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Golfing During The Raining Season

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Tiger Woods has apparently patched things up with Steve Williams. Sometimes people or friends working closely together can still fall out. Maybe what Woods did was not nice and Williams said something that was terrible. That's a golfer and his caddie. There are golfers who may at times treat us like caddies as they do not pick up the flag-stick throughout a game. Picking up a flag stick is part and parcel of the game and usually the golfer who finished the hole earlier should do that. It is also a noble act of courtesy but picking up a flag stick during a storm can be dangerous as it becomes the highest point on the green and is a lightning conductor. Evil people who disguise as golfers can also attract lightning so beware who you golf with.  Some golfers are just downright negative. They see a dark cloud in the morning and they will keep saying it is going to rain. (This is the view of a storm threatening at Serapong course at Sentosa).  ...

Lightning

Remember I told you the story of talented and witty Lee Trevino and how he got struck by lightning in 1975 at a tourney? He quipped later: "In case of a storm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one-iron. Not even God can hit a one iron." Singapore has one of the world's highest rates of lightning strikes. We are world class and in the world cup. You can tell people that we are famous for this too. Deaths from lightning strikes here is 0.35 deaths for every one million people from 2000 to 2003, higher than Britain's 0.2 but lower than the USA's 0.6. April/May and November/December are the worst periods with April and November the most dangerous. We read about golfers getting struck by lightning, divers drowning or badly hurt by quick ascend, plane crashes, H1N1 and frankly speaking going to work is dangerous! Someone can just give you the bonkers! Dangers lurk and abound at every corner so to speak, there are Chinese, Vietnamese ladies everywh...

If You Intend To Shoot Your Age, Read On...

Golfers, if you intend to live to shoot your age, take a closer look at the following: Which local Clubs and those in JB that have "Lightning Warning Systems". Clubs (Singapore) / Measures ---------------------------- ---------------- SICC - Electronic Warning System TMCC - MET Service Laguna - Electronic Warning System Orchid - Electronic Warning System Seletar - Electronic Warning System Sentosa - MET Service Sembawang - MET Service Jurong - Electronic Warning System Raffles - Electronic Warning System Warren - Electronic Warning System Changi - Manual Keppel - Manual Safra - MET Service Remarks: (i) Electronic Lightning Warning Systems - Can track lightning bolts from 30 km away. Can also indicate electrical build-ups in the clouds, the direction of cloud movements and how many lightning strikes are likely to come in the next 15 minutes. (ii) MET Service - Customised forecasts from MET Service. It is very accurate and is on 24 hours. They have the latest equipment....