www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

Irons are the bread and butter clubs. They used to give you 3-9, PW and SW. With the advent of the hybrid the longer irons like the 3 & 4 are more or less obsolete in some cases. If you walk in to a golf shop today you will easily find combo golf clubs in a bag. Usually they now come with the 3 & 4 in hybrids instead of traditional irons. This normally happens in the "Super Game Improvement" category. Meanwhile, some low handicappers prefer sharp looking more playable irons with less directional help which are less forgiving and found in blade like irons with little or no cavity behind or in forged irons (called Players' irons). Other single digit players may still prefer friendlier ones. Irons that are in between are the Game Improvement types which are mostly used. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dG9hb3_blo It is most important that you are equipped with the right set of irons which when fitted well with your game is likely to last for quite some time. I...

I have told you stories about Ping and technological advancement of hybrid golf clubs in my previous articles. What I do not need to tell you is the difference between better golfers and average hackers is the short game. Besides the short game, other key criteria are naturally a good golf swing and therefore, consistency. Whenever you play with better players, have a keen observation how they go about the business. The way they make decisions, lay out or attack or reading of the putting line, etc. One key component of their play other than consistency is their reading of distance in relation to wind and ground condition. Allow me to narrate a true story of real life drama on the golf course. I have always told you that lessons can be learned everywhere and everyday. We had a mini self-organised golf tournament where small prizes are to be given away for top golfers, nearest to the pin, longest drive, etc. Strange things do happen in life. I was having an unusually horrid day wh...

Christmas is quickly over and now we are looking to cross over to a brand New Year in 2011. What has changed and changed for the better? Have you and will you become a better person? What is a better person in your mind after all? I leave you to search yourself and go deeper and not just skim the surface. What are the things to come and how will things pan out in 2011? For a start, some people from Hungary and Slovakia became the 58th and 59th country to have visited. I am clamouring for more. I have received rave reviews from friends and readers so good I might become big-headed for my own good. War? Dear Leader is waging war. His 27 year old son has been promoted from nowhere to a four-star general. Cronyism and nepotism at its best? We can criticise but this is prevalent in many societies, countries and organisations. If we practise it, we have no right to criticise. It's The Economy Stupid! The US has not fully recovered and is still limping using lots of ink and...

This December is really quite nice. Not too much rain but the mornings and evenings have been windy and chilly at times. Walking in the city in the mornings remind me of winter or the impending spring in other cities like Tokyo, Hong Kong or in Europe. There was a report that our human body can get affected by drop in temperatures to 15-20 degrees and affecting especially those who have underlying heart or hypertension conditions. Walking around in cooler climate gives me a sense of elation and allow me to soak in things going around somewhat differently. If it drizzles, I feel like a soldier in the rain - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kJ2YgfNwhw I just can't let the year slip away without my usual two cents worth on golf can I? So, here I come - Competition is relentless. Everybody is producing clubs which they claim are the most forgiving and could hit the longest. Some are exorbitantly expensive. New products are being constantly churn out. Some good...

Do They Know It's Christmas? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5cX_ncZLls Christmas is so commercialised these days that they Deck The Halls way too early. This shot was taken in early November. I'm dreaming of a white Christmas... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HrAy5xqzOs . Cut!! Our cold and wet season came early as the floods occurred in October. In contrast, this has been a relatively warmer December. White Christmas? Keep dreaming. It could happen. You see Europe in turmoil due to the snow havoc. EPL soccer matches were badly affected. Give us cool mornings and nights anytime in our oven climate. Christmas is celebrated all over the world on 25 December to commemorate the birth of Jesus who is central to Christianity. It is probably not the actual day of the birth of Jesus but rather chosen to sort of correspond with some ancient festivals or the Roman calendar and some believed was nine months after Jesus was conceived. What Is ...