Ambition On Curtis Cup call (I)
Louise Kenney is hoping the Great Britain & Ireland selectors will be paying just as much attention to last year’s results when it comes to deciding on a Curtis Cup team while aware that a strong showing in the Helen Holm Scottish Open Stroke Play Championship over the next three days at Troon will do her no harm whatsoever
This Monday, Kenney, a 27-year-old who lives in Dunfermline and is a nursery school teacher in North Queensferry, is one of the Scots in the frame for the biennial match against the Americans, to be played in early June at Essex County Club in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts.
“Along with everyone else, I am sure the Curtis Cup is going to be in the back of my mind this weekend but, at the same time, I think it is important no to put too much emphasis on that during the event,” said Kenney, a member of Pitreavie. “It would be nice to think the selectors are looking at results over the past year because, in topping the Scottish Order of Merit in 2009, I was never outside the top ten and, in most of the counting tournaments, finished in the top five.”
Coached by Spencer Henderson, Kenney caught the Curtis Cup bug when she watched four of her then Scottish team-mates – Carly Booth, Krystle Caithness, Michele Thomson and Sally Watson – don the GB&I colours at St Andrews in 2008. Watson, the only member of that quartet still in the amateur ranks, is not playing at Troon due to college studies in America but she is in the current GB&I training squad along with Kenney, Nairn Dunbar’s Kelsey MacDonald and Pamela Pretswell of Bothwell Castle.
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Tips Of Buying Discount Golf Equipment
Every one like discount items, probably there is not a store in the United States that somebody actually wants to pay full price for an item. When you are buying golf equipment, you can go to plenty of brick and mortar based buildings for golfing tools, balls, and other equipment or you can pick to explore resale shops, Pro Shops, and Net shopping malls to find the best deals.
To find discount golf clubs for sale, people will scan the clearance areas of most net sports equipment websites in search of the right make and model of golfing equipment that you already own. There’s tremendous discounts in the newspaper ads in your town for discounted golf products shopping enthusiasts think about because they are offered by people who are no longer interested in golf, or do not have time to play it anymore.
A quantity of the resale shops feature discounted golf product shopping items such as pre-owned clubs and bags. There may be a box or three of top quality golf balls that you can find in these resale shops that an avid golfer once purchased, but no longer needs. These pre-owned clubs might be slightly soiled, or have dents here and there on the handles, but if you require to generate a second set of golfing clubs that you could keep at the office, it would be basically a marvelous choice for you.
The discounted golf product shopping items that you see at a close-out store, feature basically superb golfing equipment, but the quantities are limited. A quantity of these distinctive items are discounted golf product shopping items that you did not see in other retail outlets you visited, and you snatch those few items up immediately. You notice that the elderly retailer is still on the package, and it is a place that you used to buy a quantity of your golfing products from throughout the year.
There’s featured items in these golf outlets that give you a nice price on some positively fabulous individual golf club designs. The discounted golf product shopping items are carefully thought about, and you add a Sasquatch Driver with a graphite shaft to your club arsenal that you plan to keep in the trunk of your automobile.
There’s plenty of discounted golf product shopping sites on the Net. Some rainy days at home are spent on the Net, leisurely going from two site to the other looking for discounted golf product shopping deals. There’s training aids on two site that you find appealing. These VHS and DVD offerings will let you get in a few extra pointers for a low price.
Your golfing buddies will be impressed with your new found golfing treasures. They will automatically know that you found some discounted golf product shopping items and will require to listen to all about it as you go hole to hole on the 18-hole golf work.
All in all, you have amassed a collection of golfing equipment on your discounted golf product shopping spree. By checking the forecasts on your local computer home page, you see that there’s sunny skies predicted for the weekend, and hastily call the golf work for a tee time.
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Enjoy Yourself When Practicing Golf – Part Two
I have suggested that you learn to play golf with a friend – maybe two or three friends so that you always have someone to practice with.
And practice should be a pleasure – an opportunity to acquire and develop some skills in learning to control the ball with you clubs.
In previous articles I have suggested that you devise some friendly ‘competitive’ games around the putting green. When you are chipping, award yourself points for getting balls closest to the hole. Earn enough points and your playing partner buys the beer!
Do the same with putting. Scatter some balls around the practice putting green at different distances. See how many you can get into the hole or close to the hole and don’t lose sight of the importance of improving your technique and skill in the process. Friendly competition can sometimes be more about ‘winning’ than technique and developing your technique is the crucial thing to develop in these exercises, not ‘winning’.
When my golfing buddies and I go to the driving range we often finish our practice by going onto the mini putting green and competing with each other to hole the ball in the least shots. It’s a bit of fun and adds tremendous enjoyment to our practice.
Starting to play golf should be FUN, not a chore, so think about ways you can make it enjoyable. I’m sure we can all remember what it was like when we played games as a child and the sense of fun and enjoyment we had living in an imaginary world where we made the rules.
Take out those memories onto the practice areas with you and enjoy practicing golf. It’ll improve your enjoyment of the game enormously and we are all learning to play golf to have fun as well as getting better at it.
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