HANK HANEY INTERNATIONAL JUNIOR GOLF ACADEMY ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
September 17, 2009
HANK HANEY INTERNATIONAL JUNIOR GOLF ACADEMY ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH MEXICAN GOLF FEDERATION
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. Hank Haney International Junior Golf Academy (IJGA) is proud to announce an official partnership with the Mexican Golf Federation. The Mexican Golf Federation is the governing body of amateur golf for Mexico under the United States Golf Association (USGA), which oversees both the United States and Mexico.
The Mexican Golf Federation visited the Hank Haney IJGA in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on August 27-30, 2009 with its junior national team of 16 golfers. As part of their trip to the United States last month, each golfer had an opportunity to work with Hank Haney, instructor to the #1 player in the world. The players also had the opportunity to work with Peter Krause, Director of Instruction for the Hank Haney IJGA and a PGA Top 100 teacher, and other members of the Hank Haney IJGA staff in mental training, physical training, and course management.
To finalize their trip, all 16 junior golfers from the Mexican Golf Federation competed against Hank Haney IJGA students in an 18-hole tournament held at Pinecrest Golf Club in Bluffton, South Carolina. It gave both groups of players an opportunity to compete against the best talent in junior golf.
Over 2,000 junior golfers in Mexico are in competition to receive a spot on the national team of only 16 spots. In an upcoming Mexican Golf Federation junior event on September 24th-28th
, the Hank Haney IJGA will have representatives present to speak about the premier training, academics, and competition they offer.
“It is extremely exciting to meet and see all the players from the Mexican Golf Federation. The junior training in Mexico is some of the finest in the world and we are thrilled that they have chosen the Hank Haney IJGA to partner with for their continued player development programs,” commented Hank Haney IJGA Chief Executive Officer, Blaik Shew.
The Hank Haney IJGA and Mexican Golf Federation will be hosting various junior golf events throughout the year.
To obtain more information about the Hank Haney IJGA and find events in your area, please visit www.ijga.com.
About Hank Haney IJGA: Hank Haney IJGA, located in Hilton Head Island, SC, is the only golf academy in the world to combine training, competition, and academics for serious junior golfers. Hank Haney IJGA has students from 24 countries and 28 states. Hank Haney, instructor for the #1 player in the world, serves as Director of Instruction for the Hank Haney IJGA and works individually with each and every student.
Contact: Mary Beth Lacy
email: mb@mblacy.com
phone: 760-346-6942
Antigua Opens Online Retail Store
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TSXV Trade Symbol: ANE
US Trade Symbol: ANTGF.PK
Antigua Opens Online Retail Store
shop.antigua.com
Peoria, Ariz.
(September 15, 2009) – The Antigua Group, Inc., one of the nation’s leading golf apparel manufacturers announced today the opening of an online retail store found at www.antigua.com and shop.antigua.com.
Based on the ever increasing consumer awareness of Antigua as a genuine golf performance apparel brand, we wanted to give the consumer the opportunity to be able to buy branded Antigua apparel directly in an online shopping environment where they can browse through a selection of our men’s and women’s polos, hats and outerwear at their convenience. Presently they are able to buy Antigua genuine golf apparel in every better golf retailer nationwide with that resorts logo on our apparel in addition to being able to find it in every sports retailer as licensed team logoed apparel, but this is an opportunity for them to be able to buy our genuine golf apparel branded as Antigua, which doesn’t conflict with any of our present retail partners,” said Antigua President Ron McPherson.
For Spring 2010 Antigua takes its high performance collection in a new direction. Taking its lead from the ever evolving fashion market Antigua steps out - and up by introducing what they’ve coined ‘contemporary performance’. Taking its highly effective Desert Dry and new Desert Dry Xtra-Lite moisture wicking performance fabrics with their soft textures and light weight athletic drape and moves from active brights and active wear styling and replaces them with a rich sophisticated color palette and clean updated styling details to complete its transformation to contemporary performance men’s golf wear collection for Spring 2010.
The Spring 2010 Antigua Women’s Performance collection’s three innovative, opulent product groups are Chic, Elegance and Luxe, Desert Dry Xtra-Lite will be featured in the Luxe collection’s Flourish (poly all-over embossed jersey polo) and Impeccable (poly/spandex jacquard mesh polo) styles. Desert Dry Xtra-Lite fabric will also be used in basic styles such as the Women’s Exceed group, which consists of a short-sleeve polo, and sleeveless and long-sleeve polo styles.
Antigua Company Background:
Antigua designs, produces and supplies product for corporate America and specialty retail managed under its corporate division. Its golf division also holds license agreements with the PGA TOUR, LPGA and the PGA of America.
For more information contact Mary Beth Lacy at:
Email: mb@mblacy.com
Phone: (760) 346-6942
Desert Willow Golf Resort is proud to participate in the 3rd Annual Patriot Golf Day
Desert Willow Golf Resort  is proud to participate in the
Third Annual Patriot Golf Day
September 4-7 2009
Make your tee time today!Â
Donations will support the families of military service members who have been injured or perished in the line of duty. The third annual Patriot Golf Day is a joint initiative between the PGA of America and the United States Golf Association. Golfers across the country and at Desert Willow have the unique opportunity to donate $1 or more to benefit the Folds of Honor Foundation (FoldsofHonor.org), which provides post-secondary educational scholarships to families of those who have become disabled or lost their lives in the line of duty. Desert Willow would ask all players to donate at least $1 per player from September 4-7, 2009. Desert Willow will also be offering 50% off our posted golf rates for all Active Military, Firefighters and Police Officers.Â
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Mountain View Renovation Update
The Mountain View Renovation is on schedule and will re-open on Friday October 30, 2009.
Call or e-mail today for more information. 760-471-6023 or team@showtimegolf.com
Why We Play The Game!
It’s the way the first tee feels, alive with possibility.
It’s that feeling, out of nowhere, that comes as you’re lining up a putt,
letting you know that all you have to do is get the ball rolling and the
hole will get in the way.
It’s the thump of a well-played bunker shot.
It’s nine holes late in the day, when the sun is sinking and the shadows
are stretching, showing every bump and roll in a golden light that makes
you stop and look around.
It’s calling your shot and pulling it off.
It’s the eleventh hole at Preston Trail, the tenth at Whisper Rock
and the seventeenth at Wade Hampton , paintings with a flagstick in the middle.
It’s your Saturday morning game, with a little money on the line and no
haggling about the teams.
It’s the guys who look like they can’t play a lick then spend their days
around par, not needing swing coaches, just having a knack for getting
the ball in the hole.
It’s calling your own penalties.
It’s a kid with his bag slung over his shoulder, cap pulled low, hoofing
it down a fairway.
It’s nipping a wedge just right, having it bounce once and cozy up to
the hole the way Sergio does it.
It’s a bowl of peanuts and a cold beer at the end of the day, when
stories can be embellished, if only a little.
It’s the warm feel of a turtleneck in December, the first greening of
the grass in March, the thrill of hitting it a club longer in July and
greens as fast as the kitchen floor in October.
It’s the suntan marks left by your golf socks and shoes.
It’s Harbour Town in April, Quail Hollow in May and Pinehurst any time.
It’s having the sun behind you and catching a tee shot square, having a
moment to admire it as it’s framed against the sky.
It’s the small but sudden thrill of finding a new Titleist, even if you
already have a bagful.
It’s the clutch in your throat the first time you see St. Andrews and
the never-ending thrill of Amen Corner.
It’s the belief that the magic you’ve found in a new driver will
last forever.
It’s the scent of salt air, the faint taste of pine pollen on your lips
and the glimpse of a gator in a low country lagoon.
It’s standing over a 5-footer that doesn’t matter to anyone but you and
being thankful for the feeling.
It’s Tiger on the tee, Mickelson with a wedge in his hand, Nicklaus on
the property.
It’s the little places with pickups in the parking lot, ragged
grass, bumpy greens, worn-out golf carts, yellow range balls and a
spirit all their own.
It’s the way you practice your swing in the elevator riding down, the
way you put an overlapping grip on the rake and the way you see golf holes
where others just see fields along the highway.
It’s the way tournament golf feels, even if it’s just a little club event.
It’s the feel of new grips and the shine of new irons.
It’s playing with your father, your mother, your brother, or your daughter.
It’s listening to David Feherty, Johnny Miller and Nick Faldo explain
the game as only they can.
It’s the gentle creak of aging muscles in the evening, a good tired.
It’s a birdie at the 18th to win the press.
It’s having people who understand what’s important, whether
it’s renovating a course or reinventing a local tournament.
It’s going for a par-5 in two, trying to cut a corner and that
instant when you wonder if the shot is as good as it looks.
It’s golf.
And it’s why we play.
Article provided by William Buzz Gill, PGA
(Retired Palm Spring golf professional of 37 years)Â
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(Tell us why YOU play the game and we’ll take $5 off per person)
To book your next tee time in Palm Springs CLICK HERE!
(Tell us why YOU play the game and we’ll take $5 off per person)
5 Golf Book Titles To Celebrate
I have no awareness of why I have torn through five different golfing books in the past month. There have been no injuries, no layoffs from work, no two-week vacations on tropical islands with nothing to do. Simply put, in the time that presented itself, I became a voracious reader. Without delay, here are five worthwhile golfing books that you can pick up in a local new , used or online book store.
THE RUB OF THE GREEN (1988) You’ll have to find this one on abebooks.com or some other used book seller. Long out of print (the second printing was 1989), it shouldn’t be. The initial offering from William Hallberg, RUB tells the story of Ted Kendall, an Ohioan who absorbs his mother’s death and deflects his father’s inequities to earn a college golfing scholarship and PGA Tour card. He also earns an 18-month stay in prison. Hallberg tells parallel tales of Kendall’s prison and golfing lives. Suffice it to say that a life-changing event takes place within prison confines and that the two stories ultimately merge in a complex way. Hallberg has a wide vocabulary that enables him to not sound pedantic, ever. Reading this book is an easy undertaking, even with a few unfortunate holes along the way. The most glaring is, how did Ted Kendall become an agronomy expert? Other than that, a great volume.
GOLFING WITH GOD (2007) Roland Merullo spins an other-worldly tale about a mission assigned to a dead club professional by none other than the creator ownself. Fairly contented in his cloud-side condo and challenging celestial country club, Hank Winston is shaken from his doldrums by an assignment: help God recover her/his game. Merullo seems unsure of certain fictional elements, such as how to handle platonic/sexual love between God and Winston. After all, the Christion god invites all to love her/him. The hints at sexuality between the two figures are awkward, adolescent, and either misguided or unneeded. Unlike Hallberg above, who describes two specific scenes of sexual encounter with expertise and confidence, Merullo embarks on certain tangents for which he lacks the confidence necessary to conclude. In spite of these flaws, the basic story is an unexpected and interesting one, and is also worth the investment of time and cash.
MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN (2006) Bob Mitchell must be a professor at some New England college or university. He imbues his protagonist, a professor of comparative literature, with all the characteristics of his own world, circles and life. There can be no doubt that writing in the voice of a completely different self is unnerving and demanding beyond all comprehension. Nevertheless, it is the mark of a great writer and great writing. Would that we might have such a taken risk here. MATCH is the story of a dying man given the opportunity to play a match against God for his life. On the first tee, instead of facing the Almighty, Elliott Goodman (really? couldn’t do any better than Goodman?) faces off against an unforeseen foe that is anyone but God. The Almighty sends emmisaries, famous figures of history, to combat Goodman. The novel employs a didactic technique to teach Elliott and the reader a series of life lessons. It never descends into preachy, superior tones. As one might guess, the selection of influential historical figures is limited to 18 (for the number of holes in the match) and could easily have excluded some and included others. Somewhat controversial and certainly readable.
JENKINS AT THE MAJORS (2009)Â Please take a moment to read the following series of quotes:
“It’s entirely possible that Dr. Cary Middlecoff gave up dentistry becuase people couldn’t hold their mouths open that long.â€
“And now hes was the PGA Tour’s first player to draw an indefinite suspension for using too many Elizabethan words in front of innocent listeners.â€
“Finally, on Sunday morning, the USGA felt compelled to make a citizen’s arrest of Bobby Clampett, a fine amateur, for conduct considered ‘demeaning’ to the Open.â€
“Pate had said to Ben, ‘Gentle, you’re my pick tomorrow. I believe you can rope-a-dope that old hook yours right into victory lane.’ It was noted by a listener that Jerry had put three different sports into one sentence, proving he’d gone to the University of Alabama.â€
“It was a wondrous moment in golf. Harry Vardon was inventing the grip again. Arnold Palmer was hitching up his trowsers again. Bobby Jones was impregnably quadrilateraling again.â€
I have at least six more pages marked for similar ejaculations but, really, can anyone…does anyone write this way, anymore? Does Dan Jenkins even write this way, anymore? No, of course not. Read this volume chronicalling and recapping 50 years of his covering golf’s majors and you will visit the bygone days of a bygone writer of immeasurable and unequalled comedic brilliance.
A DISORDERLY COMPENDIUM OF GOLF (2006) In the days of B.I. (Before Internet), you had to travel to Toronto to read Lorne Rubenstein’s thoughts on golf. Now, you can visit The Globe and Mail’s website and read his work any of seven days each week. It might not be something new, but it will be his own. For some unknown reason, Rubenstein and co-editor Jeff Neuman took it upon themselves to abandon their wives and write a misguided encyclopedia on the happenings of golf. The thing is a beast and can be read in so many directions that it feels like a work of magical realism by some over-tall Argentine writer named Cortazar. This is not a bad thing. On one page, you’re reading about Harry “Beer Bottle†Bradshaw and WHAMMY, on you go to 1899 Rules of Etiquette, Golf’s Myths Exposed and (say her name three times fast) Jenny Chuasiriporn. The COMPENDIUM is the perfect bar room tome for settling bets, creating dares, and challenging curmudgeons. If you have only one golf reference work on your book shelf (you should purchase many, but far be it from me to tell you what to do), this one is my winner.
Mo’ Golf
Brief Bio-Mo’ Golf is a very experienced golf travel writer having written for some of the leading golf publications. He is also the man behind Buffalo Golf, a great site dedicated to golf in the greater Buffalo Area.
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