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Garmin Approach G3 Handheld GPS Golfing Companion (PRE-ORDER)

Give your game a boost of confidence with the Garmin Approach G3 , a rugged, waterproof, touchscreen golf GPS packed with thousands of preloaded golf course maps. Approach uses a high-sensitivity GPS receiver to measure individual shot distances and show the exact yardage to fairways, hazards and greens. Now with over 12,000 courses – click here for a complete list! GARMIN IS PROJECTED TO RELEASE THIS PRODUCT IN EARLY JUNE 2010 – PREORDER TODAY (TIGER GPS DOES NOT CHARGE YOUR CARD UNTIL WE SHIP) Fits Perfectly in Your Pocket A bit smaller and lighter than the Approach G5 , Approach G3 is ideal if you prefer to walk the course. Still as rough and rugged as its big brother, Approach G3 lightens your load no matter how you get around the course. Eliminate the Guesswork Approach displays and updates your exact position on stunningly detailed, preloaded course maps throughout the United States. Approachs highly sensitive GPS receiver pinpoints your position and removes guesswork from your game. And as you move, Approach automatically updates your position, so youll always know your yardage. There’s no subscriptions or setup fees, and Approach is compliant with USGA rules. Touch Your Target Need to measure distances for your next shot? Touch any point on the sunlight-readable display, and Approach shows the precise distance to that exact spotfairway, hazard, landing area, or the front, middle and back of the green. Get on the Green Approach helps you zero in on the pin with Approach’s Green View. Just tap the flag on the map to zoom in on the green then you can drag the flag to position it where you see it, giving you more accurate yardage. Keep Score Digitally Approach doubles as a digital scorecard for your foursome. After the game, you can save and review the scores on your computer at home. Add More Courses Garmin is constantly adding more courses to the map data, as well as updating and improving course maps for Approach G3. Download the latest courses for free .

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Sonocaddie V100 Compact Golf GPS

Take your golf game to the next level with a Sonocaddie V100 Compact Golf GPS Gold training aid measures distance from the green, distance to critical target and shot distances Golf equipment lets you personalize new courses or edit existing ones according to your preferences Fits in the palm of your hand or pocket comfortably Internal rechargeable battery with a life of up to 15 hours Mono LCD with backlight display and built in antenna Five free downloads or unlimited downloads for 29.95 dollars annually System Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista 32 bit Minimum 512 MB RAM on XP, 1 GB RAM on Vista Minimum 12 MB hard disk space CD ROM Dimensions: 3.25x2x.75 Materials: Electronic Components Model: V100 Brand Name: Sonocaddie PAMW14999BC This Item Ships From An Overstock Wholesale Warehouse And May Include Their Name And Address On The Shipping Box And Advertisements In The Box.

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Different Golf Balls and Basic Golfing Rules

Having the right golf ball is important. There are two basic types of balls (spin and distance) and two basic ball coverings (balata and surlyn). This set of tips will explain them.

Spin

As its name dictates, a spin ball is designed to spin. These balls have 3 parts to them:

A central core (liquid, most of the time)
Rubber windings
A cover made of a thin, soft material called balata

Distance

A distance ball, made for longer shots, has a much harder core and a harder cover. The core is made of a firm synthetic material, and the cover is a hard durable material called surlyn. This combination allows the ball to travel greater distances.

Dimple Myth

There’s a popular myth that says more dimples on a golf ball means a higher trajectory. This isn’t true. The average golf ball has between 350 and 450 dimples, and this number doesn’t make any difference in the path your ball takes. Trajectory is actually determined by the dimple’s depth and not the number.

GOLF TERMS

The game of golf seems to have a language of its own. This next set of tips will give you some common golf terms and their definitions.

Par

Par is the number of strokes a player should take to complete a round. It’s calculated by yardage and then gives you 2 strokes at the green. For instance, a par 5 hole gives you three strokes to get on the green, and then two putts to get your ball in the hole.

Tee

A tee is normally a wooden or plastic peg that the ball is placed on for hitting the first shot of each hole. Originally this was a pile of sand used to elevate the ball for driving.

Green

According to the official golf rules, the green is the whole golf course. However, it more popularly refers to the putting surface at the end of each hole. Greens vary in shape and size, but most are oval or oblong in shape.

Fairway

The fairway is the area that runs between the tee and green of a golf hole. This area is well maintained so the ball will move well on it. The grass on the fairway is usually cut at a height from 3/8 of an inch to a half-inch.

Handicap

Handicap is a number that represents how well a golfer plays. This number is the number of strokes a player may deduct from his actual score to adjust his scoring ability to the level of another golfer. The lower a golfer’s handicap, the better the golfer is.

Divot

Most shots from the fairway will scrape off the top of the turf where the ball was sitting. A divot is the turf that is scraped up, and the scarred area in the fairway where the turf had been. It is polite to replace and stomp down the turf afterwards.

Lie

Lie has two meanings:

Where the ball lays. A common expression would be a good lie, which means the ball is on a great piece of grass. A bad lie, would mean it’s on a rough piece of grass, or a hazard.

How many strokes it took to get the ball where it sits.

Address

The position a golfer takes as he or she stands over the ball, ready to hit it. The club must be grounded (touching the ground) for a golfer to be considered at address.

Hazard

A hazard is anything on a golf course designed to obstruct play. These hazards can be:

Sand traps
Water
Rough

Flagstick

A flagstick is a movable marker to show the location of the hole. Many courses will color code the flags on flagsticks to tell you if the hole is near the front, center, or back of the green.

Fore

Fore! is what you yell if your shot is in danger of hitting or landing by another player or group of players on the course. You yell fore! to warn players to watch out.

Mulligan

You won’t find this is in an official rule book, but when you’re playing a friendly game of golf, sometimes you or someone else will swing and miss, or a make really bad shot. A mulligan allows you to take that swing over without penalty.

Allan Wilson
http://www.articlesbase.com/golf-articles/different-golf-balls-and-basic-golfing-rules-95413.html

How to Improve your Golf Chipping Stroke

If you can have the confidence to get your golf balls close to the hole nearly every time you make a golf chipping stroke, your scores are going to come tumbling down faster than you can possibly imagine!

What Is The Chip Shot?

Basically, the chip shot is a flat or low flying, forward moving approach shot.

It’s intended to be used in situations where there is no immediate obstacle between your ball and the target.

Suppose you happened to miss the green with your second shot and your ball landed on the apron or close to the edge of the green. It may not be possible for you to use your putter, because the grass is longer on the apron than it is on the green.

This difference in grass texture is going to affect the roll of the ball, so the idea is to chip the ball over the grass and try to land the ball on the short manicured green, where it can then roll out towards the flag.

You may also have a slight undulation in front of you. If you took the putter to play this shot, the depth of the undulation and the length of grass you’re playing from will also affect the way the ball reacts.

So we need to learn how the ball is going to react once we hit it.

Why Is Chipping So Important?

Golf is not about how far you can hit the ball.

Golf is mainly a target game which demands hitting the ball various distances and seeing how low your score can be at the end of a particular round.

If you can save shots by improving your golf chipping technique, your scores will be lower and as a result your handicap will improve.

Distance & Direction – The Two Secrets To Mastering Your Golf Chipping

Remember, as in Putting, the only way to have consistency is when you can control your distance and direction.

All putts and chips which go in the hole, or come to rest next to the hole, have the magic ingredient of distance and direction.

The saving grace for you is that you’re going to have at least a fifty percent chance of success no matter what your ball does, so long as you can hit it!

The only question you really need to be asking yourself is – “By how much do I want to increase my percentage of success?”

Once you get yourself into the top 70% or 80% range, you’re going to see your handicap come down so fast, it’s not going to be funny!

Judging Distance – Flat Level Green’s Are Easier To Judge

The idea is to get you to understand that if you can imagine playing all your short shots, as though you were playing to a level green, that’s one that has no undulations or slopes by the way, you’ll be able to gauge the roll of the ball more precisely.

You must understand this one very important fact, if you’re going to get good at chipping.

The one thing you really have to burn into your brain is that no matter how long or how short a chip shot you have, THE BALL IS GOING TO ROLL SOME DISTANCE!

I rarely see people chipping around the green and the ball sticks to the ground as soon as it lands. First of all it’s an impossible scenario to imagine and secondly the laws of motion won’t allow it to happen!

So, you had better get ready to understand that your golf ball is going to roll some distance after it hits the green.

Once you start to appreciate this point, you’re now ready to develop a technique that takes this fact into consideration.

If you’re not aware of the distance that your ball is going to roll, you’re not going to get your ball really close to the hole, no matter how good a player you are.

A good way to get used to this new adjustment in your approach is to stand on the edge of the green and just roll balls up to the hole.

You can do this quite easily and it won’t take you long to get used to how much the ball actually begins to roll and react to the slope or “borrow” as we like to call it.

Once you are aware of the Landing Area and not the Finishing Area, you will be absolutely amazed at how good your perception and feel will begin to evolve.

So do the same exercise again, except this time, try and gauge where the ball needs to land so that it rolls out and finishes next to or near to the hole you’ve chosen.

After you’ve done this exercise a few times, you’re now ready to move onto understanding why the pro’s are so good at chipping!

Why 3 Clubs And What’s So Special About Them?

If you’ve watched any live coverage of golf tournaments on the television, then you’ve no doubt been amazed at just how good the pro’s are at getting up and down from around the green.

It doesn’t matter how difficult the shot looks, they always seem to be able to get it close and on the rare occassion – it even goes in!

The majority of pro’s only hit about thirteen or fourteen greens in regulation during a round of golf, so somewhere along the way they’re going to have to chip or pitch the ball close enough to the hole, so that they only need a putt to save their par.

The Secret Clubs The Pro’s Use!

The 3 clubs that the pro’s choose to use are the one’s which allow them to get the majority of their balls close to the hole, even if they make a mistake!

The three clubs are:

The Pitching Wedge

The Sand Iron

The Eight Iron

The Pitching Wedge is the cornerstone. This is what everything revolves around.

The Pitching Wedge will be used for a ball that has to fly fifty percent of the way to the target and then roll the other fifty percent of the distance to the hole.

The Sand Iron is used when the ball has to fly two-thirds of the way to the target and then roll one-third after landing.

And the Eight Iron is used when the ball only has to fly one-third of the way to the target and then is expected to roll the other two-thirds.

So if we break that formula down for you, you can see that the pro’s use percentages to increase their skill.

Let’s see that formula broken down:

Pitching Wedge – 50% Carry – 50% Roll

Sand Iron – 2/3 Carry – 1/3 Roll

Eight Iron – 1/3 Carry – 2/3 Roll

Now, the next time you get to play a chip shot, remember how far the ball needs to roll after it lands on the green, then choose one of the clubs above to help you get it closer!

Remember – “Play with Passion!”

Charles Peter Lindup
http://www.articlesbase.com/golf-articles/how-to-improve-your-golf-chipping-stroke-237022.html

GARMIN 010-00697-30 APPROACH(TM) G5 TOUCHCSREEN GOLF GPS

GARMIN 010-00697-30 APPROACH(TM) G5 TOUCHCSREEN GOLF GPS RUGGED- WATERPROOF- TOUCHSCREEN GOLF GPS SYSTEM PRELOADED WITH 1-000S OF GOLF COURSE MAPS THROUGHOUT THE US HIGH-SENSITIVITY GPS RECEIVER MEASURES INDIVIDUAL SHOT DISTANCES & SHOWS THE EXACT YARDAGE TO FAIRWAYS- HAZARDS & GREENS DISPLAYS & UPDATES USER’S EXACT POSITION ON DETAILED COURSE MAPS SHOWS PRECISE DISTANCE TO ANY SPOT USER SELECTS FAIRWAY- HAZARD- LANDING AREA- OR THE FRONT- MIDDLE & BACK OF THE GREEN HELPS USERS ZERO IN ON THE PIN WITH GREEN VIEW USERS SIMPLY TAP THE FLAG ON THE MAP TO ZOOM IN ON THE GREEN- THEN DRAG THE FLAG TO POSITION IT WHERE THEY CAN SEE IT- GIVING THEM MORE ACCURATE YARDAGE. DOUBLES AS A DIGITAL SCORECARD FOR UP TO 4 PLAYERS SAVES SCORES ON COMPUTER FOR REVIEW COMPLIANT WITH USGA RULES FREE COURSE UPDATE DOWNLOADS FROM WWW.GARMIN.COM NO SUBSCRIPTION OR SETUP FEES REQUIRED Manufacturer’s Part No.: 010-00697-30 USA orders only (no international orders, please). Generally leaves the warehouse in 1-2 business days.

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Fundex Disc Master

Fundex Disc Master.The Disc Master is comparitive to Frolf, Frisbee Golf, of Disc Golf. Join the craze and learn to master the Disc Master this season. An easy and entertaining game that all will enjoy. Its the latest fling in Disc Golf, as the sport goes airborne with Disc Master! The movable goal sets up anywhere, as players customize their own courses to fit their skill ranges and the playing field. Players fling their discs from long range distances and putt from short ranges. Nine flags distinguish the holes for a full game of flying disc fun! Victory is in the air, so just fling it! Features: Includes a portable fold-up goal, 2 discs, 9 number flags, a take anywhere storage bag, and instructions. Ages: 8+ Players: 1+ PARAM NAME=”movie” VALUE=”http://www.youtube.com/v/taPW-TVed9g&hl=en&..

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Any Golf Putting Tips?

I suck at putting. Especially reads and speed! 3 put is my middle name. Any advice?

Well, 3 Putt, there are a lot of things you can do to get better at putting. The best thing you can do is hit the practice green. Spend a couple of hours there. Start with short putts and get some success under your belt. The more successes the better your confidence. The better your confidence the better your putting.

Start with 3 foot shots from every angle to the hole. Sink three putts in a row from all spots. Then go out to 5 feet and repeat.

You need to learn your distance; how far back and forward your stroke needs to travel for different distances on a level area. Once you know how to hit a 5 foot, 10 foot, 25 foot, etc. length putt, you can start working on the uphill and downhill putts. Learn those distances as well.

Reading greens is a whole lesson in itself. Too much to discuss here. Check out the link below.

Garmin Approach G5 Golf GPS with 3″ Color Touchscreen

Give your game a boost of confidence with Approach G5, a rugged, waterproof, touchscreen golf GPS packed with thousands of preloaded golf course maps. Approach uses a high-sensitivity GPS receiver to measure individual shot distances and show the exact yardage to fairways, hazards and greens. Eliminate the Guesswork Approach displays and updates your exact position on stunningly detailed, preloaded course maps throughout the United States. Approachs highly sensitive GPS receiver pinpoints your position and removes guesswork from your game. And as you move, Approach automatically updates your position, so youll always know your yardage. There’s no subscriptions or setup fees, and Approach is compliant with USGA rules. Touch Your Target Need to measure distances for your next shot? Touch any point on the sunlight-readable display, and Approach shows the precise distance to that exact spotfairway, hazard, landing area, or the front, middle and back of the green. Get on the Green Approach helps you zero in on the pin with Approach’s Green View. Just tap the flag on the map to zoom in on the green then you can drag the flag to position it where you see it, giving you more accurate yardage. Keep Score Digitally Approach doubles as a digital scorecard for your foursome. After the game, you can save and review the scores on your computer at home. Add More Courses Were continuing to add more courses periodically to our map data, as well as updating and improving our course maps for Approach G5

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Garmin Golf- Approach G5 GPS Unit

Give your game a boost of confidence with Approach G5, a rugged, waterproof, touchscreen golf GPS packed with thousands of preloaded golf course maps. Approach uses a high-sensitivity GPS receiver to measure individual shot distances and show the exact yardage to fairways, hazards and greens. Eliminate the Guesswork: Approach displays and updates your exact position on stunningly detailed, preloaded course maps throughout the United States. Approachs highly sensitive GPS receiver pinpoints your position and removes guesswork from your game. And as you move, Approach automatically updates your position, so youll always know your yardage. There’s no subscriptions or setup fees, and Approach is compliant with USGA rules. Touch Your Target: Need to measure distances for your next shot? Touch any point on the sunlight-readable display, and Approach shows the precise distance to that exact spotfairway, hazard, landing area, or the front, middle and back of the green. Get on the Green: Approach helps you zero in on the pin with Approach’s Green View. Just tap the flag on the map to zoom in on the green then you can drag the flag to position it where you see it, giving you more accurate yardage. Keep Score Digitally: Approach doubles as a digital scorecard for your foursome. After the game, you can save and review the scores on your computer at home. Add more courses for FREE from Garmin’s website Includes: Approach G5 Unit, Belt clip, USB cable, Quick start manual

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GARMIN APPROACH G5 GOLF GPS TOUCHSCREEN OVER 9400 COURSES

Approach G5 Give your game a boost of confidence with Approach G5, a rugged, waterproof, touchscreen golf GPS packed with thousands of preloaded golf course maps. Approach uses a high-sensitivity GPS receiver to measure individual shot distances and show the exact yardage to fairways, hazards and greens. Eliminate the Guesswork Approach displays and updates your exact position on stunningly detailed, preloaded course maps throughout the United States. Approach’s highly sensitive GPS receiver pinpoints your position and removes guesswork from your game. And as you move, Approach automatically updates your position, so you?ll always know your yardage. There’s no subscriptions or setup fees, and Approach is compliant with USGA rules. Touch Your Target Need to measure distances for your next shot? Touch any point on the sunlight-readable display, and Approach shows the precise distance to that exact spot-fairway, hazard, landing area, or the front, middle and back of the green. Get on the Green Approach helps you zero in on the pin with Approach’s Green View. Just tap the flag on the map to zoom in on the green – then you can drag the flag to position it where you see it, giving you more accurate yardage. Keep Score Digitally Approach doubles as a digital scorecard for your foursome. After the game, you can save and review the scores on your computer at home.

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