Hybrid Clubs

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Travelling Golfer pointed out an article from Pub Links Golfer Magazine Online about hybrids. In today’s market, the hybrid clubs are quickly becoming a popular part of most golf club sets. Last year I replaced 3 of my long irons with hybrids and experienced great results. You’ll want to read the article for the full info, but here are a few highlights…

Historically, long irons have been the most difficult clubs to hit for both recreational golfers and touring professionals.

Hybrid clubs make the game so much easier and enjoyable that it’s amazing to consider they barely existed only a few years ago.

Today’s new-look hybrids account for close to 20 percent of the total metal wood market. As the category grows, so do the options in terms of performance, head styling, loft and trajectory. Hybrids give golfers the ability to dial in long-game distances and ball flights much like wedges do for our short game.

“Hands On” Play Testing – 2005 Hybrids

Watch Your Cart

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I just went to purchase ER – The Complete Fourth Season from Amazon and made it all the way to the final step of checkout before realizing my total was over $1,500! My first thought was “That’s an expensive DVD.” Then I realized I still had an Apple iMac G5 in the shopping cart from a week ago. Kind of a neat little trick on Amazon’s part, but not very customer friendly if you ask me. A few clicks later the item was removed and my total price was normal again, but I would not have been a happy camper to find a new computer delivered to my doorstep (unless it was free).

Self Improvement

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I’ve written about being satisfied before and some of my recent posts have hinted at at the fact that I’m not satisfied with myself. In the last couple of weeks I’ve started more changes in my life than at any other time. I’ve attempted to make similar self improvements before and always ended up reverting to my old ways. This time is much different. I’m 100% committed this time around and I’m feeling great.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

–Tolstoy

If we aren’t happy with life we have no one to blame but ourselves. There comes a point when you realise this and make the necessary changes. Self improvement can be one of the most gratifying feelings in the world. Step back and look at your self in the mirror. What are you disappointed with? What can you change? How are you going to change it?

My changes:

  • Exercise on a daily basis.
  • Eat healthier.
  • Drink more water.
  • Take better care of my teeth by brushing more often (with a great Oral-B Triumph toothbrush), using mouthwash, and buying products that contain Xylitol.
  • Made an appointment with a doctor to talk about my sleeping problems.
  • Moved to a safer part of town which also means a shorter drive to work and area stores.

What are you going to do?

Catch the Golf Fever

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It seems like every year around February I start to get a case of golf fever. Thanks to our lovely Michigan weather, my last round of golf was on September 17th, which is almost 5 months ago. It seems like an eternity now that I count up the months.

The PGA Tour gets back into the swing of things in late January and early February, which means we have golf on TV again. There’s something about seeing the pros smoke long drives and sink putts that gets the juices flowing again. The Hooked on Golf Blog is running a fantasy golf league with some great prizes donated by sponsors so this has helped to give me a bit of the itch as well.

Fantasy Golf League

I haven’t even touched a golf club since that last round in September, unless you count the club I have sitting at the desk in my office. A new golf center just opened in the area and it has a heated outdoor driving range, so I’m pretty excited to give it a try. My goal is to have the rust knocked off my game for the start of the Michigan golf season by hitting a bucket of golf balls every week or two.

Get Fit

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Two weeks ago my weight topped out at 197 pounds. Right then I knew it was time for some changes. I’d hit 195 before, but for some reason the 7 on the end affected me a lot more. It’s only 3 pounds away from 200, which I never hope to hit, even in my later years. I sure as hell didn’t want to hit 200 at 26!

I bought a Pro-Form Elliptical 130 XP last week as a first step. A great feature of the machine is it can be hooked up to a computer and linked up to an account on ifit.com. Right now I’m testing out the trial membership which allowed me to enter some information and I was given a workout program. With the elliptical connected to my computer the resistance is controlled by an audio cable and I get workout routines that are built to my fitness level. I’ve only used it twice so far, but I really like it.

I’ve also tried out some yoga and pilates routines that I downloaded found on the Internet. For those that don’t know, both are workouts that focus a lot on breathing. From my limited knowledge, yoga focuses more on holding a stretching motion, while pilates incorporates more movement into the stretching. Both are very relaxing and can be done anywhere.

Everyone knows excercise by itself won’t do everything, so I’m also attempting to eat a little healthier. My goal is to get down to 180 pounds where I should be. I figure I should be able to do this by the end of March at the latest. I also want to feel better about the state of my body and gain more energy.

Wish me luck!

Super Sunday

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More like shitty as far as the Super Bowl went. I didn’t see the National Anthem, but I heard it from the other room and I swear my ears started to bleed. The refs continued their string of horrible calls in the 2006 playoffs by screwing Seattle out of a touchdown that anyone could see was not offensive pass interference. The game itself was rather boring I thought except for the WR to WR TD pass. The Rolling Stones have made some good music in their time, but there also comes a time when you have to hang ’em up. Watching 60+ year-old men dancing around on stage is not my idea of entertainment. It’s a miracle one of them didn’t break a hip.

We had a few people over to our new place and it was a good time. Little Caesar’s $3.33 medium pepperoni pizzas were the choice food and a few beers were killed to go along with it.

Super Bowl Weekend

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I played a little poker over the weekend. I also played a little poker about as bad as I could.

Before the Super Bowl we ran a couple of mini $5 tournaments. In the first tournament I was the first one out of 4 people. It only took two hands. The second time around I was second to go out of 5 people. Never bluff a calling station.

Later after the game… By the way, that had to be one of the worst all-around Super Bowls I can remember. The national anthem sucked, the refs sucked for the millionth time in this year’s playoffs, the half-time show sucked, and the game was rather boring. So later that night I fired up Party Poker and saw the Bad Beat Jackpot was over $250,000. Might as well play for a couple of hours. I donked off somewhere between $100 and $200. The next morning I woke up and the BBJ still hadn’t hit so I said why not and played again. There went another $250 or so.

My poker game isn’t running well at all this year. It might be time to switch it up and learn Omaha 8/b for a change of pace.