No matter you are a novice or an advanced player, your iPhone can be a good device for increasing your result in the golf game. Thanks to the GPS rangefinder applications, they are magic bullets for all golfers. iPhone GPS rangefinder applications are often expensive tools and their price is not usually suitable. In fact, these…
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The number of women golfers in the US is observed to be steadily growing. As a result, a number of golf resorts have redesigned their courses to become more women-friendly. The Woodlands Executive Conference Center and Resort in Texas has, for instance, modified its North Course by cutting off 900 yards because it has noticed that women golfers cannot hit a…
Understanding Hawaii’s appeal to golfers can help boost your bottom line. Even agents who can’t tell an iron from a wood, much less know that those are types of golf clubs, can take an effective swing at selling clients on the idea of Hawaii golf vacations. Each of the major islands sports a number of resort courses; indeed, some of the master-planned…
Several new computerized golf simulation products are being developed by former computer company executives. Charles Blankenship, a former executive at Texas Instruments and Siliconix Inc, started a new company called Golftek Inc. The company manufactures golf swing analyzers and golf simulators using optical sensing devices and large projection screens or computer monitors. Don Curchod founded…
Next time you get stuck at the eighth hole behind a slow and chatty foursome, take a moment to consider the turf your spikes are sinking into. If you’re at Turtle Bay, Coral Creek, Kapolei or any one of a dozen or so Hawaii golf courses, chances are that the grass you’re standing on is the finely…
With the opening of a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course at the Moon Palace, Cancun has added a new dimension to its sports offerings. The $22 million, 18-hole championship course, which promises to attract more of the lucrative golf market from the U.S., is part of a series of new golf projects for this resort destination. The new course was created out of…
In case you haven’t noticed, golf courses are sprouting up around Central Florida quicker than the dandelions in your front yard. Over one-third of the 108 18-hole golf courses in Central Florida have been built in the past 10 years, Forty-two to be exact. And the numbers keep growing. There are another 20 or so either under construction or…
Golf is enjoying a boom period in the mid-1990s, which is reflected both in higher attendance at pro golf tour events and in the increasing number of recreational golfers at public golf courses. Televised golf events are now ubiquitous. Still, few golfers seem to have fun while playing the game. Golf has its interesting moments, but is it really a sport? All that gentle…
The other day it looked like Louis Oosthuizen, the amiable South African golfer who destroyed the field to take the claret jug in the Open at St Andrew’s a couple of years back, was going to break 60. He hit seven birdies in a row in the PGA event in Boston, before returning to earth…
When we hear the word sports, we often think of the “Big Three” – football, basketball, and baseball. But sports also include other activities, of course, that we can do for fun and to use our leisure time. These are what are called recreational sports, designed to be less competitive, to provide leisure, to not require a high level…