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

If Alonso, Vettel, Hamilton and company needs advice for the impending F1 they need to consult me. I have been racing the Marina circuit everyday and I know every nook and cranny on this route. Mine was even tougher as I have to be faced with traffic jam on some days. Can I take the G-Force? Hey, I am the G-Force Guru! What were you thinking? Talking about driving... Tiger Woods was driving his BMW into the gas station one day after practice and while getting out of his car, he drop a couple of tees from his trousers' pocket onto the driver's seat. The old man at the gas station oblivious to who he is noticed the tees and asked Tiger what they were. Tiger explained carefully that those were tees that he used to hold his balls while driving and the old man nodded in approval before saying: "Damn, these people at BMW surely go out of the way and think of everything to give to the driver." Except for some die-hards who swear by their long irons (3 & 4), most gol...

When Rory McIlroy was victorious I wrote about his humility then recently I learned that he ranted at a fellow pro who was a commentator who may have criticised him saying that he was just a pro who barely made it and has no right to talk. Sad or maybe it was just the heat of the moment? Pressure and disappointment can make us all like that? So if you are not hitting with the right sticks, you may end up with more pressure you set yourself up for and irons has the most sticks in a golf bag than driver, putter, wood or hybrid. They are the bread and butter clubs so to speak. It pays that you know not what is best, sold the most or is the latest but what is suited to your game. There are three types of irons - "Player's", "Game Improvement (GI)" and "Super Game Improvement" (SGI). Players'c clubs are like blades or TP (Tour Preferred), Game Improvement has midsized club heads and SGI clubs are those with extreme perimeter weighting and the bigges...

There are people who never changed their equipment and there are folks who are always changing equipment. For those who do not change, they could be very good players who could handle anything, they could even putt with a broomstick and they are so comfortable with their swing they do not need to. Then there are those who should but they kept hanging on to clubs that should be consigned to the dust bin. They way they go about it all golf manufacturers would go bankrupt and the world economy would go into recession. At the other end, there are those who kept changing but do not have a clue about it so they often end up with ill-suited clubs and then there is me who love experimenting so that one day I could discover my own freaking Frankenstein. Now there are golf shops everywhere but not all are the same and not many would appeal to me for different reasons. They may not stock enough brands or models or they could not explain to me sufficiently on some technical aspects. Some offer...

There are two types of golfers. Those that are always changing or updating their equipment and those whose equipment looks like dinosaurs while others are classic. In each of these types, there are two other types - those who keep changing because there is too much cash and they know not what else is there to do and those who are intrigued by engineering and wanted to take advantage of it to improve their golf life. Then there are those are are already playing a strong game and dare not or feel no need to change because they are so proficient with their weapons or those who really needs a change but refuse to thinking that they should not splurge without consideration to people in the golf industry that needs to feed their family. In the entire golf bag, the club that really splits people in the middle is the golf hybrid. Golf hybrids were available long before the car industry started the journey. They took the best of both worlds - elements in the fairway woods and irons and inco...

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...