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(a) Tiger makes a comeback. He realizes that he is in fact left handed, switches to lefty clubs and then wins all 4 majors using only a 6 iron.
(b) Tiger takes the year off for further rehab. Televised golf becomes a thing of the past. Ladies volleyball takes all new sponsorship.

I’d say that neither of your scenarios has a high probablility of becoming reality

i am left handed and always hit slices (left) and was thing that the slogan for r7 is say goodbye to the right side of the golf course" but i dont want that is that slogan for just right handed golfers or does this club just always go left no matter what hand u are? will it help me fix my slice?

I never liked the idea that the club-makers produced clubs to make the ball draw. It MIGHT help eliminate your slice, BUT I’d say work on the swing to eliminate the slice instead of buying a club set that will make the ball draw. Try coming out with a more shallow take away and set up the ball more towards the back of your stance. Also a lot of the time people slice is b/c they setup away from their target line. if you’re setup too open, you’ll be forced to come across your body and promote a slice. You can also try a stronger grip (turning your left hand in this case more over the top to make sure the "v" your thumb and index finger makes points upwards parallel with the V your right hand makes. But to answer the question, the draw clubs MIGHT work. I spoke to 1 of my friends that work at a manufacturer and he claims they only help so much. If it’s a CRAZY slice, then it won’t really do anything. It’s more in the swing.

Four guys who worked together always golfed as a group at 7:00 a.m. on Sunday. Unfortunately, one of them got transferred
out of town and they were talking about trying to fill out the foursome.

A woman standing near the tee said, "Hey, I like to golf, can I join the group?" They were hesitant, but said she could come once to try it and they could see what they thought.

They all agreed and she said, "Good, I’ll be there at 6:30 or 6:45." She showed up right at 6:30, and wound up setting a course record with a 7-under par round. The guys went nuts and everyone in the clubhouse congratulated her.

Meanwhile, she was fun and pleasant the entire round. The guys happily invited her back the next week and she said, "Sure, I’ll be here at 6:30 or 6:45."

Again, she showed up at 6:30 Sunday morning. Only this time, she played left-handed, and matched her 7-under par score of the previous week. By now the guys were totally amazed, and they asked her to join the group for keeps. They had a beer after their round, and one of the guys asked her, "How do you decide if you’re going to golf right-handed or left-handed?"

She said, "That’s easy. Before I leave for the golf course, I pull the covers off my husband, who sleeps in the nude.
If his member is pointing to the right, I golf right-handed; if it’s pointed to the left, golf left-handed."

One of the guys asked, "What if it’s pointed straight up?"

She said, "Then I’ll be here at 6:45."

a long but very good one

you really put an effort today posting all the jokes

^_^ thanks for the laughs

My right foot. Don’t we all?

With cold and clammy hands, Redthawn opened the door to the room. She let the tears that filled her eyes flow down her thin, pale face.
“Hello?” she squeaked. Redthawn was a shy and very cautious person by nature. Growing up in one of the most crime-ridden places in the world had showed her that theres always some one in the corner, waiting, looming for you.
“Come in!” a bright and happy voice sounded. The voice belonged to a man, Redthawn realised with shock.
This was Ms Beedly’s room, what on earth was a man doing in here?
“Urh, its Redthawn? Is Ms Beedly there?” Redthawn squeaked again.
“Oh yes, dear. I am here” Ms Beedly chimed.
“May I come in, Ms Beedly?”
“Of course you may darling!” Ms Beedly laughed.
Redthawn then opened the door wide
There was Ms Beedly, sitting on one of her chairs with a tall, muscular man standing besides her. The man looked, suspicious to say the least, with is dark and mysterious smile and large briefcase.
Redthawn ran to Ms Beedly and hugged her as tight as she could. To Redthawn, Ms Beedly was like a mother, some one she never knew.
“Whatever is the matter, Redthaw? What happened?” he asked when she felt the tears on her shoulder.
“Something happened, Ms Beedly…like yesterday, only…only…” Redthawn sniffed, trying to find the right word.
“Hush my darling, it will be okay,” Ms Beedly comforted her.
The strange man coughed.
Ms Beedly then whispered into Redthawns ear, “Tell me after Mr Callaway has left, alright?”
Redthawn nodded weakly. Her small hands trembled with pure shock, her breathing was quick and deep and she tried to clear her head of what happened.
Redthawn was playing in the garden when she suddenly felt angry, a deep and unyielding rage that filled her with hatred. She threw away her soccer ball and ran into the deep, thick forest that was behind her home. With a burst of energy, she raced through the brown and green trees and then stopped. She found herself next to the waterfall. Then, with out a single though in her head, she scooped up the clear, fresh water and threw it in the air. Not to her amazement, it stayed suspended in the air, a perfect ball of liquid in front of her ice-blue eyes. She then aimed the ball of water at an eagle in a nearby tree and shot it at the poor creature. The eagle had not seen this coming and was hit by the water. As Redthawn expected, it didn’t do much, aside from wetting the bird a bit.
She woke up from her rage and ran straight home to tell Ms Beedly. This wasn’t the first time this sort of thing had happened. No, not at all, it had been happening since the day of Redthawns birth. And it was not only water she could move, Redthawn could move fire as well. The ‘moving’ was the reason why Redthawn had no parents…

This is exremly raw, like only a few minutes old so excuse the bad grammar, spelling mistake ect…
oh my god…i just realised how bad this is… o.O

It was kinda interesting…until the end where you lost me with the eagle and the soccer ball and he waterfall.
lol

Why is it that all major golf bag manufacturers ignorantly assume that ALL golfers carry their clubs (while walking a golf course) with the clubs over their right shoulder…and thus, only have padding on the left side (depending on what view/angle you’re looking at the bag of course) of the bag?

As someone who has been playing golf for damn near 20 years, I’ve suffered having to carry my golf bag with the padding on the wrong side of the bag (I’m right handed, but I prefer to carry my golf bag w/the club heads behind my left shoulder!) and because of that, my right side from the hip down always hurts around 1/2 way through my round.

And in those few instances where I’ve found a company that makes ‘left hand golf bags’, the bags are of very low quality and aren’t even a left-handed version of their more mainstream right hand bags.

As a lefty, I completely understand. It’s also why you either can’t get certain pieces of equipment- especially forged blades or certain lofts of drivers and fairway woods. Or, you have to wait months for the lefty stuff to arrive… unless the thing you’re waiting for isn’t a good seller, in which case the lefty option gets shelved.

As I’ve been told, it’s all about costs. It isn’t "cost effective" to manufacture everything for lefties. It does make me wonder sometimes, if some (not all, but some) of the stuff that’s made is just frivolous… if it’s so good, why can’t lefties take advantage of it? Don’t we deserve to have our game maximized just the same as the righties?

Here are some links for lefty bags. The first two are made by Sun Mountain- a very reputable brand. It’s across the pond in the UK, though, and I can’t convert $ to # (even if it meant saving my own life) so I don’t know how much it would actually cost you

If you’ve ever tried to correct a slice, you know how hard it is to do it. You’ve probably taken golf lessons. Read golf tips. And consulted trusted friends with low golf handicaps. You’ve tried everything you can think of but nothing’s worked. You still hit a slice. Frustration sets in after awhile and you back off. But you haven’t given up. You’d still want to correct your slice.

The problem here isn’t the sources you’ve consulted. It’s the messages they carry. All too often these sources tell you why you slice, but not how to correct it. While knowing why you slice is nice, it doesn’t help correct it. Nor does it help you cut strokes from your golf handicap. What you need is golf tips on how to correct a slice. Below are six key golf tips on turning your slice into a draw.

Starts At Address

Turning your slice into a draw starts at address. Golfers fighting a slice tend to lean away from the ball. It’s a natural reaction. But it makes your slice worse. At address, your weight should be balanced in every direction. It also should be evenly distributed over both feet and proportionally on the balls and heels of your feet. This position prepares you to make a good golf swing.

Tilt Away From The Target

Also, tilt your shoulders away from the target at address as well. This lowers your back shoulder, which is key. Golfers struggling with a slice tend to invert their shoulders at address. This causes them to swipe down on the ball with a forward shoulder that’s lower than the rear one. Instead, tilt your shoulders away from the target. It helps you hit the ball straighter, higher and farther.

Check your Alignment

Aiming your shoulders left of the target (right, if you’re a lefty) encourages a swing that cuts across the ball from outside to inside. Aiming your shoulders right of the target forces your upper body to over-rotate or even come too much inside during the swing. A good way to align yourself is to aim the clubface at the target, draw an imaginary line from the target to the clubface, and position your shoulders parallel to the line.

Flatten The Wrists

It’s critical that your left wrist (right for southpaws) remain flat at the top of the backswing, which avoids rotating the clubface too far open. With a flat left wrist, the clubface remains square or closed at the top of the swing. In this position, the back of your gloved hand is flat with your forearm and both hands above the back shoulder at the top. This position prevents the ball from veering off right (or left) at impact.
 
Move Inside Out

To draw the ball, your swing must move inside out. Thus, you must swing below your shoulders. If your hands get above your shoulders or out in front of them, you’ll come over the top and hit either a double-crossed hook or a big slice. Which you hit depends on whether the clubface is closed or open. Also, you can move your head forward on the downswing. But not so far forward that your head gets out in front of the ball. Keep your head behind the ball.

Rotate Your Arms

If you’re a slicer, you probably don’t rotate your hands properly on the downswing. The way to square a clubface at impact is to continually close it through the downswing. If you stop closing the clubface and start sliding, the face will open and you’ll slice more. As you make the backswing, concentrate on rolling your clubface open. Then, as begin your downswing, roll your hands over and straight out in front of you as they cross your sternum.

Extend Your Arms

Extending your arms after impact closes the clubface and prevents a slice-inducing swing at impact. Extending the arms also encourages the rest of the body to continue turning—a necessary ingredient to hitting a draw. After impact, the ungloved hand should be on top of the gloved hand. Remind yourself to extend your arms during your swing.

Turning a slice into a draw isn’t easy. It won’t come in a day. It takes practice and hard work to do it. But if you follow the golf tips explained above, you can turn your slice into a draw. That in turn will increase your distance and accuracy off the tee and help you trim that golf handicap down to size.

Jack Moorehouse
http://www.articlesbase.com/golf-articles/turning-your-slice-into-a-draw-now-1012257.html

You hear it all the time: The quickest way to lower your golf score is to practice and improve your putting. Putting is a great way to learn how to play golf. Any golfer can obtain success very quickly and enjoy the great game of golf by learning how to putt better. As you watch the golfers on the PGA, Senior or the LPGA tour, you will see that golf putting is very individual process. However, three things happen during impact in every good putting stroke.

The good news is that golf ball position, weight towards the golf hole and positioning your hands ahead of the golf ball as you address the golf ball are three things can be set prior to making your putting stroke. Let’s talk about this:

First, as you address the golf ball, the golf ball should be positioned equal to where the logo would be positioned on your left chest for a right handed golfer and positioned on your right chest for a left handed golfer. With this is forward golf ball position, the putter will not be descending but ascending through impact and the golf ball.

The golf ball will be placed forward of the bottom of your swing arc. Also, your arms should hang freely and hang straight down and not out. In addition, you should be able to take your address position and drop a golf ball from in-between your eyes. This ball should drop and hit the ball on the ground.

Second, simply set up with sixty to seventy percent (again it is individual) of your weight on your left foot for right handed golfers or on your right foot for left handed golfers. When you make your putting stroke, your weight will not shift. It will stay in the same place. Again, setting your weight forward will make sure that the putt will be hit while you are in balance and you do not have has many moving parts.

Now to finish your golf set up, as you look down at the golf ball, move your hands so they are just forward of the golf ball. As you make your putting stroke, your hands will return to this same position at impact and then through to your finish position. With your hands ahead of the ball at impact, the momentum of your putter is more likely to be moving forward towards the hole. In English this means your ball will be starting on the target line more often than not.

Now it is time to go to the putting green to practice. Just as a pilot would before a flight, use these three steps in a pre-shot checklist. Golf ball position, Check. Weight towards the target, Check. Hands in front of the ball, Check. Now make you better putting stroke! If you still have questions about your putting stroke or your short game, go and get a putting lesson from your local PGA Professional.

Max Johnson
http://www.articlesbase.com/golf-articles/putting-set-up-to-make-more-putts-462882.html

So what is it about Le Mans that makes it one of the most popular races for the lovers of fast cars?

Sure, the challenge of putting together a car which can survive a grueling 24 hours on the track plus a team that has the ability to maintain the pace for a full day and night of racing has something to do with it; but Le Mans has also been instrumental in the history of racing and in car design all together.

The Le Mans race was the birthplace of what has become a tradition of race winners ever since; popping the cork of a very expensive bottle of champagne and spraying the contents over your fellow competitors and anyone who might be standing in the way. More than 40 years ago in 1967, Dan Gurney who won the race with fellow team member A. J. Foyt, shook the magnum bottle of champagne handed to him in a moment of euphoria and sprayed the contents over the crowd in front which included Ford CEO Henry Ford II, team manager Carroll Shelby and a number of journalists. Observers have since then had stand well clear of spraying distance, as the crazy act soon became a tradition.

The rules, challenges and difficulties of Le Mans have been the reason for a number of technological advancements. For those lucky enough to have driven man’s ultimate motorized invention, a Porsche, you might wonder why the ignition switch in these vehicles is always located on the left hand side. This development was made in order to get off to a quick start at Le Mans because it allowed the driver to turn on the engine with the left hand while putting it into gear with the right.

Being quick to turn on the engine used to be extremely important in Le Mans racing; for many years, the traditional start saw racers line up and then sprint to the cars. This start technique was fraught with problems, most of them safety related. In the rush to get out of the blocks, many drivers would start up and drive off before they were properly buckled into their seats. Although the Le Mans start has now been replaced with the rolling or “Indianapolis” starts, Porsche has kept the ignition switch on the left hand side, great for anyone who needs a quick getaway.

Other advances to come out of Le Mans include super charging (1929) and turbo charging (1974), disk brakes (introduced by Jaguar in 1953) and air brakes in 1955 (by Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR).

To know more about Rohan Skea and Le Mans Race, please visit the site http://www.skearacing.com

Bob Smith
http://www.articlesbase.com/extreme-sports-articles/rohan-skea-about-le-mans-race-611262.html

Retirement.  Florida.  Golf.  Boredom.  What do these terms have in common?  Not much, according to a mountain of recent studies of the lifestyles and demographics of aging baby-boomers.  Today’s “empty-nesters” are a more diverse group then ever before, taking advantage of their newly found free time and discretionary income.  They’re changing the way we think about the second half of life, living out their dreams and fulfilling life goals.

The notion that life after the children leave necessarily means loneliness and boredom has been swept away.  That myth, it seems, grew from 1960s research on women being treated for depression, according to My Turn, a 1997 book by author Patricia Gottlieb Shapiro.  Shapiro researched the lives of 45 women whose children had “left the nest” and discovered that most felt a sense of relief and freedom.  Other scientific studies have found similar results.

Nearly one-third of America’s population (75 million people) are considered “maturing baby-boomers”, a very large and relatively affluent group that is looking for much more from the “after-family” years than rocking chairs and meals-on-wheels.

Sales Of Bermuda Shorts Plummet

You’ve got to look harder to find empty nesters these days because they’re not living where you’d expect them.  BUILDER Magazine (www.builderonline.com) commissioned research in early 2000 to study the housing goals, preferences, and priorities of people aged 45 and older and came up with some eye-opening results.

“Mature Buyers” (the home-building industry’s term) it seems, aren’t planning to flock to the Sunbelt in droves.  While climate is still an important consideration in choosing an after-family home, it ranks below proximity to family and friends.  Only one-third of respondents planning to move in the next five years will head for another region of the country; of the remaining local movers, one-half won’t go farther than 25 miles from their current homes.

What, No Shuffleboard?

Mom and Dad aren’t much interested in living with folks their own age, either.  Only 18% of the future movers in the BUILDER survey say they plan to move into “age-qualified” communities, where a minimum age is required for admission.  Instead, they’d rather be around people of all ages, especially children, and away from “old folks”.  That’s understandable – we’re talking about a younger, healthier, wealthier, more mobile group.  They’re determined to remain independent for as long as possible.  And medical research validates their lifestyle choices – activity has a direct impact on long-term health.

For the increasingly smaller (though still very large) group choosing golf-course communities in the Southwest and Southeast, outdoor activities are easy to come by year-round.  The group staying closer to home, however, works a little harder to find the kind of mentally and physically stimulating avocations they demand.  They’re finding that tonic in community activities, volunteer work, and startup businesses.

The growth of the “aging-in-place” group demands that the design professions closely scrutinize the effects of an aging population on the design of after-family homes.  There are two general categories of home environment to consider – the newly built home for the group intending to move and the existing home to be remodeled for changing uses.

Wanted: Smaller (and better) Nest

OK, you’re living in a 4-bedroom 2-story colonial home in the Midwestern United States, and the kids have (finally!) graduated college.  You’ve probably figured out by now that you’ve got about two bedrooms too many.  There are ten years left on the mortgage, and the cost of heating the big family home has gone way up.  Your life has suddenly changed, shouldn’t your home?

For many in this situation, this is a chance to upgrade to a higher quality (but smaller) low-maintenance house.  And many after-family couples have the money to do it.  A survey by Kemper Funds reveals that almost 6 in 10 affluent empty nesters (incomes over $50,000 per year) have at least $5000 a year in additional spending money once they’ve written their last tuition check.  A smaller group finds themselves with $10,000 or more.

While some folks are indeed using the post-tuition windfall to build or buy new, a growing number are staying put – they like where they live and intend to stay there as long as they’re able.

Second Life For The Family Home

The transition from family home to after-family home is easier in some existing houses than in others.  At my residential architectural practice, we often design new homes that are to varying degrees prepared for changes in the occupant’s lifestyle.  A recent project for a young family includes closet space that can be converted for a future elevator, should the need arise.  But even in homes where the lifestyles of future empty nesters haven’t been considered there are numerous changes that can make it easier to continue living comfortably for many years.

While some of the more dramatic changes fall into the remodeling category and involve large areas of the house, many modifications are small and isolated to specific rooms.

Moving Downstairs

But let’s get the big changes out of the way first.  Can the house be adapted to one-level living?  This is often the first consideration of after-family couples.  Trudging up and down 15 or 16 steps several times a day doesn’t sound much like leisure living.  Often a study or living room can be easily converted to a first floor bedroom, or perhaps the after-tuition windfall is enough to allow the addition of a complete first-floor master suite.

Since privacy from the children is now a moot point, removing a few doors can make circulation through the house easier and make better use of the entire level for everyday living.

Simple Steps to Ease Everyday Life

The homeowners, with little more than simple hand tools, can often make smaller changes themselves.  Doorknobs, for example, can be replaced with simpler-to-operate lever handles.  Luminous light switches can be installed in bedrooms, baths, and hallways.  Matte finish paint, flooring, and countertops reduce glare.  And a programmable thermostat need only be set once – even those of us with good vision have trouble with those tiny levers and numbers!

Bathrooms are usually relatively tight spaces for adults of all ages but a number of small changes can make big improvements.  A seat in the shower helps decrease bending over to wash; grab bars on the shower walls make using the shower safer; and an anti-scald shower valve has obvious benefits.

Higher countertops, lever faucets, and a phone jack can also help keep the bath functional and safe later in life.

Now We’re Cooking

Everyone has experienced the transformation of the kitchen from utility to social space as our home lives have become less formal.  We eat, cook, relax, and entertain here – it’s the center of the house.  Nowhere in the house is it more important to adapt space to changing needs and again, small modifications can make all the difference.

Most kitchen improvements are designed to reduce the need to bend at the waist and eliminate reaching over obstacles.  A side-by-side refrigerator, for example, is much easier to use than a model that requires reaching deep into a bottom freezer.  Pull-out shelves in the lower cabinets and adjustable shelves in the upper cabinets have a similar positive effect.

The kitchen is an obstacle course, really – full of tools and appliances that sometimes seem poorly designed for adults of any age.  Decorative cabinet knobs and pulls, while pretty, can be difficult to grasp.  They’re quickly replaced, however, with hardware designed for ease of use.  And here’s something that works for everyone once the kids have grown – a cooktop with front-mounted controls.

Just Like Home

As more and more empty nesters choose to stay in their existing homes, they’re finding a fulfilling life in familiar surroundings.  It’s a positive trend that should be reinforced by designing new homes with the flexibility to accommodate changing families.  And many existing homes are easily remodeled to keep the new empty nesters close to the diversity of life experience and the exposure to people of all ages that many of them prefer.

But hey, that doesn’t mean you can’t visit the Sunshine State once in a while.  Don’t forget your golf clubs.

Richard Taylor, AIA
http://www.articlesbase.com/home-improvement-articles/empty-nesters-a-more-diverse-group-than-ever-669082.html