speaking about previous winners like Nick Faldo, Jose Maria Olazábal, Colin Montgomerie or Sergio García.

“ It is not needed in the Law that us of a declaration, and we will go forward in our investigation without this one.” – The sergeant Kim Montes, of the Patrol of Freeways of Florida, after Tiger was refusing to speak with the agents for third consecutive day.

“ Interesting meeting how has it been attacked by so many different flanks after the correct thing that has always been, but even the best stars of the sport that to try to give the best thing of them can be treated by controversy. ”– John Rowady, president of rEvolution, an agency of marketing of Chicago, speaking on the Tiger accident.

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What can we give to a golfer these Christmases?

2009-11-30T10:23:00.001-08:00

As the Christmases are closer, the persons begin wondering on possible gifts that to buy his friends or relatives, but this topic makes more complicated to itself when the person to whom the gift is going to be done is a golfer and the person who is going to do the gift it is not.

If the gift is going to be a surprise, my recommendation is not to do gifts of sets of irons, hybrids, wood, drivers or putters, since if for the one that writes already to them the election of a stick is complicated for himself, the possibilities of being right with the correct election for a player if the one that he is going to buy does not know exactly the model of stick that the golfer needs, with his grades and with the election of rod in weight and hardness, it will turn out to be almost impossible to do a gift which the player is comfortable in his trip, therefore we will have spent badly our money. If in spite of everything you want to keep on giving one sets, irons, study first what they are going to buy so that things as this one do not happen.

But the previous point does not mean that it is complicated to do gifts to the golfers and next I will try to do a list of possible gifts for the golfers, that I hope that they should help so that the person who receives it will remain pleased.

Shoes: it is something that any golfer sooner or later will need for what the person who receives them probably will be grateful for it. As for the characteristics that these shoes, enough of the available budget will depend, but although I live in Canaries, my shoes Ecco, they always belong to Gore-tex, because in the first hours it is already for the dew or for the irrigation, the field is wetted and this type of material will do that your feet are always dry.

If he wants something more personalized, his election there can be the FJ Icon or FJ Dry Joy, because both models allow a grade of very important personalización, but they have to bear in mind, that to be able to give these models, he needs an important time so that they could make his shoe with his indications, therefore it cannot allow to spend a lot of time so that they are ready to put them in the tree.

It notices: the name is not finished because fueradelimites.com it was not fitting in the personalización.

My recommendation at the time of buying shoes if they are going to be given to a player who plays enough days, it is that these are a few good shoes, and often the best way of being able to gain access to them, with a limited budget, it is across the offers across which all the shops have with models of past periods. I take myself three pairs followed by the same model of Ecco, know them, they give me good result and belong to Gore-Tex, the last pair did not come to me to 100 euros.

Water clothes: If our idea is that of giving a water suit, we must know if the player has or I did not bring of water and in that the state is, if this one already has one. If the golfer is of new creation, the water suit can be a big gift and that him will be very grateful.

The budget, as almost always, comes to be the determinant factor on the characteristics of the water suit that we are going to give. The Gore-Tex is present again here like quality sample, since him those of the transpiration join the impermeability characteristics, something crucial when one puts a water suit.

At the time of choosing a water suit, another important point is the taste of the golfer, since for me there are two types of jackets of water suits, which are very wide, with that I am unable to play, or those that they are tighter and with what I yes that I can play, but that the player will hate if he likes the wide water jackets.

If the golfer already has a water suit that does not belong to Gore-Tex, the possibility of giving a jacket of this material that it combines with the colors of his current pants is possible that it is not a bad idea. My water suit, it is formed by a jacket of Gore-Tex and a few pants that it already had earlier, between other things, because to play in Canaries with a water suit I complete, by much that perspires, it keeps on being quite bothersome.

Overcoat clothes: My most used pledge being in Canaries there are the vests, which I usually use during the first holes that I play in the mornings, but if I have a pledge that I adore with madness, it is a jersey with Wind stopper, a membrane that for a lot of wind that blows, to which it takes it will not affect him and that allows to perspire very well, being the principal difference with the Gore-Tex, in which Wind Stopper is not impermeable. That's why, if it finds a jersey of this material that is at good price, since they are usually expensive, this will be a big gift to do, which sooner or later the player will give the value that it has and one will be grateful for it enormously.

Poles: The golfers normally we are well supplied with poles to play the golf, therefore if we want to give one, and that is different, I have to admit that the poles Nike Dri-Fit, they are expensive but very good The player who uses them will realize his quality in the days that more heat does, since apart from his agreeable tact, he will realize the big capacity of transpiration that they have and probably that will remember the person who has given it to herself.

Wedges: The wedges, if we were going to realize their personalización as that it realizes Scratch Golf they would be impossible to give without the collaboration of the player. But in addition to that the personalized wedges have an important cost, not all the players go so far as to have this level of “frikismo“ to value them.

A good option to give it can be Callaway Jaws, especially for those players that in his irons have graphite rods and in his steel wedges. It is probable, that when it sees them for the first time they say that thing about “that well, another wedge”, but insurance that when it should take a pair of returns with them, he will have realized the importance that may have to have no a few so heavy wedges and any more in the line of the weight of his other sticks. But since I know, these wedges will be only available in Christmases in some Callaway distributors.

A sorrow that Taylor Made XFT is not going to do it on time for these Christmases, because it would be a good gift, since it is the first wedge with interchangeable faces.

Distance meters: this type of devices, laser or GPS, only the most addicted golfers and some frikis will be grateful for it, but if to that you want to give it to him it is one of them, without place to dudos will be anything that will be grateful for it enormously. The doubt will be if laser or gps, that it will depend also on the tastes and profiles of the player.

Irons Set: at the beginning of the post, already I mentioned that it would give neither sticks, nor irons, but if to the person whom it goes to give it she is a golfer who is beginning or has intention of beginning playing, the set of Callaway Solaire can be a good option, although in the tree it will be necessary to leave one costs gift, because I do not know if they will come on time to the shops before Christmases.

Chamber of photos of high speed: photos cameras there are many on the market, but if the golfer to whom it it goes away to give him usually please turn in video or to analyze his swing, a camera as Casio Exilim EX-FS 10 can turn out to be very interesting. I have one and thanks to the power to record me to superslow camera, I am capable of seeing my mistakes and of working with my teacher to correct them.

Trip cases for our sticks: whenever a golfer travels with his sticks he suffers for the dealing that his sticks will receive, hence the importance of a good case of trip. But if the golfer is experienced, probably that already has a good trip case, by what this gift would be indicated for these persons that it has just begun in this world or for those that we have the certainty from which he needs a piece of news. The target is that the sticks go as protected as possible, independently if then he will keep better or worse because it does not double well.

A golf trip: there are the people who says that the enclosed golf can go so far as to play under the rain and with cold, but for me, that this must be a science fiction golf, because whenever I play, I am in pole and to approximately 24 grades, but skylight that I am in Grand Canary, a perfect destination for those persons who want to escape during the cold peninsular winter to enjoy our fields. Also, although you are not a golfer, he will always be able to enjoy our beaches and spas, because this type of trips "only" sells for couples: truth?

If he has read all this and has not found any gift, do not worry, we will always be able to give golf balls:para what mark and model will need, since they all are white and round, but although for you they all are equal ones, between some and others there is the whole difference world.

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Power Play Golf a very entertaining game form

2009-11-29T02:25:00.001-08:00

Yesterday the first competition of Power Play Golf was disputed in Anfi Tauro Golf in Spain, moving up to Grand Canary one of his founders, Peter McEvoy, who in addition to explaining the rules to the participants, did an interesting summary on this form that has already been played in 28 countries of the world. For an event like this one, Anfi Tauro Golf was showing his best finery, with a few greenes that had a speed of 9,5 in the stimpmeter. If normally the greenes of Anfi Tauro are very well, yesterday they were perfect, gaining him little by little in my head the title of the best greenes of the Grand Canary.

Since I came early, I had the time to speak with Peter McEvoy and to ask him which it was the reason that led him to choosing only 9 holes instead of the traditional 18 and his answer in addition to egg white it was convincing, even more when I could confirm it with my own experience. The reason to play only 9 holes, is that in this number of holes, although you have played badly, if you still have a pair of Power Plays for playing, you are always going to have options to win, since in 9 holes, nobody will have been taken down so much how to have no options if it does two birdies with Power Play that would be 12 points. That itself, this was what happened to the winner of the first category.

Since you know in Power Play Golf it is necessary to play if or yes 3 black flags in the first 8 holes, obtaining the punctuation double if you do birdie or better result. In the hole 9, you can choose if you go for another Power Play or not, but here the bogey would be penalized by two points. Yesterday on having talked each other from an exit to shot, the only difference is that you had to do that in your first 8 holes, instead of between the holes 1 to 8 of the field.

I have to admit that I liked the form of Power Play Golf more than I was imagining, because yes that is true that in the end having to decide where you play it and to know that it is necessary to make use of it to be able to extract these extra points, at least to me, put to me more itch of what was imagining. Mentally, you know that although you have started very badly, as it was my case, if you make these good holes coincide with your Power Play, you know that you can get into the ointment. The sensations and emotions are more concentrated that in a game of traditional golf and you always have this sensation that it is still possible. Yesterday in my case, it was that, sencación of being able to try it, but small, small I did, and less evil that I had a big day with the putter and with the aproach.

Now well: can it replace this game form the traditional golf? To my judgment not, the golf is the golf, but yes that looks like to me a form of very interesting game for certain ambiences, as there can be determined corporate tournaments or a format of mini-league in the clubs, for those persons that during the week, especially when the days are longer, they want to feel the emotions of the competition without throwing themselves the day in the field and could have something more about two free hours at the last hour of the evening.

Another question is: does it would play it again? Yes, without doubting a moment. The emotions that one has are more intense, when one is in the street and there has to go for the black flag … bang, bang, bang, bang, the heart him beats, you know the risk and the reward, and how is life only it is obtained by the birdie, it is necessary to go if or yes for the rag. Also, if normally it scratches non-making use of the points that the field gives you, that thing about does not make use of the moves Power Play bothers still much more.

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Tiger Woods his traffic accident and the communication

2009-11-28T04:19:00.001-08:00

Yesterday afternoon it was jumping the news of that Tiger Woods had been “seriously injured” in a traffic accident, little by little all the means did echo to themselves and in something more about one hour hour, the news was more soothing: Tiger Woods was well and had gone out of the hospital.

The accident took place at 2:25 am hours of Miami but it was not up to twelve hours later that the news became public, what exists has provoked that an infinite number of rumors proliferates on the reasons that led to without doing a bulletin in the first hours of the morning on the above mentioned incident.

What if we know is that Tiger Woods had an accident next to his house, that his wife Elin, used a stick of golf (rescue?) to break the crystal of the car and to extract his husband and that the alcohol did not have any role in the above mentioned accident. Also the airbags of his Cadillac Escalade did not jump, what would indicate that Tiger Woods was going at least of 33 miles per hour.

But the question that many people rise to herself it is not different that: where was Tiger Woods going at 2:25 am of the morning the day after thanksgiving?

We cannot forget that the same week week any means did to themselves echo of a supposed extramarital relation of Tiger Woods that has been denied on another part of the relation, but that undoubtedly has opened the door to all those who think, that if Tiger Woods was leaving his house at 2:25 am might stem from a domestic dispute, aiming the same persons that such a slightly correct attitude of Tiger Woods during this year, might be tied also to the same problems.

Of everything only I have left this situation with a thing, how easy it had been to send a press release in the first hour of the morning telling that Tiger Woods had a small incident with his car to the exit of his house when it was going to … (any thing here would serve like going for a medicine for his children to the drugstore) needing medical supervision for the cuts that it was presenting in the face and that Tiger Woods was already enjoying in his house of this weekend in his house house with his wife and children.

To today to my judgment, if one is Tiger Woods, it turns out to be practically impossible that a small traffic accident as that has had Tiger Woods do not go out to the light and the more transparent is one in the above mentioned communication less place will stop for the disinformation and the rumorología.

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Ireland stays solid like a rock

2009-11-27T09:35:00.001-08:00

Ireland continues with his intentions declaration in the Omega Mission Hills World Cup, supports his leadership for three blows in the highest of the table after ending today with four blows under the pair. 68 blows in the Foursomes.

Graeme McDowell y Rory McIlroy they obtain this way 18 blows under the pair the first two days. Nevertheless, the Swedishes Robert Karlsson and Henrik Stenson approach silently. Three blows cut them away today and it brings them over to the leadership that is only to another three blows with two more days ahead.

Italy keeps on occupying, like yesterday, the third position. A blow behind Sweden. The brothers Molinari did a round of 66 blows with Japan behind with 133 impacts in whole.

The Chinese team again supported by the majority of fans in Mission Hills, did 71 blows to move to eight blows under pair and a tie with another five cocktails: Ingletrra, India, New Zealand and South Africa, which will need to do something out of the normal thing to reach the Irishes.

The true thing is that the round that did today Sweden remembered the one that did already last year in the same tournament and that very much helped him, and, to do to herself with the final title. Karlsson and Stenson proved to be yesterday very solid and seven blows of his card confirm it: 65 blows without bogeys, the lowest round of the second day.

“We want to return to the Four-ball tomorrow,” McDowell said. “We are playing both very well and we will play very aggressive in the third round, trying to go down 60 blows.”

McIlroy added: "We are still leading, what is brilliant. We start the day with three blows of advantage and keep on having them at the end of the day. Foursomes is a little more complicated than the Fourball. You have to delegate in your partner to be supported out of danger.”

“I believe that probably 68 had taken in the first tee this morning. We play very solid. If it is not for a pair of mistakes in the second nine, we might have done an excellent return. In the end I believe that we show a very good attitude with two birdies in 16 and 17, after failing in 15. We go, it has been a good day.”

Stenson, which gained the The Players Championship in May, came undone in flirtatious comments towards his team-mate, commenting: "Definitely I put him under pressure a pair of times in nine seconds. I left to him a pair of putts of meter and a half and two quite awkward meters.”

“I believe that the design of the field adapts itself perfectly to us. Robert sticks to the ball really well and I have been giving very good irons. Today, fortunately, also we put a few putts. Only we need to keep on playing at this level two following days and we will have an opportunity.”

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Doug Barron fights for his reputation and his career

2009-11-27T03:32:00.001-08:00

While Tour of the next year began the second qualifications phase for the PGA, in Houston, Doug Barron was leaving Deerwood Country Club to return to his residence, in Memphis. His resource against which it was the first positive of the history of the golf had failed. If it had been accepted, it might have obtained a temporary order that was allowing him to compete in Deerwood and it might have tried to qualify to obtain the card for the next year.

The suspension that has Marram grass ahead is one year. “I am much disappointed so much like that I cannot play the golf,” the American was provided to Golf Digest after a meeting with his agent and lawyer. “But I do not believe that my career ends here. Only it makes it more complicated.”

So complicated like the Marram grass history. It is limited at physical level and needs to take medicine not to fall down in the parameters that the Tour has marked in his laws antidoping. He describes his 75 kilos himself like “a miniature of John Daly,” and there are already pranks on this matter how in a radio station of Memphis, in which they were saying that if Marram grass had taken substances that were improving his yield, it had not very been right in it.

This prank came to many other places when it was possible to see in a video of YouTube a blow that Marram grass was preparing to give nearly one lake and in that the pole comes out not to get soaked in water, during Transitions Championship of the year 2006, and that they were revealing a forceful belly, as we already teach you in this another post. “I have no muscles,” he said Marram grass. “Looking is shameful.”

What raises Marram grass is that the PGA Tour affirms that it has consumed “substances that improve the yield”, and what truly he is using they are “substances that allow him to have a normal life”. In 1987 a cardiac shortcoming, an arrhythmia was diagnosed in the valve mitral. It has medical prescriptions for beta bloqueantes, to control his cardiac rhythm, and testosterone to increase his energy throughout the day. He and his followers think that the medications that it takes are legal for treating serious problems of health, not to give him no type of competitive advantage. They question the justice of the norms and do not discard to initiate legal actions against the Tour.

“Doug's medication does not have absolutely anything that to see with the golf,” there said his wife, Leslie. Artist and mother two children. “It has to do with his health.”

Promoted by his faith in a good result, Marram grass is supporting an unbreakable attitude. “I am not going to be a pessimist and feel sorrow for myself,” he said Marram grass. “My family has very strong values and I believe truly that I will play again sooner or later.”

I believe that Marram grass has already demonstrated a pair of things. The first one, leaving to part his possible consumption of substances that were increasing his yield, which is a sportsman. It has had problems of health previous to the supposed positive and Tour has never stopped fighting to play in the PGA, even with problems of heart. Namely he is a fighter, and I believe that that nobody can deny it. The second one is the form in which it has confronted what has come to him above. The first positive in the history of the golf (with the aftereffect mediática that that bears) and Doug Barron has not showed any moment of weakness.

Not why can I not even demonstrate it but it gives me that Marram grass has not "taken drugs" to play better the golf, it is no any more that to see the physical form in which it is (another thing would be if to Marram grass they had not given him permission on the part of the Tour to take these substances). It would not be the first time that a sportsman is accused (I remember now the case of Money box) and the thing finishes like a simple "misunderstanding". The worst part, in any case, the player always takes it. I at least, like the struggle that I see in Marram grass because it is something essential in any sport, for the most important does not say.

The phrases of the week: Dubai World Championship

2009-11-26T21:30:00.001-08:00

An exciting end in the European Circuit, in which Lee Westwood took everything but he did not stop speaking about his rival maximum in Dubai: Rory McIlroy, and his flaming fiancée car. David Leadbetter speaking about his disciple, Michelle Wie, who for some special motive, believes that it does not cost a lot of money to play with her 18 holes. Problems at the time of there organizes the LPGA Tour of the next year due to the economic crisis, about which also there speaks Greg Norman and new norms for British Open of the next year.

One week much moved in almost the whole world and that has given place to a good number of phrases that sum the end of two Circuits up: the European and the LPGA Tour.

“ East is my moment.” – Lee Westwood, after gaining the Dubai World Championship and Dubai being proclaimed a champion of the Order of Merit in the Career.

“ Michelle is really how at home here. Really he feels as if it belonged and not like, well, a leper, who is the form in which he went so far as to feel once. There was too much criticism. ”– David Leadbetter, trainer of Michelle Wie, speaking about the acceptance of other players of the LPGA Tour to his disciple.

“ To what I refer it is: what is what it has in favor? He is twenty years old. It is already millionaire. The strong snag. A nice fiancée. He leads a Lamborgini. If, it is difficult: eh? ”– Westwood again, speaking about Rory McIlroy in Dubai.

“ He was thinking that perhaps 50 dollars. ”– Michelle Wie, speaking about what thought that someone might have paid to play with her on Wednesday in the pro-am before to the LPGA Tour Championship. 43-year-old Michael Maggi, paid 22.000 dollars.

“ We are the most tired. We cheer up some others to make this possible. ”– Zayra Calderon, the vice-president of the development of the tournaments of the LPGA Tour, speaking about the work that has found it hard to them to have the period 2010 planned.

“ Only he keeps on living through the sleep, doing what I do. Every day is a victory for me. ”– Damien Jordan, who has served two times in the troops of the United States, while it was playing in the same event as Tiger Woods last week in Australia.

“ We have introduced this exemption as a direct answer to see two of our best champions of an Open, both in his 50 years, trying to win the champions of last two years. ”– Chief executive of the Royal and Ancient, Peter Dawson, after approving one of the rules for which there are allowed the champions of British Open who finish in the top 10 to obtain an exemption to play five following Open, that is to say, 5 years.

“ The golf is not going to be as earlier. It is difficult, difficult in the business. ”– Greg Norman, offering his opinion about the economic crisis that has affected all the tours about the world.

“ Personally, it is more important the things that I do out of the golf course. ”– Lorraine Ochoa, speaking about his increasing life out of the ring, including his already near marriage and his foundation.

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Ireland gives the first blow in the Cup of the World

2009-11-26T15:28:00.001-08:00

Graeme McDowell y Rory McIlroy they justified entirely the favorites' condition that was given them before the tournament with the first spectacular day in the Omega Mission Hills World Cup, with a sensational result of fourball: 58 blows (14 under pair), in the field of design of Jose Maria Olazábal, Mission Hills Golf Club, in Dongguan, China.

A considerable effort that included 12 birdies and an eagle and that puts Northern Ireland ahead of Argentina, with three blows of advantage, and to four of Japan, which stays with 10 under pair.

Italy, Canada, Korea and the defending champions, Sweden, share the fourth position with a round of 64 blows, while China, the hostess, with 65 blows, shares the eighth place with South Africa.

But the first day of 55 edition of the Cup of the World belonged to Ireland, which started by rubbing the perfection.

“I believe that 58 blows there is the best result that I have never had,” McIlroy said, with McDowell affirming simultaneously. “We go out brilliantly and we did birdie in the holes in which we had to do it in the first nine holes. We had the opportunity to do two birdies in almost all the holes and most of the times obtained one of them. It was a big team game and we never stamp under pressure. I believe that it appears in the result.”

McDowell aimed also that Ireland will not be champion in today. The following day is foursome and that gives him to the tournament a completely different format.

“It has been a big beginning but it is only that, we must be cautious,” McDowell said. “Obviously the foursomes are more complicated and we must choose the suitable strategy.”

The Argentine duo formed by Rafa Echenique and I Toll Goya they were pleased with his initial round of 61 blows and that makes them fill the second vacancy.

“I felt very trusting playing today with Rafa,” Goya said. “It stamped really well and in the end it was very solid. The moments in which it was in difficulty I was there and vice versa. It is the good thing of the fourball, but it is important for one himself to do a good hole. I believe that tomorrow it will be a completely different attitude. It will be the first time that we play in foursomes and I hope to enjoy it everything what could.”

The brothers Molinari continued with his good form, and placed Italy in the third position shared with Japan.

“I believe that probably he was playing better than I today,” Francesco said. “It did many putts, but it is a long tournament and we need both to be to ceiling and to try to be competitive. But it is the first time that we are in a good position after the first day therefore it is an agreeable change with regard to the last two years.”

“To play with your brother is definitely an advantage because obviously we know each other very well, and know how there is the game of other. We know for what to wait and the strong and weak points of the game of other. Also there is more confidence that playing with any other person, for what it becomes easier.”

Sergio García and Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño, Spanish representatives, began with the first very poor return: 69 blows. They occupy the last place of the table.

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Golf courses guide: Real Golf club of Las Palmas

2009-11-25T14:31:00.001-08:00

The Real Golf club of Las Palmas is the golf club dean in Spain, founded on December 17, 1891 in a place called the “Loin of the Dust”, although it is true, that the current trip of Bandama, design of Mackenzie Ross, was reached in 1957.

The Real Golf club of Las Palmas, placed in the Saint's municipality Brígida (Google Maps) is in a privileged place, as it is the Cauldron of Bandama to a height of more than 400 meters, something important to bear in mind for the flight of the ball and the metereología that we could be although we are in Canaries, since between the south of the island and the Real Golf club of Las Palmas go so far as to reach differences of ten grades of temperature.

THE FIELD

The Real Golf club of Las Palmas is a pair 5,915 meters 71 from the tee of yellow, since after the last review of the slope, the tee of half notes they turned into the tee of yellow and these in the seniors' tee, having got longer the field from the tee of yellow in almost 250 meters. (Card of the field)

The trip of the Real Golf club of Las Palmas is not long, but the tightness of the streets, the trees that draw these and a few formidable greenes will do that the trip of the Real Golf club of Las Palmas defends itself very well, without being easy to do few ones to him. The street grass is kikuyo, a hard variety, by what in the rough areas quality blows will be demanded.

The big jewel of this field, together with his wonderful location, is the quality of his greenes, Agrostis stolinifera with annual Poa, which are not is very blurred, but in that the ball is a pleasure as it rolls, there being flags during the trip, like the anticipated position of the hole 7, in which if one does not want to suffer with the putter in the hand, more it costs to play shortly of flag and puttear costs above.

On having had the biggest luck of being able to play every day in the morning in the Real Golf club of Las Palmas, I have the opportunity to verify the daily caress with which Pelayo (greenkeeper) and all his team, they spoil every corner of the trip, there being realized the coffee with a dash of milk of greenes and the laying of the holes every day.

To be able to play in the Real Golf club of Las Palmas without being associates of the club, two possibilities exist, by means of green fees in working days from the first hour from the morning until 12:50 or turn of the mails that the Real Golf club of Las Palmas supports with diverse national and foreign clubs.

Another peculiarity of the Real Golf club of Las Palmas is that he arranges of a small hotel of 3 stars, managed by the Canary chain Vik hotels, which it is given to tee of one and to the putting green. Being able to enjoy also a swimming pool an impressive sight of the golf course.

It notices: if you puncture in the button to see to finished screen, below to the right, and you puncture in showing information, you will see my comments of every hole

Since you could have observed in the photos, the Real Golf club of Las Palmas is one of these fields that is a pleasure to play it walking, since in spite of having his small slopes, the walk is very agreeable, to what undoubtedly it helps the short existing transitions between the holes. Nevertheless, for those that want to play in coshush, they can be rented, as the electrical or manual trolleys. In addition to the conference and the good design, also we will be able to observe hoopoes, rabbits, and breathe a big aromas variety, thanks to the varied existing flora in the trip. If you are lucky to play in September / October, and you like the figs, make use of the numerous fig trees that you can be along the trip, although you will have to excuse me for not sharing with you the information of which fig trees give the tastiest figs.

SITUATION

The Real Golf club of Las Palmas finds in the municipality Saint's big canary Brígida, to come to the Real Golf club of Las Palmas if we come from the south for the GC-1 we will have to join to the Divided highway Jinamar / Tamareceite / GC 3, in direction of Tamareceite/Tafira/Gáldar and after something more about 3,7 km we will join to the GC 4 in direction of Tafira, continuing because of it up to coming to a rotunda, where we will have to take the third exit, in which there is a sign that indicates the direction Bandama/Club. Now we will have to pass approximately 5 km for a narrow highway, having to continue the principal highway up to meeting the crossing that would take us to the peak of Bandama, where we will have to turn to the right and continue approximately 80 meters, before turning to the left.

CONCLUSION

The Real Golf club of Las Palmas is a visit forced for all the golfers who avenge to the island of Grand Canary, for his history, for his unbeatable location, for the design and for the caress with which one takes care of all the detelles of the trip, which will do that any person who decides to stake in him enjoyment of a big day of golf.

Perhaps the only snag that would be necessary to put him to the Real Golf club of Las Palmas, is that some visitors, they will be able to meet a more fresh climate than they imagine that they are going to enjoy in Grand Canary, owed this to his location, being more frequent the rain and the wind in winter that in the fields of the south, but the same climate is the one that helps us to support it in these magnificent conditions.

In this occasion, you have to understand that I did not value numerically the trip of the Real Golf club of Las Palmas, although for me it is a question of an outstanding trip of knowing each other every every millimeter, and that for me represents the quality standard with which I always confirm the rest of fields in which I have the opportunity to play.

Official place | Real Golf club of Las Palmas
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Lorraine Ochoa supports his reign in the LPGA Tour

2009-11-25T08:02:00.001-08:00

The LPGA Tour has ended for this period but it has left me with desire of more, of much more.

One week after Michelle Wie was winning for the first time, Lorraine Ochoa and Jiyai Shin they took a dramatic duel as Rolex Player of the Year. More dramatic that I could have enjoyed. His heartbreaking battle ended in the final hole of the LPGA Tour Championship in Houstonian Golf and Country music Club, in Richmond, Texas. Ochoa took all the honors for only one point after ending with birdie and seeing as Shin was trying desperately embocar his last chip, which I spend to centimeters of the hole.

The duel was so intense that there eclipsed the victory of the rookie Anna Nordqvist and his incredible gust of seven birdies in eight holes to half of round.

This is big news for the LPGA Tour: an end of infarction and golf of the highest level.

Ochoa managed of this form his fourth Player of the consecutive Year.

“It has been the hardest of all, insurance, and I am the one that more enjoys it,” Ochoa said to Golf Channel. “I am very proud of the form in which I have ended.”

It has been a year complicated for the LPGA Tour. The sponsors seemed to fall down to half of year and no American player seemed to have options against the invasion of Asian players, what was making lose the interest of the American fans. Only five American victories in all the period, there are numbers that had never happened in the feminine circuit.

But the Wie victory turned the mediática promise in mediática reality, and the Americans reacted well. More marketing, more sense of expectancy … Si Paula Cramer, Cristie Kerr, Angela Stanford and Morgan Pressel meet again with the victory everything might be simpler.

Although this situation is converting to the LPGA Tour into a much more internationalized circuit. The globalization is coming, at least till now, more than to the PGA Tour. With her the hearings in other countries are growing to an exponential rhythm.

“When you are a girl, it is here where you dream of playing,” the Australian Anna Rawson al Wall Street Journal said on Sunday, commenting on the situation of the Tour.

“At least 75 per cent of the events of the LPGA Tour should stake here,” Aussie Katherine Hull commented.

Shin and Ochoa are the domineering stars in the LPGA Tour, and both are foreign. The important thing in all this situation and debate is that both gave a real spectacle yesterday evening, how it was doing time that was not seen. Golf in the pure state.

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Lee Westwood destroys records in the Dubai World Championship

2009-11-25T01:32:00.001-08:00

Lee Westwood gained the Dubai World Championship for neither more nor less than six difference blows. 64 blows in an impressive final day on the part of English: 8 blows under the pair of the field.

Westwood, did one of the most outstanding returns of his career in the last day and gained 830,675 euros, which also it served to him to be located like the best European player for the second time in his career.

The 36-year-old player, who gains The Career to Dubai and a whole for 3.240.951 euros in 26 tournaments, as well as 1,5 million euros for having gained the Order of Merit, turns into eighth English in having won Harry Vardon Trophy in two occasions or more.

His big end led him to ending with 23 under pair, six blows ahead of Ross McGowan.

Yesterday also it turned into the fourth golfer in the history of the European Circuit in ending firstly in the merit order having gained also the final event of this one. Already the hiceron in advance Ronan Rafferty (1989), Colin Montgomerie (1993) and Justin Rose (2007).

Westwood has given also a considerable jump in Ranking Mundial. There is his victory number 32 like professional and his second victory this period in the Europaean Tour. Right now English is the number 4 of the world.

Also it manages to turn into one of five players in having spent the barrier of 19 million euros in the history of the European Circuit and it is the second time that reaches more than 3 millions in only one period.

Above to round everything, his 64 yesterday supposed a new record of the field in the field designed by Greg Norman.

“ This is almost the best thing that I have played, and speak seriously ”he said.

“ I played brilliantly the whole week. 66 and 64 are very good for a weekend. It means very much for me, without any doubt this is the highest point.”

“ Obviously I had a high point in the year 2000 (when it gained his first Order of Merit) but in young age of that time and he did not know really of what this was going.

“ Then I had a bassoon and did not play very well, falling down of the top 250 of the world. It has been a long way.

“ I am much more mature now and I play more rounds. There are less weaknesses because I have happened for many things.

“ I am amazed for being here and it has been the best day of my career golfística. I believe that this is the best thing that I have played under pressure.

“ I have surprised the calmed that was today. It was very sure in what it was doing and hoping to play well.

“ I hope there is more, perhaps a Major in the future. Some of the players who come behind, how Rory McIlroy, they will put a heap of pressure to me therefore it will be hard. I am going to enjoy the rest of 2009.”

“ I believe that Dubai and the golf course and the European Circuit bring together of a fantastic form. I believe that it is a big effort for the golf in this region and is a big campaign for the golf in the European Circuit. It shows the quality of the players that we have here in the Tour.

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El Corte Ingles and the attention that pays a client of a Taylor Made R9

2009-11-24T19:27:00.001-08:00

Another day I already commented on the satisfied thing that was with my new camerawoman of photos that was allowing to record a superslow video and how is life so satisfied with her and it is told the whole world, this Sunday morning we were in the tee of practices of my club recording the swing of a friend with a handicap 11.

We start by the short irons, then the means and this way up to coming to the driver. As soon as I noticed that the driver was a Taylor Made R9, I had to realize the question of the million: What configuration have you put to Taylor Made R9?

For a moment, I thought that it had just babbled my first words in Chinese, because the person to whom it had realized this question, did not know that his driver had the above mentioned adaptive technology, which has crime enough, but after explaining the possible configurations of the rod to him as well as the possible distributions of the weight that it has Taylor Made R9 mentioned to me that in El Corte Ingles of Las Palmas, nobody had explained the above mentioned possibilities to him and that nobody had delivered to him the necessary keys to form the rod as well as the weight.

The truth is that I have my doubts if the keys come from series o if it is an extra one, although I think that they would have to come from series, but even if they should not come from series: is it normal that a seller of a shop of golf does not comment to a client on the characteristics of one of the most important drivers of the market?

Of this anecdote, together with my own experience in in the department of golf of El Corte Ingles, I have extracted a pair of conclusions:

1. Conclusion for the frikis of the golf: we can ask and wish not the stick dispensing ones that the golf shops, some day to decide to help fitting in his shops, I hope it multimarks, but I do not know because it gives to me, that the reality of the Spanish golfers as regards the material, looks alike more to that of my friend, that to that of the persons that we read Out of Limits.

2. Conclusón for which they are not frikis of the golf Another day he was already commenting on some aspects that had to be born in mind at the time of buying new sticks, and seen the seen, I believe that although often he has mentioned that in the golf shops the sticks do not sell as it should, I have to admit that the difference between these shops and those who excuse sticks to today keeps on being very important, because it is me who doubts greatly, that a client was going out of a shop of traditional golf without knowing that a stick takes with numerous configurations.

3. Conclusion for El Corte Ingles: When it has seen one like one of his centers it has sold to a client the stick covers with stars of this year, as he is Taylor Made r9: really that someone must think about El Corte Ingles like "his" golf shop?

4. Conclusion for the golf marks: The big companies of golf invest big quantities of time and money, to be able to extract to the market new products that there go more lengths, more recta, with more pardon, but: as what does all this technology serve if the one who is with the client they have not her any knowledge?

In the concrete case of my friend, I had advised to prove a slightly lighter rod and to provide a higher trajectory to him … Nevertheless, if my friend or any other client does not extract the yield expected from his driver, because his rod is slightly heavy or because it has a light fade that might be "arranged" by the configuration to the draw, if someone had explained it to himself: Would he speak badly about the English Cut because he could not sell to him a stick according to his needs or would speak badly about Taylor Made r9?

Another day was speaking about the important thing that was that one knew what he wanted before entering a golf shop, but seen the seen, if one does not want to destine this time to his next buy, I believe that the best thing will be to come to a shop, where at least they know the principal characteristics of every stick.

Official place | Taylor Made Golf

I am handicap 36 and I love to buy a few sticks: Which do I owe to buy?

2009-11-20T19:45:00.001-08:00

As the Christmas dates approach, it is frequent that come to us to Out of Extreme post office wondering or asking us for help at the time of choosing a few sticks or others, and for the same reason, I have decided to write this post.

First of all to say, that it is impossible that we could recommend to you a model or other of irons and his possible configurations without having seen you giving a ball, but yes that I believe that we can give you a few criteria, to be able to help you in the capture of this decision, therefore if you are a tall handicap and have in mind the buy of a new set of irons, perhaps we could help you.

1. How long are we going to dedicate him to the golf? A few days ago he was commenting on my impressions with my new irons, but my election had been completely different if instead of playing every day, he was a weekend player, since, on not having played so much, he would need a few sticks with more pardon, to be able to amuse myself in the field. Be sincere with yourself, answer to the question sincerely, and according to an answer or other one, decide if you need a few sticks of maximum pardon or a few sticks that excuse something less and allow you to evolve little by little your golf.

2. Do not buy to yourself the stick of the last period. Year after year, the marks extract and extract new models, promising more distance and a more straight ball flight. Perhaps all of us have this cochair inside that the last model of an iron asks us to have, but my recommendation is that you look at sticks of one or two years ago, because the price difference can be much but that very important, and between your ego and your game, who more is going to notice not to take the last model will be your ego. Perhaps this difference, it can come to you very well to take a few classes. And it would not also reject the possibility of buying a few second-hand sticks that conditions are in good.

3. They do not exist miracles In the last years have gone out sticks that allow multiple configurations, to the fade, to the draw, neutral, enclosed this year Taylor Made will extract a few wedges with interchangeable faces. But not us confudamos, all these configurations, only they serve if you have a more or less solid ball flight, for what they will help you to correct a light draw or a light fade, but they will not treat to you a slice.

4. Realize well what you want, when you are going to buy: If you have a shop surround where they realize a quality fitting this would be my recommendation. If not, ask the teacher with whom you should teach often, for my that one she is the most stated person so that he recommends to you a type of iron, if I steel or graphite, to regulate, stiff … Then look for information about they, and if you know of someone who has them in your club, perhaps it allows you to prove them, extract you your own conclusions, since your swing and his, it is probable that they do not have because to be equal. Once either you have compiled all the necessary information, either are ready to go to buy. And he remembers, that a thing is the recommendation of a seller and another different thing is that they try to you to pull down a stick, that's why you must know what you want before entering the shop.

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Solaire: everything what there needs a woman who begins in the golf

2009-11-20T13:40:00.001-08:00

Whenever I write on material in Out of Limits, that it is one of my favorite topics, I usually do it of the material directed to the public másculino, between other things because I like trying or reading on the things that I could use, without forgetting that the marks know that the men we are much more capricious at the time of choosing our golf material that most of the women, between other things, because still often we want believing that this new driver will give us 15 meters extra fiancés, amen of without treading on the high grass again …

I have to recognize it and I am sorry about it, but the feminine material is a world almost not known for me, having to realize a punctual study on him, whenever I have given him something of material of golf. Because one of the things that I love of the golf, is to be able to play a party I run to hand with her, because if in a party matchplay with the friends one stakes the honor, when one plays against his wife …

I do not know all that of your wives or fiancées, they are golf players, if they it are not, I imagine that most of you, you will have tried “to hook them” in some moment or at least you will have thought it. If you have never appeared it I recommend it to you and the beginning of year, with the good intentions that we all usually propose, it can be a good epoch for it, or that at least must think Callaway that has just thrown a new sticks set for women beginners, therefore for all those ones whose fiancées or women do not play and queráis to hook them to the golf, perhaps avenges to you well to have in mind the name of Solaire, if in the next months you see that this window is opened.

Solaire is a new line of sticks Callaway for women who begin in the world of the golf. In Spain there will only be free the set of 9 pieces, (8 more sticks the bag), that includes driver, wood 5, hybrid 6 and 7, I shoe 8, Pw, Sand, putter and bag. In the United States, the players also will have a set of 14 pieces, with driver, wood 3,5,7, hybrids 5 and 6, irons 8 and 9, PW, AW, Sand, putter and bag.

The one who reads to me often, knows that Callaway is perhaps my favorite mark, for the way of answering of his products and because they have a few sticks that normally are easy, and for the configuration that it has put to this game, I doubt that they have made them complicated, since to a configuration to the draw and high places lofts, him heads join, rods and grip light. The prices for USA are 599 $ and 899$ respectively, a quite competitive price for the current exchange rate Euro-dollar, but that I imagine that they will come to Spain for something more from 500 €.

Callaway also has thrown a ball with the name of Solaire, for these players, who normally have a speed swing slowly and like any ball that boasts or rather that is commercialized, has been designed to obtain the maximum of distance and gentleness … Being Commercialized in target and in this one rosita so discreetly.

It notices: I have become nervous of seeing so many cases for few sticks, nothing more and neither more nor less than 5 cases for 8 sticks, with the little that I like that thing about it extracts case, put case, if I play in coshush.

Official place | Callaway Golf

Lorraine Ochoa VS Jiyai Shin. I hurt of titanium in Texas.

2009-11-20T07:33:00.001-08:00

The two best players of the year measure his forces in Richmond to take all the honors. Only it will be reminded to one as to the best player of the year 2009.

The first round was suspended by the darkness that existed already at 5:25 p.m., with four groups still in the field. Ochoa, nevertheless, went out early, before the wind was going so far as to do presence. One was finding four blows ahead of Jiyai Shin (70 blows) in the classification, but the surcoreana of 21 years leads for eight points in front of Lorraine in the career for being the player of the year. To gain him this honor for the fourth year in a row, Ochoa must gain this week or end at least third and hope that Shin should not come to the top 10.

Shin and Ochoa began for the second nine holes and both were two under pair after 3hoyos. Shin added birdies to his card in the holes 13 and 15 four put himself under pair. Both did bogey in the difficult one 17 and recovered with more birdies in the first nine holes.

“Tomorrow it is a renewal,” Ochoa said. “I am going to play as if it was five blows behind and to keep on being aggressive to give me some opportunity to win on Sunday.” Shin did bogey in two of his last four holes when the wind began to do ravages. It is treating, as we mention already to you in Out of Limits, to be named rookie and player of the year. Nancy López is the only player who has obtained it up to the date, in 1978.

Shin and Ochoa also are in the struggle for Vare Trophy, which is granted to the player with a lower average suddenly during the period. “I have played for two under pair, which is not very bad bearing in mind the wind that existed,” Shin said. “Lorraine has played very well, 66 blows, but there are still three more rounds. I am going to concentrate myself only on my game and try to extract the best thing of me for three remaining rounds.”

Michelle Wie moved back from the end of period of the LPGA Tour Championship for a sprain in his left ankle, a few hours before Lorraine Ochoa was doing six blows under pair (66 blows) in one day with wind, obtaining this way the leadership on Reilley Rankin for a difference blow.

Wie, of 20 years, which won for the first time in the LPGA last week in Mexico, did 72 blows in the evening. It ended up by limping. “He wanted to do everything what could to fight the pain. I have realized today that it could not keep on playing.”

Wie obtained the public's biggest inflow during the day in Houstonian Golf and Country music Club and 12 was finding 3 blows for of down the pair in the hole. His ankle gave up in 13 and his exit was direct to the rough, doing slice, what cost him the first bogey.

It was capable of 14 getting over in the seemingly difficult hole but it did not obtain it in 17, pair 3, where his ball went out again to the right and entered directly the water. A double bogey that led her to being placed in the pair of the field.

Wie went to talk each other after his round and moved back one hour despuñes.

“I want to be sure that I am making something intelligent,” Wie said. “I to house to which the doctors check it to me and will continue again his advices for the treatment.”

In conclusion, the two best players of the period fighting for all the qualifications in the last tournament of the year in the LPGA Tour. Is it possible to ask more?

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Power Play Golf in Anfi Tauro: in what holes would you go for the black flag?

2009-11-20T01:28:00.001-08:00

Another day I spoke on the first championship of Power Play Golf that goes to dispute in Spain, this Saturday in the field of Anfi Tauro Golf, which finally yes that I will play because I have received an invitation of the organization of the tournament.

The particular rules of Power Play Golf (PPG) are that you have to play obligatorily 3 black flags in the first 8 holes, being optional to play that of the hole 9. Of one the results worse than the pair where you have gone for the black flag, punctuate eight just as in a stableford, while the birdies or better results punctuate double. If in the hole 9, one he decides to go for the black flag, he has to know that the bogey has a penalization of two points.

The decision to go for the black flag is done in the tee and is irrevocable. My game handicap in Anfi Tauro Golf is 6 for 18 holes, as what in the first return I will have three points, that's why I make use that I am a player with strategists golfísticos to the back to wonder: In what holes should it decide to go for the black flag?

My exposition for the day is simple, to play the black flags in the holes in which I have point, since if I am capable of playing well my points, it would be multiplying the punctuation that it would obtain in each of these holes.

Perhaps, the most complicated hole is 7, hp 1 of the field, where you need to do distance, in a street protected by water by the left and stones by the right, to leave the second blow to you with a short iron, to attack a flag, that I imagine that it will be much formed a corner to the left so that the water between in game.

It is for the difficulty of the hole 7, together with the facility of the hole 4, a pair 4 with dogleg to the right, in that playing of yellow it is possible to try to go for the green, that I have some doubts about my exposition.

Bearing in mind the points with which game, the obligatory nature to have to attack at least three flags of the 1 to 8, I will rise two questions to you: where would you play the Power Play? and: when would you decide to attack the flag of 9 whose bogey reduces two points?

It notices: yes, yes I agree with those who think that a thing is the initial plateamiento and another thing what happens in the field, but nevertheless, I like silver-plating my way of playing before puncturing ball in one.

Official place | Power Play Golf
In Out of Limits | Anfi Tauro Golf

Bludgeon for the Career to Dubai: it chooses your winner

2009-11-19T15:28:00.001-08:00

Rory McIlroy is trying to turn into the youngest player in ending in the highest of the Order of Merit of the European Circuit in the last 30 years, since it was already making it Seve with only 19 years. Without pressure.

The Englishman Lee Westwood, the German Martin Kaymer and also English Ross Fisher they are also in struggle for the title. The tournament of Dubai, with an award for 1,25 million dollars, tells to the winner with 58 of 60 best players in the list of profit of this year. Also, the winner will be provided with a bonus for 1,5 million dollars for Dubai is proclaimed a champion of the Career. Did you believe that the golf had been finished for this year? Wait one more weekend.

Rory McIlroy (2.538.449 euros): McIlroy is provided with the motivation and the pressure of being the youngest player in gaining this Order of Merit in 30 years of history of the Circuit. His advantage with regard to the second classified (Lee Westwood) is of scarcely 130.000 euros. “With all the money that disputes this week everything is going to be more exciting,” McIlroy said before the last practices meeting under the burning sun of the Arab desert. “And the true thing is that the Career to Dubai has created many espectación around. How do I take the pressure? I take it as one more tournament and try to extract my best golf. If I play the best thing that everything was finishing in his place. My target this year was to enter between the best 10 of the world and with another good week I will have obtained it.”

Lee Westwood (2.410.277 euros): It cannot be reached by anybody if it wins in Dubai. If English remains second it will be champion if McIlroy is not first or joins him in the second position, and if Martin Kaymer does not win. He needs to gain 128.173 euros more than McIlroy and Westwood is a born winner. This year has achieved only one victory (Portugal Master's degrees) and eleven top 10, including the third position in Open Británico and the US PGA Championship.

Martin Kaymer (2.332.544 euros): As Westwood, nobody can take the victory from him if it gains the tournament. He needs to gain 205.905 euros more than McIlroy therefore it has to end, like minimum in the fourth position (and to hope that McIlroy should stay behind). Kaymer has obtained two victories: Open de France Alstom and Barclays Scottish Open, in addition to another five top 10.

Ross Fisher (2.105.046 euros): It has to end the firstly or the secondly only to have an opportunity to exceed 433.403 euros that they separate to him from McIlroy. Even in case Fisher should manage to win he has to hope that McIlroy and Westwood should not do it. Fisher has a very recent victory, in Volvo World Match Play Championship, and another four top 10. It is in a big form.

What is your favorite? I bet for McIlroy, although not why, I do not believe that it gains the tournament but yes the Career to Dubai. It is the easiest option I know it. In any case, this form gives a lot of importance to the latter tournament because any winner would give an enormous jump in the list of profit. So that you do to yourselves an idea, Jami Donaldson, at present in the position 60 in the Career to Dubai, position might go so far as to reach it eleventh.

More Information | Europaean Tour

Awards dominios.es: Congratulations Meaztegi Golf!

2009-11-19T09:26:00.001-08:00

At the end of August I wrote this post, on the web page of Meaztegi Golf, which the antención had called me greatly by the way so different that the persons in charge of the page, Novisline, he had chosen to teach us the field hole to hole.

Well, this week during the celebration of Ficod 09, the page www.meaztegigolf.es has been rewarded in the Awards dominios.es like one of the best 20 pages of the history of the domain.es, the innovation being valued, creativity … to a golf page I have surprised The delivery of this award pleasantly if we bear in mind other prizewinners, between whom we are pages like The World, Vodafone, White Hen … Also the page of Meaztegi Golf gathered a special mention of the part of Google, of the hands of Laurence Fontinoy, Marketing manager of Google for Spain.

From here giving the congratulations to all the persons involved in the project of the page of Meaztegi Golf, and hoping that the securing of this award just should be an extra motivation to keep on innovating in as showing to the golfers the golf courses.

Official place | Ficod

The phrases of the week: JBWere Master's degree

2009-11-19T03:22:00.001-08:00

Last week was not an any week, topcoat for the Australian golf. There had not been seen such a big mobilization of public and press since Greg Norman was in his best times and was playing in his native country, and quite thanks to the everlasting one: Tiger Woods, which managed to win in the continent in which it had not won until Sunday: Oceania.

But it was not a question of the interesting only thing that happened last week. Michelle Wie, the big promise that arose like a hurricane a few years ago when scarcely it had 16 years, which it has played masculine championships, which so much exist since to speak … Gained on Sunday his first professional tournament in the LPGA Tour. The hawaina was contentísima. Do not get lost his declarations and how (surprisingly) it seems to have the feet in the soil. Declarations that they sum up the whole previous week.

“It had never won here, therefore now I have won in all the continents, except in the Antarctica. I have not played the Four-Ball of the Antarctica yet but to win in all the continents jugables is something that I have always wanted to do. Now I can say that I have done it.” – Tiger Woods, after his victory in JBWere Masters of Australia.

“Only seeing them going out and taking responsibility for beer … was a big sensation. I have always seen it in the television and I have always wanted that it was happening to me.” – Michelle Wie, after celebrating his victory in the green of 18 in what Tour was his first victory in the LPGA, in the Lorraine Ochoa Invitational.

“This is what the Australian golf needed, to have this impact. Seeing that the bleachers were full … we had never had something like that since Greg Norman was playing.” – Rod Pampling, speaking that Tiger Woods was going to play the JBWere Masters.

“I lost probablemnte a dozen of balls, easily.” – Johnny Damon, champion in World Series with the New York Yankees (yankees), after playing in the pro-am part of Children Miracle Network Classic.

“We have happened for many things with my family, and it is brilliant that could be here with me to share my successes and to prevent I from being raised to the head.” – Wie again, speaking that his parents B.J. and Bo were joining her after winning in Mexico.

“I have a million memories of this week.” - Jon Brendle, official of the PGA Tour for years, remembering the last tournament that his friend Payne Stewart played, in Disney, 10 years behind.

“There is nothing better than to play at home.” - Loreno Ochoa, on the fact of playing the Lorraine Ochoa Invitational in Guadalajara, Mexico. It ended joined in the sixth position.

“The captain's roll is complex, difficult and demanding, and I am grateful sincerely to Bread stick, a big friend, who takes this big responsibility.” - Seve Ballesteros, announcing that Colin Montgomerie should be a captain the edition of Royal Trophy of the next year, which faces Europe against Asia in a format of Ryder Cup.

“Nothing more to see per today.” – A spectator of JBWere Masters in Australia, after Tiger Woods was stopping playing one day of last week.

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Casio Exilim EX-FS10: a good cármara for the golfer

2009-11-18T21:08:00.001-08:00

Last week, our Xataca partners spoke about Casio Exilim HS EX-FS10 and I have to admit, that the possibility of having a camera of photos and video that was recording me at “superslow speed” was an idea that was for the head from hacía already about some time.

Nevertheless, our Xataca partners were speaking about the possibility of an analyzer of swing with the same camera, in mine, or it is not or not I have found it still, although it is true that a comment of a reader says that the camerawoman who includes the above mentioned swing analyzer would be the Casio Exilim EX-FS10S, who only would be free for the Japanese market, but nevertheless, can assure you, that to invest in a camera as Casio Exilim EX FS10 is worth it and if do not keep on reading …

In the top video it is possible to see one of the utilities that more I like of Casio Exilim EX FS10 that is the aptitude to record HS, what allows the visualization of the video at a speed where the mistakes do not escape already of the human eye. The video of my children (5 and 4 years) was extracted by a speed of 210 fps, being able to come even 1000 fps per second. Nevertheless to major number of stills per second, minor is the field of image that we have, and major are the needs for light that are needed. But since you can verify, the above mentioned speed allows us to see the swing at a speed where the mistakes are seen clearly.

On the same morning, during my class with Hot-dog, we make use that the good one of Carlos Suneson was, to compare, well to have them at the same time, because to compare, to compare, I believe that there is not … And as in Las Palmas a big water waterspout was callendo, the light did not allow to record a video to slow camerawoman who had a good quality, for what I leave the video in HD and normal speed.

When we use Casio Exilim EX-FS 10 as as a photos camera, it has a utility that any golfer will love, since with the shot function it continued, each of 6 megapixels allows to extract up to 30 images per second with a quality. What does this guarantee to you? That you will have the sequence of the swing in photos, while with a camerawoman who is not capable of obtaining so many images per second, you will cross the fingers, so that the photo goes out in the wished moment.

The maximum quality of Casio Exilim EX-FS 10, if we do not have the shot function continued, it is 9,1 megapixels, an optical zoom of 3x, 32 Mb of internal memory and all this condensed in 139 grams, being smaller than my BB Bold. Is it the best camerawoman? I imagine that not, but for the price, slightly more than 230 euros, and for how it covers my needs, I have to admit that I am very satisfied with her, and believe that any golfer, which likes recording his swing, should throw a look before buying any camera.

It notices: this camera can induce depression, since a thing is to know that your swing is not perfect and another thing, it is to be capable of seeing all the mistakes that this one has.

Tiger Woods in Australia: has everything been seen?

2009-11-18T11:16:00.001-08:00

One has spoken about three million dollars that Tiger Woods has received for puncturing ball in the tee of the 1, one has spoken about his victory, but although Tiger Woods is a superclass, the best player of golf of the history, which you want that he says to you, to me does not like seeing these things in a golf course, and less still, when the one that does them, is the player most followed by the whole world.

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We release version for mobiles of Out of Limits: We go away with you all over

2009-11-18T03:42:00.001-08:00

Today we present to all of you the version for mobiles of Out of Limits. It is a question of a new format of the blog adapted and lighter, especially designed for mobile phones, which improves enormously the experience of the user. From now on, gaining access to the mobile version from m.fueradelimites.com, you will be able to navigate and see from your mobile terminal our content with more agility and speed.

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The best blows of golf of this decade

2009-11-17T21:34:00.001-08:00

To sit down, to take it calmly, because the blow of Craig Parry that you finish in the hole 18 of the Willow wren 2004 is not including inside the best 10, therefore it imagines the one that you approaches … And for the way, there have remained other blows as the stroke of luck that there had Troy Matteson, which jumped in the water went out of the obstacle and that him Open was able to take the victory in Frys.com 2009 (minute 1:15). I do not know if for the way you will throw anyone in absence …

. Geoff Ogilvy, US Open 2006, hole 17: Geoff Ogilvy puts a chip in 17 (minute 2:05) that would give him the opportunity to gain his first big one after the widespread collapse that happened: I am such an idiot were the declarations of Phil Mickelson, after his collapse in 18 …

9. David Toms, PGA Championship 2001, hole 15: the hole in the longer one obtained to gain a big one. From 243 yards in Altlanta Athelic Club ….Lo I feel, of this one there is no video, but a hole in one, to cut a difference away all at once with Phil Mickelson and to put itself with one of advantage and three holes for playing, one deserves to be here.

8. Tiger Woods, US Open 2008, hole 18: a putt to get into the play off of 18 holes with Roco Mediate. We all knew that it was inside: truth?

7. Phil Mickelson, The Masters 2004, hole 18: The blow is from the minute 5:39, but earlier a little of these things that it does that Phil Mickelson is a special player. The putt to give him his first victory in a big one, a blow, a birdie and a victory, to change the whole career. the most important blow in the career of Phil Mickelson?

It notices: with this blow, it has been with the only one that, on having seen them now, the chicken-meat put itself me. I cannot deny that Phil Mickelson is one of my favorite players, if not that more …

6. Tiger Woods, PGA Championship 2002, hole 18: there is no video of the whack, but in the memory of Tiger Woods there has remained engraved as best blow of all his career: from the street bunker, to 202 yards, wind against approximately 20 miles for hour and a few trees that Tiger Woods was bringing in in game … did not gain this big one, but his blow gained a position in his memory.

5. Padraig Harrington, The Open 2008, hole 17: with an impressive wind and with the pitcher of claret in game, Padraig Harrington did what it did …

4. Phil Mickelson, Colonial 2008, hole 18: Pure school mickelsoniana …: Will my brother-in-law be right when he says that 80 % of the tree is an air?

3. Y.E Yang, PGA Championship 2009, hole 18: to gain his first big one, the first one obtained by an Asian player, having gone out with Tiger Woods in the last party with the last one like leader.

2. Shaun Micheel, PGA Championship 2003, hole 18, Oak Hill Country music Club:! Go tirazo to gain a big one!

1. Tiger Woods, The Masters 2005, hole 16: do I have to say anything more to you?

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Casio Exilim EX-FS10: a good camera for the golfer

2009-11-17T15:18:00.001-08:00

It notices: this camera can induce depression, since a thing is to know that your swing is not perfect and another thing, it is to be capable of seeing all the mistakes that this one has.

Stretch marks, water and spin: this way fond the water to your ball

2009-11-13T10:18:00.001-08:00

To the little of proving my new irons, which have the stretch marks similar to the new regulation, I commented (here and here) that in my humble opinion, the players who normally play with humid conditions would see more affected than that that normally we play with a few dry conditions, since to minor stretch marks surface, minor quantity of evacuated water and that a minor would generate spin.

It is true that the hardness of the greenes also influences the aptitude to brake the ball, but my opinion was more focused on the aptitude to generate spin in a few or other conditions, since the hardness of the greenes, it will depend also on the greenkeeper, which in the concrete case of my club, the heat means soaked early-rising of greenes, lteniendo this way, greenes receptive the whole year.

And looking, looking, I met a few very interesting information on a page that also it is. (Tourspecgolf), where there is done echo of a study realized by Golf Today and PRGR, in which using of a Launch Monitor, in interior conditions, to eliminate factors as the wind, wet hands … to generate the humid conditions, they used a spray with water to soak the ball and the face of the stick before the player was giving the blow, obtaining a few results, which us demostrán like the water fond of the aptitude to generate spin.

Before starting, remembering you, what so much Taylormade with his Penta or Callaway with the is are telling us on the different needs of spin with the driver and with the short blows. With the driver, we are interested in the minor spin posbile, that will give us a major distance, while with the short blows, we need to generate the biggest possible spin to control the ball. Nothing new, but the new balls, they are based on this bipolar behavior, which comes to us to hair to speak about the results of the study.

The following table reflects the information of a ball given with a driver of 9 grades, making enough clear, that a simple water layer in the driver and in the ball, increases the spin (+700) diminishing in approximately 8 yards the distance, decrease that will be major in the reality on having had to face the ball to the rain.

In the study also 5 measured the information with a wood, affecting the rain of equal way than to the driver, increasing the spin (+1000) and diminishing the distance. Of course, here the spin increase might help us to stop the ball in the green.

But let's go now to the statistics with a wedge of 58 grades for a shot of approximately 50 yards, because I can make sure you that some of the results are surprising.

In the following table we can observe like the fond rain and of which way to the aptitude to generate spin, diminishing the spin in approximately 3.500 rpm (-30.12 %) when the rain does presence act. Also, this decrease in the spin, as we comment already previously, it provokes an increase of the distance, and while in dry conditions the average distance was 49,3 yards, with humid conditions, the distance increased even 56, 3 yards. It distances one more than important, if our target was to go for the flag that was to 50 yards.

On having read the previous paragraph, someone will have said, well, we have lost 3500 rpm of spin, but the ball must keep on bitting enough … And I say to you, that this loss is quite comparable to throw a wedge without stretch marks, since as it is possible to see in the following table, a wedge without stretch marks in dry conditions, it is capable of generating up to 7.325 rpm, that is to say, it generates 36,57 % less of spin that a wedge with stretch marks in dry conditions. Namely a wedge without stretch marks is capable of generating 90,77 % of the spin that generates a wedge with stretch marks in humid conditions.

Seeing these results, I believe that the players of the north, would not harm in doing wedges gathering during the year 2010, the only year where they will be able to keep on selling wedges with illegal stretch marks, to keep them and to go playing them in the winters that we have left until the year 2024, because the differences, in humid conditions, can be very important.

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Mizuno MP 68:! what someone brings the bread, that I already have the butter!

2009-11-12T18:31:00.001-08:00

To measured of October this post was writing on the sticks election, and how you can see in the photo that was illustrating saying post, it already had in mind what he wanted: Mizuno MP 68.

I have to admit that it was taking a time with desire to have a few Mizuno, because there is the first mark that me viena to the head when someone names the word forged and because whenever I have played with them, I had remained with very good sensations.

According to Mizuno, the MP 68 are the next generation of irons muscleback, thanks to the optimization of the programs that allow the exact location of the COG, lower and more centred on the face, what allows a flight of more manoeuvrable and penetrating ball … bla, bla, bla. After having played almost two weeks with them, these are my sensations.

At first sight, the Mizuno MP 68 present a classic and clean design that enters the eyes. If there were a web page, undoubtedly there would be Google, simple and clean design, with a big engineering quantity behind but that is not seen. Of course, after having seen them repeatedly for all the sides, to one him a doubt arises. Will I have bought to myself a few too serious sticks for me?

One raises these questions because the truth is that the face of the Mizuno MP 68 is well small, and in the stance, they turn out to be really finite... But I can make sure you, that when one begins giving balls with them, the fears disappear, because in spite of not being very tolerant with an evil swing, the sticks are easier enough than his appearance was making us think and trump enough good.

My Mizuno MP 68 have a few rods Rifle Project 6.0, grips Golf Pride ® M-21 58 Round, and after two weeks playing with them, one realizes, that those of the department of marketing of Mizuno, they were telling the truth, the flight of the ball is penetrating, a flight of ball higher than with my previous irons – that was not low - what can counterreduce the loss of spin that they would have to have because they have the legal stretch marks for the year 2010. And they were not also lying, inside my technical limitations, when he was saying that they allow to move enough good the ball, because to me who is difficult to me to close more the ball that to open it, with the Mizuno MP 68 this type of blows they are working out for me better.

I have lost some distance with the Mizuno MP 68, but it is slightly logical, since my ancient sticks were two stronger grades and had a Rifle Project 5.5, for what it is not possible to impute to the sticks the above mentioned loss either, because in addition to the loss is small, we are not comparing caracterísiticas be equal. Of course, the Mizuno MP 68 demand quality blows, since to little that the swing is not good, you will lose distance, which particularly in these two weeks has helped me to improve very much my rhythm.

But since more I have liked the Mizuno MP 68 it is for all the sensations that they transmit on having beaten him to the ball, there are simply butter, sweet butter as that of Soria and are because of it praise sensations that give to me, together with the need to achieve quality blows, that I am really glad to have the Mizuno MP 68 in my injured bag.

Official place | Mizuno

Out of Limits more social that never, share everything

2009-11-11T21:52:00.001-08:00

In Out of Limits we are once again of premiere. The readership you keep on being the absolute protagonists because we want that you could share of simple form our contents somewhere near where you move: E-mail, or social services general practitioners as Twitter, Wiggle me, Facebook, Del.io.us or Bitßcoras.com.

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Golf courses guide: Coast Teguise Golf

2009-11-11T15:46:00.001-08:00

Coast Teguise Golf placed in the municipality lanzaroteño of Teguise (Google Maps), it is a commercial field that he combines the subscribers, 125 at present, and the sale of green fees to tourists. To the little of treading on Coast Teguise Golf, one realizes that it is playing in a volcanic island, for the important presence that the picón is going to have along the whole trip.

Coast Teguise Golf is a design of Jhon Harris, inaugurated in the year 1978, but if for something I have liked this field, it is for the Canary interpretation that it has done Jhon Harris of the golf, because there are numerous the streets in which these are cut to give entry to the picón, what probably, an important water quantity saves at the time of the irrigation, in a place where the water is a money and what it exceeds it is the picón. Also, the same picón is present in the bunkers, which will be of picón thin instead of sand, but where the sensation does not differ so much from the conventional bunkers. Undoubtedly, the golf has adapted itself to Canaries in this design.

THE FIELD

Coast Teguise Golf is a pair 72, of 6.744 meters from the half notes tee (to see card), with very narrow streets that also are protected by almost 3.500 palm trees that are located along the whole trip, bringing in these palm trees very easily in game, perhaps too much, to little that we lose the street. In the design of Coast Teguise Golf there abound the dog legs, which in most cases, they will be able or have to attack to avoid shots to green too long, but we must be very careful in the election of our point of court, because if we are too much self-seekers, the glasses of these palm trees will play us very bad spent, but if we it are small, we will cross the street, with what the trunks of the palm trees will enter again game.

If the tightness of the streets, the palm trees and his design they did not seem sufficient to you defense for Coast Teguise Golf, this field presents another two elements that will make more complicated to do few ones in this field, as there are the wind and the picón, which will be present along the whole trip in all that that is not a grass, therefore if you have very much appreciation to your sticks, it is recommended, to play this field to incorporate into your bag an iron piconero, that is to say, an iron to which it does not hurt you to do to him some notches of memory of Coast Teguise Golf, because sooner or later, you will end up by playing from the picón.

The greenes of Coast Teguise Golf were presenting a good aspect, the ball was rolling well, but a few holes happened, before we were comfortable putteando his greenes of Bermuda and Poa … Another curious thing of the greenes, it is the height of his flags, which are much smaller than the habitual thing.

Coast Teguise Golf is a field of those that it is possible to play walking or in coshush, we did it walking and with the bag to the shoulder, without taking a lot of time in realizing that that thing about to take short cuts, might be shorter in time, but costlier in the effort due to the picón, but nevertheless, I believe that it is a very lively field to walk, and where one realizes, that the above mentioned golf course only had a target, to be a golf course, since houses neither exist in the whole trip interferences do not even exist with the players of other holes.

Coast Teguise Golf will make you think very much, in most of his tees you will wonder if it is worth risking to shorten the dog legs over the palm trees and to have a short shot to green or if it is worth playing peacefully street and having a shot to green long, that it is possible to turn in a quite long shot if the wind does presence act. If you lose the street, it is probable that the palm trees or his long sheets interfere in the flight of your ball, therefore you will turn out to be forced to move the ball and if you have failed more, you will learn to play from the picón …

When we play there was neither available one nor GPS, nor any stroke saver of the field, because the new ones were in the printing, and if normally I like having a stroke saver, for this field it seems crucial to me, to be able to enjoy it in your first visit. Less evil that in my golf bag was taking my laser, which allowed us to have the court point for our distances with the driver or with the irons, if not, our experience on Coast Teguise Golf had been completely different …

SITUATION

Coast Teguise Golf encunetra in the island of Lanzarote, province of Las Palmas (Google Maps) to scarce 15 km of the airport, although it is true, that to come to the field we had to stop and ask a pair of times, for not having seen any type of signaling that was helping us to come to him. Also, the GPS of the blackberry did not also serve to us as much, since most of the streets were not presenting a sign with the name. For what if you are going to play, and you do not know the area, as it was ours I marry, recommend not to go out with the just time.

CONCLUSION

To be able to value exactly Coast Teguise Golf, I believe that it is necessary to bear in mind that we are speaking about an island with a population of less than 140. 000 inhabitants and little more than 200 local golfers. Once said this, I believe that Coast Teguise Golf, without being a length, is an entertaining field, different from what normally we are used to be played and that if it is allied by the wind, will not allow to do few ones to himself.

The worst part of Coast Teguise Golf takes the house club, saving to the restaurant that was presenting a better aspect, that the rest of facilities that show a sad and slightly elegant aspect, in consonance with the received, correct dealing and without much ado aspirations.

In spite of it, I think that Coast Teguise Golf is a field, that if one is going to be a few days in Lanzarote, it is worth knowing because it is a different, entertaining field and that in some moments will demand imagination from you, and that to today turns out to be the best option to play the golf in the island of Lanzarote, being my evaluation of 7 on 10.

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Callaway Jaws Wedges: the popularization of the rod of graphite in the wedges?

2009-11-11T09:05:00.001-08:00

To beginnings of September we publish the first photos of new Callaway Jaws Wedges, but recently there have become public the characteristics of Callaway Jaws Wedges that soon will be in the shops.

Since you all know, from January, 2010 the professional and certain events amateurs from 2014, they will have a new regulation in the stretch marks of his irons, without affecting the above mentioned regulation at level amateur until the year 2024, what allows new Callaway Jaw wedges to present the stretch marks named MACK Daddy illegal for the pros, but legal for us until 2024, and that will be capable of generating one big spin quantity.

The detail of Callaway of commercializing his new product with this type of stretch marks probably that raises an interesting challenge at distribution level, since it will be able only to distribute them during the year 2010. But there is another topic of Callaway Jaws wedges that has called me more attention …

That someone says it to me if I am wrong, but therefore I have seen in my club, most of the players who use graphite rods in his irons, they usually have steel rods in his wedges, if these are not part of his set of irons. Since if a player is incoporado a blaster to his game, in most of the occasions, the above mentioned player will have a Dynamic Gold in his wedges, because not always it is easy to find wedges with graphite rods, therefore for most of them Dynamic Gold Wedge it will be too hard or too heavy, but this is the rod that till now we were in most of the wedges of the principal marks.

And it is precisely in this point, where new Callaway Jaw Wedges can play an important trick, since between series, without the need of upgrade, they can be chosen any of these models with a rod of graphite of 85 (R) or 95 (S) grams, especially designed by Fujikura for his use with Callaway Jaw Wedges, as tells to us the guru of wedges of Callaway, Roger Cleveland, in this video.

The graphite election for a wedge, he reminds to me that this post that I read already does a pair of months and whose reading I recommend for all those players who take graphite rods in the irons and of steel in his wedge, because it is possible that he makes them think, since the difference of weight between his útilmo is shod by me and the first wedge can become of something more about 30 grams, because if one is used to the feeling of the graphite to change material can provoke a loss of feeling in the sticks where more feeling is necessary.

It is precisely because of it, that the decision of Callaway to popularize the graphite rod in the wedges, personally seems very interesting to me, because my personal sensation, it is that her if one wanted to have a graphite rod in his wedges, he had to say that not to an important series of models, like Vokey Wedges, therefore it can that Callaway has opened a very interesting door for those players who prefer sensations and weight as seemed as possible between his irons and his wedges.

Official place | Callaway Golf
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Rods SST Purée: what means this?

2009-11-10T08:33:00.001-08:00

I still remember the first time that I heard speaking about SST Purée, it was it does a pair of years in one of my forums or favorite shops, bombsquadgolf and I have remembered them, on having done yesterday a simulation of a wedge in Scratch Golf, since it is an extra option that is present for the personalización of your sticks.

In one of my first post I spoke about as the rods were not perfect because there are no perfectly regions, not even straight lines you last in all his length and that provokes that every rod is only, what can provoke different behaviors between rods of the same model. What is what does the system SST Purée?

The process SST Purée bears the identifiación of the asymmetries of every rod, which allows to find the PPOP, principal planar oscillation plane, that is the same that to say, the plane in which the rod will prove to be stabler at the time of striking the ball. On the page of SST Purée we can observe a study realized by an independent company, Golfs Laboratories Inc, which show us all the information of throwing, flight and landing of the ball, when rods have used with the process SST Purée and when the same stick has used with the same rod without the process SST Purée.

The van of SST Purée accompanies the pros of the PGA Tour along the whole circuit, the section of Club Makers de GolfSmith also offers the same system of purification of rods for those persons who demand it, and as it is possible to see in this article of Golfweek that it brings to us GolfSmith, the people of Nike had prepared for Tiger Woods 12 irons games so that it was proving them, only two of them were taking rods SST Purée, without Tiger Woods realizing it: do you know that two sticks games were chosen finally by Tiger Woods for the period? The two with the rods SST Purée.

And yes like all the good things, the purification of the rods it has a price and according to Golf Smith the process of SST Purée for the whole sticks game is of 49.99$. What seems to me? Sincerely the information of the study looks like to me the sufficiently solid ones to give him a vote of confidence, without being able to deny that one has to be much friki so that he likes this and is ready to pay for it, but if I you am sincere, I prefer to pay 35 euros that GolfSmith asks me for this process, that 35 euros that many people are wearing out in the famous puseras of Power Balance.

Official place | SST Purée

Phil Mickelson gains the HSBC Champions

2009-11-08T10:35:00.001-08:00

Phil Mickelson gained the World Golf Championship-HSBC Champions on Sunday having to compete against familiar someone. And it was not a question only of Tiger Woods.
Mickelson put a putt of more than five meters to save the pair in the hole 16 after one of his famous blows for high place, in the following hole a birdie was marked with a three meters putt. Two putts key. It closed his return with three under pair and 69 blows, overcoming an attack of last hour on the part of Ernie Els, that leader was until 18 went away to the water in the hole and did bogey.

Woods was never an alternative to the victory in the last World Golf Championship of the year, falling down to six blows of the head in the first nine holes and relatively being right in it to be supported above in the classification until the end. 18 went away to the water in his third blow of the hole, pair 5, and he had to manage them with a bogey to close with 72 blows and to tie in the sixth position, to five blows of the winner.

It was the third time in his last four returns in which Woods has played in the last party without obtaining the victory.

Mickelson ended with 17 blows under the pair, 271 in whole, and gained 1,2 million dollars with his second World Golf Championships of the year. And of course, it has been the first time that gains a tournament playing last day in the last party with Tiger Woods.

While Mickelson was rising, Els did the opposite.

The South African, which succumbed already when Mickelson won him with a birdie in the final hole of the Master's degrees of 2004, was leading for a blow in the exit of the hole 18. From the way of the street, it was for the green with a street wood and it landed in the way of the lake.

They were talking each other of 200 meters to the beginning of the green from the street, lightly it costs below. 4 was not sufficient for an iron, while an iron 3 would take him over the green and to the water. 5 chose to cut the ball with his wood and it failed.

“But I cannot think about that,” Els said, that the round began seven blows behind the leader. “For me, after having come from so behind, sharing the leadership to these heights of the tournament, it was sufficiently good. I am disappointed for having failed but I am going to think about 63 blows that I have done.”

Els equalled the record of the field Sheshan International, 63 that Rory McIlroy already obtained earlier and that it took to the Englishman to finish quarter.

Els hoped that Mickelson should finish his return and the left-handed one put the interesting thing. His drive went to stop to the left of the street, his second blow went to stop also to the left, cut of a bunker. But, and there was the difference, gave his wedge to the way of the green and put his birdie putt to obtain the victory.

Mickelson won for the fourth time this year and joined his best mark in a period.

Tiger did not wait very much to go away of China, where second had ended in his two previous trips to the HSBC Champions.

“Everything what could go badly has done it today,” Woods said.

Mickelson now prepares himself for a good and fully deserved winter break. One will take three months of holidays before beginning the period the next year in Torrey Pines, at the end of January.

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Scratch Golf and Ryan Moore: a couple not conventional at all

2009-11-06T12:22:00.001-08:00

On the one hand there is Ryan Moore, winner of the last Wyndham Championship or of the US amateur of 2004, but one of the most surprising things of Ryan Moore is that last year played the whole period without having any contract signed with any material manufacturer, because he wanted to play with the sticks that more he liked and was coming to him well to his game.

On another part Scratch Golf is, a mark that for many will not be known, but on which I have been listening to very good criticism, since in February of this year, mygolfspy it delivered to him the award as better wedge. A company that promotes the personalización and adaptation of his products, especially the personalización of the wedges, in function the characteristics of your swing. I recommend to go with this link to his study.

And if I am speaking to you about Ryan Moore and of Scratch Golf it is because yesterday he became a public that two parts have come to an agreement, which undoubtedly is special.

And it is special, because Scratch Golf cannot offer him million dollars, but it can offer him to turn into owner of a part of Scratch Golf and exactly this is what has happened, that Ryan Moore will play with wedges and irons of Scratch Golf, although it is true that it has played last weeks with them and has obtained two top have and in these moments they are in the third position of the WGC HSBC Champions de Shangai.

Linkage | Bloomberg
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Taylor Made XFT Wedges: yes and not of the USGA

2009-11-05T21:13:00.001-08:00

It is not the first time that we speak about the throwing of new Taylor Made XFT wedges (exchangable face technology) and to the rhythm that we go, it will not also be the last time that we speak before his throwing takes place at the beginning of the year 2010.

If the last time was publishing the video that was showing us the good aspect that these wegdes present, today we bring the denial of the USGA to sell the interchangeable faces with aggressive or illegal stretch marks next year.

The USGA has given his approval to these wedges and to the free faces with stretch marks similar to the new regulation of the stretch marks of 2010. But it is necessary to remember that until January, 2011 the marks can make and distribute wedges with "illegal" stretch marks and it is here where the USGA has spoken as regards the interchangeable faces of Taylor Made XFT wedges.

The USGA in spite of Taylor Made XFT wedges had passed, only would have accepted that Taylor Made was selling the faces with free stretch marks in accordance with the rules of 2010, although the golf manufacturers could make and distribute wedges with the above mentioned stretch marks during the next year. Does he have any sense that you could sell wedges with "illegal" stretch marks but not the free faces that have the same stretch marks?

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Power Play Golf, Anfi Tauro Golf and Twitter

2009-11-05T15:03:00.001-08:00

Another day Enrique was speaking to us about how Twitter had brought over some goflistas and his followers, but the best thing of everything, the fact is that twitter it is possible to turn in a way for which the news comes to you.

With this EnzoLake twitt, I find out that a competition or form of game, as it is Power Play Golf, which takes playing some time in diverse countries, is going to have his landing in Spain, but more specifically in the field of Anfi Tauro Golf, of which just person was doing a review this week.

Summing up, I find out across a reader who is in Belgium, that a North American competition goes to begin playing in my island every Saturday: Will all this madness be healthy?

Power Play Golf is a competition different from the traditional golf. One plays in stableford, but in every green there will exist two flags, half note and black woman, being the last one the one that will have a double punctuation in case a birdie is obtained, but if what is obtained is a bogey on the black flag two points are reduced. Also, only they can stuff themselves to 3 black flags in the first 8 holes, therefore you will have to choose the moment to attack each of them. Also, if you play official competitions you accumulate points for the world ranking.

The first competition in Spain will take place on November 28 in Anfi Tauro Golf being present one of his creators, Peter McEvoy, at the opening ceremony that will take place at 3 p.m. From the above mentioned date, a competition of Power Play Golf will take place every Saturday at the same hour in Anfi Tauro Golf. Of course the price is 50 €.

I have to admit that I know the initiative of Power Play Golf for a few months for having read articles about the above mentioned competition, but it is now, that I am going to have it here close, when I have had to form an opinion on this matter, and I have to admit that to today, without having proved it, there me arise more doubts than certainties on this type of competition.

Perhaps one of the aspects that more I like of Power Play Golf is that it is a competition of only 9 holes, since due to my personal situation like father of three children, the permissions to play competitions, although they are not scarce because my wife behaves very well in this aspect, do not also abound like when one was not a father, therefore a competition of 9 holes, it might always hook these persons who do not have so much free time to compete in one of 18 holes. But nevertheless, I have to admit, that the golf of 19 holes is the one that likes playing me …

The idea of benefit risk seems attractive to me, but if normally in the clubs we already see “free interpretations” of some rules, I do not want to know, when truly the people will choose the power play, since according to his rules it is necessary to say it in the tee of this hole and the decision cannot come undone.

And then the price is, nothing more and neither more nor less than 50 € for 9 holes, which it might use to play a few tournaments in the club where I am an associate or one of the tournaments that they usually carry out in the Brackish Golf, Meloneras or Maspalomas. And there are exactly this 50 € the hobble that I consider to be more important, since there are no only 50 €, if not, which one would leave to himself if he decides to begin to be part of this league. Perhaps with a minor price in his first tournaments, it would do that the itch was stinging me …

I hope the idea of Power Play Golf in Anfi Tauro Golf has a big answer between the Canary players and the tourists who come to enjoy our fields in the winter epoch, but I at this price, I have to admit, that I prefer to play 19 holes of the whole life.

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Doug Barron gives the first positive of the history of the golf

2009-11-05T08:35:00.001-08:00

Doug Barron, 40-year-old player who lost his card of the PGA Tour three years ago, turned into the first player in being suspended by the Tour for a test that gave positive for a substance that was increasing the physical yield.

Marram grass has been suspended for one year. It played eight entire periods in the Tour and his best result was a third position joined in Byron Nelson Championship of 2006.

“I would like apologizing for any negative perception of the Tour or of the players that could result from my suspension,” he said Marram grass in a bulletin that the PGA presented Tour on Monday. “I want that both the members of the Tour and the fans know that I did not try, ever, to have a competitive advantage on the rest or improve my yield while I was in the Tour.”

Marram grass has not been located and has not made any more comments. His agent does not answer either.

The news there was gathered by surprise in the HSBC Champions, where right now they are playing the best of the world as one of World Golf Championships.

“I am surprised of listening to that,” there said the champion of British Open Stewart Cink. “I meet him a little. It has taken medicines in the past for very different reasons. I believe that it has a lot to do with the positive.”

Marram grass played the Nationwide Tour last year, spending only five courts in 17 exits to gain 33,446 dollars. It played four times in Nationwide Tour this year and his only exit in the PGA Tour was in the St. Jude Classic, dondé did not spend the cut.

The Tour, which announced the suspension two hours before there began the ceremony of the Entrance hall of the Reputation of the Golf, said that there would no be any more comments of the already announced ones in the bulletin.

Under his antidoping politics, the Tour announces the suspension that transports but it never includes what substance the player has used and for the one that has given positively.

That leaves the players thinking about what would take Marram grass inside the list of substance that they are not allowed, although they are skeptical at the time of thinking if this substance would provide some type of advantage to him.

The last time that Marram grass was a news was in 2006 in Transitions Championship, in Tampa, Florida. There Marram grass took the T-shirt from itself to play a blow in the hole 16. Then it showed an imposing belly, which woke up ironic comments both in the television and on the part of the players.

“I cannot believe it,” Rod Pampling said.: “Doug Barron? Look at him. Say to him that the T-shirt should come out and ask anyone about him: ‘Do you believe that this man is taking drugs that increase his yield?‘”

Jerry Kelly also did declarations, since it knows to Marram grass for years and knows also his problems of health.

“My question is if he was taking something that he was making him feel better and it did not obtain the necessary medical prescription,” Kelly said. “I mean, this player had problems of health. I surprised when I listened to it, but he knew that he was trying to feel better.”

The Tour declared that Marram grass was the first player in being suspended - not necessary the first one in receiving a positive test. The Tour does not suspend or announces no punishment for "recreational" drugs.

Pat Perez also was surprised to listen very much to the news, but he added: "He was not a player in top-20 taking steroids to try to hunt Tiger. In a certain way, it matters, and in other, neither very much. He is not playing the PGA Tour.”

Really I would not consider my Tour to be the first positive in the PGA, since not even Doug Barron was playing it. Nevertheless, it would be necessary to raise the same situation if any player in the top 20 (as Pat Perez says) was going so far as to give positive. It would dare to say that the golf, more than no other sport, is opposite to the drugs consumption to increase the yield. Let's hope that this should not have been any more than a small notice and does not happen again.

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Golf courses guide: Anfi Taurus Golf

2009-11-04T06:15:00.001-08:00

Anfi Taurus Golf is a resort that belongs to the group Anfi, specialized in holiday clubs, placed in the vale of Taurus (Google Maps), in the Canary big municipality of Mogán, which according to the University of Syracuse, is the European municipality with major number of clear days, therefore the good weather, it is more than policyholder, especially if we bear in mind that the annual average temperature is 24 grades.

The trip of Anfi Tauro Golf was inaugurated in October, 2007, being a fruit of the same authors who designed Willow wren Country music Club, von Hagge, Smelek and Baril, adapting itself and scratching the volcanic mountains between which it passes to give place to a field to the purest style Arizona, in which from most of the holes we will be able to enjoy a few wonderful conference to the sea and some of the best greenes the whole Grand Canary.

THE FIELD

The trip of Anfi Tauro Golf stands out for his big versatility, in that any golfer who should decide to play it, will enjoy, since according to his handicap, he will be able to choose between five tees different, being able to choose to play a field with a 4.498 meters minimal distance if we play it from the tee of red, that will do that the tallest handicaps amuse themselves, up to 6.325 meters from the tee of black women, which will offer a big struggle to the lowest handicaps. I highlight that thing about the handicap and the color of the tees, because Anfi Tauro Golf recommends a few tees or others according to the handicap of every player.

In the trip of Anfi Tauro Golf we will meet streets and tees of Paspalum vaginatum and Agrostis-Bentgrass in his greenes, but care, since as in any field style Arizona, the grass comes a moment where it is finished, appearing in his place the stones or the ravines, which will make you pay the truly bad blows.

After a few played holes, one will realize, that the drunk slope is worth being left it arrives for puttear, something that we will be able to know thanks to the map with five positions of existing flags in every green that gives us Anfi Tauro Golf in coshush. The change of place of the holes, as the greenes coffee with a dash of milk, is realized every day, a little to bear much in mind if one decides to stake several days the field of Anfi Tauro Golf during his stay in the island of Grand Canary.

Anfi Taurus Golf is a commercial field, without subscribers, and as the rest of fields of the lucky islands, it presents his high period in the epoch of December - January, while the dead season or of summer it passes from the beginning of May at the end of September, what to my judgment it makes very attractive to this field in any season, since in winter one will play in Bermuda shorts and in summer you will be able to enjoy a field with a few temperatures that rarely reach thirty grades, a green fee cheaper and with the possibility of remaining in the proper resort, without belonging to the holiday club, for what we will have to contact with with the proshopgolf in (@) anfi.es.

In Anfi Tauro Golf it is possible to play walking or in coshush, but my recommendation is to make it motorized, although these have GPS to us, because a pair of transitions exists between holes in which the differences that it is necessary to save are big, due to the orography of the area, therefore the physical demand will be important if one decides to go on foot. In coshush we have bottles of mineral water, courteousness of Anfi Tauro Golf and of a seedbed to arrange the chops that we realize, a little that one will make pleased to support the level of care that is observed in the whole field. Also I recommend to be wrong one day in the shot to green and take some of his bunkers of thin and free sand. The whole pleasure, for that we enjoy the blows of recovery from the sand, which will make us think that to fall down in these bunkers, it is not possible to consider to be a punishment.

If there is some emblematic hole or that can mark occurring of your return, this is a hole 13. A good way of seeing the difficulty of this hole, is to verify that the distance from of the tee of red and blue is 70 and 90 meters respectively, while if someone decides to play it from the black women tee, it will face 198 meters and almost without error margin, although it is true, that after the highest tee is, the distance to be covered is minor. Nevertheless, when one is in the black women tee, he cannot avoid that him between the doubt on that I comment in the video, but I have to admit, that the tension and the demand of this hole do that it is one of my favorite holes of the field.

Another peculiarity of the trip of Anfi Tauro Golf is the “green double” of 9 and of 18, which really is only one immense green protected by a lake in his frontal part, but in which the game of some and others does not interfere. Also the hole 18, is a pair attainable 5 of two any time we are ready to take risks from the exit tee and the frontal water does not shrink the arm to us in the shot to green, therefore in this hole we will be able to recover or lose some blow that does that the final victory is praised aside or to other.

SITUATION

Anfi Taurus Golf is placed to the south-west of the island of Grand Canary, being very easy to gain access to him, since the freeway GC-1, it leaves us at the edge of the resort. The time to gain access to Anfi Tauro Golf will depend on our game place, but the estimation is of approximately 15 minutes from the hotels of Máspalomas and something more about 45 minutes for those that they gain access to Anfi Tauro Golf from the city of Las Palmas.

CONCLUSION

Anfi Taurus Golf talks each other of a young field that still has important tasks ahead from the point of view of the services, which not of the trip if, as there is the construction of his house club definitive or smaller details, as it can be the availability of a stroke saver for the clients who demand it, although they me are still clear that on this point they are already working, but in spite of this hanging fringe, Anfi Tauro Golf is a good golf course where all the members of the family will be able to enjoy, already are handicaps high or low, where the calmness and the good weather are guaranteed, as the power to enjoy some of the greenes, where better wheel the ball of the whole island, being for it for that my evaluation of the field is 8 points on 10.

Next I leave to you the gallery of photos of Anfi Tauro Golf

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Jose Maria Olazabal enters the Entrance hall of the Reputation of the Golf

2009-11-03T23:31:00.001-08:00

Jose Maria Olazábal began yesterday to be part of a players' cast that there are considered the best of the history of the golf: the Entrance hall of the Reputation. Chema is in this list along with Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Sam Snead, Seve Ballesteros … Lanny Wadkins and Christy O'Connor also entered this list along with Spanish.

It is second Spanish in the Entrance hall of the Reputation after Seve was doing it in 1999. Many Americans remember still the wonderful couple that both were doing in Ryder Cup, relation that began when Olazábal had 15 years and Seve asked him if a Charitable Event would play with him in Pedreña.

“Something special that day happened,” Olazabal said. “It is very difficult to explain it, but you can call it a chemistry, as you want, but it was the base of a big relation across the years and that appeared in Ryder Cup.”

Both Spanish have played many rounds together and Olazabal said yesterday that he learned very much “particularly about the green,” of his mentor. But perhaps Seve has taught him also very much on the perseverance, since Olazabal was 18 months out of the fields for problems in his back.

“It taught me the important thing that is not to give up in any point or stage of the party or the tournament. It has always had this competitive spirit, it never gave up and I have learned much of him.”

“I believe what happened to big help in my career, topcoat in some moments when the things do not salt you as you want. You think: Is worth it all this work that I am investing? And later you look at someone as he and say: ' well, there are no short cuts, so it keeps on working hard.‘”

The most exciting point of the night was when Seve Ballesteros did the presentation of Olazabal as new member of the Entrance hall of the Reputation in a video, since it was not in conditions to come to the appointment for being still recover of his cerebral cancer.

“He enjoys of this so special night and receives a strong hug,” he said Archers in the video.

Olazabal came to the podium crying and he was grateful to Archers for the whole help that had given him throughout the years, in addition to for allowing him to be his couple in Ryder Cup, where they possess a record of 11-2-2.

“I a genius as it was you who was never,” Olazabal said. “I hope that this should serve so that you feel proud of me.”

In Out of Limits we already comment to you on this news when he announced to himself his entry to the Entrance hall of the Reputation. It was one very special day for Olazabal, who declared in his moment: "I am dazzled. Only one small group of players has the privilege of being in the Entrance hall of the Reputation and I have an enormous respect to each of them. There are many players here who have obtained incredible things, and to have a small badge with my recorded name here makes me feel very specially. I am particularly happy for following the Seve steps in the Entrance hall of the Reputation. It opened many doors and we have a big hanging debt to he.”

Biggest news for the Spanish golf.

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Taylor Made XFT Wedges: a good image costs more than thousand words

2009-10-29T23:47:00.001-07:00

It already does some time I wrote this post with some of the first images that it had seen of Taylor Made XFT Wedges, but today I could have seen the video with which we initiate the post and the truth the fact is that I like the idea much more seeing it in this video that the one that initially I had had left after the initial photos.

It had my doubts of as it would be the face of the wedges, if one would notice or not that they are interchangeable, but in view of the obtained images of Tour Van de Taylor Made, I have to admit that I do not dislike the face of the wedge by no means, and that seeing the face, one cannot even realize that this face is extraíble.

The idea of being able to have new stretch marks in only a few minutes and to a cost very lower than that of a new stick it is possible that us convenzca to a few, it will be necessary to prove it and to have sensations, but the idea me does not dislike, nevertheless, it is difficult to me to imagine to the people worried by his stretch marks, when neither most of players nor worry for his grips …

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New stretch marks 2010: the first sensations

2009-10-29T16:38:00.001-07:00

Yesterday morning there came my new irons, about which I will speak already further on, but these new irons come already with the stretch marks that would be legal in 2010 for the professional players, but that will not affect the amateurs even in a few years.

When one spends the hand for the face of the stick, the first thing that you notice it is the gentleness, as if the face of the stick was smoother, and reason is not missing, since what exists trying the USGA and R&A it has been the reduction of the entire surface of stretch marks and that also they have rims redondendados, Dick Rugge, the Director Técnico Senior of the USGA explains to us in est and video: What are the sensations that one obtains in the field with them?

The photo that véis in the beginning of the post belongs to a shot with a wedge from the street, therefore as you can verify, from the street the ball keeps on braking enough good, at least in the greenes that I usually play, that are not excessively hard …

The following photo belongs to a shot to green with an iron 5 from the street, therefore you can keep on verifying that the ball keeps on braking enough with the longest irons.

I could not have extracted a clear conclusion of the behavior yet from the high grass, which will be where they will be evident the effect of the stretch marks more, although it is true, that in my bag I keep on taking 60, 56 and 52 with ancient stretch marks, therefore having the new stretch marks in the irons must not affect, since in a the majority of the holes of my field, the second blows the suelo play so much with these sticks.

Normally, I usually do not play with Pro V1, if not with Callaway HX or with Bridgestone B330 since it was turning out to be easier to control the backspin with these balls to me that with the Pro V1, and it is there where me more doubts are arising with the new stretch marks, since with the new irons, in spite of having beaten him well to the ball with short irons, I have not seen this excessive backspin appearing for the time being, in spite of having played with the Pro V1, therefore I would not be surprised very much, that into next months it could change my ball election, but on having kept on taking ancient stretch marks in the blasters.

Image | Ovidio Vidal

Golf courses guide: Farm Cortesín

2009-10-28T03:34:00.001-07:00

The second field that we bring to you in our newly released Guide of Golf courses is a spectacular trip, in spite of being very young and being inaugurated in 2008. I refer to Farm Cortesín, a field designed by Cabell Robinson, placed in Casares (Malaga) and where the quality and the good service occupy first place over all the things.

The first thing that impresses one in Farm Cortesín there is the care of the small details and the satisfaction of the golfer. They cannot beat him to the ball for you, but they want that you happen a little bit unforgettably: To come to the club, to park your car and that in this moment beech a person prepared to gather your sticks bag and to make them just in front of the exit of the wardrobe towards the tee of the 1, it is possible to be said that it is the best way of beginning a golf round. Very well, yes, only we lack that it is nice, but the fact is that on the beach of the Sun, above it is still what usually exists.

The good taste and the worry for the details never stops surprising the visitor of this field. The house club, which from the first hour already offers all kinds of services to the player (a breakfast, shop, wardrobes …), it is what you are going to be nothing more to bend the car and to deliver your sticks. You gain access to the wardrobes and go out already prepared to play. Very well, still not: It is necessary to happen for the practices field to give a few balls and to go out with the swing to point.

Scarcely it is necessary to walk a few meters, less than 30 from the house club, and we already are the field of practices, where there is puesos with prepared balls so that you come and stick. In this field, the practices balls are not paid, they are for courteousness of the club. Another detail more that it does not happen unnoticed, and neither it is done by the curious system of laying of the balls, as you can see in the low image, in the shape of pyramid.

There comes already the hour of setting off towards the tee of one. If it is hot, do not doubt it and choose to play in buggie, that on the beach of the Sun gives well the sun and a return cannot spoil you in a field like this one. If you choose to play motorized, you will do it in buggies electrical of last generation, that they do not do anything of noise and are provided with a novel help system to the player, who provides by means of a screen information at all times on the route to be continued, it distances to flag from the car, results record, between others.

When you come to the first hole, the good sensations keep on flowing. The grass of the tee of impeccable exit, the street perfectly elegant, a fearsome rough but there is mistake margin and when you tread on the green you verify that also it is of an exceptional quality. The day that I played in this field, not even coffees with a dash of milk so low were very rapid as it seemed that they could go a long way, I imagine that due to the maintenance program applied to come to 100 % to Volvo World Match Play Championship. Nevertheless, it was a pleasure puttear in them and to tread on this grass of the first quality. In general, the state of the whole trip, it is 10.

The design of this pair 72 allows to have a field of different levels of game and 3 attracts attention for having 5 pair holes and some others of pair 5. From the tee of yellow it did not seem excessively complicated to me, I nor chatter, in spite of any more than 6.000 meters of the trip. Some pair 3 you will need to give an iron way - length, what turns out to be compensated in the first part of the trip, with a few pairs 5 that they allow to risk and pull two to green. There is even a pair 4 in which it is accessible to take green for distance, but at a high risk level, on having been protected by a lake, a bunker and one out of limits.

In this field there are several shots from tees in high place, which I personally love when they are well made, as it is the case. If you trump the rough, you have enough probabilities of spending it badly in some holes, since it is formed by a bush in which it is the most difficult to play. There is margin to escape, do not be going to think that it is a field of going to life or death. To me the hole that more I have liked is the number 13, it is not because it has done birdie, but especially for the exit in high place to a wide street and the approach to a green protected by a lake, with a nice area of centenary trees and a bridge. Holes that tambíen paid my attention are 3, a pair 5 with a nice lake, the pair 4 of 9, with his bunkers, and for my long pair 3 of 10. Almost he forgot it, in Farm Cortesín you are going to be many bunkers of different designs, they say in his official web that there are approximately 100 in whole.

Once you have already played, such alone remains the fully deserved shower and the step along the excellent restaurant of the house club, which wins very much if you eat in the patio enjoying a few conference of the most agreeable, on the majority of the golf course, I joust in front of the driving range. Another just available service next to the field is that of the hotel, which is provided with a relaxation area to the sun with swimming pool out of series. It is a question of a luxurious complex, which we have not proved, but which transmits very good impressions from the enclosure of the golf course.

Situation

Farm Cortesín is placed in Casares, Malaga, in full Costa del Sol (Google Maps). If you go from the area of Cadiz, it is a delight to go up to the field for the highway of the coast, passing for Zahara of the Tunas and for Tariff, where the scenery performs the best thing. From Malaga, also there is access for freeway, covering in both cases a small stretch for highway. There are several airports for the area, to which you can fly to approach later this field, being the most nearby it is that of Malaga. In the official web of Farm Cortesín, you have detailed information of as coming, this way of accommodation in the enclosure of the field.

Conclusion

My evaluation of Farm of Cortesín performs the highest thing, reaching the understudy or the “5 Stars Out of Limits”. It is one of these fields in which it is necessary to play if the opportunity appears and, if it does not appear, it is necessary to look for it. The quality of his trip is at a height of the best of Spain and Europe, without having anything that to envy to many other fields of fame of our country. It is a question, without any doubt, of a place in which it is difficult that a golfer does not go out satisfied, considering the almost obsessive worry for the quality of the service to the player and the good one to do of the personnel. This way it is a pleasure to go to play the golf.

Finally, next of the habitual linkage of reference, our gallery of images of Farm Cortesín.

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How many debit to bear a golf bag?

2009-10-27T04:10:00.001-07:00

The one that véis in the photo is my bag, one Taylor Made that I gained myself in the championship of golf that I disputed in Sancti Petri at the end of May, that is to say, since the Gambit people Golfs, which were the organizers, till now, are trancurrido not even five months. Moreover, during this time I suffered a muscular break, for which I was inactive slightly more than one month. Summing up, the bag will have four months of intensive use.

I say that the use that I give him is intensive because I play the golf every day, some 9th holes and on other 15th, but those who follow me in twitter, they know that rare it is the day that I do not go out to the field. Now then: is it normal that a bag lasts so a little time?

In the past I have already had some griefs with diverse materials, like a few FootJoy Dry Joys that I had to throw after three months, because his distributor, who does not stretch where I bought them it, he thought that this wear was not caused by a mistake in the manufacture if not for his use... And this is the worst part of playing every day, because as you do not choose well the products, there are some of them that it seems that only they are designed for the occasional Sunday game.

How is not the first time that happens to me, I do not even believe that it is the last one, move to you the question that I have risen to myself as soon as I have noticed that my bag was collapsing. How much would have to last a bag as Taylor Made that they gave me with the conditions of use that I give him?

It notices: last week I lost the case of my putter Quarreled, that's why the case that I take is that of my putter Callaway that usually went in my bag

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Proam Volvo World Match Play: so close and that far

2009-10-26T16:58:00.001-07:00

A few days ago he was writing on the contest that the people had organized of Golfinspain.com for avoiding several awards, between which a square was included in Proam del Volvo World Match Play of Farm Cortesin.

The passion for the golf that we have both the editors and the readership of Out of Limits provoked that he was the candidate who had more shares for the drawing, going so far as to reach a whole of 1.725, what finally provoked that it was chosen for the second award, with the option to play the Proam, if the Englishman that had been chosen was not confirming your assistance on time or preferred some of other awards.

The morning it has been of infarction, because while this morning it was in the street of 18, it was receiving this twitter with the results of the drawing …

The tachycardia began, because I have to recognize that to play the Proam of a tournament like Volvo World Match Play, should fulfill a part of my sleep golfísticos more important... It will play with the one who was playing, it would be a player's piece, in a prepared field piece and to the limit for the occasion …: What face had I had left on having thrown my first putt and having viewed the ball rolling and rolling?

For a few hours, the Englishman did not confirm, because he needed permissions and flights, and I can make sure you, that during these hours I was feeling as a kid of institute, nervous for thinking, that perhaps on Wednesday morning, in the first hour ball would be clicking in some tee of Farm Cortesín with some of the players who have come to dispute this championship: Would he be Paul Casey, would he be Camilo Villegas, the “duck Bad-tempered, Sergio García? I can make sure you that I was happening exactly equally, because there me was touching the one who was touching me in the Proam, that had been an experience, at least for me, unforgettably, of those that some day might tell to my grandchildren …

Pero Tom Jamieson, the winner, finally could confirm your assistance, for what my story of the dairymaid finished there, of course, the illusion that I have had during these hours, I believe that I will not forget it in a few days …

From here giving the congratulations to Tom Jamieson and waiting that enjoyment of your Proam at least half of what I should do it, because it will mean that it has spent it to itself like a dwarf, as I hope that other winners should enjoy also your awards. Also to be grateful to the Golfinspain people for avoiding an award as valuable as this and for allowing us to do the contest of the input data for Volvo World Match Play of Farm Cortesín.

Nevertheless, everything has your positive part, already how I have had to recognize between my wife, having played the Proam could have provoked that in the next months just had a chat thread in the head.

Image | Volvo World Match Play
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Winners I declare bankrupt for Volvo World Match Play Championship of Farm Cortesín

2009-10-25T17:34:00.001-07:00

We already have the winners of the contest of Volvo World Match Play Championship, who will take 3 double input data transferred by Golf In Spain to attend in alive the tournament in of Farm Cortesín.

The first 2 questions were enough wantons, it was necessary only to search a little round there and the answers were appearing easily. The designer of the field of Farm Cortesín is Cabell Robinson and Out of Limits it has fulfilled last October 4 years. The third question, that of the sum of results of Sergio Chema had to be risked by it a little and to perfect the aim. The final score was 539 (official classification Eurobread Tour): Sergio García 267, Chema Olazábal 272. Next, after the hop (pusa in “reading more”) the classification and the winners:

Winners of a weekly double input:

1. jromero: 266 + 269 = 535
2. vallasmetalicas: 266 + 269 = 535
3. victorhcp0: 264 + 271 = 535

The winners are asked to contact with us to be able to specify day, hour and place of collection of the input data in the field of golf of Farm Cortesín.

I remain of classified, for command:

4. alfons_bajopar: 266 + 268 = 534
5. noiser: 264 + 270 = 534
6. dudubart: 265 + 267 = 532
7. hugomizuno: 262 + 269 = 531
8. JBurgos: 263 + 266 = 529

All those that you have informed we thank you and up we cheer you to keep on reading Out of Limits every day. As our possibilities, we will try to bring to you more initiatives similar to this one. To those that you have gained, congratulations and to remind to you that we will be pleased of receiving the comments with your printouts of the tournament.

In Out of Limits | Contest: It gains double input data for Volvo World Match Play Championship in Farm Cortesín

I compete: It gains double input data for Volvo World Match Play Championship in Farm Cortesín

2009-10-24T16:12:00.001-07:00

Since you already know all that leeís usually, we like to see the golf in alive. But this time we want that you could enjoy also him attending a good tournament. And the fact is that thanks to the collaboration of the people of Golfs In Spain, which nicely have transferred 3 double weekly passes to us, 6 of you you will be able to be the next week in Farm Cortesín viewing the best players of the moment.

How are we going to distribute the input data? Very easy, we have mounted a simple contest with a few questions and we are going to ask you to leave the answers to us in the comments. The 3 first ones, will be those who take your corresponding double input data valued for 85 euros each one (170 the double pack), so that they enjoy Volvo World Match Play Championship the accompanist that they choose. Next, after the hop, the general conditions (bases) of the contest to gain the input data:

To take part in the contest you must answer the following 3 questions:

1) Who was the designer of the field Cultivates Cortesín, head office of Volvo World Match Play 2009?

2) All the years has it fulfilled Out of Limits last October from your throwing?

3) Here the most difficult goes: How many blows will they add Sergio García y Chema Olazábal in Castelló Masters after the dispute of 4 days of the tournament?

IT NOTICES: If one of 2 players moves back in Castellón and does not complete 4 returns, it will be replaced, for this order, for the first one in the following list: Bad-tempered Rafa, Pablo Martín, Martin Kaymer.

There will win 3 persons who hit 3 questions or, in case of not hitting the third one, come closer more the result of the third one. In case of tie, it will gain the one that first has left the comment.

The answers have to be left in the comments of this input. To annotate, earlier you must do a simple register process. He remembers that we are very respectful with your data and we will not use them for any spam end, they nor will be transferred to third in any case.

The deadline to annotate is Sunday at 12:00 (midday), Spanish peninsular hour (he remembers that on Saturday they change the hour and that in Canaries it will be one hour less, at 11:00). All the comments that should log in with date of the later system, will not be admitted to contest.

There will be able to take part all the readership who have active user page in any of the blogs of Weblogs SL. There will be able to be excluded from the contest those participants that multiple users have created in the mentioned blogs.

Every person will be able to take part only with a comment. For once we do a contest, do not do pitfalls to us man;-)

In case the tournament suffers any font of annulment or cancellation, either Weblogs SL, or the editors of Out of Limits, not even golfs In Spain become responsible neither for damages or losses that it could cause to the winners, nor for expenses of cancellation of any font.

The mere participation in the contest implies the entire acceptance of these bases.

The mistake of the jury will be inappealable. The jury will be composed by the editors of Out of Limits.

Any nonperformance of these bases will suppose the disqualification of the contest.

Any aspect of the contest in which there were doubts will be solved by the jury exclusively.

One will communicate the award to the winners by e-mail. They will not be sent input by any way, but they will be left to your disposal at your name in the door of the field in which there is celebrated the tournament (Farm of Cortesín).

Persons related to Weblogs S.L will not be able to take part.

My experience in the Volvo of last year, when there was still Volvo Masters, really good. Without any doubt, I cheer you up that you are going to the field to see all these big players and that enjoy a tournament of similar level. That you are there you are going to see good golf and to learn a good number of tricks for the field.

Luck to all!

More information | Volvo World Match Play Championship

I compete: It gains double input data for Volvo World Match Play Championship in Farm of Cortesín

2009-10-23T15:07:00.001-07:00

To take part in the contest you must answer the following 3 questions:

1) Who was the designer of the field Consists of Cortesín, head office of Volvo World Match Play 2009?

2) All the years has it fulfilled Out of Limits last October from your throwing?

3) Here the most difficult goes: How many blows will they add Sergio García y Chema Olazábal in Castelló Masters after the dispute of 4 days of the tournament?

There will win 3 persons who hit 3 questions or, in case of not hitting the third one, come closer more the result of the third one. In case of tie, it will gain the one that first has left the comment.

The answers have to be left in the comments of this input. To annotate, earlier you must do a simple register process. He remembers that we are very respectful with your data and we will not use them for any spam end, they nor will be transferred to third in any case.

The deadline to annotate is Sunday at 12:00 (midday), Spanish peninsular hour (he remembers that on Saturday they change the hour and that in Canaries it will be one hour less, at 11:00). All the comments that should log in with date of the later system, will not be admitted to contest.

There will be able to take part all the readership who have active user page in any of the blogs of Weblogs SL. There will be able to be excluded from the contest those participants that multiple users have created in the mentioned blogs.

Every person will be able to take part only with a comment. For once we do a contest, do not do pitfalls to us man;-)

In case the tournament suffers any font of annulment or cancellation, either Weblogs SL, or the editors of Out of Limits, not even golfs In Spain become responsible neither for damages or losses that it could cause to the winners, nor for expenses of cancellation of any font.

The mere participation in the contest implies the entire acceptance of these bases.

The mistake of the jury will be inappealable. The jury will be composed by the editors of Out of Limits.

Any nonperformance of these bases will suppose the disqualification of the contest.

Any aspect of the contest in which there were doubts will be solved by the jury exclusively.

One will communicate the award to the winners by e-mail. They will not be sent input by any way, but they will be left to your disposal at your name in the door of the field in which there is celebrated the tournament (Farm of Cortesín).

Persons related to Weblogs S.L will not be able to take part.

Luck to all!

More information | Volvo World Match Play Championship

Hugo Chávez and your obsession against the golf

2009-10-22T21:29:00.001-07:00

It is a history that it salts to the news from time to time and today it has done it again in The Confidential one because in the last three years, this gentleman has closed seven golf courses, because according to Hugo Chavez the golf is a bourgeois sport …

Perhaps in some places the case can happen in that the golf is played only by bourgeoises, but that Mr. Chavez, does not mean that all the golfers are bourgeois …, perhaps in Venezuela, as clearly he remains reflected in the video, the golf is a sport played by a minority, because only there exists a public field where the people could play, a situation that can remind to us the situation that the golf already had in Spain a few years ago, and that's why same, perhaps it is your next visit to Spain be able to approach the National Center of Golf and verify in your own meats the wrong thing that is.

Look around him, Mr. Chávez, because while countries as Colombia recognize and decorate a countryman, Camilo Villegas, for the big image that transmits of Colombia to the world thanks to the golf, or countries like Mexico nominate a Mexican an ambassadress of Tourism before the world like Lorraine Ochoa, you make me feel a pity for all these persons who have to endure your ignorance, but also we must thank him, for making us so clear, where the golfers we are not welcome.

It is possible that a percentage of the persons who play the golf is bourgeoises Mr. Chávez, but the most curious thing of all this, is that a part of these bourgeoises who exist in the world, likes knowing new fields, new cultures or simply escaping of the cold at the same time that they are leaving your money there where they happen, be already in greenfees, hotels, meals, buys or tips for the caddies. Moreover, I can make sure him, that there is areas as Canaries, Andalusia or the Algarve that they fight to try to achieve that these bourgeoises approach your fields to leave a few fair amounts of money to them, because these bourgeoises at whom you laugh, generate jobs and wealth.

It turns out to be curious that while big cities of the world try to zoom in the green spaces or highlight the importance that the parks have to settle the problem of the contamination, you decide to eliminate the lungs of fresh air that have some of your cities thanks to the golf courses to zoom in the cement mass …

For the practice of the golf, you might have good physical conditions, on having been speak about a perfect baseball player, but after thinking it a little bit, I can understand that you did not like or one feels incapacitated to play the golf, really that it is not difficult to imagine your incapability to me, because it is a sport of honor, in which there are a few rules and a few norms of tag that are equal for all the golfers, from Tiger Woods up to the worst player of the world, but also Mr. Chávez to be able to play the golf is an indispensable requisite to have to be able to be kept silent in some moments, in addition to having to speak in a tone moderated during the whole trip to respect the rest of players.

Original video | Youtube

Golf courses guide: Spa golf of Mondariz

2009-10-22T15:27:00.001-07:00

The Spa Golf of Mondariz is a complex of golf and relaxation, which is provided with a golf course of 18 holes, a hotel and a spa. The field, inaugurated in the year 2000, is of commercial character and it is provided with a magnificent trip designed by Álvaro Arana Ibarra. It is placed in the only environment of peace and calmness, in the locality of Mondariz Balneario.

18 holes shape a natural, entertaining and very nice trip integrated to the perfection in a calm vale, of those that whenever you play it he invites you to turn. It is a field that he helps the player to escape of every day and allows to enjoy the soft climate of the area, which is quite agreeable for the practice of the golf. We are, undoubtedly, before one of the clubs of reference in the peninsular northwest, together with the Real Golf club of Corunna (The Zapateira) and the Golf club of The Toja.

THE FIELD

The golf course Mondariz Balneario was inaugurated in the year 2000, relies on with 18 pair holes 71, with a 5.507 meters length. It is not a long trip, unless you play it of half notes or it is a bad weather, being accessible for all kinds of players in normal conditions. Of course, it is sufficiently versatile as to be able to apply more or less hard conditions if some competition needs it. The times that I have played there I could have verified how the state of the lawn of the trip is very good, facilitating to the player the practice of the golf.

Golf Mondariz Balneario allows subscribers and sporadic players. It has received some tournaments of the national circuit of professionals of golf in the past, what gives an idea of your versatility and possibilities. It is processed as a field that can be played walking perfectly, it is more I recommend it to you to be able to enjoy it completely. If it is hot, I prefer to do it in buggie or at least with electrical car, since in some areas in the days that more the sun presses in summer, to play is made slightly hard.

We meet in Golf Mondariz Balneario holes of several fonts, without being a very demanding trip with the precision in most of the shots of output, but yes slightly more in the approaches to green. The greenes are noble, of those that allow the ball to roll without rare changes of speed or address and stand out, I handled everything, for your big surface. In some holes the greenes measure up to 40-50 meters long, what forces you to be attentive at all times to the position of the flag to be right with the stick adapted in the shot to flag.

My favorite street is the number 4, which you can see in the low photo. For me it is one of nicer that I have played. I have to warn you that it is necessary to be there to view it and, also, to listen to the water of the river that passes in parallel for the right margin of the hole: It is a delight! In this area of the field a marvel is the sound of the water of the river, which accompanies you from the third hole up to the output of the seventh one, doing that the experience of the golfer performs the most agreeable thing.

2 streets that more headaches have always given to me are 9 and 18. Without any doubt, there are a pair of holes that give him emotion to any return that you play in this trip (eye if you are betting with your friends in this field, is not going to be that you sing victory before weather). Certainly, since I mention these holes, the conference from the exterior patio of the house club on the same ones are magnificent, it is a delight to take a little there sat earlier or after exiting to the field.

SITUATION

Mondariz Balneario Golf is placed in the south area of Gallicia, in the province of Pontevedra (Google Maps), to a step of Vigo (one of 2 most important cities of Gallicia), very close to Portugal and to a few minutes of the sea in car. The biggest advantage of your place, in addition to the kindness of the climate of the Galician south, is that Vigo, Tui or Valença is isolated of the whole pother of the summer tourism of the Lower Estuaries, very next to interesting sites like Baiona, at a scarce hour of Santiago de Compostela and to something more about Corunna.

The access for highway (Google Maps) from any point of the Galician geography is quite simple, thanks to the connection with the AP9, which passes from north on south for the Galician Atlantic axis from Ferrol up to Portugal, and the A52, the Divided highway of the Lower Estuaries, which Porriño and Orense connects, being the Golf Mondariz Balneario between these 2 localities. To come in plane, there are 4 nearby airports: Vigo, Santiago, Corunna and Oporto, which are for this order the most comfortable for distance, counting and all of them take connection as a freeway or divided highway up to the Galician field.

CONCLUSION

To the golf course Mondariz Balneario I put a high general note, at least of 8 on 10. It is a club that still has trip to improve, but I know that they are working hard to offer still a better service and facilities, what is big news for all the players that we spend to ourselves over there. Like recommending you why tee it is convenient for you more to exit, according to the players' traffic, to warn you that you should take water or a buggie if the day is warm and to indicate where you can obtain it along the trip you, details facilitate enough the life to you so that you could enjoy entirely 18 holes.

If you have already become convinced and are going to play the Spa Golf of Mondariz, me pay attention, shut down the mobile, take your sticks and play a few holes, later to relax you in the spa. Of course, remember of the day that you have to turn to the work, do not be going to be that so much relaxation and good life make you forget your obligations.

Link | Mondariz Balneario Golf
In Out of Limits | Guide of Golf courses
Images | Pablo Herrero

We throw the Handlebar of Golf courses of Out of Limits

2009-10-22T09:24:00.001-07:00

Today we present to you another surprise more that we had between hands in the last months. It is processed as the Guide of Golf courses of Out of Limits, a new series of input data in which we will count our printouts of the fields in which we are playing the editors of this blog.

We begin loudly, with 2 sensational fields that we have visited. We boot with Golf Mondariz Balneario, a magnificent field placed in the south area of Gallicia, and we will continue this week with the very same field of Farm of Cortesín (You will marry, Malaga), in which there is going to stake Volvo World Match Play 2009 at the end of this month.

Let's hope that you should like and simultaneously serve to you as help to choose in what fields you are going to play when you decide to exit of your habitual club. Of course, they are grateful for suggestions and your comments will be welcome to enrich the information of ours, your, Guide of Golf courses. If you want that we are going to prove your field and include it in our guide, you can contact with us.

In Out of Limits | Guide of Golf courses

The Rowdy and the golf course of Melilla

2009-10-22T03:07:00.001-07:00

Anger, anger gives to me that whenever it salts the golf in the television or it is to do different extra drops as another day in The Anthill or to put green to everything what has to do with the sport of the golf, how The Rowdy has done in your reportage on Melilla.

The Melilla golf course consists of 9 holes, construído in a few areas that were rocky grounds and that are pasted to the fence that separates Morocco of Spain, clingings to the airport, what in due time cost him so that the Department of Promotion was having to empty the artificial lagor, for the danger that acarreba the birds concentration in them.

The golf courses are criticized when they have developed for the real estate speculation, but also they are criticized when they develop in a rocky ground pasted to a fence and to the airport, therefore I have not left very clear, it is: where do the people want that golf courses are constructed?

The grass used in the streets is Paspalum due to your high high resistance to the dry climate, low irrigation and that even admits to use waters with high place contained in salt, since from your beginnings one has tried to have a consumption responsible for the water, but nevertheless he is criticized in the video.

But to be honest, not everything is a fault of the Rowdy, because it is me who does not understand yet, that there was doing in the field a gentleman who had not given in your life a blow to a golf ball, but nevertheless, anger gives to me, that whenever it salts the golf in the TV is to make it green.

Original video | Youtube

The bracelets Power Balance: do I have to believe it?

2009-10-21T21:06:00.001-07:00

The bracelets Power Balance are one of these products on which he had read information for a few months, but it had not given him a lot of importance, because of this small products font I believe I, nevertheless, in the last weeks have seen persons of my club who were wearing them. But it has been this morning, on having viewed this twitt, which I have proposed to speak about this thread.

Theoretically the Bracelets Power Balance will improve your cerebral function, the muscular answer, the flexibility ….Y quite from the first moment, thanks to a few holograms that have these bracelets that will restore and optimize the electromagnetic balance of your body.

As pharmacist that I am, is not the first time that I see articles about this font, in which thanks to certain electromagnetic properties, they will be capable of improving multiple aspects of your organism. Nevertheless, to today, on the page of Power Balance, as it happens with the rest of products of this font, I have not seen any serious clinical essay, in that there appear the results of the persons that yes that had the bracelet and those who were receiving the placebo, and without saying essays, it is complicated, that at least I believe the resutados that supposedly the persons say to notice with the bracelets Power Balance.

The effect placebo exists, it is more, not long ago this article was published in Wired where it was revealing how some promising medicines ruined thanks to the increase of the effect placebo, what it was provoking, that the differences between medicine and placebo were not the sufficiently important ones for the approval of the medicine.

And that's why the same, for the effect placebo, I believe that the persons who spend 30 € in a product as Power Balance feel better that without her, but hence to that I am because they restore and optimize the electromagnetic balance of your body …

Official site | Power Balance

Do you want to play the Proam del Volvo World Match Play of Farm Cortesin?

2009-10-20T14:12:00.001-07:00

In Out of Limits we have already spoken a few times of the big opportunity that there was offering to us Volvo World Match Play of Farm Cortesín to be able to view to a good fistful of the best players of the world in our country.

The confirmed list of participants is the one that you see in the image that accompanies the post, it is true that this year neither Tiger Woods nor Phil Mickelson have come, but let's not forget that this editing is the first one, and probably that so much Volvo, IMG and Farm Cortesín are putting all the meat in the spit, so that next years, the cartel could be even better that that of this year. But although there have not come the first two players of the world: would you like playing and Proam of the tournament?

In spite of having tried to be in Farm Cortesín next week finally it is not going to be able to be, not to be, that I turn out to be forced to have to play the Proam, because this opportunity might not allow her to escape.

The people of Golfinspain the persons in charge of the sale of input data for Volvo World Match Play, have started a campaign of viral marketing, in which it is avoided:

A square for Proam del Volvo World Match Play of this year.

Two squares to play on Monday the VWMPC Challenge in Farm Cortesín.

Two passes VIPs for Championship Club.

Batches of two weekly passes.

I imagine that to gain any of these awards would do that those that we have already decided that we cannot go, we were turning to think it, because to play a Proam with these players, has to be a delight, although there occurs to me one, with which I would not be completely comfortable playing.

Official site | Golf in Spain