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Page 14 January Edition Seven Lakes News<br />
In Seven Lakes South<br />
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ALL FITNESS LEVELS WELCOME<br />
Tricks To Keep Your Game In Shape<br />
During The Long 45 Day Wintertime In The Sandhills<br />
Fake Putting A synthetic mat with an actual hole is your best bet for<br />
trying to recreate the pace and feel of a real putting green. Short of that, a<br />
coffee mug on your living room carpet will do.<br />
Road Trip With Buddies If only to soothe your golf-deprived psyche,<br />
you need to envision a time when you’re wielding a 7-iron instead of a snow<br />
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Try a simulator. So maybe pounding a ball into an oversized screen is<br />
not the same thing as feeling a breeze in your face and the grass under your<br />
feet. But the competitive exercise of trying to grind out a score is still rewarding.<br />
Try a high visibility yellow golf balls<br />
Not so long ago, yellow balls were the preserve of driving ranges and rockhard<br />
budget balls.<br />
Try Hank Haney’s advice and make 100 swings a day. The<br />
noted instructor says the best way to groove a swing is to repeat it without<br />
worrying about where the ball is headed.<br />
Follow your ball into the sun<br />
Track the ball from the moment it takes off until just before it reaches the<br />
heart of the sun. Now, instead of continuing to follow it, and losing it, turn<br />
your attention to the spot where you think it will land; you’ll soon see it come<br />
into view.<br />
Strengthen your golf muscles. Most experts will tell you building<br />
your core strength will serve you in multiple aspects of life, not just golf.<br />
Test out new equipment. There are all kinds of practical reasons<br />
why you should do this—your clubs are outdated, your swing has changed or<br />
someone got you a gift certifi cate.<br />
Upgrade your golf gear. Those saddles shoes you haven’t worn in<br />
three years. That baggy shirt from a long ago member-guest you’ll never<br />
wear again.<br />
Up your golf IQ. There are stacks of golf books out there that will help<br />
make the winter pass quicker.<br />
Take up bowling. David Owen editor of Golf Digest has described bowling<br />
as a “wintertime golf methadone”—an activity featuring a familiar mix of<br />
competitiveness, camaraderie, and bad shoes. “ Mostly what bowling offers<br />
in the absence of golf is a chance to get your buddies together to do something<br />
other than just drink and eat.<br />
Play real golf. Outside. At some point they stopping cutting real holes<br />
into the greens, but it’s not like they build a barricade around the golf<br />
course.<br />
Edited By: Millie Jameson
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