Month: April 2021

Handiskins Championship Week at Royal Pines Resort

April 29, 2021 0 3 yrs

It was my first time as a competitor in the Handiskins Championship week at Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast. This fast growing event has become a favourite on the amateur golfing circuit. Having qualified as a winner at my club, Bribie Island GC, […]

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by ScottyX

April 27, 2021 0 3 yrs

Golf: A Sinister Game?

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by ScottyX

April 26, 2021 1 3 yrs

Playing Pennants or Doing Penance?

by ScottyX

April 16, 2021 0 3 yrs

The Club in My Bag Kicking Goals: Ping G410 3 Fairway

by ScottyX

April 12, 2021 2 3 yrs

Son of the Rising Sun Reigns at the Masters

by ScottyX

April 10, 2021 0 3 yrs

Matsuyama Magic at the Master’s Third Round

by ScottyX

April 9, 2021 0 3 yrs

Leishman Well Placed After Master’s Second Round

by ScottyX

April 8, 2021 0 3 yrs

All Rose Few Thorns at The Masters

by ScottyX

April 7, 2021 5 3 yrs

Weekend Warriors: Seven Types of Golfers

by ScottyX

April 5, 2021 0 3 yrs

Say No To Slow Play

Join us in our campaign to minimise slow play in golf. This scourge of golf courses everywhere needs to be met head on. What can we all do about ending slow play and its miserable impact upon the enjoyment of our golf? We can each remain vigilant in our duty to keep the game moving along. Firstly, keep up with the group in front and if you fall behind make an effort to catch up. It is our responsibility, as players and as members of a four ball, to maintain the pace of play despite delays looking for lost balls. If you fall behind speed up and catch up pronto.

Slow Play

by ScottyX

May 21, 2022 2 yrs

Southern Hills Sand Struggles in the PGA Championship

It has been interesting to see the tour pros and their Southern Hills sand struggles in the PGA Championship. It reminds me of what I see at clubland in the Saturday comp. Apparently the granular nature of this yellow river sand with its many pebbles is messing with their ability to generate any spin from the traps. Many of these world best touring professionals have been unable to adjust their game to this new challenge on day one. Adam Scott had an absolute shocker from a greenside bunker which ended up miles away and almost in the hazard. Adam double bogied this hole and things went further south from there in his opening round.

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by ScottyX

April 16, 2021 3 yrs

The Club in My Bag Kicking Goals: Ping G410 3 Fairway

In this series golfers share their good news stories about a particular club in their bag doing the business out on-course. In my own golf game, it is my Ping G410 3 Fairway metal/wood whatever you call it. This club has turned my weakest link […]

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Stoic Golfer TIP OF THE DAY

Tip No 1

Turn your focus around 180 degrees from out there to within. The answers to your quest for happiness will not be found out there, rather it will revealed by seeking within. Marcus Aurelius tells us In his book, "Meditations," - live in harmony with the universe by following the principles of wisdom, justice, courage, and moderation, and by using reason to guide your thoughts and actions. Marcus reflects on the Stoic principles and provides guidance on how to live a virtuous and fulfilling life. He writes about the importance of accepting what is beyond our control, cultivating inner peace, and performing our duties in life with integrity and wisdom.

Stop looking for short cuts and hacks in everything – the whole concept of giving less and expecting more is wrong. You are not gaming the system by this approach you are gaming yourself and your own integrity.

Wisdom from The Stoic Golfer: Finding Inner Peace & Focus on the Fairway by Robert Sudha Hamilton

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Episode 10: The Bedroom: Sleep & Sex - Robert Sudha Hamilton's Podcast

The bedroom is home to our inner prince or princess of the underworld. Here we find the nascent and sensitive self who passes back and forth between our states of consciousness. The most famous bedroom princess is Persephone, Demeter’s daughter, who was snaffled by Haides, god of the underworld, whilst playing in a flowering meadow and taken to his dark kingdom where she ate pomegranate seeds and thus was condemned to remain there for the most part of each year. To eat of the fruit of love with the dark lord and to consume his seed, would be my reading of the situation. Persephone becomes the goddess of spring, as it is then that she is able to return to the world above, and so she brings new life back from the inchoate darkness of the unknown. A very apt metaphor for our own unconscious realms and the role it plays in our own lives and especially in our creative dimensions.Our bedroom is fundamentally a place, which contains a bed, and where we go to sleep. It is a portal between worlds, of the conscious and the unconscious. It is our temple of sleep, where we go, after our day’s labour and nightly feast, to lie prostrate upon a flat couch and quietly beseech the god of the underworld to come and take us to his realm. It is interesting to examine the bedroom in these terms, to see its function in light of the split between these states of being. I think that we would all agree that we rescind our autonomy when we go to sleep, and our consciousness is removed into the ocean like world of dreams. We no longer have the illusion of being totally in control of our lives and destinies. House Therapy - Discover More of you at home?Robert Sudha Hamilton