Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Left Handed Iron Sets

February 15, 2012 Posted by eryn traveller , 7 comments

Golf rules allow you to have a maximum of 14 golf clubs in your bag during a game. Each golf club is designed for a different purpose and will hit the ball differently. Golf manufacturers are always striving to create irons that drive the ball higher, further and straighter. If you are a serious left handed golfer, you need a serious left handed iron set to match your serious aspirations. This is why you’ll be able to find a fantastic range of left handed iron sets at Golf Buy It Online.

You’ll be able to find left handed iron sets from all the best names in golf at Golf Buy It Online including Callaway, Cobra, Mizuno, Nike, Ping and many more. Callaway Golf X-20 Steel Shafted Irons, Callaway Golf FT Men’s Steel Shafted Irons and Callaway Golf Big Bertha 6-SW Men’s Steel Shafted Irons are just some of the left handed iron sets available from Callaway. If you’re looking for left handed Cobra iron sets then you’ll be able to find Cobra Golf Transition-S Men’s Graphite Shafted Irons, Cobra Golf S9 Men’s Steel Shafted Irons and Cobra Golf FP Men’s Graphite Shafted Irons at Golf Buy It Online. Nike’s left handed iron sets range comprises of Nike Golf Ignite Steel Shafted Irons, Nike Golf CCI Steel Shafted Irons and Nike Golf Forged Irons as well as many more. Ping have many left handed iron sets to choose from including Ping Golf G10 Steel shafted Irons, Ping Golf Rapture Steel Shafted Irons and Ping Golf i10 Steel Irons.

Golf Buy It Online supplies all of these left handed iron sets and many more at unbeatable prices with the fastest delivery around. We only sell products for companies which we are authorised retailers for, so you can rest assured that you are getting the real deal at the best prices around! Why not click on today and see for yourself?

Monday, February 13, 2012

Golf - the rich mans hobby?

February 13, 2012 Posted by eryn traveller 14 comments

Golf was invented in 15th-century Scotland, where some of the world’s oldest golf courses are located. It is a relatively simple game that sees you using a club to hit a ball into a hole, yet it is also complex, mainly thanks to the huge size of the courses compared to the tiny balls and holes.

Golf is played with golf clubs, which come in three types: wood, iron and putters. Clubs can be expensive, but a good set of clubs will help your game, as there are differences between each one that affect how far the ball goes. A one wood (a driver) will hit the ball very much further than an eight wood, for example.

There are many golf tournaments in the world today, with the two most important being the professional tournaments, the Masters and the PGA Championship. Many countries also hold open tournaments that amateurs can also enter, such as the US Open and the British Open.

Probably the most famous golfer in the world today is Tiger Woods, who was won ten major golf tournaments to date, making him one of the best golfers ever. Most people think that Jack Nicklaus is the best golfer ever, as he won more tournaments than any other, but if Tiger Woods keeps playing and winning like he is for another decade or so then that could easily change.

If you want to get into golf, there are plenty of ways to learn without having to go around a full-size golf course. Many places have ‘pitch and putt’ mini-golf courses, where you can go with nothing more than a chipping club (an iron) and a putter, and play on mini-holes. Children who are not yet old enough to do this can play crazy golf, which is generally putting-only, and has fun, brightly-coloured obstacles on the course and holes which make the ball do interesting things. It’s surprising just how fun golf can be, and many kids get their start with crazy golf only to go on and play real golf as a hobby for the rest of their lives.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

3 Ways To Maximize On The Effectiveness Of A Golf Instruction Video

February 11, 2012 Posted by eryn traveller , , , , , 11 comments

Golf instruction videos featuring techniques and tips from leading world class players are very common these days.

Still there are very few people who can claim to have had their games improved by a golf instruction video. So here are three tips to help you ensure that you reap maximum fruits from every golf instruction video that you ever get to watch.

1) Watch the golf instruction video several times

Some people watch golf instruction videos to try and get a single Magic formula that will revolutionize their game. They do not realize that the valuable nuggets in these videos are hidden in the many small things you need to do which add up to a great improvement in your game.

This is why it is very important to watch the video several times. At least twice.

2) Get webcam shots of yourself playing and compare your posture and positioning to what you see in the golf instruction video

It may not be very easy to tell what is wrong with your golf swing for example or how to correct it without taking a very close look at your game.

The best way to do this is to get somebody else to take webcam shots of you on the course as you play. When you watch these alongside the golf instruction videos, it will be very easy for you to tell where your problem areas are and what you need to do to correct them.

3) Do golf-specific exercises to condition your body and muscles

Thirdly you will need your body and the relevant muscles to co-operate with our mind as you try to implement what you have seen on the golf instruction video.

One of the most effective ways of doing this is by getting involved in a golf-specific exercise program to tone and strengthen all the ‘golf muscles’ in your body. This way, they’ll be nothing to stop you from reaping maximum benefits from every golf instruction video you watch.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

About Golf Holiday Insurance

February 04, 2012 Posted by eryn traveller , 10 comments

Today, it is not uncommon representing tourists to benefit from a link of rounds of golf while on vacation. During this generation and age, travelers are interested in whole holiday packages to facilitate focus on the sport. However, despite the popularity of the game, the majority of these golfers are still naive of the substance of golfing insurance representing a traveler. During order to steer clear of the cost of theft, chance property break, membership fees, and known liability, it is suggested to look into the policies on hand through a golf insurance company.

When it comes to planning a golf holiday amongst family or friends, golf insurance can provide to facilitate second case of mind at some point in this exciting getaway. Not single does golf insurance look in the same way as the investment you own made in planning the visit and purchasing equipment, but furthermore protects your physical condition.

A dreaded scenario to facilitate every so often unfolds next to even the ritziest of golf courses is the theft of an expensive usual of clubs to facilitate be converted into unproblematic targets what time stored in locker rooms or clubhouses. Usually, selected golf courses are unequipped with the kind of insurance to facilitate replaces such items of survey. This is why it is up to travelers to enter a golfing anniversary with second protection representing their belongings.

Another post which may well appear is incoming next to the destination and conclusion improbable to facilitate your golf clubs not at all made it on the airplane and rejection solitary seems to know wherever they are. Having proper cover can drop the pecuniary burden of replacing them along with preventing the massive disappointment of not being able to perform. It may well be fun sitting in the fasten, but not while your buddies are improbable on the golf avenue. A modern usual of clubs, covered by golf holiday insurance can keep you on the avenue while on your golfing visit.

Some of the skin tone associated with golf travel insurance include coverage representing equipment, whole fees, and the hiring of equipment. For illustration, you are insured representing the survey of the golf equipment you own personally purchased representing your visit to facilitate can be converted into accidentally misplaced, stolen, or even damaged. During order to receive compensation, a receipt or proof of buy is requisite.

During regards to golf equipment hire, if the items you own hired are lost or separated at some point in travel (delayed luggage) representing next to slightest 12 hours, the cost of hiring the equipment in question is covered. To receive a reimbursement on whole fees, you for the most part fair substantiation to facilitate the avenue was completely close down due to natural elements improbable of your control, such as coolness, fog, snow, water-logging, or gusty conditions.

Golf Insurance Suggestions
While a host of insurance companies offer options representing traveling golfers, it is recommended to check improbable the policies associated with Go Travel Insurance or the Essential Travel Company, which offers an assortment of admired golf anniversary insurance packages. Regardless of who you decide to buy the insurance through, conclusion the justification golf anniversary insurance guiding principle to facilitate covers all aspect of your journey can be a wonderful way of tallying comfort in knowing the trip can be a victory, even if it is cancelled.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Why Do Injuries Occur In Golf?

February 01, 2012 Posted by eryn traveller , , 7 comments

Injuries occur in all athletic events quite frequently, certain sports more so than others. Golf is no different than any other sport. The severity of injuries in golf usually are not as severe as in other sports. The scenario of a 300 lb. defensive lineman slamming into the side of your knee tearing every possible ligament structure in the knee will never happen in the sport of golf. An interesting visual if you combined the sports of football and golf onto the same playing field, but inappropriate for this paper.

There are two types of injuries classified by professionals in the fields of athletic training and sports medicine. The two types of injuries are: 1) acute and 2) chronic. The above example of the football player is classified as an acute injury. An acute injury can be defined as the trauma in the body occurring immediately after the injury. Refer to the football player example above for a reminder. (For us older golfers, remember Joe Theisman of the Redskins and Lawrence Taylor’s leg breaking tackle? Acute injury.) Relating an acute injury to golf is a little more difficult. Probably the easiest, and maybe most the common, acute injury in golf, occurs while swinging and you hit a rock or something that creates an injury to your wrist. That would be the best example in the sport of golf of an acute injury. Overall, acute injuries tend to be rare in golf because contact by the body with external forces is rare.

My back is always killing me!

The second type of injury, chronic, is much more prevalent when it comes to the sport of golf. A chronic injury is one that occurs over time. Think of it as a “wear and tear” injury. These are usually the result of the body breaking down over time. A great sports example outside of golf is when you hear about a baseball pitcher having tendonitis in the elbow. Tendonitis is an inflammation of the elbow resulting from the stresses placed upon it from throwing. Over time the elbow becomes tired and eventually injured from the number of pitches thrown. If you are a runner and, after a certain amount of time, your knees begin to hurt, this is usually a chronic injury. When we talk about golf, the majority of injuries are chronic. They tend to be a direct result of the golf swing (just like the pitcher’s elbow). Usually the chronic injuries in golf show up in the lower back. If chronic injuries are caught soon enough in the cycle, rest and proper treatment (i.e. massage, chiropractic care) will heal them. But if you wait too long the body is going to “break,” and then you will not be playing any golf for a long time. This is where the unfortunate situation of surgery and other invasive procedures are considered.

So a couple of questions we must ask when it comes to chronic injuries in relation to golf are: how do they occur, and how do we prevent them? Chronic injuries occur as a result of the body becoming fatigued and eventually “breaking down.” The muscles, ligaments, and tendons of your body are required to perform the activity of swinging a golf club. Over time this activity causes fatigue within your body. As the body continues to fatigue, or get tired, the body gets sore. This is the first indicator of a developing chronic injury. If you continue with the activity you’re participating in, with soreness in the body, eventually your body will break down. This “break down” will be in the form of maybe a pulled muscle, muscle stiffness, tightness, or some other type of inflammation. All of the above examples are a result of structures in your body breaking down from fatigue and overuse. Even if just on one swing you feel “your back go out,” nine out of ten times it is a chronic injury, and that last swing was the “piece of straw that broke the camel’s back.”

How to Prevent Chronic Injuries in Golf

We all know that the golf swing is a repetitive movement, meaning the body is performing the same activity over and over again. This creates fatigue in the body over time. And if over time our body can’t support the number of swings we are taking, it is eventually going to break down. There are three variables we have when it comes to the prevention of chronic injuries in golf. Number one is workloads. Workloads can be defined as the number of swings that the body takes with a club over a given period of time. That time frame can be seven days or an entire tour season. Number two is efficiency of your mechanics. When we say “efficiency of mechanics” we are talking about how biomechanically correct your individual swing is. “Why is this important?” you ask. Let me tell you. I think most of us would agree that the tour players have very “efficient” swings; their swings are smooth and look almost effortless. A swing like this asks less out of the body to perform and requires less effort from the muscles; hence fatiguing levels in the body are lower. Some amateur swings look like they take a lot of work to perform, and in reality they do! These types of swings ask a lot more out of the body and fatigue it more quickly. The final variable is what we term “golf strength.” Golf strength is a measure of the required levels of flexibility, strength, endurance, balance, and power to successfully support the mechanics of the swing. Large amounts of golf strength allow the body to support an efficient swing. Low levels of golf strength do not provide the support needed for the swing.

Workloads, Swing Mechanics, and Golf Strength

All three of these variables work together to determine if you are a candidate for a chronic golf injury. Golf strength is essentially the foundation upon which your swing is built. This variable indicates how many times you can swing a golf club with your current mechanics before you come up injured. If you have high levels of golf strength then regardless of how efficient of a swing you have, you will be able to play for quite awhile before you get sore. The flip side can also be said. If you have low levels of golf strength, regardless of your swing mechanics, you will come up sore in a shorter amount of time.

Secondly, let us look at swing mechanics. If you are a player that has a very efficient swing that places very little stress on the body, you will undoubtedly be able to play many rounds before your body starts screaming at you. Again, if you have poor mechanics, it is going to take its toll on your body and your game.

Finally, we have workloads (i.e. number of swings). The number of swings one makes must match up with levels of golf strength and swing mechanics. The golf swing is a “stressor” of the body and breaks it down over time. If you have an efficient swing, each swing does less “damage” to the body. If you have a poor swing, the body has to work harder, thus fatiguing it more quickly. In addition to this is golf strength. If you have high levels of golf strength, you can swing the club more (i.e. workloads) before you get tired. Low levels of golf strength present the situation of the body’s fatiguing more quickly. “So what is the magic formula?” you ask. My first suggestion is twofold: 1) work on your swing to improve the efficiency of it, and 2) increase your levels of golf strength in order to support your swing. For the time being, match up your swing and golf strength levels to determine what workload levels you can get out of your body.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Perfect Golf Vacation

January 30, 2012 Posted by eryn traveller , , 2 comments
Perfect Golf Vacation

Your absolute golf vacation with your friends starts and stops with you. Toss the vacation package unsolicited mail in a heap and design your own ideal golf getaway. This is the final of four articles to assist you in given that an jaunt representing yourself and your friends to facilitate will nominate you would like to look after it all day (as we own representing 19 years running).

From the after everything else article, you are promptly next to the minus solitary month promontory. So far you own rallied the troops, chosen the dates, selected the lodging and golf courses and are in the final homework stage. You will soon distinguish your friends smiling faces next to the airport baggage retrieve. The final preps and smoothly running the total fair are child's perform. The tough part was getting your bunch of friends to pay money for the tickets to benefit from the event. Here are a a small number of things you will would like to look after or the scream of the aircraft's tires on the tarmac.

1. Transportation. The limiting dynamic is arrival and departure from the airport due to clubs AND suitcases. If you can truly barely stuff one and all in the vehicles next to this promontory, the time-out of the week is gravy. From your experience, you know to facilitate what time you bundle up four guys to make for golfing locally, you will entirely fill the trunk of a chock-full sized car. With to facilitate in mind, you must mean on a chock-full sized car representing all three fill with. We consume solitary minivan/SUV augmented with cars representing our adventures. Just nominate convinced you allow representing the limiting argument.

You need to make plans for these rental vehicles in advance of stage, but you can single drive solitary physically. Here is the minus one-month mandatory. When you suppose improbable your vehicle chuck, speak to the bracket together to make plans for amid them and you who will speak to and rent the residual vehicles. There will probably be a quantity of in your bracket together to facilitate own existing discounts and can total a horrendous rate. Hash this solitary improbable via email.

2. Entertainment. Unless you are departing to the deserts in Arizona or comprehend exceedingly auspicious, you will own a bucket down generation or two. You will furthermore own a bunch of stage next to night in the same way as golf (after you own all told your lies). We suck to facilitate stage up pretty effectively watching the golf channel, ESPN, in concert cards, or watching videos. The latter is come again? You can attend to in advance of stage. We own a guy to facilitate is pretty respectable next to selecting movies to watch and we task him to bring them with him. Movies like "Gladiator", "Miracle", et cetera. Are large. Some of your bracket together may well even own an adult capture you may well would like to avail yourselves of. On critical bucket down days, we furthermore own consumed bowling (a real hoot), complete the native picture show business, and toured the area.

3. Checklists. After around ten years of being asked twenty epoch for every generation wherever we were in concert the then generation, or what time we had to leave, or come again? Was representing dinner, or who stole my teddy bear, I to finish happening typing improbable these things. I nominate a ape of apiece and pole sporadically all the way through the terrace. I nominate distinctive laminated cards and administer to apiece golfer. Know come again?? It compact the questions to semi and promptly what time asked, I say to facilitate I can't remember, give permission me amble larger than to the frig and read it representing you. Here are the things I cook in advance of stage.

- Listing of course, tee times, course contact number, and departure time. I base departure time on MapBlast directions and factor in a stop for ice for the coolers and if we will need to hit range balls.

- Listing of the menu for the evening meals. If this is your first time, keep the menu simple and make sure you have the recipes in hand. With any size group, you are going to have a chef or two and this won't be a big deal.

- Multiple copies of the "order sheet" for sandwiches. For most of our noon meals between rounds, we dine on our self-prepared, gourmet sandwiches prepared the night before. As you saw from the previous articles, I solicit what the group wants and have that on the shopping list. What winds up being the least confusing way is to have some sheet for people to circle or fill in to specify what sandwiches they want for the next day. You rotate the preparers (two is best) every night and with that sheet, they manufacture the gourmet feast. (Don't discount this! The sandwiches you make will be superior to anything short of the full meal at the course AND you will not have to wait on it if you are pressed for time between your rounds.)

- Biggy! We did not keep a record of our scores for our first few years. Big mistake. What great history we tossed out. Keep a record! I prepare a hard copy sheet to fill in as we go. It allows us to follow who is the overall stroke leader and gives us all ammo to use in negotiating the next day's bets. I take this home and plant it permanently on our golf website.

- Expenses. I pay for everything with minor exceptions. That keeps it simple. I currently use a spreadsheet to administer this. It works great. I would provide this for you, but this article format doesn't allow. Before that, I simply used pen and paper and got it to within a penny. My point is that from the minute you start your adventure, keep a tally of what you have spent! Streamline course check in by paying for everyone, buy all the food and drink, buy all the gas, etc. If someone pays for anything, log it in immediately. If you are religious in this, you will have no complaints, only praise.

4. Things nobody else will bring but you.

- Several decks of cards, poker chips
- Cribbage boards
- Screw driver and pliers (you never know)
- Pens, pencils and permanent markers (you will need all)
- Over the counter pain killers
- Band-Aids
- Game

5. Arrival. So here you have a rambunctious group of friends descending on the Mecca of golf. You have motored to the house your staying in and it is the mad dash to the best room to be found. NOT. To avoid any hard feelings between the lodger that got the queen bed and the lodger that got the twin bed, simply set up a quick draw out of the hat. For subsequent years, do the same, but use the seniority system. Once a person misses, he goes to the end of the list.

6. Once you have dumped your bags in the drawn rooms, it is time to go shopping. With the template I gave you in the last article, and with your modifications based on menu and orders, grab one or two volunteers and get what you need.

Friday, January 27, 2012

Power Of Combining Golf Swing Basics With Exercise

January 27, 2012 Posted by eryn traveller , , , , No comments
When training in benefit golf swing basics is combined with the in shape do exercises course, the results can be nothing little of miraculous. 

Take the superb performances witnessed in junior golfers like the Song sisters, Ty Tyron and Michelle Wie. The amazingly eminent level of performance of these very new junior golfers has often been discussed. Several theories and reasons engage in been brought send. Most of them are not veritable. For pattern a communal belief is to these younger golfers make better and respond better to golf swing basics skilled for the reason that of their flexibility. This is totally NOT TRUE.

The difference flanked by junior golfers and adults is by and large strength and not flexibility. I engage in personally worked with hundreds of junior golfers and I engage in watched in amazement as a very little age of era of liability strength exercises has yielded increases in their golf drives of as much as a full 50 yards.

However a quick word of caution. Participating in the wide of the mark strength training do exercises programs can wound a golfer in its place of civilizing their game.

My effect with junior golfers has almost proved something to me ahead of at all reasonable doubt. And to is the information to training in the correct golf swing basics on the same era to a name is liability the in shape golf-specific exercises, is a very powerful way of emergent and civilizing anybody’s game.

Without do exercises the most excellent training in the the human race on golf swing basics will engage in NO influence on all.