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Subject: Issue #361 Different Strokes Golf Newsletter - Jan 24, 2006
Different Strokes - The Golfhelp Newsletter
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Issue #361
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WE'RE WONDERING
Where do you stand on Michelle Wie? The teen phenom has yet to make it
to the weekend in a men's event. She just failed to make the Sony Open
cut for the fourth time, this time miserably. So what's to be done
with her? (PLAYING WITH THE BIG DOGS) How should we treat her? How
should the media treat her? Any thoughts?
rod@golfhelp.com
In this issue:
>> THIS WEEK
>> PLAYING WITH THE BIG DOGS
>> GET SPIN FROM A BUNKER
>> TIGER'S BOOK PRAISED
>> NOTEWORTHY (ADJUSTABLE PUTTER)
>> PRO INCOMES WAY UP IN 2006
>> COUPLE GAMBLES MARRIAGE NAME WITH MINI GOLF
>> GOOD TO HEAR FROM YOU
>> HE SAID
>> SHORT GAME
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THIS WEEK
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Golf on TV: http://www.golfhelp.com/a/go.php?c=tvtimes
PGA
Buick Invitational
FedEx Cup Points: 25,000
San Diego, California
Jan. 25-28
2006 winner: Tiger Woods (-10) $918,000
LPGA
No event scheduled.
CHAMPIONS
Turtle Bay Championship
Kahuku, Hawaii
Jan. 26-28
2006 winner: Loren Roberts (-12) $225,000
NATIONWIDE
Movistar Panama Championship
Panama City, PAN
Jan. 25-28
2006 winner: Tripp Isenhour (-11) $99,000
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PLAYING WITH THE BIG DOGS
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At 12 years of age, Michelle Wie became the youngest player ever to
qualify for an LPGA event. At age 15, the then high school sophomore
finished two strokes behind winner Rosales in the season-opening SBS
Open. She's talented, she's smart, she's nice. Her golf swing is
wondrous to behold. She hits it faaaaarr. She quickly became the
darling of the media. She decided she'd prefer to play men's golf over
women's in the long run. So why not start as soon as possible, test
the waters so to speak? Some thought she should make a success path
through LPGA schedule before she took on the PGA, but most pundits
celebrated her ambition and praised her courage and calm under pressure.
Then she failed this month in her fourth consecutive attempt to
qualify for the PGA Sony Open, and her supporters have begun to defect,
as if she should be made to pay for letting them down, making them
look bad. As the saying goes, everyone loves a winner, but . . .
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GET SPIN FROM A BUNKER
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This one is easier said than done, but if and when you have to get out
of a greenside bunker and create backspin at the same time, do this.
Play the ball forward in your stance and open the clubface a bit.
Strike the sand as close as possible to the ball without hitting it (
the hard part). Take a thin divot and follow through.
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TIGER'S BOOK PRAISED
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We haven't read it yet, but what we've read so far about Tiger Woods:
How I Play Golf is good, so we mention it here for those who may want
to beat us to the punch. Shows "passion" and "love for the game," says
one reviewer who is also a golfer. The tone is conversational. Woods'
love of the game shines through. He describes in detail his game from
short irons on up, using high-speed camera stills to illustrate the
moves. There's a chapter on course management and words about many of
the shots heard round the world that helped make him a champion so many
times.
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PRO INCOMES WAY UP IN 2006
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Golf Digest has again compiled a world list consisting of the top-50
highest earners from all possible sources among professional players in
2006. Not surprisingly, Tiger Woods got top spot with earnings just
short of $100 million, up $12 million from what he nailed in 2005.
Phil Mickelson is No. 2 on the list for the third consecutive year,
with golf-related income of just over $44 million. These are big bucks,
considering Curtis Strange was the first player ever to earn $1
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COUPLE GAMBLES MARRIAGE NAME WITH MINI GOLF
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A New Zealand bride and groom let 18 holes of crazy golf to determine
whose surname they'd adopt. To emphasize just how serious they were,
Greg Marshall and Adrienne Foley actually wore their wedding duds for
the high stakes game. Doing so turned out to hinder Adrienne more so
than it did Greg, but although she lost, she gave it a good go,
threatening on the 17th with a hole-in-one. Greg one by three strokes.
She took his name. . . . Guess whose idea the whole thing was??
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GOOD TO HEAR FROM YOU
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About FedEx Cup points vs. money-winner ranking:
"Good question. I hope this will make writers stop writing about the
"leading money winner." They have always made too much of it.
Remember when Jim Colbert won more than Hale Irwin? Colbert played
several more tournaments. When Singh won more than Woods? Sing played
about 60% more tournaments. Now, not that it is very likely to happen,
but it could, any player who makes the playoff could win and be the
leading money winner. The term should be abolished." George Singleton
(Fort Worth, Texas)
". . . will probably pay no attention. I'll watch a number of tour
events on weekends and try to learn from what I see. Who wins the cup
or player of the year will be lost on me. Of course, I also ignore the
Heisman winner, the pro sports MVP's and all of that. For me, it's
the beauty of the game." MK
". . . interest will grow as the season and qualifying tournaments take
place, and top point getters are promoted. Of course, it will help if
the PGA pros talk positively about it, too. I think the majority of
pros must feel it is a great event for 2007. I will keep an eye on the
results as we go through the season." Dave
About what's in your bag:
"Before: driver, 3-wood, 5-wood, 4, 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9, PW, SW, putter.
After: driver, 3, 4, 5, 6 Adams hybrids, 7, 8, 9, PW, GW, SW, LW,
putter, conventional 4 iron from old set. I kept a 4 iron from my old
set just to hit low shots from the woods. The LW and GW are new for me
and I haven't worked out the yardages yet. I wonder sometimes whether I
need to put a wood back in the bag that I might be able to hit farther
than the 3 hybrid, but my strategy after I got the new set was to just
hit the 3-hybrid down the middle of the fairway and not worry about the
distance. I never hit a par 5 in two anyway. My index is 12.2, and I
shot 5-over a couple times this year, so I think removing the woods has
let me hit more consistent and more accurate shots from the fairway
with the hybrids. I'm 62 and have been playing about five years."
Hanover66
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SHORT GAME
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= Charley Hoffman birdied 17 and eagled 18 to end regulation, then
birdied the first sudden death hole to beat John Rollins Sunday at the
Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.
= Paraguay's Julieta Granada and Celeste Troche won the Women's World
Cup of Golf by seven shots Sunday.
= Hale Irwin shot 65 on Sunday for a five-shot victory at the
MasterCard Championship at Hualalai, his 45th victory on the Champions
Tour.
= Annika Sorenstam says comments in a Swedish newspaper hinting that
she may retire to start a family have been taken way out of context.
= The LPGA Sybase Classic is moving from Wykagyl Country Club in the
New York City suburbs to Upper Montclair Country Club in northern New
Jersey.
= Henrik Stenson, the Ryder Cup player from Sweden, set a new Asian
long-driving record from the wing of a Etihad Airway jet, 721 yards
down the runway at Abu Dhabi airport.
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