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April 4, 2005 12:33 - COLUMN TO READ (ACHENBACH: INNOVATION ALIVE AND WELL IN

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One of our favorite golf writers, Golfweek's James Achenbach,
brought to our attention last week some new and interesting
golf paraphernalia that he says testify to the undying
inclination of entrepreneurs and innovators to get a share of
the golf market. Among the offerings he describes are the
PIPE Putter from Nickent Golf (strange looking, but
effective), the SmartPutter from Lawrence Au of Huntley, Ill.
(change its weight by adding or subtracting nickels), and the
Kool Tee from Extol Inc. of Zeeland, Mich. (for those who
can't bend down to insert or retrieve a tee). Read more about
these and other Achenbach observations at:
http://www.golfweek.com/articles/2005/opinion/columnists/3/418
07.asp

April 4, 2005 12:36 - IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

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= Annika Sorenstam shot a 4-under 68 on Sunday to clinch an
eight-shot victory at the Kraft Nabisco Championship.

= In as close a finish as anyone could ask for, Fred Funk,
after three consecutive bogeys in Tuesday's final round that
could really have finished him, got an ultimate winning par on
the 18th, then breathed a sigh of relief when Luke Donald
missed a twenty-foot birdie putt for the tie.

= World's top ten golfers as of 3/22: 1 Vijay Singh; 2 Tiger
Woods; 3 Ernie Els; 4 Phil Mickelson; 5 Retief Goosen; 6
Padraig Harrington; 7 Sergio Garcia; 8 David Toms; 9 Adam
Scott; 10 Stewart Cink

= John Daly's 11 on the 18th hole in the Bay Hill Invitational
was at least the eighth time he's has made a double-digit
score on a hole.

= Greg Norman underwent back surgery last week and expects to
resume playing within three months.
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April 5, 2005 15:50 - MENTAL TIP by MICHAEL ANTHONY

"Desire, Belief and Patience"

What do desire, belief and patience have in common? They are
all important ingredients of success in anything that you do
or try to accomplish. If you want to shoot lower scores,
take an honest look at the above recipe to see what you could
be doing better.

Let’s start with desire. How strong is your desire to lower
your score? On a scale of one to ten, with ten being the
highest, if you are not doing everything under your control
to improve your golf, your desire is less than a ten. That’s
OK as long as you realize that your success will be limited
according to the actions you are or are not taking.

If you claim to desire scores lower than what you are willing
to work for, you do not have a desire. You have a wish. A
wish will never be strong enough to attain the scores you
supposedly desire. You have two choices. Either change your
goal and accept higher scores, or take more action to lower
them. Why frustrate yourself if you only have a wish and
not a strong desire?

If you truly have a desire and are backing it up with positive
thoughts and actions, you have to believe that your efforts
will pay off in the end. Otherwise, why do the work? It is
important to believe in the processes that you are working on
to improve. If you have selected legitimate processes that will
result in lower scores, don’t keep looking over your shoulder at
your scores until you have mastered the process.

Always keep in mind that the outcome is merely a by-product of
the process. Keep focusing on improving the process until your
lower scores become a reality. What happens in many cases is
the golfer gives up on the process before the results appear,
and blames it on the process not working. Rarely does the
golfer blame himself for not working the process.

Instead of always looking for new techniques, training devices
or equipment to try out in the hope of lowering your score,
have patience and master what you are working on. When you
plant a seed in a garden, you don’t dig it up before it has
a chance to grow and bloom. Patience is a very important part
of the learning process and golf.

When you play golf, belief and patience work together. Before
attempting any golf shot, you must totally believe that you can
make the shot if everything goes right. Otherwise, change your
shot selection. You must believe in your percentages of success
for making the shot and have the patience to trust the process.

You won’t make all of your shots, but if you are patient and
believe in your ability to make your share of shots, you will
be a lot more successful and accomplish your desire to shoot
lower scores.

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April 6, 2005 17:27 - Golf Potpourri

by

Mac Stevenson

Tension Destroys Coordination

How many times have you been sailing along on the golf course,
shooting a great round when unwanted thoughts invade your psyche
and cause a loss of coordination? Tension and pressure can cause
you to lose coordination during your golf swing.

Three kinds of pressure on the golf course can affect how you
play and they are very different: (1) Tension and unwanted
pressure creep into your golf game when you are having a
better-than-expected round; this is self-imposed nervousness and
we‘re all susceptible to it. (2) The pressure you feel while
playing in any of your local tournaments can seem just as real
and challenging as the tension the pros on the PGA Tour face. (3)
Stress and tension caused by monetary wagers during a round of
golf can be even more intense than tournament play.

You should never play for big money with someone who has a lot
more of it than you do. If the money factor is more important to
you than it is your opponent, he has a huge psychological
advantage before you ever tee off.

Playing for money, however, can be an asset in preparing for
tournaments. The key is to keep the stakes reasonable considering
your financial status. When playing for money, you should hole
all putts--just like tournament play--unless it causes your group
to play too slow and holds up other players.

The only way to learn how to handle pressure is by playing in
money matches and tournaments, when nerves and tension are going
to be omnipresent.

In tournaments, the player who is a veteran and competes often
has a huge advantage over anyone who plays in just one or two
events a year. If you want to play well under tournament
pressure, you have to compete every time you get a chance. And
don’t be afraid of failure. After you’ve gained tournament
experience, you’ll find you can play just as well as you do
during everyday rounds.

There’s a marked difference in the type pressure you will face in
medal play and match play tournaments. In medal play, every shot
counts and the tension is continuous throughout the 18 holes.
Pressure builds--depending on the situation--in match play.

As an example, if you’re three up with four to play, the pressure
is obviously on your opponent. And you can have shots that aren’t
so daunting because of what your opponent has done. If your
competitor hits one out-of-bounds, you can relax knowing you
should win the hole.

During a pressure-packed round of golf, seemingly small
distractions will have a tendency to upset you much more than
they would during everyday golf. You must bring all your
concentration to bear in order to avoid losing your composure.

The club that is most susceptible to tournament pressure is the
putter; if you’re really giving it all you’ve got, controlling
your concentration over crucial putts is difficult to do. It’s a
good habit to keep your head steady, but don’t be afraid to move
it just slightly after you’ve stroked the putt--mainly just
following the putt with your peripheral vision when it’s rolling.
If you try and keep your head absolutely rigid, it can make the
stroke too stiff and tense.

A lot of golfers don’t play in tournaments because they’re
ashamed when they don’t perform up to their normal standards.
That’s depriving yourself of excitement and fun. Everyone has
disappointing tournaments, just as you have bad days during
routine rounds of golf. After a poor showing, the key is to
analyze what went wrong and determine to do better in the next
tournament.

Many players change their normal routines during tournament play,
and that’s a big mistake. If you usually study putts from behind
the ball, do it the same way in tournament play. And take just
one practice swing if that’s how you always play. Don’t look at
putts from every angle and get yourself all nervous and confused,
and don’t take four or five practice swings and tie yourself in a
knot.

Tournament golf is an adventure, and you can learn to cope with
the accompanying tension. In fact, sometimes you’ll play better
than normal in tournaments because you’ll keep trying after a bad
shot or hole. But to become a pressure player, you have to
participate in numerous tournaments until you’re familiar with
and know how to handle the nervousness and pressure that are your
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April 11, 2005 17:03 - Todays Golf tip

The End of the Backswing

On all shots from the chips through the irons to the woods,
always try to have a little wrist action at the end of the
backswing. Let me make clear that the wrist action I speak of has
nothing to do with the downswing; it's entirely concerned with
the finish of the backswing. This small suffix of wrist action
introduces a little lightness to your swing at a very important
point. Its value cannot be overemphasized because the end result
is that it gives you that minute thing called timing.

Let me explain this a bit further. If the golf club is swung so
that it has the free release of centrifugal force, the ball can
be hit truer and with greater clubhead speed than if the golfer
tries to hold the club on line, to steer the ball, as he hits
through it. If a golfer's grip comes up dead at the top of the
backswing, however, he can't make a correct dynamic swing: he has
to leap and jump to hit. This is the reason why that touch of
wrist action at the top of the backswing is so valuable. It
reaffirms the life of your swing and your timing. While you're
taking this wrist action, your body goes forward and out of the
way (as you can observe in the swings of most of the top
professionals) and the golfer is able to perform the most nearly
perfect arc on the downswing. In short, this little bit of wrist
action is the key to developing a great deal of clubhead speed
without effort.

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April 14, 2005 14:50 - This weeks Golf Tip

Holding Your Head Steady

The improvement in my game in recent months I attribute to a good
degree to finally learning to hold my head steady.

For four years I had trouble doing that. If you are right-eyed—as
I am—and cock your head to the right as you go back, there's no
way you can see the ball. If you're left-eyed, as some golfers
are, for example, cocking your head is fine for you. Right-eyed
golfers, however, must learn to hold the head in a fixed position
over the ball.

When players are working on refining their backswing, they
sometimes unconsciously pick up the habit of turning their heads
to the right to check certain positions of the hands and the
clubhead. Be certain you avoid this not uncommon pitfall. For
another thing, don't become over-impressed when you hear that the
top players can hit the ball without looking at it. They can, but
when they go off their games it is probably because they have
taken their heads and eyes off the ball.

Is there any simple prescription that will enable you to hold
your head still? I think there is. Practice closing your bad eye.
It will steady not only your head but your entire swing as well.

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