land. These are not UFOs, but the flying discs thrown by players at the annual Rock Spring Memorial disc golf tournament Saturday. “It’s providing disc golf to the community, but it’s also revitalizing Rock Spring Park,” Jeff Ligon, who helped design the course and organize the tournament, said. “There was nothing really going on there besides bad things and vandalism, and now with the disc golf course in there I think it’s really helped stopped some of that and bring the park back.” The tournament
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Ranch Golf Club Case Study The Ranch Golf Club opened in 2001 in Southwick, Massachusetts. The Hall family decided to turn their dairy farm into a golf club. They would provide their land, while they enlisted the help of Rowland Bates to coordinate the project. Bates found investors to provide the capital and they started work. The investors were Peter and Korby Clark, Bernard Chiu, and Ronald Izen. It is the Ranch’s goal to be the best golf club in New England. In 2007, the Ranch Golf Club was
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and don’t have anything to do, you can always look up the sport called golf, mental golf to be exact. When you search in Google you will see 83,800,000 hits for it. This is a huge number for golf, golf isn’t that big of a sport in most people eyes but to have about 83,800,00 hits on not even the main topic of golf is pretty awesome. The problem is the Wikipedia page doesn’t have that much information on the top of mental golf. So if you wanted to use this as a research source, I would not suggest
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A newly built controversial Scottish golf course has been under heated discussion recently. According to Anthony Baxter’s documentary “You’ve Been Trumped”(2011), Donald Trump, an American business magnate, opened his £1 billion golf course on the North Sea coast of Scotland. Mr. Trump has been facing boycott from conservationists as well as local people who were forced to sell their property as he embarks on this new project. At one point the use of CPO(compulsory purchase orders) to force residents
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Our solution to the maintenance of golf course landscaping is to replace all of the current grass with artificial turf. Compared to the traditional real grass turf that golf courses use, artificial turf does not need to be watered at all. Not only will this save water for California but it will also eventually save money for the owners of the golf course over time. We suggest using polypropylene as the type of artificial turf to replace the current grass. Other common types of artificial turf include
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“Golf is deceptively simple, but endlessly complicated”-Arnold Palmer. The game of golf, as many people around me have come to find out, is and always will be my passion. The game of golf appeals to me in many ways, from the perfect, crisp sound of a club ripping through the grass, to the firm rattling of a ball falling in the hole after a perfectly executed putt, golf continually demonstrates why the game is so hard to leave. The summer months have always called me, not because of freedom from
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Many may see the golf course in different ways. Some may see it as a waste of space or as a waste of money and only good for rich men. I see the golf course differently than these people as this is my happy place. From the thick and luscious grass in the rough to the delicate greens this is the place I love. For the golf lovers in the area these simple but yet amazingly complicated holes can make the rough days much better. The love of this great game goes further than just golf. As I slowly creep
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Golf has been a life changer for me. I've played golf since I was three years old. In summer, I play golf every day. I began playing competitively when I was seven. I live on a golf course and my dad is a golf instructor, so I’ve grown up around the game. I’ve had many great experiences with golf. My most memorable golf experience was at the 2015 Drive, Chip, and Putt national finals. Upward of 10,000 kids ages seven to fifteen, boys and girls, tried out for this event. I was one of eighty total
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Finding golf tips for left handed golfers can feel like digging for gold. Thousands of articles and web pages are devoted to right handed golfers, but lefties often seem to be left out of the loop. We’ve compiled some simple but effective golf tips for left handed golfers who are brand-new to the game. The mechanics of a good golf swing are generally the same no matter which side you prefer. Once you have mastered the fundamentals of the game, you can start moving into the more advanced aspects
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In Mistake-Free Golf, Dr. Robert Winters would agree with the statement that in golf and other sports, individuals, rather than external forces, create the problems that disable themselves from achieving excellence. Dr. Winters is a sports psychologist and avid golfer who works as the resident sports psychologist at the internationally renowned Leadbetter Golf Academy in Orlando Florida. During the summer, Dr. Winters is also the head instructor at the number one Nike Golf School on the Williams
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