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The Abu Dhabi Golf Club has been altered to offer more of a challenge for the world’s best golfers when the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship tees off next month.
The course, which hosts the opening event of the European Tour’s Desert Swing, has seen modifications implemented on five holes ahead of the tournament, which starts on January 20.
The course remains at 7,440 yards, but new bunkers on holes 2, 5, 6, 13 and 17 will test the likes of Lee Westwood, Phil Mickelson, Graeme McDowell, Louis Oosthuizen and Martin Kaymer, who are all confirmed for the event, attracted, no doubt, by the $2.7 million prize purse – the largest on offer on the Desert Swing. View taylormade burner superfast driver at okgolfclubs.com.
The new hazards are described as “subtle and effective”, with many bunkers pushed up closer to the greens. Rather than deepening the traps, organisers have instead steepened the faces and added definition to the lips in order to provide a strategic challenge.
“I think the players will enjoy the challenge of analysing the course changes and adapting their games,” said Faisal Al Shaikh, Events Manager for Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA).
“I am confident The National Course will once again provide a stern test for the field and offer the millions of television viewers tuning in around the world a fitting spectacle for what has become a flagship showpiece in Abu Dhabi’s ever-evolving sporting calendar.”
“We didn’t want to make The National a more difficult course for our club golfers because it was already a great test,” said Abu Dhabi Golf Club’s Andrew Whittaker, the course superintendent. “Our objective was to modernise the look and feel of the course, and the new bunkers will certainly make the players think long and hard about their club selection.
“We wanted to give the bunkers the impression of depth, so we’ve flushed the faces up rather than deepening the traps themselves. The result is a more visually stimulating experience for players and spectators.”

Major Miss PGA Tour Opener

Major Miss PGA Tour Opener
British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen was set to participate, but made a last minute decision not to start his travels that early in the season. Instead, the young South African will be staying close to home, playing in the European Tour’s Africa Open alongside compatriots Retief Goosen and Charl Schwartzel.
“I decided not to go and play the two tournaments in Hawaii because that won’t leave me with enough off time before the start of the new season,” Oosthuizen told europeantour.com.
US PGA champ Martin Kaymer and Masters champ Phil Mickelson will both be starting their new seasons later in January, leaving Graeme McDowell, the current US Open Champion, as the only current major champion set to take part. It will be only the fourth time that the PGA Tour season-opener will feature just one major winner.
Aside from the three major champions, there are a host of other big names also set to miss out, including the likes of Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and new world No. 1 Lee Westwood. View taylormade r7 cgb max irons at oobgolfclubs.com.
One surprise addition to the field is Italian Francesco Molinari, who qualified by winning the HSBC Champions in Shanghai. Molinari is not a regular Tour member, so the win does not count as an official PGA Tour victory, but it does allow him entry into the Tournament of Champions.

Winter Golf Protection Tips

Winter Golf Protection Tips
Very suitable for a sunny winter day to play golf with your best golf clubs (callaway x-22 irons)to dreary winter and make the emotional relief, but you do need extra winter golf protection, or easily to say is the tips to protect some bad thins occur, such as physical injury, damage and other unforeseen circumstances the golf club.
In the cold winter, golfer must first do is to keep warm, choose a warm, windproof, waterproof, lightweight jacket. Generally, the golf course is more open, the subject of particularly warm coat against the cold wind is necessary for a golfer. Of course, you also need a thin scarf, a wool cap, a pair of thick gloves, what can not be as long as the grace not to temperature.
Second is to do warm-up exercise. When taking golf clubs out in the winter, before you have a play with your golf clubs (callaway ft-iq driver), it is important for you to do some warm-up exercise. You need to make adequate stretching and place, run and other warm-up preparation; preparation time is longer than in the other seasons, but you can increase range of motion. Recommended warm-up time is 15 minutes. In addition, winter is the most easily damage season of the golf clubs, frequently fly out of the case head broken. So we must attach great importance to the maintenance of the golf club, try not to practice the green edge of the split shot or bunker.
In addition, the basic focus on golf issues notes:
★ Hands grip force should be balanced, if only swing with one hand will cause the muscles around the spine imbalance, which is detrimental to the health of the neck and back.
★ Do not grip too tight grip, otherwise it will be easily associated with muscle fatigue. Just the right grip strength can speed up the club head speed and reduce the physical waste.
★ Do not drink when thirsty, cold drinks, detente should stop drinking warm water after exercise.
★ Do not kick the ball immediately after the stop and rest. Movement will stop when the muscle tension pain, this time in order to accelerate back to normal bodily functions, should be about 5 minutes walk to ease the nerve muscle tension, while easing the joints, and massage muscles.
★ Do not immediately wash cold bath, especially with poor cardiovascular function should pay more attention.

Play Golf Out Of Rough

Your tee shot across the fairway into the rough slopes. You have two options: play the ball with the golf clubs back to the safety of the fairway or greens. How should you do?
When the grass higher than the top of the ball
Your goal should be to ensure that the next shot in the fairway to play. If you can stay out of special iron full swing distance you can play much better with taylormade burner 2.0 irons. Rough high resistance, the club face into the grass will go too closed. To counteract this effect should be targeting the right. The left middle finger, ring finger, little finger grip strength increased slightly, to reduce the face amplitude with grass reversed. In the high rough play good pitching attack, the trick is to minimize the face and the ball slipped between the grasses.
With a sand wedge, the ball is aimed at the middle station at the rear 2 inches. 60% of the weight placed on front legs. In addition, because the ball below the feet, you also increase the magnitude of the knees bent to reduce the physical height.
If the ball completely above the grass
You can use wooden or ping g15 irons loft large number 7 or 9-wood. The toe of the club’s wide, reducing the possibility of playing thick. Align the center of the ball station, his hands slightly in front of the ball. Shaft should be leaning forward. To maintain balance, should be done on the pole three-fourths of margin. Do not tilt the club back, and do not try to help the ball fly. The center of gravity left hind leg before the turn of hip axis in order to increase the power stroke.
If you’re worried about over the green, hands down Golf Club Grip when in the grip about 2 inches, this ball will be reduced from 10 yards. Makes the grass face grooves reduce friction, the ball will become less inverted spin, roll more after landing. Aimed at the front edge of the green, let the ball roll it toward the hole.
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Respect Golf Caddies

Many famous golf players are not golfers before they can have better known about the golf game and the golf equipment, many are golf caddies at the first, such as Byron Nelson, Walter Hagen, Seve Ballesteros, etc., Michael Campbell was the golf caddie of his father when he came to know golf.
In fact, a good golf caddie is not just take the golf bag and discount golf equipment, but also has a wealth of golf knowledge, well aware of the situation on the playing field should be a good guide, and golf caddies are also consultants, coaches, referees and friends. A good golf caddie can help you improve performance in the game, on the contrary may cause you problems. Golf veteran Sam Snead once encountered such a problem, held in 1946 in St. Andrew’s golf course in the British Open to his caddie, and he had a conflict, give him everywhere in the game, such as clearly this distance should be used 6 shot, and his caddie suggested that he happens to use 5 or 7 lever rod. His superb game gets a victory after leaving unpleasant memories. And a caddie on the story of Sam Snead and is estimated to compare in this respect he considered it bad luck. Sam in a game need to hit the ball over a lake to the green, he asked the caddie: “How far is this from?” Caddie replied: “do not know, but yesterday I gave Jay Hebert’s caddie 8, when he makes a shot.”So Sam also uses 8 shot that the ball fell into the lake. Sam naturally very angry, accusing the caddie said: “You tell me Jay Hebert No. 8 shot with a shot from here.” “Yes, sir,” the caddie replied calmly, “the results of the ball have landed in the lake.”
There is a golf caddie, who has been a golf caddie for over 25 years, he once served for Ray Floyd, Greg Norman and other famous golf players, he helped them won the 100 world champion many times, and he is Tiger Woods’s caddie, Steve Williams. Steve Williams is from New Zealand in 2000, Tiger Woods be glad to take his clubs, at that time is not the taylormade r9 driver to play with his caddie, to follow the tiger from the saddle before the horse, Civil war, he has achieved a lot, but also occupied the top spot in world-class caddies. Perhaps the day on the golf course carrying a golf bag to go, Steve has another very exciting hobby, cars. Fortunately, no major ailments of people in the rest returned to Tiger Woods after a period of time around.
Although caddies play their own role on the golf course to provide services and assistance for golf players, including help golfers pull package, made the suggestions in the play, however, they are also friends, partner, psychologists and guide, they told golfers Not Against Wind Golf. Therefore, respect for caddies is very important.