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discount oakley golf shoes TODAY'S GOLF - Tuesday, February 3, 2004"Tips... News... And More... All For The Love Of The Game" ------------------------------------------------------------ To SUBSCRIBE visit: http://www.gophercentral.com/sub/sub-golf.html Subscribe ------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE: 1. TEEING OFF - TOO GOOD TO BE NORMAL 2. PRO REPORT - SKIP MONTY? TOUGH CALL FOR LANGER 3. QUOTE OF THE WEEK TEEING OFF TOO GOOD TO BE NORMAL The "It's-good-to-be-normal" hounds are loose again and they're going after Michelle Wie and her family, barking at them for stealing her childhood, pressuring her into becoming an adult too soon, skipping school and all man- ner of anti-normal behaviors. But what's so great about being normal? At this year's Hawaii Open, Friday attend- ance was p 22 percent over the same day in 2003. The dif- ference: the presence of the non-standard, irregular, un- common, atypical, extraordinary ninth-grader who is a once-in-a-millennium physical genius at golf. Tiger Woods was asked if he could have made the cut on tour at that age. "No way," he replied. "The same thing would've hap- pened to me at 14 as it did when I was 16 (at the 1992 Los Angeles Open, where he missed by plenty). I wasn't good enough." The "Tiger model" followed by Earl Woods (Tiger's dad) states that you should "dominate at the level you're at before you move on to the next level." That's good advice for most, but Michelle Wie is several cuts above everyone else. Her recent success at the Hawaii Open shows that her development as a savvy, well- spoken and very happy young girl is something to behold. Wie was having a ball -- she even skipped down the 10th fairway for a while until she remembered where she was. Exploitation never looked like this much fun. How many 14-year-olds do you know who could shoot a 68 from the back tees against the best players in the world, then take over the announcers' booth and not miss a beat? Somebody is definitely doing something right. As commen- tator Charlie Reimer said to Ernie Els, "Not only is she trying to take your job, she's trying to take mine, too." Where the critics go wrong is in giving advice geared to an everyday, standard-issue crowd from which excellence flows in a trickle. But with genius, be it intellectual, creative or physical, excellence is a flood that sweeps away those who lobby for sameness and carry on about the need to be normal. "I don't want to be normal," said Wie, and we shouldn't want her to be, either. ------------------------------------------------------------ ** LIQUIDATION SPECIAL - American Flags for $2.49 ** We are pleased to announce that we have found Full-Size 3'x5' American flags available at liquidation prices... never sold before at these low prices. Made of durable polyster with two (2) metal grommets perfect for displaying. Its a great time to stock up on them as they will make great holiday gifts. Check them out at these never-before-seen prices. Liquidation Special - USA Flags ------------------------------------------------------------ PRO REPORT SKIP MONTY? TOUGH CALL FOR LANGER West Palm Beach, Fla. -- Nobody has been in a tougher spot in a Ryder Cup than Bernhard Langer, who missed a 6-foot putt in 1991 that would have enabled the Europeans to re- tain the trophy at Kiawah Island. His opponent that day, Hale Irwin, later said that Langer was put in that posi- tion because he could handle the outcome better than any- one. Langer doesn't have to worry about facing similar pressure now that he's agreed to be the European captain and not try to play in his record-tying 11th Ryder Cup this fall at Oakland Hills, near Detroit. But he could be dealing with an equally dicey situation: Does he leave European star Colin Montgomerie -- with whom Langer was unbeaten as a partner in 2002 -- off the team? Langer acknowledged recently that making his two wild-card picks will probably be the most difficult part of his job. The Hall of Famer also said Montgomerie won't be given a free ride on the team, even though he has the best winning per- centage of any European (66.1) with an overall mark of 16-7-5. "I certainly hope he will make the team because he's a great player," Langer said in a phone interview from La Quinta, Calif. "But you never know. You need to have a good 12 months when qualifying. It's happened to other great players who didn't make a Ryder Cup team be- cause they weren't playing well." Langer was one of them. He was left off the 1999 team, the only Ryder Cup he's missed since 1981. It didn't matter that Langer is second to Nick Faldo on the Europeans' all-time list for matches (42), points (24) and won matches (22). With Montgomerie 25th on both lists for Ryder Cup points and world rankings -- the top five are chosen off the world rankings, then the next five on the European points list who have not al- ready been selected -- it appears the only chance that Montgomerie has is as a wild-card pick in August. He has dropped to 44th in the world rankings. Langer, 46, has plenty of other decisions to make before then. Major de- cisions like what clothes the team will wear, where the players will sleep, and more. Langer said it's important that he and American captain Hal Sutton continue to make sure the matches don't become as antagonistic as they were at Kiawah and at Brookline in 1999. The 2002 matches at The Belfry were relatively free of controversy. "It doesn't matter too much who wins or loses," Langer said. "The game of golf is larger than any one team. I hope these matches are very competitive, but with the highest level of sportsmanship." The last hard thing Langer will have to do as captain is watch the matches. "It's going to be more difficult to be standing on the sidelines," he said. "You kind of feel helpless." ------------------------------------------------------------ The TekFlame... A Lighter of Distinction by Dakota Dakota has done it again... created a very unique lighter that will turn heads everywhere. WHY? Featuring a GREEN colored wind-resistant jet torch flame the TekFlame looks great day or night. AND when you flip the top of the TekFlame a shimmering blue LED shines, lights up the gold in-laid emblem. The bright green flame occurs because there is a catalyst on the heat coils which changes the color of the flame once it reaches a higher temperature. If you have never used a colored flame before you are surely going to be impressed (no special butane required). Perfect for parties or a gift. 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discount oakley golf shoes 9bbTuesday, February 24, 2004 Women Need Equipment Tailored To Their Game One of the most upsetting statistics in golf is that one out of every two women who take up the game quit after 24 months. There are a number of reasons for this, but one of the most common is that the game is made hard for women because many of them play with inferior equipment. Sometimes it is the arrow and not the Indian that's responsible for a bad shot. Many women players have difficulty generating enough club head speed to consistently get the ball airborne with the longer clubs, which have less face loft. They have no trouble with the 5-iron through pitching wedge, but they hit the rest of their clubs all about the same distance. This begs a ques- tion from an inquiring mind: "Why do I need all those other clubs in the set if they all go the same distance?" I've asked club manufacturers about this, but they have always responded with a shrug -- until now. Finally, using the information provided by modern-day launch monitors, club manufacturers such as Callaway are making sets available this year that are more suitable for golfers with slow swing speed. Here's how it works. A woman who hits her driver about 120 yards spins the ball at about 4,000 rpms (revolutions per minute). Her spin rate for the pitching wedge is about 5,000 rpms. The rate is fairly constant throughout the set, meaning she has only a 40-yard gap between her longest and shortest clubs (by contrast, the average man hits his pitching wedge 100 yards and his driver 220 yards -- a 120-yard gap). The strategy for these women is to have fewer clubs (more woods and fewer irons) and to space the lofts far differently than the spacing in a traditional set. For example, a woman's set of clubs would include: a 14-degree driver, 18-degree 3-wood, 20-degree 5-wood, 24-degree 7-wood, 28-degree 9-wood, 32- degree 7-iron, 38-degree 8-iron, 44-degree 9-iron and a 50- degree pitching wedge. Throw in a sand wedge and a putter and you have a set that numbers 11, but fills in the 40-yard gap more evenly (and with more versatility). 'No Real Rush' For Duval To Return To Competition Despite a recent report that David Duval likely will return to competition for The Players Championship March 25-28, instructor David Leadbetter, while optimistic about the former No. 1 player's improvement, says that "nothing is automatic right now." Not even playing in the Masters. Indeed, there's nothing to keep Duval from waiting until summer, if that's what it takes. It all depends on his con- fidence and progress. "There's no real rush," Leadbetter said Wednesday from Orlando. "It's not do-or-die that it has to be TPC or Augusta. It's going to be when he feels his game and his head are ready for it." The only apparent sure thing is that Duval, 32, who made only four cuts in 20 events last year and fell to 242nd in the world rankings, is getting married during the first week of March to Susie Persichitte, an interior designer from Denver he met last summer at The International. While Leadbetter is encouraged that Duval has started to fade the ball again, he's concern- ed about the timing of Duval's return. If Duval eventually eyes TPC, it might be smarter to start back at, say, either the Honda Classic or Bay Hill, rather than face the pressure of a debut at Ponte Vedra Beach in his hometown tournament. QUOTE OF THE WEEK "If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." -Jack Lemmon |
