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

I was looking to re-engineer and bring back my golf life since I have always said "golf as in life, play as it lies". You know the world out there is a loud place. With savvy marketing and relentless advertisement, you are bombarded through all kinds of media to part with your hard-earned pittance of a salary for many as there are just so many needs and wants in life where everyone just wants  your money.  Now you even have facebook or mobile apps and every facet of social media where you are being directed to buy all kinds of things you do not need.  Well, there is good and bad in everything. The good thing is the bots or whatever you may call it are more and more intelligent so you get targeted  and directed ads to you.  For example golf. I have played all kinds of equipment, brands and models of all types of clubs - drivers, fairway woods, hybrids, irons, wedges, putters and even shafts to experiment and learn. They are all touted as powerful, long, f...

When we were young, we can get excited by new toys. New kuti- kuti, marbles, a new pen or colour pencils, a new badminton racket, fishing rod, soccer boots, etc. So now you have grown up and your pursuits are now into new houses and cars?  I do still get excited by the simple things like a new bottle of beer, a new friend, a new golf club every now and then. The little child in the man is alive. The poorer folks just buy a new golf club every now and then. So here I go. We all know about hybrids by now and most people may have been carrying at least a piece in their golf bag but there are hybrids and there are hybrids. The late Gary Adams invented the metal wood before he sold TaylorMade to adidas and all golfers have since enjoy the power of the metal wood and its sweet sound. So when TaylorMade created the strange sounding "RocketBallz" series of clubs including driver, wood, hybrid and irons, the hybrid kind of stood out not just for the quirky name and its...

Roger Cleveland started producing replica of classic golf clubs in 1979  before embarking into making their wedges a household name and then a string of all other types of golf clubs before selling his company to a ski manufacturer Rossignol who were later bought by a company called Quicksilver. Quicksilver sold Cleveland Golf and its sub-company Never Compromise (golf putters) to Japan's SRI Sports who owns Dunlop and they combined Cleveland Golf with their own golf brand Srixon. Today, I am going to share with you on a Cleveland Hybrid - the Cleveland Mashie. Mashie is an old golf club as in mashie niblick which is an iron with a lofted face to hit high shots onto the green. It comes stock with an ultra-lite 59 gram Miyazaki C. Kua shaft which is supposed to help increase distance by up to 10 yards. All traditionalists would love this club for its colour scheme which is retro and its cover. They are all in the same swing weight of D4 ranging from 15.5 to 26 deg...

Old school golfers are still using their irons not believing much in hybrids when even the pros at PGA Tour are mostly converted. They are direct replacements for your hard to hit long irons not woods. I have done a previous article on it: http://gforce-guru.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-hybrids.html If you want an easy to use hybrid that isn't too expensive then just settle for one that is not the latest but yet not from the dinosaur's age and a good metal wood company is TaylorMade. The Burner SuperLaunch hybrid. Some hybrids are just chunky irons and others are more wood like. Even for those that are wood-like, there are two different species. One is build like an iron with more weight behind and actually look half iron-half wood. The Burner SuperLaunch actually look like a small fairway wood. I do have some misgivings looking down at an entirely triangular shaped club head but this one is rounded off towards its perimeter.  What are the technical features of...

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...

This is not a golf article. A groove is a long, narrow cut or a indentation in a surface. It can be used to describe a channel or track on a phonograph record for the stylus. When you get into a groove you are getting into a routine and when used as a slang it can become an enjoyable time, to appreciate and enjoy or to please immensely like he was grooving to the music. Grooves can be found on vehicle tyres to provide grip, traction and aqua-planing. There is no point having power in the car's engine without the ability to stop. What is power without control, therefore, groove is about control. To be groovy is to be with the times. What about golf clubs? Grooves In Drivers There was a time where golf drivers were much smaller and most golfers would have trouble getting the ball airborne especially those with slower swing speed. They put grooves across the driver club face to impart more spin since more spin would result in the ball spinning back to front which is know...