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

When Y.E. Yang won the PGA, a great historical feat was recorded. From the elation of such a shocker and hardly having recovered from it, along came a guy called Heath Slocum who brings back memories of David and Goliath sinking a super putt to despatch not just Tiger but three other giants out as losers. Even more admirable was the fact that Slocum ranked 124 our of 125 qualifiers sank it with a 21 footer.  Woods won the Memorial, the Buick, the AT & T National sand Bridgestone and most golfers would gladly exchange anything for a season like that but Tiger Woods is not most golfers. Two heartbreaks in a short span of time may make Tiger feels like he has wasted his life for a good part of this year. Slocum is considered a short hitter and at 1.73m and 68kg is not much bigger than me. That 21 footer gave him a one stroke win (67/275) over Woods (67/276), Ernie Els (66/276), Padraig Harrington (67/276) and Steve Stricker (69/276). Now he has a cool US$1.35...

PGA Championship What is the first thing you have to do to beat Tiger Woods? You have to t urn up and before you get all mental or psychological, you have have to be prepared in the physical realm, you have to get to the course early, release all of yesterday's toxic waste at the loo which you may otherwise be carrying with you which is of no benefit. Turning up early allows you a little luxury to ease your tension of the day before a game. Hope you get the point. You saw it for yourself on TV one of golf's great historical moments when Y.E. Yang, the first Asian born who tamed Tiger to win the PGA Championship. You read the papers talking about how his parents, farmers in Jeju Island objected to his desire to play golf how he got his meagre pay picking golf balls and when he found an iron he would trained himself before the range opened and after the range closed. Y.E. Yang Where from a distant galaxy of a humble 110th ...