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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Bad Weather Can Ruin Our Golf Game

Golf course management is very significant to a player, whether they are a seasoned pro or a novice. Knowing the distance to the hole and what kind of club to use can make or break your round of golf. But weather conditions are another real significant consideration when you are out on the golf course playing your favorite sport.

How do weather conditions effect your game? Wet, dry, windy, calm, all very important considerations when choosing how to manage a golf course. A huge consideration in picking the right golf club is the wind, the side the wind is blowing from will have a huge affect on the direction a round of golf takes better than any other weather related factor. when facing a strong wind a player has to determine the direction and strength in an attempt to pick the correct club to select and right approach shot.

Against a stiff wind a golfer might decide to either hit a club much harder or they might decide to go with a longer club, swinging the club harder can produce very erratic outcomes. When a golfer decides to swing a club stronger than normal many more times than not the desired ball flight is not realized because of the magnified effort in swinging the club faster, this address produces to many more opportunities for the swing to go wrong.

A swing that goes bad is a swing that has deviated from the proper swing plane and cannot meet the golf ball right producing miss hits, pushes, and hooks. An good way to avoid this problem when facing into a strong wind to to just pick a higher club, instead of a six iron use a five iron. The benefit of using a lower club means that the player can use their usual swing and still accomplish the same results.

The same is true for golf shots when the wind is at their back, in this circumstance the wind will actually assist a player gain increased yardage than is normal and so choosing a higher club may get the results wanted. If a player normally swings a seven iron to accomplish a distance of 150 yards, with a hard wind behind you, you might want to try using an eight iron to get the same ball distance.

Also considerations should be taken when faced with strong side winds, aiming adjustments have to be taken into consideration as the wind can push your shot from one side to the other if it is blowing hard enough. Then things like sand traps and water hazards can come into play with a hard wind. A sand trap that normally wouldn't cause a golfer interference could move into play if the wind is moving the ball in the sand traps direction.

Also a big component in managing a golf course is moisture, or how dry or wet the greens and fairways are. Get to the golf course early while the sprinklers are still going, or arrive after it has rained and you will find hard to hit fairways and very slow greens. For the mushy fairway many golfers have a difficult time hitting the golf ball while it is on a soaked fairway, hitting a golf ball with a solid stroke and lifting it up in the air gets much more difficult because of the additional resistance of the soaked grass.

At the far end of the fairway we find the putting green, a putting green that has been soaked is also very slow. And so putting is more difficult because of the extra resistance of the green to the ball, so a golfer has to hit the ball with much more force than is typical to propel the ball along and keep it running to the hole. As the sun rises and hardens the fairway and putting greens a players ball striking will need to be changed to adjust to the new surface conditions fast.

Dry fairways will make the golf ball to bounce and roll much farther off the tee and will assist the golfer to hit the ball much better on their second shot increasing the length of the shot. The significant change comes on the putting green, a soggy green where the ball needed a strong, hard hit will now be driven along quickly with just a light stroke making the golfer to adjust their stroke to the changing conditions.

So wet or dry, windy or calm, golf course management is significant and bad golf course management can accumulate needless strokes to a golfers round. Cautious regard for the weather and course conditions is important for your round. Slow down and play wise, and you will have a great round despite which way the wind is blowing.

Jerret Bonds is a Husband and Father to 7 children, 20 Year Professional in the Automotive Industry, Entrepreneur, Golf Enthusiast and Weekend Woodworker.

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The Future of the Xbox 360

The xbox 360 game console is exemplary when it works. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Some gamers may experience a hardware failure with their xbox 360. Symptoms that an xbox 360 might be malfunctioning is a red circle that appears on the console; this is known as the Red Ring of Death. The worst part about this fiasco was that microsoft knew beforehand they were selling defective xbox 360s to consumers; moreover, microsoft fabricated statistics.

game developers for the xbox 360 divulged that merely 5 % of consoles were faulty. The correct percentage of faulty xbox 360s was 25 %. Why the hell would microsoft even attempt to do this? First microsoft sold imperfect hardware; furthermore, they tried to cover their tracks with deceit.

The dreadful publicity has definitely harmed Microsofts image, but they are selling xbox 360s. Sony and nintendo game consoles work perfectly fine, but the Xbox 360 has this Red Ring of Death. At E3 2007, Sony should have played the Red Ring of Death card on microsoft. But Sony decided to take the high road and not heavily criticize microsoft.

To remedy the Red Ring of Death, an xbox 360 nyko cooler has been utilized in conjunction with the system; however, the dreaded Red Ring of Death still appears. It was later discovered that the nyko cooler exacerbates the hardware crash. Meanwhile, other gamers have even gone as far as to manually open their xbox 360 and solve this problem. Gamers should never has to perform this cumbersome task to solve any console mishaps.

microsoft has taken steps to rectify this hardware malfunction. The company has extended the warranty on the xbox 360 to three years and plans to spend over 1 billion dollars to resolve the blunder. Is that enough? Extending to a three year warranty is like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound, and it is definitely not enough. A quick fix that microsoft should enforce immediately is to have a free lifetime warranty with the xbox 360. This will neutralize many gripes about the Red Ring of Death. xbox 360 designers plan on creating a new xbox 360 without this glitch, but microsoft has not stated when that will transpire. Gamers can only hope that microsoft appeases its customers.

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