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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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Course Spy: We-Ko-Pa Golf Club (Cholla)

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3 Year Old Junior Golfer With Huge 40-50 Yard Drives Down the Middle! Got Golf 2?

Now at 3 yrs and 3 months and with a new Nike driver, hybrid and 7 iron.

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Callaway Golf Gems Complete Golf Set 2009

The GEMS Set is based directly on input received by women golfers, instructors and expert designers for women new to the game or the occasional high-handicapper. As a result Callaway Golf engineers have built a technologically advanced set of clubs women said they want and need. Comprised of eight clubs that utilize the latest Callaway Golf game-improvement technologies, the set provides the optimal configuration for a womans game and has been designed for maximum playability. Each club features weighting that promotes a draw ball flight and higher trajectories to help keep the ball in the air for increased distance. Driver and Fairway Wood – Draw-biased all-titanium driver and stainless steel fairway wood help reduce fades and slices for more fairways hit. Hybrid and i-brids – Increased offset helps square the clubface at impact and super wide sole design improves turf interaction so the clubs slide smoothly over varying surfaces. Chipper and Putter – Short-game tools that will help get the ball to the hole. The chipper minimizes spin and promotes smooth roll on approach shots from just off the green. The alignment putter makes lining up putts easier and more accurate. Lightweight Stand Bag – The soft colors will appeal to women of varying tastes and the lightweight design makes it easier to carry around the course.

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how big do you think a miniature golf place is? Width by length?

an average putt-putt/mini-golf place has about 18 holes. I don’t really know how big the entire area would be including a building for the snack bar/restrooms/register. Estimates please?

Putt-putt is just a kids putting area.
Miniature golf for many means golfing fairways, but each hole only 130 to 240 feet long. Each hole being a par 3 to chip and putt.

Best is to do your research by visiting a few putt-putt places near you, or Google them. You-Tube has some putt-putt golf holes. Some elaborate ones include machinery to carry the ball overhead. Others have windmills to putt under by timing the ball to miss the windmill blades.
Basic ones are as 6 to 12 yards long and 1.5 yards wide, carpeted sunk into concrete edges for the ball to ricochet off.
Multipy that by 18 holes and add coffee tables and office area and you can get an idea.

Good luck

The Basic Rules to Playing Golf

The game of golf is not only physically but also mentally challenging. It is a strategic game that has many fans around the world. Golf is played by hitting a golf ball using golf clubs on an area called the teeing ground. Once the ball has been hit, it will travel along fairways and into the next prepared area, where a hole is found. This prepared area is known as the putting green.

Simply put, the target of the game is of course to put the ball into the hole in as few hits as possible. This means that a golfer has to complete the hole by hitting the golf ball from the teeing ground into the hole in the putting green using the golf club in as little strokes as possible. A round of golf usually means a play of 18 holes.

There are two basically two kinds of play in golf. In the match play, the winner is determined according to the number of holes lost and won. In the other kind of play, which is the stroke play, the winner is the golfer who uses the least number of strokes to complete a round.

In playing the game, there are two very fundamental rules to adhere to: Play the course as you find it; and play the ball as it is found.

Should the rules above be difficult for you to follow, keep in mind that you should at least play fair at all times. How do you determine what is fair and what is not? Read on and find out some rules which will give you a greater understanding on how to be a fair player in playing golf.

Basic Golf Courtesy

Do not stand, move or talk too close to a golfer who is about to make a stroke.

Play without any delay. Leave as soon as the other members in your group leave.

Try your best to play when everyone in your group is already out of the way.

Try to replace the divots as much as you can. And if you have walked into a bunker, don’t forget to smooth out all your footprints.

It is not advisable for you to drop your golf clubs on the putting green, so avoid it at all cost.

Rules to Playing Golf

Before you start on your round of golf, take some time to read the local rules which are stated on the scorecard that you hold. After reading the rules, it is a good idea for you to mark which golf ball you will be using, which will make it easier for you to identify it. Several golfers may be suing the same brand of golf balls as you, In this case, it would be easy to see which golf ball belongs to you.

Before you start, make sure you have counted your golf clubs. You are allowed a maximum of fourteen golf clubs.

When beginning the actual play, make sure you tee off in front of your tee markers. Should your tee off be a little bit off, or outside of the area specified, you may be asked to repeat your stroke. If this happens in a match play, then you are lucky as there will be no penalty for you. However, if this happens in a stroke play, then you are given a two-stroke penalty. That is why it is important for you to tee off in the specified area.

When you are playing, should your ball lie in a water hazard or a bunker, remember not to hit or touch the water or bunker in any way before you do your downswing.

The ball should never be spooned or pushed: it should always be struck fairly.

It is all right if you want to mark the ball that you are using. You could also clean your ball: just lift it, clean and put it back exactly where it was previously.

In the case of dropping a ball, the best way to do so would be to stand straight and to hold your golf ball at the length of your shoulder, and to drop it gently. Should you, in dropping the ball, happen to strike another player, the caddie or even yourself, you must drop the ball again. This is done with no penalty.

It would also be all right for you to pick up your ball if by doing so you would assist another player. On the other hand, you may also lift any other ball if that ball is interfering with your playing or another player.

By remembering the basic rules of golf as well as the basic common courtesies of playing golf fairly, you will make the game more enjoyable for you and others.

anonymous
http://www.articlesbase.com/golf-articles/the-basic-rules-to-playing-golf-125660.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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How do they get the golf greens so short?

So how do they get those greens so short? and even the fairways… do they use lawn mowers (like special ones)? or are they turf?

Special mowers. They just showed one of the commentators at the Quail Hollow Championship on CBS working one of the special push mowers. You drive it to where you are going to begin cutting with rear rubber tires and when you get to that location they actually take the rear tires off and there is a metal rolling disc along the back of the mower that then acts as the wheel. This lowers the cutting blade down to get the fast grass that pros play on. Of course this is a pro course and most municipal courses wouldn’t have that type equipment. One local course I was at they used a tractor with wide turf tires so they wouldn’t tear up the green and the actual mower was an old-timey mechanical manual mower that was pulled behind the tractor that just uses the wheel speed to turn a bunch of blades in a circular motion. For the fairways they had another pull-behind deck that was just a commercial mower. But to get the really short grass, special mowers are used.

When Golf was invented 500 years ago, how did they keep the greens and fairways mowed?

I would think that simple grass-cutting tools have been around for a long time, just as harvesting tools have. If you look at a manual push-mower that is made today, it looks simple enough to have been made a pretty long time ago.

Indulge me as I vent this notice I received:

Question Details: If I was named Aidan in 1992, and now its seems that so many people have the name Aidan, will my once unique name be overlooked?
Deleted Answer: Wow. That seems like a serious problem. Would anyone click on my question below? It’s totally buried.
Violation Reason:Solicitation

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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