Golf Lessons at La Mirada GC

Back to the Fundamentals today!

Proper Grip
Correct Stance
Addressing the Ball
Correct backswing

Driving Range tonight - Sept 29th

New Signage ... Boba Coming soon!


Driving Range Lower Deck


Driving Range Upper Deck

Anahiem Dad Miller Golf Course tonight

DB's Tee shot: Video Link

Tonight had to be the worst golfing outing I've ever had! We started late, had a really slow person help us and we had to play the back 9 holes. Then I had a weird accident, on the first hole - I nailed my friend with a ricocheting golf ball (from driving range netting pole) in the arm! Thank God, I missed his elbow and face ... he had a welt / goose egg the size of a golf ball! He left the course to seek medical attention. Needless to say, my heart wasn't into golf the rest of the evening. Morbidly, I wish I had taken a picture of the golf ball size welt! It was huge!!!

10th hole near the driving range

Sunset over Dad Miller's GC

It was a terrible round of golf (actually only 5 or 6 holes) ... I guess I wasn't into it after Eugene got hurt.

dinner afterwards at Portillo's Hotdog

busy busy restaurant

A cold one to drown my sadness

-DB-

Driving Range tonight

I'm so ready to play again!! Dang! I hate being sick!


I took half the day off from work today and went home to rest. I ended going to my favorite driving range after dinner tonight.



Wow! I was surprised when I saw new signage at Golfer's Paradise about the Coffee & Boba that they were going to start offering. Eric, one of the employees there mentioned that the owners of the driving range were trying to get a wine and beer license too! How cool is that!


I spent most of my range time working on my pitching and chipping ('cause I really suck in that area) .... I actually got more consistance with my chip shots tonight with my SW, PW and 9 Iron. Hit a few good shots with my woods and driver too. I went and practiced my putting for about 20 minutes too before I headed home.

It was a good sesson.


-DB-

Brea GC Redux

Brea Revisited September 24, 2006

Tee Time: 7:30
Players: Wai, Gerald, DB

Hole #1 (145 yds Par 3)
Started short, lost 2nd ball in hill, dropped / penalty stroke, 1 putt
(7/1)

Hole #2 (167 yds Par 3)
Drive over drain channel
(6/1)

Hole #3 (325 yds Par 4)
215 yard tee shot
(6/3)

Hole #4 (155 yrds Par 3)
Tee’d with 5W, too much carry into bush, take 2nd Tee shot into palm tree, found underneath.
(7/2)

Hole #5 (335 yds Par 4)
1st Tee shot, hook left into drain channel / 2nd Tee shot slice right into bushes.
Take a penalty drop stroke near 1st shot entry into hazard, 5W to right of greens, chip on green , 2 putted.
(6/2)

Hole#6 (203 yds Par 3)
Drive over drain channel with range ball to within a foot from green w/ 3W.
(4/2)

Hole #7 (147 yds Par 3)
Tee shot short (6 iron?) Hilly Greens
(5/2)

Hole #8 (127yrds Par 3)
1st Tee shot (sliced into drain Channel). 2nd Tee shot over hill and over drain channel onto greens about 2 ½ foot behind pin. 3 putted!
(4/3)

Hole #9 (129 yds Par 3)
7 iron sliced wide right; follow up 2nd shot, chipped bounced off green and off into rough.
(6/2)

Total score 51/18 putt

Golf Lesson at La Mirada Golf Course

La Mirada driving range lower deck

I'm taking a new golf class this morning for the next four weeks. I went out to the La Mirada Golf Course last night to check out the driving range (it was only the 2nd time I've been there) and to hit some balls. It was so embarassing that I playing from a higher priced grass area when I only got the cheapie bucket of balls (atleast the guy running the place was pretty nice about it and had even given me a free sleeve of Nike balls when I got my range card).

Yeah, it felt weird being at a new driving range but I'm sure I'll get used to it. I only hit 64 balls last night. The range ball are more expensive here than at Golfer's Paradise. It cost $20 for 222 balls. It's 150 balls for $8 over at GP.

** Update **

Well, I went to the GC course early and looked and looked for my instructor (described as a big man in a pink shirt). When I finally found him, 15 minutes after the class was to have start; he looked disappointed since I was the only one to show up. The instructor, JM reminded me of "John Wayne" kinda of a big barrel chest guy (in a pink golf shirt). Anyways, he wasn't going to proceed without more people so he invited me to join his 9am beginner's class next week and he'll just take me aside for my intermediate lessons for the next four weeks. Atleast I got my $20 range card and my $6 range card for the day. I got to hit 67 plus 6 balls on the practice range this morning. Pretty good iron shots, so so with my 3 & 5 woods but I got in some pretty good driver action. I guess I'm gonna to have to wait another week for my lessons.

The 2nd day of the Ryder Cup on on right now ... poor Team USA is getting whipped again! Why can't Tiger play with a partner (who happens to be the #3 player of the world)!

11am
-DB-

Twilight golfing at Anahiem Dad Millers GC

Whoa, back on the golf course! I do miss it! Those visits to the driving range just don't cut it. We had a group of six yesterday. It was so fun! I got to use both my new 3wood and 5wood alot (the first six holes were all Par 4's with #8 being 510 yards long)!

Unfortunately, daylight was ending sooner and sooner. It was gettting pretty dark around 6:45 pm. I shot a 58 w/ 23 putt and was able to par'd the last hole after my tee shot landed on the green at about 176 yards (w/ my 5 wood) in near darkness.

I was alittle upset after we finished when I discovered I dropped my driver head cover on the course but the guys in the golf cart behind us had picked it up and returned it to me after I asked them. Rodney gave me an extra one that he had found too.


Yummy pizza at Mamma C's

Some of us had dinner at Mama Cozza's afterwards. It was a good outing!


putting practice before we started

Recap of play – September 21, 2006 at Anahiem’s Dad Miller GC
Tee Time: 5:30
Players: Group 1 (Travis, Jeff, DB), Group 2 (Max, Rodney, Eugene)


Travis joined us for the first time as well as Max

DB’s summary of play:

Hole #1 (Par 4, 326 yds)
Tee shot w/ new 3 wood, carried about 186 yards straight (326-140yds)
Topped 2nd shot with new 5 wood next to bunker, chip on green.
(8/4)

Hole #2 (Par 4, 372 yds)
Tee shot w/ 3W topped it about 10 yards
Follow up w/ 5W fairway shot, carried to 202 yards
(7/2)

Hole #3 (Par 4, 385 yds)
(6/2)

Hole #4 (Par 4, 259 yds)
Tee shot w/ 3W into the sun, hook about 200 yards into hill
Took a provisional drop, and then 5W shot near green and then found 1st ball on hill.
Shot 1st ball thru trees w/ 5W to hit the apron of the green (about 100 yard shot)
(5/2)

Hole #5 (Par 4, 300 yds)
Tee shot w/ 3W topped to the bottom of hill (distracted by cheering HS girls),
Two straight 5W shots onto green in 3 strokes.
Triple putted from uphill position
(6/3)

Hole #6 (Par 4, 429 yds)
Tee shot w/ TaylorMade driver straight, missing dogleg left.
5W shots back to green,
PW way over green into shrubbery behind right of green (lost ball)
Take penalty drop and putted on to green.
(9/3)

Hole #7 (Par 3, 176 yds)
Tee shot w/ 5W (no tee) in front of green
SW chip shot on to green
(6/4)

Hole #8 (Par 5, 510 yds)
Tee shot w/ #1 driver
2 fairway shots with 5W
Errant 9 Iron shot way left of green from right edge of fairway.
Chipped on to green
(8/1)

Hole #9 (Par 3, 172 yds)
Tee shot w/ 5W (no tee) onto green
Par’ed w/ 2 putt.
(3/2)

Two new club / back to the driving range

Well, after two phone calls and two visits to two different Sports Authorities stores; I was able to get store credit on my busted Cleveland 3 wood club during lunch time. The managers at the Cerritos store was nice enough to give me store credit toward a purchase of a new club. The in house golf specialist at SA talked me into getting a Maxfli brand graphite 3 wood to match up with my TaylorMade driver (since Maxfli the ballmaker, is now a division of TaylorMade/Addis Golf). I was so please with the trade in that I went ahead and got a matching 5 wood to go with my replacement 3 wood.

I couldn't wait to get off work to try my new clubs. I had just gone to the driving range on Friday and Sunday (not being able to find anyone to play a round of golf with). So as soon as I got home, I got my clubs and ran off to the range. I had to buy a new range card but's it's an investment.

My practice got off to a slow start since I'm starting to keep track what distances I'm actually hitting at and how well. My new clubs were so so at first but after I got warmed up, I started hitting 200 yarders with both 3 wood and 5 wood. The 5 wood pops some really high loft shots (I think it's a 19 degree loft), pretty impressive!

It was really fun time!

-DB-

Driving range with the guys

golfing newbie, Kong works on his swings


Golf Stud Ed launches some of his own space shots!


Aaah, hitting balls after church ... a great way to unwind!


Winston blasts away!

A Gentlemen's Game

Just saw this tonight ... such a cool coming of age movie with the "Dennis the Menace" kid, Mason Gamble (who was also in "Rushmore").

SYNOPSIS

A golfing phenom, Timmy Price (Mason Gamble from RUSHMORE and DENNIS THE MENACE), has all the tools to become a professional. Realizing this, his father (Dylan Baker) gets Timmy a job as a caddy at the local country club. Timmy's game continues to improve, and his knowledge of the world becomes broader as well through his understanding of the social and economic class system that is well out of balance on this golf course. This moving coming-of-age story returns one CADDYSHACK alumnus to the links with Brian Doyle-Murray starring as the groundskeeper Tomato Face.

Wie to compete with men at European Masters

September 5, 2006

CRANS-SUR-SIERRE, Switzerland (AP) -- Michelle Wie will compete against men for the 10th time in her career when she tees it up at the European Masters.

The 16-year-old American will make her European Tour debut Thursday, playing with Nick Dougherty of England and Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano of Spain. Wie made the cut at an Asian Tour event in May.

"Obviously I want to make the cut and play some good golf," Wie said Tuesday. "But I can only control what I do. So I just want to try my hardest."

Wie is aware that not everybody supports her participation in men's events.

"I'm not expecting 100-percent support every week," Wie said. "But that's the way the world works. There are people that support me and people who don't. I'm not just doing it because of the support I get. I'm doing it for myself and for my own self-esteem."

In the long term, Wie hopes to play in the Ryder Cup someday.

"That would be awesome," she said. "But I think it's totally possible. The players are getting better and stronger and starting to work out a lot more. I hope we can do it."

Wie got an exemption because one of her sponsors, Omega watchmakers, sponsors the tournament. She prepared for Thursday's competition by playing a practice round with Sergio Garcia.

"It was the first time, playing it with Sergio," Wie said. "I'm very honored to be here. It's going to be a fun week."

Wie said she enjoyed playing the Crans-sur-Sierre course, but the greens are tough.

"The greens are very tricky, so I must be very patient and try my best and see what happens," Wie said. "I just want to play some good golf and, especially, have a lot of patience."

Wie made the cut against men at the SK Telecom Open in South Korea, finishing 12 shots off the lead. She withdrew from the John Deere Classic in July because of heat exhaustion.

Garcia believes Wie could make the cut at the European Masters.

"She's got to play well, though," he said. "It's just a matter of getting it going the right way and getting some good momentum on her side. It's not an easy golf course, but she can definitely do it."

Garcia cited one potential problem for Wie.

"If she had a bit of a higher ball flight it would be a little bit easier for her here," he said. "She's definitely quite straight and she knows what she's doing out there. But I would love to see her get the ball flight just a little bit up. I think it would give her a little more control."

Wie doesn't expect to see men playing at women's events.

"I think my perspective on this is that the British Open is not called the men's British Open," Wie said. "It's called the British Open. And so is the PGA, it is called the Professional Golf Association. There is no Men's Professional Golf Association, no Man's Professional Golf Association.

"Whereas our PGA is called the Ladies Professional Golf Association and the British Open is called the Women's British Open. So I think it is very clear."

Updated on Tuesday, Sep 5, 2006 5:49 pm EDT

Tiger beats Vijay to win 5th straight (3 articles)

Before long, it was no contest.

Woods made two eagles in his first seven holes to turn a rally into a rout, matching the best final round of his career with an 8-under 63 to win the Deutsche Bank Championship on Monday and stretch his PGA Tour winning streak to five tournaments.

It was the first time Woods has won five straight times in one season, and his two-shot victory over Vijay Singh gave him seven titles in only 14 tournaments this year, a staggering victory rate of 50 percent.

About the only thing capable of stopping him right now is the schedule.

Woods is taking next week off.

"It's nice when you get on a roll like this where things are just happening," Woods said.

It all happened so quickly on Labor Day, where thousands of fans crammed behind the ropes to witness what was supposed to be a duel between Woods and Singh, who started the final round with a three-shot lead.

Woods hit a towering 6-iron from 210 yards that carried a swamp and plopped down 10 feet away from the hole for eagle on the par-5 second. Then came a tee shot to 15 feet for birdie on the next hole to give him a share of the lead.

"I just had to run him down as fast as possible, try to at least get him by the time the front nine was over," Woods said. "But I was able to do it within three holes."

Two holes later, he raised the putter in his left hand toward the sunny skies as a 25-foot birdie fell to give him the lead. And his best golf was yet to come.

Singh was helpless, a feeling that is spreading quickly on the PGA Tour.

He didn't do himself any favors by missing four of the first six greens and settling for pars. But even after Singh made a spectacular play of his own, an 87-yard bunker shot on the par-5 seventh that spun back to 2 feet, Woods made a 10-foot eagle for a two-shot lead.

And after two more birdie putts on the back nine that crushed Singh's spirits, Woods was hoisting yet another trophy.

"Tiger played unbelievable," Singh said. "He made two eagles and just took it away."

The streak started in July at the British Open, when Woods won for the first time since his father died in May. The tears flowed freely that afternoon in Hoylake as he coped with the realization that Earl Woods would never see him win another tournament.

The victories haven't stopped.

There were four rounds of 66 at the Buick Open, followed by a putting exhibition at Medinah that carried him to a five-shot victory in the PGA Championship for his 12th career major. Then came his 11th title in the World Golf Championships at Firestone, winning a four-hole playoff against Stewart Cink.

Trophies are coming in all shapes and sizes, and they are piling up quickly.

Byron Nelson won 11 straight tournaments in 1945, a streak regarded as one of the most untouchable in sports. Woods won four straight at the end of 1999 and his first two in 2000 for six in a row, tied with Ben Hogan in 1948 for the second-longest winning streak.

His next PGA Tour event will be the American Express Championship outside London the last week of September.

"You've got to have so many things go right," Woods said. "In this day and age, with this competition, to win 11 in a row would be almost unheard of. What Byron accomplished, that goes down as one of the great years in the history of our sport. You've got to have one bad week somewhere. I guess his bad week was a win."

Can the record be reached?

"If a lot of guys pull out," Woods said with a laugh.

Woods now takes a week off before heading to England for the HSBC World Match Play Championship, followed by the Ryder Cup and the American Express, where he is the defending champion.

He still isn't even halfway home to Nelson's hallowed mark, but he surpassed Lord Byron in one category.

Woods won for the 53rd time in his career, moving into fifth place alone on the career list. He finished at 16-under 268 and earned $990,000, pushing his season total to over $8.6 million.

Brian Bateman closed with a 66 to finish third at 8-under 276, eight shots behind Woods.

It was a two-man race between Woods and Singh, the duel everyone wanted. Two years ago, Singh and Woods went toe-to-toe in the final group with the Fijian winning by three to end Woods' five-year reign atop the world ranking.

No one expected such a sudden role reversal, especially with Singh coming off a career-best 61.

"Vijay played one of the great rounds of golf yesterday," Woods said. "I figured one of the hardest things to do is follow a great round with another one."

This time, it was Woods who fired at the flags and never took his foot off the gas until he settled for par on the last hole for a 63.

Woods twice shot 63 in the final round at the Byron Nelson Championship and once at Disney, but this was his lowest final round in a tournament that he won.

It also was his largest comeback in the final round since he overcame a five-shot deficit at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in 2000, which he won for his sixth straight victory. Woods made up seven shots over his final seven holes.

This rally came early, and it was spectacular.

After missing a 6-foot birdie putt on the opening hole, Woods hammered his driver over the bunkers, leaving him a 7-iron into the green on the par-5 second hole and making the eagle. He covered the flag with his next shot on the par-3 third, making a 15-foot birdie putt to tie Singh for the lead. And when he rolled in a 25-footer on the fifth, Woods was in the lead.

Justin Rose started the day tied with Woods, and imagine his disgust when he saw the leaderboard.

"I was 4 over through five holes, he was 4 under through five," Rose said. "Obviously, it was 'Game Over' for me."

Singh didn't go away that easily.

Woods' second eagle was better than the first one. From 266 yards away and the wind in his face, he hit a bullet of a 3-wood that never got more than 15 feet off the ground. It pounded the bank fronting the green and climbed up to 10 feet.

Singh followed with his great bunker shot, and there was a chance he would escape without losing a shot.

"He hits a great shot," Woods said. "So if I make my putt, I take all his momentum away from him. And I knocked it right in there."

Woods turned toward his caddie and lightly pumped his fist, although Steve Williams was far more animated, shaking his fist twice. It was a big putt, giving Woods a two-shot margin, making it that much more difficult for Singh to recover.


Updated on Monday, Sep 4, 2006 8:47 pm EDT

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Woods keeps streak alive

By JIMMY GOLEN, AP Sports Writer
September 5, 2006

NORTON, Mass. (AP) -- He knows how many majors Jack Nicklaus won, Sam Snead's record for total victories and, yes, Tiger Woods knows all about Byron Nelson's 11-tournament winning streak, too.

"It wasn't just 11. It was 11 in a row, 12 out of 13, 18 for the year," Woods said, rattling off the details in rapid fire. "That will work."

Woods won his fifth consecutive tournament on Monday, shooting an 8-under 63 in the final round of the Deutsche Bank Championship to beat Vijay Singh by two strokes. With his 53rd career victory, Woods moved past Nelson into fifth on the all-time list.

But he still has some work to do to top Nelson's record-setting streak from 1945.

"In this day and age, with this competition, to win 11 in a row would be almost unheard of," Woods said when asked how Nelson's accomplishment compared with others, like Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak. "What Byron accomplished, that goes down as one of the great years in the history of our sport. ... DiMaggio's record, I see that being broken more than winning 11 in a row."

Woods' streak began with the British Open -- his first victory after his father died. Now, he's almost halfway to Lord Byron's mark, matching the best final round of his career to finish at 16-under 268 and win for the seventh time this year.

No other player has won more than twice.

Woods won six straight at the end of 1999 and the start of 2000, and Ben Hogan won six in a row in 1948. Woods plans a week off before heading to England for the HSBC World Match Play Championship, followed by the Ryder Cup.

His next PGA Tour start will be the American Express Championship outside London at the end of September.

Is 11 within reach?

"If a lot of guys pull out," Woods said with a laugh.

Singh shot a course-record 61 on Sunday to take a three-stroke lead into the final day. But he followed that up with a 68, shooting even par on the front nine while Woods went 6 under -- with two eagles -- on the first seven holes.

"Normally it's good enough. Today it wasn't," Singh said. "Tiger played incredible on the front nine. I hung in there but I made too many mistakes."

Brian Bateman shot 66 to finish third at 8-under 276. Justin Rose, who entered the day tied with Woods in second, closed with a 72 to finish in a tie for fourth at 7 under with Robert Allenby (68).

"I was 4 over through five holes; he was 4 under through five," Rose said. "Obviously, it was 'Game Over' for me."

Woods twice shot 63 in the final round at the Byron Nelson Championship and once at Disney, but this was his lowest final round in a tournament that he won. It also was his largest comeback in the final round since he overcame a five-shot deficit at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in 2000, which he won for his sixth straight victory.

In the process, he crossed out something else on his ever diminishing "to-do" list: He had never won the Deutsche Bank Championship, a tournament that lists his foundation as one of its charitable beneficiaries. The closest he came in three previous tries was 2004, when Singh won a head-to-head matchup on the final day to knock Woods from atop the world rankings after 264 weeks at No. 1.

There are only five events left on the PGA Tour that Woods has played in more than once without winning.

Woods, who did not make bogey in his last 47 holes, missed a 6-foot birdie putt on the first hole but made an eagle on the par-5 second. He tied Singh on the third with a 15-foot birdie putt and moved into first with a 25-footer on the fifth.

"I just had to run him down as fast as possible, try to at least get him by the front nine was over. But I was able to do it within three holes," Woods said.

"One of the hardest things to do in our sport is follow up a great round with another great round. So I just kept thinking that if Vijay shot something in the high 60s, I figured mid-60s would either get me in a playoff or win it. And that was what I had in mind today, and I was able to actually go a little bit lower than that."

Singh landed the green from a bunker 87 yards out on the seventh hole, spinning his ball to within 2 feet of the pin for a tap-in birdie. But Woods curled in from 10 feet for his second eagle of the day and a two-stroke lead.

"He hits a great shot," Woods said. "So if I make my putt, I take all his momentum away from him. And I knocked it right in there."

Updated on Tuesday, Sep 5, 2006 3:21 am EDT

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Enjoy Tiger Woods because golf will never see another like him again

By TIM DAHLBERG, AP Sports Columnist
September 5, 2006

Vijay Singh had a smile on his face when it was over, the kind of dazed smile we should be accustomed to by now because it's been on the faces of a lot of guys who have teed it up in recent weeks against Tiger Woods.

Singh didn't have much to say. There wasn't much he could say.


Really, there's not much left to be said.

If you're counting, Woods has now won five tournaments in a row. Watch him shoot a 63 in the final round of the Deutsche Bank Classic and you wonder how he can possibly lose again.

He will, of course, because golf can be a maddening game, even if your first name is Tiger. Someone may even come from behind some day and beat him at a major championship, as improbable as that might seem.

For now, though, be content to watch greatness. Savor the moment so you can tell your grandchildren you were there during the day when one man was so mentally tough and physically gifted that he could seemingly will his way to victory.

Enjoy him, because golf may never see the likes of a Tiger Woods again.

He's already the greatest player of his time. Barring injury, he'll become the greatest player of all time sooner than anyone ever thought.

What has to frighten his fellow players is that the best may still be coming.

"Everything can always be better," Woods said. "This game is fluid. It's always changing, it's always evolving and you can always get better. That's the great thing about it. You can get better tomorrow than you are today."

The words might sound arrogant, coming as they do from someone who has won five tournaments, including two major championships, in a row. But the best always have a touch of arrogance in them, and Woods is no exception.

Besides, he really believes it.

He overhauled his swing once even after winning big early in his career. He did it again after winning seven of 11 majors at one stretch, presumably because he figured he should have won them all.

Woods is close to becoming a billionaire but, in an era of pampered pros who are content just to earn a nice living, he plays as though he doesn't have two nickels to rub together.

If possible, he's more obsessive about remaining the best than he was at becoming the best.

"I could always hit the ball better, chip better, put better, think better," Woods said.

There wasn't much Woods could have done better on the front nine Monday when he caught Singh with an eagle and birdie in the first three holes and was never really threatened the rest of the way. Give Singh some credit because he tried when others would have given up, but the result never seemed in doubt.

It didn't on the back nine at the PGA Championship either. Or, for that matter, the final round of the British Open.

So now it's five in a row, though you get the feeling that Woods isn't as impressed with the winning streak as his fellow competitors might be. It's a career to them, but to the game's best player it's merely a summer fling.

That's partly because Woods has already won six in a row once, the last four he played in 1999 and the first two the next year. And even he considers the record of 11 straight during the final year of World War II by Byron Nelson almost unapproachable.

The only thing that really matters to Woods is major championships, and almost lost in the talk about his streak is that he owns trophies from the last two. He'll go into next year's Masters as a prohibitive favorite to win his fifth green jacket, and a win at the U.S. Open at Oakmont would give him the Tiger Slam for the second time in his career.

Assuming he wins those -- and it's hard to assume against Woods the way his game looks right now -- he would have a chance to win the real Grand Slam and edge tantalizingly close to the record of 18 major championships now held by Jack Nicklaus.

Nicklaus, of course, is generally regarded as the best player ever. But he never won tournaments in bunches like Woods is doing, and he never held all four major titles at once like Woods has a chance of doing for the second time next year.

Woods needs only 21 PGA Tour wins to pass Nicklaus for second place in overall wins, and seven major championships to overtake him in the category that means the most. He'll get those, and by the time he's in his mid-30s he will likely break the record held by Sam Snead of 82 tour wins.

By then, Woods won't have anybody left to chase. He will have to motivate himself by trying to set the bar so high that no one will ever break his records.

Knowing Woods, he will do just that.

The great ones usually do.

Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberg@ap.org

Updated on Tuesday, Sep 5, 2006 12:33 pm EDT

Golfing at Bixby Village - Sept 4th Labor Day

Played at Bixby Village again today. Not my best game as I started okay, had a few brilliant shots and then proceeded to have a meltdown in the last three holes. I ended shooting a 56 / 22.

Summary of Play:

#1 (146 yds Par 3) 4/3
Tee shot to green, 3 putt

#2 (121 yds Par 3) 6/2
Tee shot over water hazard, sliced right into the reeds in pond.
Drop on slope near water hazard entry to the right of the pin,
Mis-chipped, 2 putt.

#3 (158 yds Par 3) 6/2
Tee shot to left; chip into slope, 2 putt.

#4 (284 ydsPar 4) 6/3
Short tee shot, sliced right, recovered on fringe, 3 putt.

#5 (148 yds Par 3) 5/4
Tee shot to green, embedded on bottom right green,
4 putted.

#6 ( 99 yds Par 3) 5/2
Too much club (5 or 6 iron), knocked ball behind left of greens
Behind trees and over hill. Chipped and putted.

#7 (184 yds Par 4) 7/2
Good tee shot with 3 Iron, to the left of green. Chipped poorly
2 putt.

#8 (322 yds Par 4) 8/2
Long tee shot followed “Dog leg left”. Used 8 iron to chip right into
Sand trap. Too much sand wedge, know back about 80 yards beyond
greens back to fairway. Chipped back, putted.

#9 (105 yds Par 6) 9/2

MELTDOWN …. Bad tee shot to left into a clump of trees. Punched ball
Out with 3 iron, pitch out of bounds over fense, dropped back into play.

Total stroke counted 56 / 22 putts

Wai shot a 40 / 16
Jeff K. shot a 35/17.



My first ball landed on the #1 green about 146 yard tee shot!


On the 2nd tee, I shot over the water hazard in the pond into the reeds in the 2nd pond!



I think this is at the 5th tee where I dropped my ball on the green.


This is the tee box view of the long 322 dog leg right #8 hole, I hit a really nice long tee shot that landed in good position (then I proceeded to mess up my approach shots)!


After golf we had lunch at Pete's at the Beach, one of the few places opened for the Labor Day holiday.

-DB-

The Amazing Jeff K

Jeff is a former coworker who's an awesome golfer; he shot his personal best, 35 today at Bixby Village!

Jeff teeing at the 6th hole, notice the yellow ball in flight!


Jeff has this wonderful collection of golfballs!


Jeff hit a alot of really close shots to the pin!


Here's Jeff celebrating with a yummy breakfast / lunch!