Craig Stadler, with 29 career professional golf championship wins including the 1982 Masters, knows about golf. He’s sharing his tips in a series of videos, including this one about hitting from uneven lies. Take a look:
Playing a good round of golf isn’t all physical. It also requires a steady emotional game. Dr. Morris Picken, a sports psychologist in Sea Island, Georgia gives some advice on managing your emotions on the golf course. Take a look:
Round Two at the Master’s Friday in Augusta held a few surprises. Among them:
* South African, Trevor Immelman leads the tournament at -8. He overcame surgery for a benign stomach tumor, a parasite, and a 20-pound weight loss to get in shape for the Masters.
* The #2 player in golf (and two-time Masters winner), Phil Mickelson is poised for a run at winning the tournament. He’s 3 strokes behind Immelman at -5.
* Tiger Woods is -1 after 36 holes, 7 strokes behind Immelman.
* Among those failing to make the cut are Ernie Els and …read more
Tiger Woods made his first apprearance at the Masters Tournament in 1997 and won the event with a tournament record, 270.
In 2000, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, and Gary Player were paired for the Masters Championship, the first time former champions had played together for the event. Among the three, they have 13 Masters titles.
Professional golf instructor, Joe Beck of “Golf Tips with Joe Beck,” teaches viewers how to hit a simple wedge shot out of the rough. Take a look:
Nineteen-year-old, Morgan Pressel is one of the hottest players on the LPGA Tour. She’s only the youngest player to win a major LPGA tournament. This video shares Morgan’s answers to nine quick questions about golf, her life, and her inspirations:
Gatorade, the leader in sports beverages, has created its first athlete-affiliated product–with whom else, but Tiger Woods. The drink, launching this month, is based on researching Tiger’s (and golfers) specific needs, primarily to fight dehydration when out on the links for four to five hours at a time. To meet that requirement, Gatorade Tiger has 25 percent more electrolytes than the traditional Gatorade Thirst Quencher beverages.
Tiger began working with the Gatorade people in 2007 at the Gatorade Sports Science Institute. For a discussion of how they arrived at the beverage formula (and pictures of Tiger in the Gatorade test …read more
This week, a full field of PGA Tour players convene in Orlando for the Arnold Palmer Invitational Tournament at Bay Hill Club and Lodge. Get a feel for the layout of the course in this flyover video:
As incredible as it seems (with a foot of snow on the ground here in Ohio), golf courses in the Midwest and Northeast start opening in mid to late March. To make sure that you’re in top shape to hit the links, here are a few golf exercises to get you in top form:
“Open Book” Stretching Exercise
Strenghtening and Stretching your Swing Arm
Hamstring Exercise
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