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Proper Golf Set Up: Distance From Golf Ball

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Learning the proper golf set up is a considered a fundamental that is a must if you want any chance at hitting consistent golf shots. Many beginner and amateur golfers don’t take the time to learn this and struggle for years to come. Learning how far to stand from a golf ball is a critical aspect of your golf address and setup. If you get this wrong you will have undo tension in your shoulders and arms, that translates into a manipulation (and compensation) either on your golf swing takeaway or coming down into impact, resulting in inconsistent golf shots for 18 holes.

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Once you get your golf set up correct, you will be well on your way to better golf swings loaded with power and accuracy. Along with how far to stand from the golf ball, is the proper knee flex, weight distribution in your feet, as well as spine angle, especially in your upper spine.

Learning how to play golf takes a tremendous amount of practice and attention to your fundamentals, meaning grip, stance, ball position and posture.

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I grew up in Cache Valley and played high school golf for Sky View High. I then went to Southern Utah University and played college golf for 4 years and then was hired by John Evans as the Assistant Golf Professional for Cedar Ridge Golf Course.

I then moved to St. George, Utah and worked as Assistant Golf Professional for Reed McArthur at Sunbrook Golf Club for 2 years. In 2005 I had the opportunity to move to Delta to be the Head PGA Golf Professional at Sunset View Golf Course and have been enjoying my experience sense. In 2008 I was promoted to Director of Golf for Sunset View. I enjoy coaching the Boy’s and Girl’s Golf teams at Delta High and have seen them win Region Championships.

I became a class A PGA member in 2005 and have enjoyed being apart of the Utah Section PGA. The Utah PGA Section has been an asset to my career in helping promote golf for Sunset View. In 2008 the 1A and 2A High School championships were played at Sunset View with the help of the Utah Section.

My golfing philosophy is to learn the game and enjoy it. The golf swing is a big part of enjoying the game. It starts with the grip and then the setup. If you can get the grip and setup down correctly the rest of the swing will become a lot easier.

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Golf is a great game for families. When teaching your children to play the game of golf remember to keep “play” in the equation. Golf is a game first and foremost and as such should be entertaining, enjoyable, fun. Having fun playing golf is the best introduction to the game a parent can give their child. Remember also, understand what your child’s expectations and aspirations are and keep your expectations in line with their skill level, and goals. Lack of enjoyment is the biggest reason people quit playing, to much stress is second. Take your young child to the range and simply let them hit balls for fun.

It is necessary to understand the athleticism of golf in order to learn and enjoy the game. Achieving physical, mental and cognitive developmental levels are necessary for optimizing certain skills. Children need to learn basic movement skills before they can learn the game. Children younger than six are given the best start by simply being allowed and encouraged to be active in their play. Physical activity should be fun, routine and noncompetitive. Between the ages of six and ineencourage your kids to try and play many sports so they enjoy being active and learn to move skillfully. Children can be introduced to very basic grip, stance, balance and swing motions at this age. Between the ages of nine and twelvekids are ready to learn to play golf. Remember to keep it fun, to encourage participation in other sports and to continue encouraging unstructured play. Children are acquiring general sports skills during this age that will form the cornerstones of their athletic development. Children 9 -12 are ready developmentally to begin a basic golf instruction program including putting, chipping, sand play, full swing, golf etiquette and rules. Somewhere between the ages of twelve to sixteen kids will be ready to cope with the physical and mental challenges of competition.

If your child enjoys the challenges of golf competition encourage their goals and training. It’s been estimated that it takes ten years or 10,000 hours of training for an athlete to reach an international elite level of competitiveness in their sport. An analysis by the PGA of the best male and female players revealed that it took twenty years from entry point to winning a major. So if your child is hoping to be sucessful on a competitive level, along with being patient, supportive and encouraging, keep the game enjoyable.

PGA golf professionals at golf facilities around the world welcome families with children to golf schools. These schools take place at local golf courses and major resorts. Make arrangements for a memorable golf vacation,golf weekend or golf day that includes learning and playing golf together as a family. Play better and enjoy golf togeather.

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www.shawnclementgolf.com Shawn Clement, Director of the Richmond Hill Golf Learning Centre in Toronto Ontario and Top 25 CPGA Teacher as rated by Score Golf Magazine, shows you what to learn from February 2008 edition of Golf Magazine’s article on Lag featuring Sergio Garcia being compared to Ben Hogan for the great Lag in his swing;

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Note: this photo was published as an illustration in an undated (Nov 2009) Squidoo blog titled "Miami Dolphins – NFL Football." It was also published as an illustration in a Jan 6, 2010 issue of a PepperoniPizza123 blog titled "Voki." And it was published in a Feb 1, 2010 Miami Beach Advisor blog titled "Miami Dolphins football." It was also published in an Apr 8, 2010 blog titled "NFL Free Agency: Jason Taylor To the Jets Would Be Hard for Dolphins To Swallow." And it was published in an Apr 21, 2010 blog titled "Dolphins Stellar Offseason Has a Bitter Aftertaste Without Jason Taylor."

Moving into 2011, the photo was published in an undated (mid-Jan 2011) "Golf Equipment" blog titled "Documents for business – e-commerce terms and conditions – agreements." And it was published in a Jan 20, 2011 blog titled "Uneven Lies Rescue." It was also published in an undated (early Apr 2011) blog titled "Golf Clubs Of The Future," as well as an undated (mid-Apr 2011) blog titled "Window Blinds Services in Liverpool – Which One Is Right For You?" And it was published in an undated (late Apr 2011) Golf Equipment blog/, with the same caption I used on this Flickr page.

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On November 1st, I attended my third professional football game, with a photographer’s press pass that let me get down on the field to photograph players, referees, cheerleaders, other photographers, fans in the stand, and anyone else who looked interesting. (My first such game was a pre-season contest between the New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles, which you can see by clicking here, and the second game was between the New York Jets and the Buffalo Bills, which you can see by clicking here.)

I learned some lessons from photographing the first two games, and I showed up this time with even more equipment. I brought my Nikon D300 and D700 cameras, with an assortment of telephoto lenses; and I rented a hulking big 150-500mm zoom lens, which I mounted on my half-frame D300 camera to get the equivalent of a 300-750mm telephoto on a "standard" 35mm camera. Most of the time, I used the (full-frame) D700 with a 300mm zoom to get shots of fans in the stadium, and I used the long-lens 150-500mm zoom lens to get shots of the football players, as well as some closeups of the cheerleaders, as they waved their long hair in the air during the various "performances" with which they entertained the crowd.

Technical details aside, this game was very much like the last two: I was down on the field, surrounded by 77,000 roaring fans who made conversation virtually impossible. All I could do was try my best to follow the action, and shoot anything that looked interesting. It usually (though not always) started with a snap to the quarterback — but it was sometimes on the other side of the field, or down at the other end of the field. Like the other photographers, I scurried back and forth from one end of the field to the other to be as close to the action as possible … but in many cases, all I ended up with was a picture of a tangle of bodies, and no clear idea of what had just happened.

After watching the Flickr statistics associated with my previous Jets games, I was amused to see that the most popular photos — by a huge margin were those of the cheerleaders … so I included about two dozen closeup photos of the cheerleaders in this set. I also found the fans interesting and occasionally picturesque, so you’ll find several fan-related pictures in this set.

Since I was on the field, once again, through the generosity and permission of the New York Jets, I naturally rooted for them to win. And though they played to a 3-3 tie at halftime, their special teams fell apart in the second half. Their rookie quarterback (Mark Sanchez, whose #6 jersey appears prominently in some of the photos) scored and passed well, but the Jets were down by 5 points with a minute left in the game, and while they were only about 20 yards from the goal line at that point, it was a fourth-down … for which the traditional strategy is to attempt a field-goal. But what’s the point of getting 3 points for a field goal, when you’re down 5 points, and the clock has almost run out?

Well, perhaps this is all blindingly obvious to most football fans — but football really isn’t my sport at all, so I thought I was actually rather clever to anticipate what the Jets decided to do on that final play: pass for a 6-point touchdown, rather than waste their time with a field-goal kick. As it turned out, I was near the goal line myself, and when the play started, and it became obvious that Jets QB Sanchez was going to pass, I switched my attention to the end zone, and did my best to focus on wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery as he attempted to catch the "hail Mary" pass. As it turned out, the pass was a little too high, so they didn’t score and the game was effectively over. But I did get a shot of that attempted pass reception; it’s not perfect, but it’s not too bad … and you’ll find it at the very end of this Flickr set (which will take several days to upload).

All in all, I took a little over 1,500 images and whittled it down to 150 "keepers" that I think you’ll enjoy looking at — i.e., 10% of the total, rather than the usual 5% that I uploaded from the last two games. Another 150 had to be deleted immediately because they were out of focus, or because a referee decided to run in front of my camera just as I was pushing the shutter button … but I’ve still got roughly 1,200 images of jumbled piles of football players that will probably continue to sit on my computer until I run out of space on my hard disk. C’est la vie…

P.S. One little nuance about professional football, which seems obvious but was still a surprise to me on this third game: unlike high-school football, cheerleaders don’t cheer. They don’t sing, they don’t chant, they don’t utter a word while they’re prancing around in front of the roaring crowd in the stadium. Of course: how could they? Who would hear a thing they said? Still, it’s a little weird to spend an afternoon on the field with these skimpily-dress beauties, with smiles frozen on their faces as they dance for the fans … and who, for all practical purposes, never make a sound.

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Three scenarios collude toward disaster. Scenario one: The world is running out of freshwater. It is not just a question of finding the money to hook up the 2 billion people living in water-stressed regions of our world. Humanity is polluting, diverting, and depleting the Earth’s finite water resources at a dangerous and steadily increasing rate. The abuse and displacement of water is the ground-level equivalent of greenhouse-gas emissions and likely as great a cause of climate change.

Scenario two: Every day more and more people are living without access to clean water. As the ecological crisis deepens, so too does the human crisis. More children are killed by dirty water than by war, malaria, HIV/AIDS, and traffic accidents combined. The global water crisis has become a powerful symbol of the growing inequality in our world. While the wealthy enjoy boutique water at any time, millions of poor people have access only to contaminated water from local rivers and wells.

Scenario three: A powerful corporate water cartel has emerged to seize control of every aspect of water for its own profit. Corporations deliver drinking water and take away wastewater; corporations put massive amounts of water in plastic bottles and sell it to us at exorbitant prices; corporations are building sophisticated new technologies to recycle our dirty water and sell it back to us; corporations extract and move water by huge pipelines from watersheds and aquifers to sell to big cities and industries; corporations buy, store, and trade water on the open market, like running shoes. Most important, corporations want governments to deregulate the water sector and allow the market to set water policy. Every day, they get closer to that goal. Scenario three deepens the crises now unfolding in scenarios one and two.

Imagine a world in 20 years in which no substantive progress has been made to provide basic water services in the Third World; or to create laws to protect source water and force industry and industrial agriculture to stop polluting water systems; or to curb the mass movement of water by pipeline, tanker, and other diversions, which will have created huge new swaths of desert.

Desalination plants will ring the world’s oceans, many of them run by nuclear power; corporate-controlled nanotechnology will clean up sewage water and sell it to private utilities, which will in turn sell it back to us at a huge profit; the rich will drink only bottled water found in the few remaining uncontaminated parts of the world or sucked from the clouds by corporate-controlled machines, while the poor will die in increasing numbers from a lack of water.

This is not science fiction. This is where the world is headed unless we change course–a moral and ecological imperative. But first we must come to terms with the dimension of the crisis.

We are running out of freshwater

In the first seven years of the new millennium, more studies, reports, and books on the global water crisis have been published than in all of the preceding century. Almost every country has undertaken research to ascertain its water wealth and the threats to its aquatic systems. Universities around the world are setting up departments or cross-departmental disciplines to study the effects of water shortages. The Worldwatch Institute has declared: “Water scarcity may be the most underappreciated global environmental challenge of our time.”

From these undertakings, the verdict is in and irrefutable: The world is facing a water crisis due to pollution, climate change, and surging population growth of unprecedented magnitude. Unless we change our ways, by the year 2025 two-thirds of the world’s population will face water scarcity. The global population tripled in the 20th century, but water consumption went up sevenfold. By 2050, after we add another 3 billion to the population, humans will need an 80 percent increase in water supplies just to feed ourselves. No one knows where this water is going to come from.

Scientists call them “hot stains” — the parts of the Earth now running out of potable water. They include northern China, large areas of Asia and Africa, the Middle East, Australia, the Midwestern United States, and sections of South America and Mexico.

The worst effects on people are, of course, in those areas of the world with large populations and insufficient resources to provide sanitation. Two-fifths of the world’s people lack access to proper sanitation, which has led to massive outbreaks of waterborne diseases. Half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by people with an easily preventable waterborne disease, and the World Health Organization reports that environmental factors, including contaminated water, are implicated in 80 percent of all sickness and disease worldwide. In the last decade, the number of children killed by diarrhea exceeded the number of people killed in all armed conflicts since World War II. Every eight seconds, a child dies from drinking dirty water.

Meanwhile, some wealthier countries are just beginning to understand the depth of their own crises. Many parts of the United States are experiencing severe water shortages. Pressure is mounting on the governors in the Great Lakes region to open up access to the lakes to the burgeoning mega-cities around the basin. In 2007, Lake Superior, the world’s largest freshwater lake, dropped to its lowest level in 80 years. Florida is in trouble, trying to keep its fast-spreading lawns and golf courses green. California has a 20-year supply of freshwater left. New Mexico has only 10. And Arizona is out: It now imports all of its drinking water. Experts assert that this is more than a cyclical “drought”: Major parts of the United States are running out of water. In fact, the Environmental Protection Agency warns that if current water use continues unchecked, 36 states will suffer water shortages within the next five years.

How die we get here?

We were all taught certain fundamentals about the Earth’s hydrologic cycle in grade school. There is, we learned, a finite amount of available freshwater on the planet, and it makes its way through a cycle that ensures its safe return to us for our perpetual use. In the hydrologic cycle, water vapor condenses to form clouds. Winds move the clouds across the globe, spreading the water vapor. When the clouds cannot hold the moisture, they release it in the form of rain or snow, which either seeps into the ground to replenish groundwater or runs off into lakes, streams, and rivers. As these processes happen, the power of the sun causes evaporation, changing liquid water into vapor to renew the cycle. In this scenario, the planet could never “run out” of water.

But this cycle, true for so many millennia, did not take into account modern humans’ collective capacity for destruction. In the last half-century, the human species has polluted surface waters at an alarming rate. The world may not exactly be running out of water, but it is running out of clean water. Ninety percent of wastewater produced in the Third World is discharged, untreated, into local rivers, streams, and coastal waters. As well, humans are now using more than half of accessible runoff water, leaving little for the ecosystem or other species.

Our political leaders are failing us

The freshwater crisis is easily as great a threat to the Earth and humans as climate change (to which it is deeply linked) but has had very little attention paid to it in comparison. It is like a comet poised to hit the Earth. If a comet really did threaten the entire world, it is likely that our politicians would suddenly find that religious and ethnic differences had lost much of their meaning. Political leaders would quickly come together to find a solution to this common threat.

However, with rare exceptions, average people do not know that the world is facing a comet called the global water crisis. And they are not being served by their political leaders, who are in some kind of inexplicable denial. The crisis is not reported enough in the mainstream media, and when it is, it is usually reported as a regional or local problem, not an international one.

Every day, the failure of our political leaders to address the global water crisis becomes more evident. Every day, the need for a comprehensive water-crisis plan becomes more urgent. If ever there were a moment for all governments and international institutions to come together to find a collective solution to this emergency, it is now. If ever there were a time for a plan of conservation and water justice to deal with the twin water crises of scarcity and inequity, it is now. The world does not lack the knowledge about how to build a water-secure future; it lacks the political will.

This, then, is the task: nothing less than reclaiming water as a commons for the Earth and all people that must be wisely and sustainably shared and managed if we are to survive. This will not happen unless we are prepared to reject the basic tenets of market-based globalization. The current imperatives of competition, unlimited growth, and private ownership when it comes to water must be replaced by new imperatives–those of cooperation, sustainability, and public stewardship.

Maude Barlow is head of the Council of Canadians. This article is adapted from her new book, Blue Covenant, published by The New Press © 2007. Reprinted here with permission.

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