It's not often we get to report some good news from Aberdeen, where Donald Trump is still attempting to build his billion-pound golf rseort. In fact, the last few posts about the issue have been been infurating readers, as Trump seems to be willing to stop at nothing to build his resort - even demanding the rights to purchase the homes of people living in the area so he can force them to move out.
The Golf Blog is sorry to bring you tragic news today. Erica Blasberg, the 25-year old LGPA golfer, was found dead in her house at 03:00 on Sunday.
Anybody who plays golf knows pin-point accuracy is the key element of the sport; you can have either range or direction without the other, or you'll never play at your best. What's more, even if you can hit the fall as far as you need, the first hurdle is figuring out how far you need to hit it! When we see the pros play on TV, they all have a very helpful piece of equipment to aid them - called a caddie! Not all of us can afford caddies, however, and this is where rangefinders come into game.
Last night, I had a shock. I was talking to my friend's fiance and he told me he'd always fancied playing golf, but couldn't indulge because he wasn't physically capable. Confused, I waited with baited breath to discover what terrible yet apparently very subtle disablement he was suffering from that meant he couldn't swing a golf club. As if to explain everything, he picked up a pen and signed his name for me... When I looked at him in confusion, he explained - "I'm left handed".
15:01 by , under advanced players, golf advice, golf clubs, golf hints, golf tips
By the time you’re an advanced golfer, you can start letting go of some of the club features that helped control the subtler aspects of your shots as a beginner and intermediate player. Where before it was important for you to have some perimeter weighting on your Game Improvement irons, you are now ready to swap these for some Player irons, which will give you some real control over the ball. Although you will sacrifice some forgiveness, you should be hitting consistently already, so this shouldn’t matter.
You can also start reducing the loft on your drivers; do so gradually, however, to make sure you don’t dump yourself in at the deep end with a club that you struggle to use well. At this stage, golf becomes more and more about the feel of the clubs, the feel of the swing and the feel of the shots. Less-advanced clubs protect you when you make mistakes, but they don’t allow for the fine-tuning that makes a good player into a great player.
A huge difference in the club set of an advanced player is that it must cover the whole range of shot-distances, as well as trajectories. Try to get a set of clubs that allow for no more than 15 yards between one club and another and alternative clubs for situations where the course or weathers is against you.
13:20 by , under golf clothes, golf clothing, golf training, Maria Verchenova
For the first time since starting out of the Ladies European Tour, Russia's Maria Verchenova has finished top of the leaderboard, signing for a 67 at the Lalla Meryem Cup in Morocco. “How did she do it?” I hear you cry...perhaps the key to her success is in what she’s been doing when not playing golf at all...
Over the winter months, the Russian hasn’t huddled from the cold like us mortals; she’s being out running six days a week and even lifting weights to stay in shape! “I was keeping myself fit through the whole winter and going to the gym and preparing to play so I felt I was going to be pretty close” she explained, as if it was no particularly big deal. I’ll be honest; I never considered running half a dozen times a week would help my golf...maybe I was wrong!
As if a strict winter fitness routine wasn’t enough, Verchenova also found time to design her own range of golf clothing! Apparently the range is inspired by women’s tennis...so it should be interesting to see how it goes down on the golf course! She says her golf clothes “will come out really soon in about two months or so and it's going to be really young and fashionable and bright colours for really young girls... Hopefully the first year I will just wear it and show it and the next year we will try to sell it.”
I think it’s safe to say we‘re all looking forward to seeing what she has in store.
Here is Britain, the most dangerous thing we're likely to encounter on a golf course is probably one another! It's not that we're even prone to outbursts on violence in this country but, when it comes to harmful wildlife, badgers don't really strike enough fear in us to put us off our putting.
Unfortunately, this isn't always the case for golfers in other countries, as businessman Hong Kee Sion discovered six years ago...when he got bitten by a crocodile during a casual round of golf in Malaysia! 
It sounds unlikely but, whilst looking for a golf ball, he slipped into a marshy part of the course and mistook the croc for a log...which he then stepped on! Luckily he managed to fend the crocodile off using his golf club (which is news enough in itself!), but he was bitten in the process and required a whopping 38 stickes in his leg!
The reason I'm bringing this up today is that it has taken this long for poor old Hong Kee to win his legal battle for compensation, which amounted to £8, 500 - enough for a few rounds at St. Andrews... Apparently, since the attack, the resort has fenced off the area, which turned out to be a crocodile rearing ground! I mean really, I couldn't make it up if I tried - they put their golf course next to a crocodile rearing ground?! Or perhaps they built their croc rearing ground next to a public golf course - either way, it reeks of idiocy! Sou
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