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The Last Frontier for Senior Golfers

In order for goals to be meaningful they must offer a challenge and  at the same time be realistic and attainable. As golfers we all have different goals depending on our skills and our personal makeup and our age There are some goals (in the case of some of us wishes or hope) that we all have in common. When we first took up the game our goals were things like breaking a hundred then 90, 80…

  Costco, under the brand name Kirkland is edging its way deeper into the golf market.  First, in 2016 there was the Kirkland Signature golf ball, then the KS1 putter that featured a milled face and adjustable weights.

Both the Kirkland golf ball and putter quickly sold out quickly when the arrived at Costco warehouses.

With their success with golf balls and putters it was only a matter of time…

Introducing the “Windcard”

  Let me start out by asking a question:  do you ever hit the ball over the back of the green when you are hitting into a strong wind?  Me neither.  There is a reason for that.  Most golfer underestimate the loss of yardage a headwind causes and overestimate the assistance a tailwind provides.

Many studies have been conducted (some some scientific than others) into the effect of wind on the…

Increase your smash factor for longer drives

Most golfers when they reach a certain age notice that their swing speed starts to diminish and as that starts to happen the ball does not travel as far.

If this is of concern to you there are different approaches you can take to try and improve your distance.

The first and most obvious is that you can try to increase your swing speed to bring it back up to where it once was.  Some golfers try to…

Can’t Afford a Trackman

  Over the past several years there have been a number of very sophisticated golf launch monitors introduced to the market.  The problem is that the high-end monitors such as Trackman, Flightscope and Foresight  are in the  $15,000 to $25,000 range.   They are not intended for the consumer market but rather are directed at golf pros and teaching facilities.

More recently though several companies…

Strategy for the older golfer

Golf is a game of constant striving for improvement.  In my almost daily visits to the local Golf Dome, I frequently walk down the hitting line and talk to golfers, primarily older golfers, and with very few exceptions when asked what they are ‘working on’,  the answers range from:  hitting it longer, hitting it straighter, hitting it more solidly, to getting more spin on the wedges.  They all…

I’ve finally got around to working on the blog again and started with the Videos Page by adding 4 videos.  They are all on the topic of ‘hitting the little ball first’ and offer good insights into why we tend to hit behind the ball and provide some excellent drills on how to address the issue.

So click on the Videos page on the top right of the home page and have a look.

Enjoy.

2019 Manitoba Championship Schedule

Golf Manitoba’s Championship schedule although not yet complete as been released indicated those events whose dates and location have been confirmed.

Date Event Venue May 25 & 26 Match Play Championship Qualifier Portage G C June 1 & 2 June 3 – 15 Match Play Championship Minnewasta Breezy Bend June 22 & 23 Women’s City & District Championship Carman G & C C June 22 & 23 Bantam…

In professional sports be it hockey, baseball, football or basket ball reference is often made to the importance of ‘home field advantage’.

Professional golf is somewhat different in that it is not a team sport (other than conditions such as the Ryder Cup and the Presidents Cup), it is largely an individual sport and no one player has a distinct home field advantage from week to week.

That got…

MGA and Golf Canada 2018 Competitive Schedule

2018 CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE Date Event Venue Information, Pairings & Results May 26 & 27 Match Play Championship Qualifier Winkler G C Info May 29 Alternate Shot Championsip Southwood G & C C Info June 2 & 3  June 4, 7, 8, 9 & 10 Match Play Championship Teulon G & C C Pine Ridge G C Info June 15 – 17 Future Links, driven by Acura Prairie Championship Portage G C Info June 18 OR June 24

Proposed Rule Changes (2019)

Everyone who plays golf is affected to some degree by the official Rules of Golf.

Tour players live or die by the rules and will call penalties on themselves to their own detriment.  Instead of arguing with officials even when they know the official is right (as is so common in other professional sports), professional golfers police themselves.

But what about amateurs?

I’ve played with groups of…

The people you meet on the golf course

  We have all read stories in books, magazines and blogs that go something like this….. we were on the first hole of (insert name of a golf course) and the starter asked us if we would mind if another couple of guys could join us.

Naturally golfers never say:  “Yes, we would mind.”  Golfers always say:  “Sure, that would be great, send them over.”

Sometimes it turns out that you get to play…

Harry almost bought a …..’swoosh’.

  Golfers are very susceptible to advertising and the companies that manufacture golf equipment and golf related gadgets have learned to play golfers like a fiddle.

The biggest selling features for new equipment and gadgets are expressed in these three words: higher, longer, straighter.

Let’s look at ‘Harry’, a typical amateur golfer.  Harry is a few years south of middle age and has reached the…

Golfstat Part II – 2016 Overall Results

For me the 2016 golf season is over.  I don’t like playing when the temperature gets below 10 degrees celsius so its time to pack away the clubs and recap what happened in 2016.

Before I get to the 2016 data here is a brief overview of my handicap numbers for the last couple of years:

End of season handicap factor    2014 – 4.5,  2015 – 3.8,  2016 – 4.5

As indicated in an earlier postI entered…

Entering hole by hole scores on the Golf Canada Handicap site

Before I present the statistics  captured on the Golf Canada site for the rounds of golf I played in 2016 season I will provide a very brief explanation as to how to go about entered your scores and related information to be able to capture this information for your game.

Steps

Go the to Golf Canada site and click on “enter score”.  When you do this the following screen will come up.  (click on…

Golfstat, Tracking Your Game – Part I

It’s unfortunate but here in southern Manitoba our golf season is nearing the end.

I’m thinking perhaps another ten games or so before the courses close.

There is however one thing I’m looking forward to.

As mentioned in a previous post it was my intention to record some basic stats relative to my game using the Golf Canada Game Tracker.

This past season I entered every game I played using the…