Tiger Woods Struggling without Butch Harmon?

Tiger Woods Struggling without Butch Harmon?

As discussed in a Chicago Tribune article by Ed Sherman, Tiger Woods split from his longtime 10-year coach Butch Harmon in 2003 and he has been struggling with his winning golf game ever since.

It is reminiscent of Boris Becker's split with his tennis coaches, which ultimately led to Becker's loss of tennis world dominance.

Not only has Woods - for him - been ineffective in the only parameter that counts - winning tournaments - but the competition has been getting better due to standards of excellence that Woods himself has set in his short but already illustrious golf career.

Will Tiger continue to win the big ones in coming years without Harmon? Perhaps. Will he continue to dominate the game? That is doubtful.

Golf and Investing

Ameritrade and TaylorMade Golf have teamed up on an innovative marketing idea, combining investment and golf. A $5000 deposit will get the investor a Rossa Monza Putter and a $25000 depositor becomes the proud owner of a TaylorMade® R500XD Series Driver.

It would be interesting for someone to do a study on whether there is a successful correlation between good golf play and sound investing.

The Curmudgeonly Clerk and Golf

The Curmudgeonly Clerk has a nice posting on "golf" and the law. It is a nice - typically GOLF-like - story.

Golf in New York and Winterized Brooklyn Golfers

Via Andrew Raff.com, Corey Kilgannon has a great story at the New York Times about the winterized golfers of New York at Brooklyn Golfers Ignore Impossibility of Playing. Listen, one under par for nine holes under those conditions is NOT bad.

PGA National Resort Spa, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

PGA National Resort Spa, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Corey Kilgannon has a very nicely written article about the PGA National Resort Spa in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, at Where Golf Is More Than a Game.

Sounds like a great golf challenge to any serious golfer - and are we not all?

Golf Tips from the King Of Aces Mancil Davis

On this website, Mancil Davis, the King of Aces, is called the official world record-holder for holes in one (50) and double eagles (10), although Norman Manley is said to have made 59 "aces", including 4 in 1979, but little more seems to be known about his feats, whereas Mancil Davis is quite well known.

Mancil Davis has made a hole in one with every club except putter, PW and SW with the longest hole in one being 379 yards and the shortest hole in one being 124 yards. In 1967 he had eight aces and
in fact three aces in five days in June of that year.

What is his secret?

Here is what he says:

BE THE BALL

Picture in your mind's eye the entire shot from start to finish, with the desired result firmly implanted in your mind. With that result still pictured, step up and fire away. Visualize in vivid color the image of the ball falling into the cup - or picture the flight of the ball to the desired spot.

WOW. Is that all there is to it?

In other words, VISUALIZE your shot in each case, as if it were a short putt into the hole. Then Concentrate ONLY on the target.

Listen, could this be the key to better golf on EVERY shot?

Golf Is a Great Game

Golf is one of the greatest of all individual sports. It is a wonderful sport for young people, to permit them to spend a great deal of time in the fresh air and to help them learn discipline and self-control. No one plays golf well without first mastering himself. This is the first lesson learned by every novice golfer - that golf is a sport like no other, requiring precise coordination of nearly every muscle in the body and demanding mental concentration second to no other sport.

Golf is a wonderful game, but at the same time it is an extremely difficult game to master. Ask anyone who plays it.

It is not without reason that golf has historically been seen as a "game of gentlemen", and of course, in our modern day, it also a game for the "gentle ladies". Not only can golf put our physical and mental abilities to a very stern test in our younger days, but golf can be played an entire lifetime, and well into an advanced age. Golf can help people to remain fit and vigorous and to retain a healthy attitude about life and living in every age category.

GolfPundit will be commenting upon this terrific game in future posts.