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

They say a bad golf day is better than a good working day. True? For beginners or novice golfers, it is good to take a day trip to Batam for golf some times. On weekdays, the entire course is yours and on your way there by ferry, you feel like you are on vacation. You have caddies to carry and clean your clubs. Never give up golfing at the range. At least make it to the fairways and the greens. And if you do not like it then it's fair dinkum.  You can survive playing this game for a long time. Meet me halfway Bro. The Guru was here, you can mark your territory. I am not talking about peeing all over the place. Always beware of snake. The sign here is not a green grass snake. It is a cobra. I have seen them before. It can be so hot and humid even the water level shrank. The trees, plants, lotus and lily may die on you. And only statues could stand there pouring water from their urns. Back home, the weather can be nice. Or too h...

The Augusta Masters is only through invitation and available to only the best golfers in the world and it is an event where even Tiger Woods need to apply. In the 2010 Masters, when Phil Mickelson was faced with some trees in front and with only about 3 feet of space away with the ball sitting on pine needles which means it is very hard to judge and then finally peeking through the trees you can see that you are some 207 yards away. What would you do? Everybody else would just chip the ball and lay it up for the next shot. Face with such an obstacle, all golfers including top pros will feel weak at such a daunting task at hand. At the top level in this situation, a two-shot lead doesn't mean much really. Tiger's right behind, Lee Westwood won't go away and is sticking close and Anthony Kim is doing everything right. At this point, what was Phil Mickelson thinking? 5 or 6 iron. If a golf ball sits on pine needles or something like this, floating or not on a solid ...