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Last week I posted a video of what Tiger sees when hitting his 4 iron. Today we see his view of the driver. Very different…and very cool!
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The amazing Karen Shulist passed along on update on this year’s TS Canada golf tournament.  It is a great time and a great cause.  I will be there…let me know if you would like to join me!

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Tuberous Sclerosis Canada and the Shulist Family is pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Charity Golf Tournament, to Raise Awareness for TSC . We anticipate this year a sold out field as foursomes are already being entered. We will once again have some very special guests in attendence.

Please visit the tournament website at http://www.tstourney.com/ for more information (800) 347-0252

Date: June 2nd , 2007

http://www.angusglen.com/

Golfer Registration: $200.00 per golfer - Golf Angus Glen  ( North Course)  Golf where the Pros Golf! Try out the same course that the pro’s will be golfing on in July .

Registration Includes:

When I watch golf on television and see all the pharmaceutical ads I deduct that a) men my age get sick when they play golf b) golf makes men my age sick c) men my age need to take a lot of medicine to play golf. 

This may explain why I like playing golf with Hank. He is a medical marvel. Like some 3 percent of golfers, he smokes (or used to) 10 or more cigarettes in a round. He has several ailments that prevent him from finishing a game (30%). He doesn’t so much walk as he rolls from side to side, due to back spasms and chronic pain in his hips (27%). When his feet hurt he plays barefoot. (Data unavailable.) He is one of 76% of golfers who drink more than moderately and is among 30% who play with a hangover. He is overweight (66%). He is one of 52% of golfers who take prescribed medication. He has been hit by a golf ball (50%) at least once. Source: Golf Digest.

Hank defied most statistics until last summer. A few days after playing a demanding course, he felt a slight twinge and was taken to hospital. A few days later he was recovering in intensive care after a quadruple by-pass. Twice during the surgery the surgeons had lost Hank and twice they brought him back to life.
 
This summer I will look forward to seeing Hank on the fairway again. He has always appreciated something in the game a lot of other golfers miss, like his companions laughing at his jokes, a flight of birds overhead just as he is about to putt, or the arrangement of new blossoms holding one of his lost balls. I will look forward to his periodic ventures into the rough, where he will later emerge with a handful of golf balls, offering to share them. He’ll be chewing on some ‘found fruit,’ an apple from an old orchard nearby or some wild berries.
 
The way he plays golf makes it a different game. However he plays it, Hank will never be a statistic.

“The hole in the stratospheric ozone layer was… a global problem requiring the cooperation of every nation in the world.  [The United States] took the lead in phasing out the chemicals that solved that problem.” 

Amazing. 

I never knew that the hole in the ozone layer was no longer an issue, that I could now use aerosol spray cans without fear of contributing unnecessarily to the deterioration of the environment. 

I know Al Gore is not a popular man with many people, but in the end, why not err on the side of safety and continuing to enjoy the environment that gives us beautiful golf courses?  I saw his movie “An Inconvenient Truth” last June for the 1st time in theatres, and again tonight.  Although after the first viewing I was stunned onto tears for more than 1/2 hour after the matinee ended (I didn’t leave my seat I was crying so hard), this second viewing allows me to reflect on changes I’ve recently made in how I live life - still no car since I totalled my last one on the morning of my birthday in 2005, contirbuted financially to make my personal CO2 impact = zero, now only eat organic fruits, veggies and more importantly meats, and even still I appreciate being able to get out into nature, golfing, even more. 

I am confident the golf industry will adapt the same way every other industry has as a result of the growing awareness about the climate crisis - without sacrificing our benefits or enjoyment, we will find a way, quickly, to continue with less environmental impact.   I can hardly wait to become a member of a local environmentally-friendly golf course. 

In the more near future, I am excited to try the organic food grown on-site at The Boulders Club in Scottsdale, Arizona in less than two weeks!

This is a really great view of what Tiger sees when he is swinging 

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Just spoke with Mark over at Inner Golf.  Inner Golf is being billed as Toronto’s greatest indoor facility.  I am heading over Monday to check it out and will report back.

In the meantime, Mark has made an incredible offer for Golflogic members…1 hour free!  I would jump all over this right now.  Register for free online, print the deal and call ahead to book.  Send me your feedback once you have played.

There is also a great March Break special where you can bring in your kids.

Thanks again Mark! 

Like a lot of golf fans in Vancouver BC, I’ve always looked forward to watching the nightly news and features on the Golf Channel. This had become a ritual. Until poof, one night — it wasn’t on. Instead, I was looking into the screen of a black and white movie. Did I miss something? My favorite program was gone, and yet according to my bill, I was still paying the same rate.

I called the corporate headquarters in Calgary and left a message for Mr. Peter Bissonnette, President, Shaw Communications.  I wanted to know why Shaw would take what it had called “an unpopular channel” off the air and then use it to forcibly migrate users to its new digital cable terminal (DCT).

Why wouldn’t Shaw tell its customers beforehand that they were migrating certain programs away from us? Why didn’t we get an offer to pay only a small upgrade fee and keep our program. This is what technology companies do, and they do it all the time. 

But then it occurred to me that maybe the Golf Channel was the most popular show on the nightly line-up. Maybe Shaw hoped people would give up complaining, accept the inevitable and eventually pay even more money to watch the Golf Channel.  It’s worked before, several times with other programs, it might work again.

I got an e-mail reply from Customer Care at Shaw Communications recently. The first excuse was that the Golf Channel was no longer popular among its majority of viewers and the second reason it was moved was because of regulatory requirements.

The net result: If you want to see the Golf Channel on Shaw Cable you need only rent a Digital Cable Terminal (DCT) at $11.95 per month, plus a security deposit ($50). You go to the nearest Shaw retail store, pick up a DCT and install it yourself. While you’re there you can purchase an econo digital version for $98. If you want a DCT with a full digital read-out and all the bells and whistles it will cost just $248. Oh, I may not have mentioned that the Golf Channel itself is now on “free preview” status on DCT. You will have to pay for the channel later on. Of course if you want to move up to Tier 3, where the Golf Channel rules, then you pay some more.

Whatever their reasoning at Shaw Communications, it is an imperfect lie.

Before I comment on the new Sumo squared driver, I should mention that I was sent one by Nike to test and comment on it on my radio show.  They didn’t tell me what to say, just to talk about it.

When I first held it, it looked like a toaster on a stick.  The more I swing it, the less I get that feeling.  I’ve only hit it indoors into a net and the sound it makes coming off the club is deafening.  Not the sound we’re used to.  I’ll report on how it flies outside as soon as I get the chance.

What I’m hearing from others around the golfing world is that weekend warriors won’t be beating a path to buy this new club because no one on any of the major Tours is using it. 

Are we that naive to think that we can hit the same club as Tiger or Phil and get the same results?  Without having to work at our game the same way, practice as much as they do?

The new square driver is supposed to aid in minimizing the affect of off centre hits to keep the ball going straighter.  Guess what, the Pros usually hit the centre of the club and need to work the ball right or left.  The rest of us could use hitting more straight shots.  This club was not made for the Pros, it was made for the rest of us.

I’m not saying to go and buy one right away, I am saying to judge it on the club’s performance and not by the way it looks or by who is or is not using it on Tour.

We have all found a few lost golf balls while wandering through the rough but imagine finding one worth £440 (approx. $1000 CDN).  Not a bad find for a couple walking through the dunes at St. Andrews.

Last September, golf fans John and Margo McKay struck it lucky when they went for a walk along the edge of the beach. Nestling in rushes was a rare gutta percha ‘Mecca’ golf ball made by D. Anderson of St Andrews and dating back to the late 19th century.

The full story is HERE