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We begin today’s news with an article about golf fitness analysis being the first step to enhancing your game…
Golf fitness evaluation could be an useful device in helping any golfer to assess the place they currently stand and thus help them attain a choice of what they’ll do to improve.
Read the full story here: http://articlestar.net/healthy-lifestyle/golf-fitness-analysis-is-the-first-step-towards-enhancing-your-sport/
This next article caught my eye…
How can you make people better at sports? Tell them they’re using equipment that previously belonged to a professional athlete. No, really. A new study finds that golfers significantly improved their putting ability when they believed the putter they were using belonged to a celebrity golfer.
In financial news…
Callaway Golf Company Announces Third Quarter Results
- Third quarter net sales of $173 million, compared to $176 million last year
- Third quarter non-GAAP loss per share of ($0.37)/GAAP loss per share of ($1.01) – Restructuring actions on target to achieve approximately $50 million in gross annualized savings and reinvesting approximately 50% of the savings into brand and demand creation initiatives
Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/callaway-golf-company-announces-third-quarter-results-2011-10-27
This next article receives my ‘really?’ award for just plain silliness…
You know, this whole Internet thing just might stick around after all. This weekend, Golf Channel will debut a new feature, “Social Media Saturday,” in which the channel’s commentators offer up their perspective via Twitter on the on-course doings at the Nationwide Tour Championship in Charleston, S.C.
While my last reported article was given the silliness award, this next one get’s the ‘Holy Crap!’ award.
Jeff Overton shoots course-record 62 for share of Asia Pacific Classic lead with Jacobson
SELANGOR, Malaysia — American Jeff Overton shot a course-record 9-under 62 on Friday for a share of the second-round lead with Sweden’s Fredrik Jacobson in the Asia Pacific Classic.
Jacobson had a 64 to match Overton at 13-under 129 at The Mines Resort and Golf Club in the second-year event sanctioned by the PGA Tour and Asian Tour.
Ok, I’m going to leave you with that.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend and look forward to you reading more exciting news and articles next week.
As someone who has been working out vigorously since high school and in my years of experience participating in team sports, I have seen all kinds of superstitions that athletes engage in when they are playing well. But the fact that golf clubs used by celebrities or golf pros are big sellers, that one takes the cake. Unless that story was meant to be humorous that I didn’t get, I have to wonder whether the high rate of sales could be attributed to people wanting to be collectors or thinking that the club will appreciate in value as the years go on and they hope to get their investment back.
I am so far out of shape I really don’t know if there is room for any significant comeback to feeling like I’m 18 again. I guess I’ll start shopping around for some of Tiger Woods’ old clubs. Who knows! Maybe I’ll make the senior tour! I like the refreshing, not so serious approach this blog seems to take towards golf.
I found your blog to be very entertaining and I think that study of owning a professional players clubs might actual be for real, it is kind of like the scientific study of placebo medicine compared to the actual medicine. Your mind is a powerful thing and it can trick even you. I believe it because everybody knows the right pair of shoes helps you run faster. I look forward to reading future news on your blog.
I imagine the the story most people identify with is the news about the study conducted which shows that golfers improved their putting ability or accuracy once they believed that pro or celebrity golfers had used the club they themselves were putting with. It is clear that psychological factors are at work here. It is much like the phenomenon of, not just regular people, but even pro athletes and their use of those writs bands that supposedly can improve your balance. I realize that certain pro athletes are paid an endorsement income for wearing the wrist band and testifying to its effectiveness. But there are some pro athletes who actually believe in the power of a magical wrist band. That goes to show you that the words of P.T. Barnum are true even today: “there is a sucker born every minute.
The 1 Sneaky 40 Hour Golf Trick sounds like an interesting offer. What I do not know is if it is a manual or is it a email news letter; Or is it an e-book? When I clicked on it, it took me to an opt-in web form page that kind of looks like a membership web site. Then again, maybe it was just a form that redirects you to another access level for a piece of advice. Whatever it is, we can all use regular coaching to improve the golf swing. Even PGA pros have swing coaches to make sure they maintain the proper mechanics. The golf swing is a matter of precise mechanics and it is very easy to deviate into bad habbits.