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Junior Column
Internet opens up to everything golf
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E.J. Clair
Junior Editor |
Where will you go to check the weekend’s televised schedule
for The U.S. Open? The newspaper? Your cable provider’s web
site? Yahoo! or AOL? Fastest response: USGA.org.
What about a drill to improve balance? fitnessforgolf.com? venusgolf.com?
foxsports.com? All of the above.
What is the longest recorded carry of a golf ball? It’s 458
yards says
guinnessworldrecords.com.
Who broadcasts from Amen Corner at the Masters? cbs.sportsline.com.
What might be in Annika’s crystal ball? wsgtour.com/aboutthetour2.htm.
Are self-correcting Nano golf balls with metal core really approved
for tournament play? Enter nanodynamics into the search field at cnet.com.
Millions of individuals and businesses, active on the web, have the
imagination and ability to deliver information never before available
to the golfer.
PGA.com, PGATour.com, LPGA.com, Golf.com, sportsillustrated.com and
espn.com supply up-to-the minute player stats, tournament news, current
leaderboards, and quick tournament updates.
If you need an immediate understanding or interpretation go to golfonline.com
and click under section 8 Rules. A complete rule-by-rule breakdown
on the 34 Rules of Golf plus three appendices awaits, courtesy of
Golf Magazine.
The complete web site of the Pacific Northwest Golf Association, thepnga.org,
delivers news on tournaments and clubs, a useful PNGA recommendations
page with hotlinks to other interesting sites and archived issues
of Pacific Northwest Golfer (pacificnorthwestgolfer.com).
Starting on the golfdigest.com home page you can link to golfworld.com,
golfforwomen.com, golfworldbusiness.com, and almost two dozen international
golf magazines including German, Italian and Japanese language varieties.
For a compendium of terrific articles and suggestions for that recurring
slice or lifting your head, look over Golfchannel.com and click on
Instruction and Online Lessons.
Illustrations and descriptions of new clubs and shafts bounce from
web pages, but which ball is better? The commercial site Golfballs101.com
offers a very useful rating system. Visit Best of the Best link and
click on 11 top-rated golf ball brands to read the characteristics
of each unique golf ball design. lostgolfballs.com sells used balls.
Do you think you could run your local golf course better than the
superintendent? Read NGCOA.org, then decide.
Research the thinking behind the courses you’re going to play
at RTJ2.com, Doakgolf.com and Foughtdesign.com.
You subscribe to monthly magazines, but what about the middle of the
month? Stay current and subscribe to Podcasts. Apple.com/itunes offers
a dozen downloadable golf podcasts at no charge including PGATour.com,
GolfWeekTV.com and TheSandTrap.com. Travelgolf.com embeds podcast
links within their web site.
Make online tee times for courses in the Northwest and many other
destinations: Golf206.com,
lastminutegolfer.com and through Google at google.com/Top/Sports/Golf/Courses/Tee_Time_Systems/.
Planning a trip? Oregongolfadventures.com.
Do you Blog? Well, 47.2 percent of all searches on the Internet go
through Google. Type golf + blog and Google will bring back 60,800,000
links to sift through like sand in a bunker. Start at blogger.com,
biomechanicsofgolf.blogspot.com, the Canadian scoregolf.com, and worldgolf.com.
Every magazine, radio program, television show has a web site. It’s
a necessary part of business now.
For junior golfers, games and golf trivia are all over the web: www.njgs.com,
juniorlinks.com, and mini golf at nabiscoworld.com.
Earthgolf.com is a fan site devoted to the Pacific Northwest’s
very own Fred Couples.
On the web, golf is ubiquitous. (Dictionary.com). |
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