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Headed to Florida, Arizona or somewhere else sunny eh? Planning on playing a little golf? Think you’ll hit some good shots?

Not so fast Tiger. You will need to implement a few critical steps in order to take your Michigan game down south. Now that it has been a month or two since you have played, you have lost a little touch and your golf muscles have tightened up.

1.  You have just gotten off the plane and you have a tee time in 2 hours. You are in a rush to get your bags, get a limo and make it to the course in time to pick up a fancy logo golf shirt. While you wait for your bags to be unloaded make sure you use this time to do a few stretches. Yes, right there in the baggage claim area. If anyone looks at you funny, just growl and say “I eat small children”. You’ll have plenty of space to get loosened up after that.

2.  Drink plenty of water on the flight down. Your water intake up north typically decreases during the winter months. But down south it is still warm enough for you to dehydrate faster than your parents burned doobies at a Grateful Dead concert.

3.  Wear a lot of sunblock. #50 or higher.  You won’t play your best golf if your face is on fire for the back nine.

4.  Hit plenty of chip shots before you tee off. The grass down there is narly and grows in all directions. Kind of like Uncle Marv’s hairpiece. You will need to spend some time getting adjusted to how the ball bounces and spins around the greens. When the grass is growing opposite the direction you want your ball to go make sure you use more swing than you normally would. You will be surprised how much the grass grabs your club.

Good luck and let us know how many birdies you make at www.grandrapidsgolflesson.com

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First and foremost I want all our young golfers and sports lovers to know that Athletes are NOT role models for personal behavior. This is a prime example of that.  Athletes should be role models for how to accomplish an athletic motion at the highest level and no more.  For personal behavior role models our young athletes should start with the New Testament. As for Tiger’s next Recovery Act, his focus and ability to put aside distractions is legendary. And I expect nothing different here. 

Physically Tiger will be no different, he works harder than anyone out there. These distractions will be a mental hurdle more than a physical hurdle. Don’t expect his ability to hit 330 yard drives change one bit.

Tiger suggests that personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn’t have to mean public confessions. But he has chosen to put his life in the public arena as a result of his career choice. No different than Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina and several other presidents and senators who have gone public with their affairs.

Tiger is probably on his Yacht somewhere in the Caribbean, he’ll stay out of the spotlight for a month or so and he will be winning again by February.

In all this is a mere blip on the map compared to what you see in the political arena and other troubled professional sports such as football and basketball.

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Lucas and I were in the mall today at a retail golf store. We were practicing our putting and lo and behold, we saw several men and women browsing around the store with confused looks on their faces. At 2 years old, Lucas didn’t take much notice, but I knew the look. I have seen it before. It’s the “Oh crap, my husband/wife asked for the 9.5 degree, Nasa plutonium shafted, jimmy-doo-hicky, high launch driver from, oh what was it, Taylorland, or was it Clevemade?” look.

Husbands and wives, please, do me a favor. Do not ask for golf equipment for Christmas! That is not until you have been properly fitted and can write down in vast detail the exact make and model of the latest doo-hicky driver that you want. Because if you just say get me the “9.5 degree, Nasa plutonium shafted, jimmy-doo-hicky, high launch driver from TaylorMade”, you will be lucky to get it and when you do get it, the thing will work just as poorly and slice the ball just as far as your original jimmy-doo-hicky driver. Get Fitted!

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In This “Turkey Month” Edition- How-To drills, examples, news, opinions, a golf lesson in every issue.

Ball Flight Quiz- Page 1

Indoor Golf Tips- Page 1

Member Bonus- Page 2

Mental Game Help- Page 3

Black Friday

: How to avoid the malls- Page 4

 

 

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The Clock is Ticking- What are you doing to eliminate time suck? Page 2

Have You Worked With a SWAG golf instructor?- Page 2

Why Farmers Have Straight Fences and What it Will do for Your Golf Game- Page 3

The New Golf Pledge Allegiance – Page 4

This Month’s Member Gift- Page 6

Black Friday Alternative- Page 7

Leaving Your Friends Behind- Back Page

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