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Even Las Vegas sports bettors — who used to trumpet their plays to anyone who would listen — are playing it close to the vest and hiding under heavy cloaks these days.

No one … except maybe Steve Fezzik … wants to give anything away.

In this age of the Super Information Highway, everyone is looking for even the tiniest edge; gleaning an advantage is like finding gold.

Some sports gamblers, mostly NFL players, relocate to Las Vegas during their chosen seasons and then crawl out of the woodwork or the off-Strip studio apartments they rent when it’s time for the big game, in this case the Super Bowl.

I bumped into one such creature the other day who provided a few pointers, anonymously of course.

Where he got the info he didn’t say and I didn’t ask.

This is top secret stuff, you know.

“Obviously, the Super Bowl is different than most games,” he said.

“It ain’t a game against the Lions in Week 11 when you take it easy offensively if you’re up two touchdowns in the fourth quarter while Detroit punts on fourth and four with five minutes left.

“Everyone wants to make a big play.

“The losing team is desperate and will deviate from its game plan to make big plays.

“As a result, Super Bowl second halves, and particularly fourth quarters, have been very high scoring in recent years.”

Our gambler continued:

“Over 13 1/2 in the fourth quarter has occurred 7 of the last 8 years and 13 of the last 17.

“Fourth quarters have seen 17, 37, 26, 17, 10, 17, 30, and 14 points scored.

“There has been more scoring in the second half than the first half in 7 straight years and 12 of the last 17.

“Second half totals in recent years have been 31, 37, 46, 20, 31, 40, 30, and 24.

“I bet over 13 1/2 in the fourth quarter and more scoring in the second half than the first.

“I don’t see a scenario where I would be under in the second half and will consider an over bet there and/or some in progress overs in the second half.”

Tanning bed lamps vary depending on the type of tanning bed. Tanning bed lamps are necessary for any kind of tanning bed.

The conventional tanning beds use a different type of tanning bed lamps than a high pressure bed. The high pressure beds use quartz tanning bed lamps that can vary in length.

These tanning bed lamps usually tan your body from above. While using these tanning bed lamps you will lie on a comfortable mattress. After about 12 minutes under these tanning bed lamps you will turn over and tan the other side of your body.

The tanning bed lamps in these beds have gasses inside the quartz lamps. The gasses inside the tanning bed bulbs are held at a little above atmospheric pressure. The gasses inside regular tanning bed lamps are held at below atmospheric pressure.

When using tanning bed lamps in a high pressure bed it will not take you as long to get a tan. Tanning bed lamps in this kind of bed also make it possible to maintain your tan with less frequent trips to the tanning salon.

Conventional tanning bed lamps use both UVA and UVB rays. The tanning bed lamps in the high pressure beds have a system that filters the ultra-violet lights really well. Some of the newer high pressure beds have very advanced systems that remove the higher frequencies of the UVA rays almost completely. Consequently, when you tan using these tanning bed lamps you are tanning as safely as possible.

You might want to talk to the owners of your tanning salon and find out what type of tanning bed lamps they are using.

Typically you’ll hear a group of golfers all talking about the newest technology and what club or which ball they need to improve their golf game. We all want to believe that the newer golf technology will get us to the next level of play. While there may be some truth to the theory, more emphasis is being placed on fitness for golf. Many players are now accepting the fact that by conditioning the body on a regular basis, they create an opportunity for more optimal play.

No matter what you current level of play, if your muscles become stronger and more flexible your swing will show improvement. The golf swing places complex demands on the body. There must be mental concentration, neuromuscular coordination, and muscular strength and flexibility all functioning at the same time during the few seconds it takes to make your swing.

To synchronize the body’s performance and improve your game, the best fitness for golf regimen includes what is called functional fitness. The exercises of functional fitness for golf are designed to mimic the golf swing, and improve strength, balance, and flexibility. This method of regular conditioning even if it’s only a few minutes a day can greatly increase your ability to achieve and maintain an optimal swing.

The key here is to realize that you want to tone and condition your body for the overall performance required during a round of golf. Golf involves repetitive movements from many muscle groups. By implementing functional fitness for golf, your muscles will be trained to automatically perform when necessary. You’ll also reduce your risks of strains and injury.

Benefits aren’t just in acquiring a more powerful and consistent golf swing; your overall health and stamina will also improve, both on and off the golf course. When beginning a fitness for golf regimen it’s good to get an overall assessment of your current level of strengths and weaknesses. By identifying areas of weakness, you can concentrate more on improving in those areas rather than spending more time on areas where your performance is stronger.

If you are not currently in a fitness program for golf, give it a try. You can get an assessment online and even do the necessary conditioning right in your own home. The time spent will bring you rewards on the course.

Susan Hill is a nationally recognized golf fitness trainer and writer for Golf Illustrated, Travel Golf, and Resort Golf among others. Her work has been featured in Self magazine and on ESPN. For more information on golf specific programs, visit www.fitnessforgolf.com.

With the legal civilisation growing throughout the planet, having possession of professional indemnity insurance is turning out to be ever more & more important. If you do not at present have professionally indemnity insurance integrated into your building cover, then now is perhaps the moment in time to look into obtaining better insurance. Here is some suggestions about why you require insurance, & what to watch out for.

What is professional indemnity insurance: Public Liability cover is an insurance policy that shields you from claims that other people may perhaps make against you in the occurrence of an accident. If somebody damages their property or injures themselves in or around your property or company then the professional indemnity insurance will protect you for any compensation claims that might arise. Cover usually ranges from two hundred and fifty pounds up to one million pounds.

What are you covered against: Insurance will insure cover for accidents or loss that other people may endure in or around your residence or business grounds. You are protected against claims from thief’s on top of damages that might well happen to anybody from falling objects or people carrying out repairs. If an accident happens on your grounds & someone claims against you, your cover will help you to pay any damages. Get cheap public liability insurance from Insured Risks.

What’s included Some contents or property insurance covers have integrated liability insurance. You would be recommended to check with your insurer if this is the case, and if so what grade of protection you have. Even if the insurance is incorporated, you must ensure that you are properly protected for any type of accidents that may perhaps arise.

Payment: The premiums that you are likely to have to pay depend on the specific sort of coverage you desire. If you simply cover your home, then premiums are likely to be not as much as than if you are wanting to cover a business. Though, premiums are relatively cheap inexpensive the extent of protection that you receive & it is as a result necessary for anyone running a business.

One would be hard pressed to find an individual who isn’t feeling an increase in stress and anxiety in these troubled world times. Both domestically and abroad, news reports continually speak to societies across the globe exhibiting signs of higher degrees of uncertainty and instability. In large-scale protests and in individual conversations, there are many who would like to “turn back the clock” to the way things were just a few short years ago. Interestingly, it is especially during these times of tension that we in America have historically turned to sport and recreation as a diversion. Whether as a spectator or as a participant, for many there is something therapeutic about the environment that these activities can create to “help us get away from it all”. For some, the connection with golf at this time allows for a single-minded, “in the moment” experience that frees up that part of the mind that has been under strain. For others, simply the physical release of pent-up energy can have attendant calming benefits.

Like so many things in life, it regularly takes a significant event or events to shake us out of our comfortable world that we take for granted and help us put things in a more accurate light. Ask a person who can no longer walk how much they appreciated being ambulatory. Ask a person who can no longer see how much they appreciated their sight.

Where I’m going with all of this is to suggest to the Senior golfers to make a point of deeply appreciating the opportunities that you have, and to put into perspective some of those things in golf that you typically allow to upset you. Missing a short putt, hitting a drive OB and hitting an “easy” shot into a hazard are much easier to cope with when put in the context of how fortunate we are to be able to play at all. The level of frustration, anger, and anxiety that I regularly witness in golf stems in part from the person’s difficulty with putting his/her experience into context. While acknowledging that many golfers have trained or practiced hard, there is, at times, an “over reaction” relative to life’s big picture. I am not suggesting that anger or frustration or worry is an inappropriate emotion in golf, I’m merely proposing that these emotions be managed such that the encounter with the game not be contaminated. How sad to be unfulfilled and/or dissatisfied doing something that ostensibly has the potential to bring such joy. For many of you senior golfers, this is what you’ve worked hard for your whole life- to finally be able to enjoy this great game.

Next time you find yourself upset when on the golf course, catch yourself and reflect upon how important really in the scheme of life is that with which you are stewing. My suspicion is that you will enjoy yourself more if you incorporate a “big picture” outlook in your reactions.

Jeff Troesch, MA, LMHC is an internationally recognized expert in the mental side of golf. As the former Director of Sport Psychology for the David Leadbetter Golf Academies, Jeff has worked with thousands of golfers nationwide and brings a wealth of experience to seasoned golf professionals as well as the recreational golf lover. You may contact Jeff directly through his website, http://www.fitnessforgolf.com.

Mankind is advancing at an incredible rate and in doing so is able to modify organic life thru changes and manipulation of DNA, RNA, enzymes and proteins. Scientists and researchers have also come a long way in developing prosthesis devices for injured humans such as artificial legs, arms, etc. and some of these parts will become better, faster and stronger like the movie the Six Million Dollar Man.

It makes sense that we not limit these artificial parts to only humans for instance if your dog is run over, well then you need to find a way to give him a new leg and so we need to be developing these prosthesis devices to serve all the animal kingdom. What about the insect kingdom? We know that with miniaturization we are now building tiny flying devices about the size of a triple size dragonfly, which the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Community is calling MAV or Micro-Air Vehicles, which can fly totally autonomously.

These MAVs are all technology based with no organic parts. But as other researchers are putting human brain cells into mice, why not do a little organic Bio-Tech engineering and combine the two? A flying rat; well, not exactly, but how about a flying grass hopper, with spring loaded legs that when pushed would propel the creature five times the distance at a faster speed and allow it to land without damage to its organic frame? Sure this will soon be possible.

Now then if we take this one step further, we can enlarge this creature to the size of a small rodent and modify its DNA for a large stinger too, thus the new insect, half organic and half robotic could be used to guard military assets, nuclear power plants and secure our borders. It will be living off the land and trimming the grass; that is to say a completely self-sustained security system, which is happy as a lark fulfilling its genes while protecting us, with some robotic engineering to make it even better and report thru micro-electronic sensors to a central computer system.

Combining robotic and organic into a single unit makes sense and we ought to start with a species, which is already at the top of its food chain. One, which is better evolved for life on the surface of the planet than a soft shelled human. An insect based on a hard shell or semi hard shell system and slighting augmented thru both robotics and DNA manipulation adaptation for increased agility might just be the perfect system to protect us. Think on this.

“Lance Winslow” – Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/

PNC Park

The Houston Astros got back on track Friday night behind an unlikely standout and the return of an old one. Adam Everett hit a two-out, three-run double in the eighth inning and closer Brad Lidge retired three straight in the ninth to get the save in the Houston Astros’ 5-3 victory over the Texas Rangers.

It was about time for the Houston Astros to get a victory. It was a much needed one because after the sweep they suffered at home the players weren’t that motivated. With the victory at least the Astros got a little boost in their morale to continue fighting for that first place in their division.

“I was just trying to prolong the inning and get the next guy up there,” said Everett, who bats eighth. “It’s one of those at-bats that I’ll always remember because it was my first game-winning hit. That’s pretty exciting.”

Oswalt pitched 6 strong innings allowing a season high 11 hits, but with all that he did a pretty good job and got the victory fro m the Rangers.

Lineup

1. Willy Taveras, CF. 2.Craig Biggio, 2nd B. 3. Lance Berkman, RF. 4.Morgan Ensberg, 3rd B. 5. Mike Lamb, 1st B. 6. Brad Ausmus, C. 7.Preston Wilson, LF. 8. Adam Everett, SS. 9.Roy Oswalt, P.

Meanwhile the Pittsburgh Pirates suffered a loss against a very focus and talented Indians team lead by C.C Sabathia. The Pirates went down 4-1 on Friday night. “The way (Sabathia) was throwing, it felt like we were down by 10,” said Pirates left fielder Jason Bay, who went 0-for-3 with a strikeout and had a 10-game hitting streak stopped.

Zach Duke pitched 7 innings for the Pirates; he got 4 hits, 3 runs and 3 errors that cost them a lot. Duke allowed only one hit over his final six innings but lost his third consecutive start. He issued two walks in both the fourth and fifth innings but escaped those jams in his first career start against an AL team. The left-hander walked six and struck out six over seven innings.

“I made bad pitches in the first inning, but I was very happy with the way I pitched after that,” Duke said.

This week the Pirates match-up against the Astros and they have the opportunity to add some victories that will do a lot of good to this team that’s struggling in NL Central. So if you like a sport betting this is a good opportunity to bet in what many expect to be a very exciting game.

Lineup

1. Jose Bautista, CF. 2.Jack Wilson, SS. 3.Freddy Sanchez, 3rd B. 4. Jason Bay, LF. 5. Craig Wilson, 1st B. 6. Ryan Doumit, DH. 7. Jeromy Burnitz, RF. 8.Ronny Paulino, C. 9.Jose Castillo, 2nd B.

WagerWeb.com Contributing Writer

There were three games last night in college basketball featuring top-25 opponents, with the visiting team winning all three. No. 10 Tennessee won at No. 12 Florida 76-72, No. 13 Ohio State won at No. 18 Michigan State 79-68 and No. 21 North Carolina won at No. 15 North Carolina State 95-71.

My free play on Thursday is George Mason over Hofstra at 7:00 ET. Join me on Thursday as I continue my near 80% ATS run in the NBA (since Feb 3) with a rare NBA Las Vegas Insider Play. In college hoops, I’m featuring one of my exclusive LEGEND Plays plus my 10* College Mismatch of the Month.

For the Vols it was their second four-point win over the Gators, the first coming back on January 21 when they handed Florida its first loss of the season (Gators had opened 17-0). The Buckeyes ended a 10-game losing streak at East Lansing, while ending Michigan State’s 15-game home winning streak. The Tar Heels seemingly took offense at being lower ranked than the Wolfpack for just the 4th time in the last 74 meetings, by routing the Wolfpack by 24 points!

Seven other top-25 teams were in action, with only Northern Iowa (T-25th) losing. The Panthers were playing their final game in the UNI-Dome and lost to Butler, 71-49. It marked the school’s worst home loss in league play, since Northern Iowa joined the MVC back in 1991. For Butler, it was the school’s first win over a ranked opponent since the Braves beat UTEP in the 1986 NCAA tournament.

No. 1 Duke, No. 4 Memphis, No. 6 George Washington and unranked Bucknell, all won. They are four of the five schools still unbeaten in conference play (Gonzaga is the other). Duke (14-0 in the ACC) survived Redick missing 15 of his first 17 shots to edge Ga Tech, 73-66. Memphis (11-0 in C-USA) won its 14th straight game, 66-56 over C-USA and No. 6 GW (13-0 in the A-10) won its nation-best 15th straight game, with a 77-65 win over LaSalle. Bucknell beat Lehigh 81-70, staying unbeaten in the Patriot League, at 13-0.

Tonight’s 34-game college basketball ‘board’ features three top-25 teams in action. Four games will be televised by the ESPN networks and FSN has two games. No. 2 Villanova is at Cincinnati on ESPN at 9:00 ET. The Wildcats are ranked No. 2 for just the second time in school history (have never been No. 1) and take a 10-game winning streak into the game. The Bearcats were 13-2 at one time but have gone 6-7 since. ‘Nova is favored by 3 1/2 points with a total of 142.

The early game on ESPN is South Carolina at Georgia (7:00 ET) in a write-in game. Both schools are 14-11 with the Gamecocks at 5-7 and Bulldogs at 4-8 in SEC-play. South Carolina is favored by 1 1/2 points (137). ESPN2 has Wisconsin visiting Northwestern at 9:00 ET. The 18-7 Badgers are 8-4 in the Big-10, just a half-game behind co-leaders Ohio St and Iowa. Wisconsin is favored by 3 1/2 points (120). ESPNU has a game from the “added board”, with 20-5 Murray State of the OVC taking its 10-game winning streak to Tenn Tech at 9:00 ET. The Racers are favored by 3 1/2 points (133).

FSN starts with Cal visiting Washington State at 8:30 ET. The Bears are tied with UCLA for the Pac-10 lead and are favored by two points (113 1/2). No. 17 Washington hosts Stanford at 10:30 ET, in the late game. Back on Jan 28, Stanford beat Washington 76-67 in OT, as Chris Hernandez sunk three FTs with 0.2 seconds left in regulation, sending the game into an extra period. Both teams are 9-5 in league play but Washington is 20-5 overall, while Stanford is just 13-10. The Huskies, who have lost 15 of their last 19 versus the Cardinal, are favored by nine points (151).

No. 19 UCLA is the last of three ranked teams in action tonight, as the Bruins host Oregon state at 10:30 ET. UCLA is tied with Cal for first in the Pac-10, as they try to capture their first league title since 1996-97. The Bruins are favored by 15 1/2 points with a total of 127.

There weren’t a lot of highlights in last night’s nine-game NBA schedule, although the Sonics sure like playing the Hawks. Seattle is just 2-10 ATS over its last 12 games with both ATS wins coming in SU wins over Atlanta, after last night’s 114-109 win.

Lowlights from Wednesday include the Magic losing their eighth straight game, 96-93 to New Jersey (Nets have won 14 of their last 15 at home). The Magic, who traded Steve Francis to the Knicks earlier in the day, have lost 12 of their last 13 (3-10 ATS).

Speaking of the Knicks, they lost at home to the Heat, 103-83. New York has now lost 17 of its last 19, going 5-14 ATS. For the Heat, it was their ninth win in their last 11.

Tonight’s NBA has a three-game card with TNT carrying a doubleheader. The Pistons and Pacers continue their bitter rivalry in the first game at 8:05 ET. Indiana has been at home since Feb 1 and finished its homestand 6-1 SU and 7-0 ATS. However, the Pacers have lost five straight on the road. Detroit is only 6-4 SU in its last 10 and just 4-9 ATS in its last 13. Detroit is favored by 8 1/2 points with a total of 178. The Lakers host the Kings at 10:35 ET. The Kings are 6-0 SU and ATS at home with Artest but just 1-5 SU (2-3-1 ATS) on the road since acquiring the controversial forward. LA is favored by 2 1/2 points with a total of 198.

Although not on TV, Memphis at Dallas (8:35 ET), should be a good one. The teams will be meeting for the fourth time this year, with the visitor winning the first three. Dallas has won 12 straight at home and 16 of its last 17 overall, while Memphis comes in on a four-game winning streak. Memphis is the league’s best defensive team (87.7 PPG allowed) and has allowed just two of its last 21 opponents to score 100 points. In Dallas’ last 16 wins, the Mavs have held each opponent under 100! Dallas is favored by 7 1/2 points with a total of 181.

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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people say “the pros make it look so simple” or “it looks like the pros are swinging so easy, yet, they hit it a mile”. Here’s a question to all golfers out there. If the pros look like they are making this simple movement, why are you twisting up in circles and swinging out of your shoes on every shot? It makes sense to me that if the best players in the world have a simple, easy movement, you should be trying to copy what they are doing. Unfortunately, as much as you want this simple, easy swing, you can’t do it. Why? Because simple … is difficult.

Simple is Difficult?

What do I mean by simple is difficult? What I mean, is the less you move your body in golf, the harder it is. Now you’re probably thinking that this just doesn’t make sense. Everyone knows that If you were to move less it would be much easier! Well if this were the case, you would be seeing everyone with nice, compact, easy golf swings out there and I would have no reason to write this tip. Here are the reasons you don’t have a simple, easy, compact swing:

1. Human Nature

A couple of ways human nature affects your swing is that it is telling you that the farther you swing back, the farther you will hit the ball. It’s also saying that the harder you hit the ball, the farther it will go. Both of these thoughts involve your arms and hitting the ball hard. Unfortunately, you are only so strong. If golf was a purely a strength game, every body builder would also be a professional golfer. Also, if golf was a strength game, you would have never heard of Chi Chi Rodriguez, who, in his prime, was only 128 lbs.

Now that you understand that you don’t have to have a long backswing to generate power, how far should you go back? I tell my students that once their shoulder rotation stops, so should the club. You want the shoulder rotation to determine your backswing length instead of your club still going back long after the shoulders have stopped. At first, this shorter backswing will feel like you don’t have a lot of power so it will be more difficult to do, but as you get used to it, you will soon see your shots fly just as far, if not farther, with half the backswing.

The feeling of hitting the ball hard must be eliminated from your swing as well as the long backswing. This is because harder you try to hit the ball, the tighter your wrists will become. If your wrists tighten, the club will actually swing slower and the clubface may be held open at impact causing you to spin the ball to the right. In order to understand the proper feeling you should have in your wrists, think of them like a hinge on a door. The hinge on a door is loose and free flowing. There is no resistance. If you keep your wrists as loose as a hinge on a door, you will allow the club to whip faster and square up through impact. This whipping action is what gives a pro tremendous clubhead speed with what looks like an effortless swing.

2. Distance Doesn’t Necessarily Equal Effort

Throughout your golfing life, you have equated “X” amount of power, with “X” amount of distance. As an example, if you were to swing really hard, your mind is saying that this should produce a really long shot. Unfortunately, the harder you swing, the shorter the shot ends up going. As I explained above, the harder you swing, the tighter you get, the more the clubface will hit the ball in an open position. So when I tell you that you should swing easier and looser, you have to convince you mind that this is going to produce shots that will go farther than ever before. If you don’t believe me, think back to the time you hit that one drive 30 – 50 yards farther than any other shot in your life. What did you feel when you hit this shot? I bet you said that you felt “nothing” and that it was “effortless.” This means that you could not have swung really hard yet you produced a shot that went farther than ever before.

The hardest part about swinging effortlessly is that it goes against what your brain is thinking. Your brain is thinking that swinging hard equals more power and swinging easy equals less power. If you think about the pros, they look like they are barley swinging and yet they can hit the ball a long way. So forget about trying to smash it as hard as you can. Swing in control and you will be amazed at how far you will hit it even though it doesn’t feel like you are putting any effort into it at all.

3. Less Movement is More Strenuous

Now I know you’re shaking your head at this topic because you know for a fact that if you move less it can’t possibly more strenuous right? Wrong! Moving less in the golf swing is more strenuous because moving less creates a tighter, more coiled up swing. To understand what I mean, think about your backswing. Imagine turning your shoulders back while resisting the lower body rotation. If you did, you would feel very tightly coiled because your hips would move approximately half that of the shoulders. This tight, coiling in the backswing will allow your body to uncoil quickly in the downswing. Think of it like a spring. If you coil up a spring, it will snap back very quickly. Now imagine if you were to turn your shoulders back but this time you lifted your left heel and turned your hips excessively. If you did, you would move more than if you resisted with your hips and you would not develop this tight, wound up, feeling. If you are not tightly coiled, you will not uncoil properly thus causing you to use your arms to hit the ball. So turning back more is actually less strenuous because by turning more, you don’t get the same tight wound up feeling you get when you resist your hip rotation in the backswing.

Here’s a re-cap of 4 things you can do to make your swing look like that of a pro:

1. Shorten up your backswing. When your shoulders stop, so should your club.

2. Keep your wrists looser to allow the club to whip faster.

3. Convince yourself that swinging easier will hit the ball farther than swinging harder.

4. Resist the lower body rotation to create a simple backswing and tighter coil.

If you can work on these 4 things, you will start to look like the pros you idolize. The more you look like them when you swing, the more you will start hit it like them when you play.

Until next time,

Paul Wilson

Paul Wilson teaches how to copy the perfect golf swing of the Iron Byron swing machine. For more information please visit: www.paulwilsongolf.com .

I like to think we all seemed to have our heroes and greats in our early years. Growing up in front of a television had us dashing around with a sword or packing a six-shooter at our side. Depending on what we were watching at the time, whether it was in front of a television or out on some field watching a football game. We all seemed to mimic someone at one time or another. In our early years finding someone we admired as a Mentor kind of kept the spirit alive in direction and where we are today.

I often wondered back how I caught on to what some people call golf fever. Thinking back I often admired good golfers where I caddied. How I remembered getting excited when I watched a good golfer walk towards the first tee box. Standing there in anticipation of a huge drive to follow as the golfer teed up his ball, remembering how they maneuvered the golf ball off the tee box, watching the shot rise with a steady climb as it went out into the distance. I had to figure out then and there on how they did that by grabbing a stick or a nearby branch of any length and mimicking their swing. I use to take buckets of golf balls out to the practice range to try and accomplish that remarkable hitting distance. It just made me a better golfer trying.

Names like Kendal and Nadler sparked my excitement that took me where I am today in golf. To this day, because of my admiration of their golf game back then, it fired up the enthusiasm for years of golf that followed. The names may not have recognition to anybody else, but to me they were like a Palmer and Nicklaus as their names are to anybody today in the golf industry.

Kendal I admired because of his ability to take trees and woods out of play. His shots started out low with a steady climb upwards at about 200 yards out. His drives were so huge. I think then and there is where I caught the fever. His 5 wood took all the trees out of play. With today’s technology, I would like to view those same shots again.

Nadler was a different type of golfer. She liked to play a low draw shot or fade shot. Her ability to move a ball in any direction was uncanny. Going up and over trees was not her game. Nadler steered her golf shots around them, like she was navigating a vehicle on an obstacle course. Her golf game was kind of like, hit the ball just before the green and watch it bounce past a sand trap and roll in towards the flagstick. Nadler could steer the ball around sand traps, trees, and whatever obstacles that were in her way. I often thought her golf ball had eyes, because of how her golf shots would start out straight and come back in towards the flagstick. It was amazing to watch. I learned from her that a straight shot was not the only golf shot you needed to master to play good golf. Also playing the old bump and run approach is an alternative game to play, that she was a master at.

It was because of them, my enthusiasm for golf took me to a better game. I didn’t even think about watching it on television at the time. Sure I enjoy watching it on television today. You tend to slow down and take a more relaxed approach, or what you may call a golf couch approach at the game, as you get older. I guess the golf fever for me then, was being able to play golf like my Mentors, and there was nothing more enjoyable than actually trying to create a golf swing like theirs out on the course. I liked to think of them as Mentors, because it was them that taught me the potential thrill of playing good golf.

No matter what game of sports you play or want to learn. It could work for all walks of life. Go out and watch someone that is much better than you, and see if you can catch the excitement, to be as good, if not better. It could bring you to the top. If you’re persistent!

Learned to golf as a caddie. Now running a discount tee time site at www.golfanchor.net and a golf site at www.golfanchor.com