Oprah Winfrey Receiving an Honorary Degree in South Africa

It is great to hear the name of our beloved "Queen of Talk" as she received her honorary doctorate degree from one of South Africa's renowned university. Oprah Winfrey was recently conferred with one of the most prestigious award given to anyone who can stand and share the blessings of patriotism as noted by our sources. And guess what, the story came straight from University of Free State last Friday, June 24, 2011 when she came over as an icon for anyone else.

This will be written in the history of South Africa when Dr. Oprah Winfrey showed out her humility. We heard her commentaries and other related article about her contributions not only to the people working in the said university but also to the students who's been inspired by her short talk.

Prof. Dennis Francis made a tough review of her work and probably includes her appearances in television worldwide giving her thoughts and insights. And before we can forget, here's a statement of Dr. Oprah Winfrey from a few inspiring words mixed with remarkable emotion,

"What has happened here at Free State in terms of racial reconciliation, of peace, of harmony, of one heart understanding and opening itself to another heart is nothing short of a miracle. It is truly what the new South Africa is all about."

As we read this line in Associated Press recently and due to our curiosity, we discover her inspiring work showing her as one of the world's powerful woman. She transformed life in a very simple manner, right?

Photos and online video of her appearances in University of Free State are now available in YouTube. You can try to look around from here and catch her soon in The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Everything I have learned on the golf coaching

A few years ago, I realized I had become too old to continue to run tennis, then I started golf. What I did not know then was that I was perhaps too young for this sport: the more I m'acharnais, the more I resisted! Over the years, I learned patience, acceptance, the unknown, humility.
Now I play ...

When I was little, I found the game easy. It took me many years of practice before you understand how difficult it was. (Raymond Floyd, professional golfer)

Note to drive non-golfer. I tried to limit the text that follows the golf jargon o) You will find, however below are some links to better understand and discover the sport.
http://www.france-green.com/BUT/index.php
http://www.ffgolf.org/
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R% C3% A8gles_de_Golf

How golf illuminates my coaching practice ...

The analogy

"Your behavior on the golf course generally reflects your behavior in life. (Jammie Green, professional golfer)

"A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space that is not to stay, but to leave as soon as possible. "(Jean Giraudoux, French writer)

Golf is a mirror of life. Harvey Penick, a professional, very rightly said: "Play one route with someone, and you know much more about him that dozens of dinners in town. Just watch how a player approaches the hole to remove the ball and you think it will adhere to the green and the other players ... "

In my practice, I learned to take the pitch to observe what happens when I'm coaching a client. You never know, it could be that it resonates with what led him to consult me ...

The label

In contrast to many other sports, the game of golf is mostly practiced without the supervision of an arbitrator or a judge. The game relies on the honesty of the player as regards respect for other players that compliance with the Rules. (Excerpt from the Rules of Golf approved by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews)

Golf in the rules of etiquette and meeting the well are as important as the proper rules of the game (Bobby Jones, golf legend)

If there is one essential thing in golf, it's honesty (Jack Nicklaus, another golf legend)

In golf, the label above the rules; coaching as the charter of ethics above the contract.

The charter is the ethical basis of professional practice of coaching. It ensures fairness: the coach, the client, that of their relationship ... and honesty breeds trust and shared essential to coaching.

The course does not a priori, only the player is capable

The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face. (Jack Nicklaus, the Golden Bear)

The route is the same for all players, each player uses it differently. Your storm against the tree that stands between him and the hole, you blame the wind for your ball deflected to the left ...

Some are struggling against the elements when others use your client ... you surprised, you ask him a question and it does not give you the answer you were expecting ... Because you expect a very accurate! Resistant?

The only person I can change, c'est moi.

The greatest victories are those that are won on oneself. (Bobby Jones, always him)

I can not change either the terrain or weather, or my partners part. Nor can I change my ball up, I played where it lies. If I play badly, if I have no result, it's me that I must change to something different.

I coach, I and my client's problem. If we do not, if we are in a deadlock, it is not the score that I upsetting me is that I change.

Do more of what works when things change ... does not.

Concentrate on solutions, not errors. (Jack Nicklaus)

When I have a good contact with my long irons, I do not hesitate to use them rather than the woods ... If my first lobed approaches are vague and perilous, I rode a coup for the following approaches. If I play well, if it works, I do more of what works. Otherwise, I try something else.

Keeping it simple, be practical ... The three rules of the Guidance Solutions by Yves Gros-Louis, psychologist:
1 - If it works, do not change!
2 - Once you know what works, do more of what works!
3 - If it does not work, stop it and do something different

Step by step

This is neither new nor original to say that golf is played in one at a time, but it took several years for realizing it (Bobby Jones)

A golf course consists of 18 holes. A player hitting an average of 4 strokes per hole, or 72 shots in total. The purpose of the game is to "enquiller" the ball in the eighteenth hole affecting the least shots possible.
When I start on the first hole, I do not think the last time on 18, or even the final score. The only time the next important thing is that I will play.

An objective always seems difficult to achieve (if not, is not a goal, we speak ...) When the problem is complex, when the step is too high to cross, I decomposes.
The "small step" negotiated with the client is a difficult enough to make it a goal for the client, but it is accessible to able to achieve.
Setting small goals is more comfortable and more effective to set big goals unattainable ...

Small changes produce large effects

I improve my game, I reach more rarely spectators. (Gerald Ford, President of USA)

Change the angle of your 3-wood of a single degree and your shot will fall from 220 meters to the goal 3m84 initially targeted. Perhaps the distance between the green of the river that borders the ...

Theory of chaos or disorder organizer ... Coaching leads to the small steps that produce large effects.

Imbalance arises from the movement

Golf is a strange series of body contortions designed to produce a result Charge (Thomas D. Armor, professional golfer)

Swing, the essence of golf: the strange movement that is seemingly all over the body in balance, it is the conquest of power transmitted to the ball.

I discovered it was easier to make a ballerina doing a Sumotori camping tips on two legs. And why a sumo could not make a tip? The change is far from equilibrium ...

Let go

The only shots that you are really sure that you have already made (Byron Nelson, professional golfer)

In golf, it succeeds better in practice (in training) when there is no issue. It is more relaxed, attempts blows. In part, it was sometimes (often?) Tend to stiffen, stifle the grip (the "neck" of the club) we imagine that pressing harder, better control on the ball to impose the trajectory. Obviously, quite the contrary! Letting go is to first learn to release the grip.

Let go for a coach is not to accept any control is to follow the path which leads to his client rather than a scenario prepared in advance. This acceptance of the unknown is to copy the client can consider the change.

The indifference to the result

"Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots, you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies. "(Bobby Jones, always him)

You are on the green, so close to the hole, you place your routine, measured the distance that the ball is rolling, the estimated slopes, the imagined trajectory, is a vacuum in your head ... a movement of peace and balance balanced, you clear the ball rolling ... What! You forgot to make a vacuum in your head? You were already in the process of recording your points before "enquillé" the ball! Too bad ... It misses.

It never succeeds so well that when one is serene, indifferent to the result. I do what is right, I want the (not too close) I manage my routine (without falling in) I am present to my client ... and I welcome the unknown brings with it humility .

Humility

I discovered that to succeed in the world of golf, one must first accept ourselves as human beings capable of self-improvement and become someone better (Gary Player, another legend)

The challenge of golf is to accept to be imperfect (Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player buddy)

Professional players are surprising people when they pass a difficult time, they are surprising. Yet they have never achieved this coup had not tried.

A coach is not perfect since it is human ... (whew!) I am not perfect and it does not prevent me to dare to try things during a coaching session ... If it works, it is a success. If it does not work, this is not a failure, it is an attempt which I learn, which my client learns. The failure would be not to try

Why Are Golf Courses Designed The Way That They Are

No matter where you go on this great big planet of ours you are bound to come across at least a few golf courses. These days golf courses are the must have for all countries and that is because now more than ever, golf is a major tourist attraction. People travel far and wide to visit the best and most talked about golf courses. That is why so much time and effort, not to mention money is poured into these projects each and every year.

If you love to play golf then you know how great really good golf courses can be. Playing on world class golf courses is very different than playing on a poorly designed one. If you are like me, and like most true golfers, you search for the golf courses that will provide the most amazing game play of all.

The world would not be such a magnificent place as it is if not for great golf courses now would it. And who do we have to thank for these fantastic golf courses? Well here, we usually thank the USGA. They are the ones who have come up with the most amazing guidelines for golf course designers to follow. All of the best golf courses have been built to their find standards. Since way back in 1960 those who design golf courses have been building the most fabulous of all courses according to the ideas set out by the USGA and people from all around the world have been thanking their lucky stars.

The perfect golf courses are not only designed to provide the best golf game, they are also designed in a way that will look gorgeous. All of the greatest golf courses are a wonder of design I that they look glorious and they play like a dream. To live in a place with a view of these kinds of golf courses is something that most people dream of, that is how great they can look.

There is much more to the design of good golf courses though. Such as the number of slopes and waterways. Good golf courses will have plenty of both. These kinds of obstacles are necessary for any good and challenging game. No one wants their golf game to be too easy and that is why these types of things are added into the equation when designing golf courses. The intrigue the eye and provide you with amazing opportunities to outwit and out play your opponents.

Most of us take for granted the golf courses in out area. We just play there and have fun but we do not take into consideration the amount of work and planning that goes into each and everyone of these fantastic golf courses. It takes years to plan the best golf courses and it is about time that we recognized this fact and game the appreciation that they designers of golf courses deserve to them once and for all.

By Carl Walker

As The Great Masters golf during the Volvo Masters

The more traditional appointment of golf in our country, the Volvo Masters, this year celebrates its twenty-first and last edition of Oct. 30 to Nov. 2. Meet and, most recently in Europe to land the 60 best in the European circuit, and thousands of fans Spaniards and foreigners. A closed season with 4.25 billion euros at stake, beyond the purely sporting level and becomes a social event of first magnitude. A perfect excuse for a trip to the Costa del Golf enjoying one of the most exciting events of the circuit at the same time practicing golf in some of the best courses in Spain.
The weekly pass only costs € 76.5 and gives the possibility, by lot, to win one of the coveted seats on its PROAM of October 29. But for the truly daring, the package "After the Masters" (from 1159 € to 6 nights) will be like a dream come true. Staying in 5-star hotel and enjoy the final of the tournament live, may recall at first hand the unbelievable strokes of some of the stars of world golf, playing at the legendary Valderrama barely 36 hours after the end of the tournament. Same positions flag, same streets impossible to test your game. In addition it also includes green fees in fields as exceptional as The Reserve or the Club de Golf Sotogrande and San Roque Old Course.

Everything I have learned on the golf coaching (or otherwise)

A few years ago, I realized I had become too old to continue to run tennis, then I started golf. What I did not know then was that I was perhaps too young for this sport the more I m'acharnais more I resisted! Over the years, I learned patience, acceptance, the unknown, humility.

Now I play ...

When I was little, I found the game easy. It took me many years of practice before you understand how difficult it was. (Raymond Floyd, professional golfer)

Note to reader non-golfer. I tried to limit the text that follows the golfing jargon o) You find nevertheless below some links to better understand and discover the sport.

Customize the Way you Play With Customized Golf Clubs

Golf clubs greatly affect the way you play the game. If you want to make sure that you would be making that killer shot, customized golf clubs might be just what you need. Golf club customization would include fitting your clubs in three different lies, which would be standard, upright and flat to improve your game. Having golf clubs that are custom-made also lets you select the materials and the grip and also help you in setting your driving range so that you would be getting the most out of your clubs.

You would also be able to select the materials for the club heads and the shafts. This would give you the ability to choose the flexibility you need for your drive and your swing. However, it is important that you consider some things when you have your golf clubs customized. These would be if you play with your left or right hand, if you wear shoes that have flat soles, if you have your arms on your sides, what the distance between the floor and your wrist is, what the size of your gloves is and what your present handicap on an 18-hole green is.

Other questions that they would ask before customizing your clubs would be your accuracy, your driving distance, chipping and putting techniques and your recovery and ball hitting. Additionally, you would need to know how far your ball goes with your 5 iron; if you do any of these more often than the others: hook, straight, draw, fade, slice; what the make and flexibility of your current driver and shaft are; and the type of golf ball you are using.

Discover Classic Mountain Golf at Pole Creek

Elevate your golf game and your spirit. Pole Creek Golf Club is everything a Colorado mountain golf course should be. Stunning alpine views, drastic elevation changes, cool clear mountain air and the right amount of quiet and solitude make Pole Creek a Colorado classic; a mountain course like no other.

Our patio is surrounded by dazzling perennial and annual flowers and has the best view in the county. Directly in front of the Club House, we offer excellent practice facilities with a Putting Green, Driving Range and Chipping Green.

The Club House at Pole Creek Golf Course

Club House Hours of Operation:

7:00am - 8:00pm

Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Book your next tournament at Pole Creek and prepare to be awed by the Club's alpine beauty and an expert staff experienced with operating smooth and fun events. We offer amenities and professional services sure to keep your guests happy and returning year-after-year.

Amenities:

• 27 Championship Holes
• On-Site Catering with Clubhouse and Beverage Cart Service
• PGA Certified Professional Staff
• Full-Service Tournament Organizing
• Practice Facilities include Grass Driving Range, Putting Green
• Separate Chipping Green with Sand Bunker
• Rental Clubs for Men, Women and Children
• Private Tented Area for Awards Party or Banquet
• Upper Deck Patio for Private Cocktail Parties
• Professional Services
• Cart and Hole Assignments
• Handicapping
• List of Participants
• On-Course Events
• Personalized Local Rules Sheet
• Placement of Proximity Markers
• Registration Table Set-up with Optional Check-In Service
• Scoring Services
• Score Sheets
• Tournament Pairings
• Welcome Speech

Pole Creek Golf Club Awards

2006 – Zagat Survey – Best course to play in the Rocky Mountain Region including CO, ID, MT, NV, UT & WY.

2005 – Avid Golfer Magazine:

1. 5th best course to bring out of town guests

2. Best Finishing hole #9 Ridge

3. 2nd Place – Best Public Mountain Course

4. 3rd Place – Best Golf Course in the $50-$99 range

5. 4th Place – Most Scenic Course (public or Resort)

6. 3rd Place – Most underrated Golf Course (public or resort)

2004 – Denver Post, Colorado Peaks – Best Mountain Golf Course

2003 – Rocky Mountain News – Top Mountain Golf Course – Top of the Rockies Award

1995 – Golf Digest – Americas 500 best places you can play – Colorado #1 Pole Creek

1990 – Golf Digest – Americas Best 75 Public Golf Courses Pole Creek rated in the top 75

1988 – Golf Digest – Americas Best 75 Public Golf Courses Pole Creek rated in the top 50

1985 – Golf Digest – Best New Public Golf Course

Treat yourself to 27 holes of Classic Mountain Golf on three distinct courses: The Ranch , The Meadow and The Ridge (see descriptions below). Pole Creek's Golf resort in Colorado was designed by Denis Griffiths, who incorporated existing lodgepole pine, valley meadows, sagebrush and a variety of water hazards including five lakes to create a diverse course appealing to a wide range of golfers.

The Ranch 9 and The Meadow 9 wander through lush fields, while The Ridge 9 showcases what golf pro JT Thompson calls "the most spectacular view in Colorado."

Ranch

The Ranch has a variety of terrain, with Pole Creek meandering through the course. The Ridge has a serene setting with views that can only be described as breathtaking, combined with only two holes where players will be able to see other golfers.

Meadow

The Meadow is a nice blend of tree-lined and open holes that cross Pole Creek and two lakes several times. The Ranch has a variety of terrain, with Pole Creek meandering through the course.

Ridge

The Ridge has a serene setting with views that can only be described as breathtaking, combined with only two holes where players will be able to see other golfers.

For the non-golfer, Pole Creek is minutes from endless Rocky Mountain adventures. Enjoy white water rafting, hiking, fishing and boating, mountain biking, rodeo, horseback riding , or simply spend your day shopping, dining and relaxing. Colorado's crown jewel, Rocky Mountain National Park is minutes away and Winter Park Resort offers fun for the whole family just 12 miles away.

Contact Pole Creek's friendly staff for assistance with reserving tee times, planning a golf vacation, and organizing events, tournaments and weddings.

Pole Creek and Winter Park are located 67 miles from Denver. Take I-70 West to Exit 232 onto U.S. 40, then follow U.S. 40 to Winter Park. Pole Creek is 11 miles beyond the Town of Winter Park. Turn left at the 220 mile marker and follow the signs to the course where you can begin your Colorado Golf Vacation.

Can your Golf Ball Improve your Game?

Being able to choose the right golf ball could be just what you need to turn an awful game to a wonderful one. However, it does not mean that you should just trot out and buy the golf ball that Tiger Woods uses to instantly turn you into a world champion. You would still need to choose the golf ball that would work for you.

The three different types of golf balls are: two-piece balls, three-piece balls and high performance balls.

If you wish to improve the distance shots you are making, you would need to use the two-piece golf ball. If you wish to improve your accuracy, then you might opt to use a three-piece golf ball or a high performance golf ball.

For beginners, two-piece golf balls would be more advisable as they are cheaper compared to the other golf balls. Also, two-piece golf balls would be great for those who are slow swingers since these balls have a larger rubber core, which would assure a faster speed.

For golfers whose accuracy is inconsistent, two-piece golf balls would also be the better choice, because three-piece golf balls just would not do if you would be making a couple of inaccurate hits in a game. Also, if you are still working on your precision, high performance balls would not be the best way to go as these balls would be more suitable for the professional golfers who have already mastered their games.

Golf balls are definitely something that you would need to give importance to as you learn more in golf and as you work on your skills to become better st your game. Being equipped with the right type of golf balls that would work to your advantage would definitely improve your score and eventually help you move on to the more competitive playing field

Showcase Web Joyasbarbacana

Since late 1990, economist Arthur Bryan coined the term "New Economy" to refer to developments that the United States and other developed countries were experiencing due to new developments in technology and economic globalization, many companies warned a change in economic. They were facing a state of steady growth and continuous ongoing at present, and even that has left at the obsolescence of old business practices.

This is so the online world has been consolidated in a hole that all companies must be present, or even many of them base their activity in this environment, as so-called dot-com companies. That is why the online market has earned the trust of millions of users who choose this path for the development of their purchases.

The main reasons argue that users are directly connected with the comfort that these services they provide. The development of techniques online market, as well as collaborations with the banks that have business, certify the security and confidentiality of the data used in these types of transactions, which in its infancy supposed one of the main reasons for rejection and distrust.

While there were sectors in this Internet pioneers such as tourism, the fact remains that at present there is no sector which it stands. The Web is the biggest showcase world where all companies, regardless of their nature want to be present. Such is the case with the company Barbican, devoted to jewelry, and which has recently released its web portal www.joyasbarbacana.com with the aim of joining the new currents that move the economy and go well into the adventure market online with the challenge of presenting its virtual storefront to all sailors, interact with them and put at its disposal all the knowledge, events, and currently around them, which soon will find sections on its website.

Barbican born in 2000 as a retail outlet located in the Hotel Melia Castilla in Madrid, offering the public a range of jewellery and goldsmith in silver, designed and made by craftsmen jewellers group to which it belongs. There are several lines dedicated to high jewelry based on gemstones and jewelry also offers modern and functional, with the new line in gold molecular or daring line of silver jewelry.

The watch also makes a hole in the web, offering a line of watches aimed at men and women today.

And for lovers of golf, the firm offers a wide range of specialized products in this sport. Thanks to their collaboration and participation in the world of golf is present in the most prestigious clubs, such as Costa Teguise Golf Lanzarote with the Circuit de Golf JoyasBarbacana that early next month of May will begin.

Gallagher's Canyon Golf Course, Okanagan Valley and the Pandosy Inn

The Okanagan Valley with their rolling hills have many picturesque golf courses, which you can play many rounds of golf with either your friends or family, and most overlook beautiful Okanagan Lake. The casual or dedicated golfer can play these very accommodating golf courses. The Okanagan area offers the perfect location and choice for any golf vacation, and one main reason is many months of ideal golf weather which averages over 2,000 hours of sunshine every year. The Okanagan Valley offers one of the longest and driest golf seasons in Canada. Home to over 40 golf courses in the Okanagan Valley, and with Kelowna offering 14 of the main courses in this area, this is the perfect place to plan your golfing holiday.

Home to some of the most beautiful golf courses in the world is the Okanagan Valley. As beautiful and challenging as they are, each golf course will give you an extraordinary golf experience to take home with you. Gallagher's Canyon Golf Course nestled amongst majestic ponderosa pines, surrounded by rugged mountains and delivering glorious views of the Okanagan Valley, designed by Bill Robinson and Les Furber meanders its way through majestic Gallagher's Canyon. The Gallagher's Canyon course is a championship 18-hole, 6,792 yard par-72 course and with its natural charms will never fail to astonish golfers and is an incredible, inspiring golfing experience. Gallagher's Canyon also has an impressive 9-hole, par 32, 1,984-yard course built along side the main course called The Pinnacle. This clever designed course is forgiving enough for beginners and challenging enough for the experienced golfer. Gallagher's Canyon has been rated as one of the best courses in British Columbia. Score Magazine ranked Gallagher's Canyon golf course as one of Canada’s finest.

When you finish playing your round of golf the fine Kelowna hotels and great motels like the Pandosy Inn allow you to be right in the heart of everything the beautiful "Kelowna" Okanagan Valley has to offer, and from your door of your wonderful room you step into a rash of excitement and activity. Step out of your room at the Pandosy Inn and across a quiet street you will see one of the best beaches in the okanagan valley, "Gyro Beach," it is one the larger beaches and one of the most popular destination spots that welcome people from all over the world and of all ages. Choosing a Kelowna motel like the Pandosy Inn gives you the option to travel British Columbia and take a short trip through the Okanagan Valley for some great golfing, and if your vacation is to be in golfing paradise, Kelowna and the Pandosy Inn is a pretty good start.

Gallagher's Canyon Golf Course in the Okanagan Valley and the Pandosy Inn will make your golfing vacation an enjoyable and memorable golfing experience.

by: James Murray

Classic Golf in Scotland

For people who take golf holidays, golf breaks in Scotland represent the quintessential golfing retreat. There are three main reasons for this. Firstly, Scotland has all the best courses – including the world-class Turnberry, St Andrews and Gleneagles, all offering the most fantastic golf holidays available.

Secondly, the scenery is unparalleled and provides the perfect backdrop to a round of golf. Scotland’s rugged mountains, lush green valleys, thundering waterfalls and ethereal mists all help to create an experience you can really savour. Thirdly, Scotland always is easy to get to, either by road, train or air travel.

Anyone who plans a golf break in Scotland is also probably influenced by knowledge of the country’s long-standing affiliation with the game. It is widely accepted that golf originated in Scotland in the 1100s, with the first recorded game played at Bruntsfield Links in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1456.

Even the word ‘golf’ comes from Scotland - it is thought to have come from the Scots word ‘goulf’, meaning ‘to strike or cuff’. When the game was in its early days and, in fact, right up until the mid-20th century, it was usually played with clubs made from hickory wood, which is why golf played with old-fashioned wooden clubs is now called ‘hickory golf’.

Traditional hickory golf is catching on in a big way. You see, there’s a big secret haunting the manufacturers of modern golf clubs - despite all the ‘improvements’ in golf club technology, you can hit nearly as far with clubs made the original way – with hickory - as you can with the latest club being promoted on the US PGA Tour. What’s more, with hickory golf clubs you can play the game the way it was designed to be played - playing around the bunkers, through the gaps and really thinking about the challenge of the hole.

There are tournaments all over the world for modern-day hickory golf players, and for the last three years one particular tournament has been held in Scotland - golf’s birthplace. The 2007 World Hickory Open took place last month at Craigielaw golf course in East Lothian. As a golf course, Craigielaw is scenically located on the shores of the Firth of Forth with the hills of Fife framing its magnificent backdrop.

Craigielaw golf course presents a challenge for both short and long handicap players. As a result, the course is a popular for golf breaks in Scotland for players at every level. The layout at Craigielaw is such that the wind is nearly always part of the course’s natural defence. The consensus among both pro and amateur golf players is that the organisers picked a course almost perfectly suited to hickory golf.

There is a special physical sensation that hickory golf clubs give you. You know if you’ve hit a good one just by the lovely feeling coming through your hands and you also know if you’ve hit a bad one (especially in a cold Scottish wind) as it feels like a cricket ball has landed on your knuckles!

I managed to come third in the Amateur section, no disgrace but I’m coming back for more. And at last I know what I want from Father Christmas – All the best hickory golf clubs: Persimmon woods with True Temper shafts, a set of matching hickory irons pre-1935, a Cleveland wedge and sand wedge and a Scotty Cameron putter

by: Morgan Clarke

Born In The Golf Circuit Joyasbarbacana

(Source Joyasbarbacana.com) The month of May comes the Circuit Joyasbarbacana, which begins with important challenges. Four tests will I Joyasbarbacana Circuit. Each of the tournaments that make up the circuit, have a common denominator, will take enviable frame in which you can discover playing golf paradise.
During the tournament, and prizes in the clubhouse of the golf course, which is held each test circuit, Joyasbarbacana held an exhibition of jewels which will take place the official presentation of the "Golf".
The mode of play is Stableford and the upper and lower level male and female.
The first test will be May 10 2008 and the venue for the First Circuit Joyasbarbacana Test I, is the Campo de Golf de Costa Teguise Lanzarote. This golf course is situated at the foot of an old volcano and has stunning views over the Atlantic Ocean. The course has an 18-hole course designed by British John Harris and built in 1978. The field is not only a marvel for its design but the circumstances in which it is found throughout the year. A privileged location join the attractions of a pleasant climate, warm all year round, softened by the sea breeze influences involves the almost constant trade winds.

WGCG: South Africa Golfers for Nigeria’s Final

Nigerian amateur golfers exploit at the World Corporate Golf Challenge is yielding some business interest for the country, as franchise holders for the event announced that there has been call form South Africa top businessmen to be part of Nigeria’s March 25th national finals in Ibom.

According to Obinna Duru, “This I think is where golf has now brought its influence on bear on the Nigerian economy and we are proud to be gateway to this development” He added that there has been continual enquiry about the schedule of the WCGC in Nigeria and many business organization in South Africa are now seeking to partner since the date was unveiled to use the event to meet some key golf businessmen in the country.

“The list of the business group wanting to meet Nigerian businessmen at the national final is growing and they have been asking us to enter them for our national final. We are working out details now with a lot of South African groups in Nigeria and the embassy here.

The event would be taking a new dimension this year and we are getting signals that more countries may follow suit in coming editions” The organizers are now working at having a business to business exhibition and meeting along with the national finals of the World Corporate Golf Challenge. He said enquiries has been from real estate professionals to oil and gas and “the list keep growing” Nigeria’s Treko Oil and Gas placed 5th at the World finals of the Championship last year and was represented by Tim Ayomike, Olaitam Muyideen, Remi Olukoya and Chris Obije and the organizers say that the representatives not only show golfing prowess but also have high tendencies for forming business ties with corporate representatives from close to thirty other nations including Europe, America, Asia apart from South Africa (the only African country outside of Nigeria at the event) “We believe that golf hold more than recreational benefits, it has a great business value too and it is an edge that business community in Nigeria has not tapped. We are working to get the best of it for all competitors”.

The 2011 national finals is scheduled for Le Meridien Golf Hotel and Resort in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom from March 25 to 28

Patrick, Ajiboye Show Spark in a Tight PGA Q-School

Except for the brilliant level par carding by returning Tour card seeker, Paul Patrick of Shagamu Golf Club, in Ogun State, the 2011 of Qualifying School session in Asaba is a tough nut for the filed of 64 players vying for the twelve spots available.

Patrick, who has had an unforgiving 78, on the first round of the four-day schedule calmly strode the bunker littered Ibori Golf and Country Club on the second day fr the level par (72), that has now become the talking point and has set him as the hottest favorite to pick the one of the spots.

Tournament Director of the PGA, Dominic Andrew said that he understands why Patrick’s score is rated high, “Asaba (course) recent setting has easily made it one of the most challenging course in the country, even when the Tour players are here a level par score places you comfortably in the top ten, and coming from him shows he can do better:” The “Qualifying School” is the PGA of Nigeria entry tournament for top amateur into the professional rank and it is organized biennially.

This years edition taking place in Asaba has 64 players from across the country in attendance who have relinquished their amateur status and are hoping to pick one of the twelve spots that the PGA has pegged will be admitted this year. Another player that has shown some measure of promise is Ajiboye Taju from Ilorin Golf Club.

Taju led the first round with 76, four over par, but his trainer Friday Adache believes he is a good material that can add quality, character and skill to the Tour field if he scales the four day test.

He said, “In Ilorin, we have great respect for him and there is no denying that he would bring a lot of quality, character and skill to our profession” Meanwhile as the returns for most the players become highly uncertain on the field of play, they are now banking on the score that the garner from other aspects other than playing ability. The players are also tested in practical sessions that include knowledge of the rules, presentation and club repairs, the association explains that an all rounded member will be more relevant for the development of the game in the country now.

Dayo Oderinde, one of the Tour card seeker in Asaba has, however been expelled from the trials in Asaba after he was penalized for misconduct at one of the sessions, the assessors, said, “there was no point leaving him to go ahead, he lacked character and the test was over for him as soon as we saw that in him” The “Qualifying School” would be rounded up with the successful players paired in a Pro-Am billed with host club members.