The Sony Open / PGA TOUR / January 15-18, 2010
 

Here are some photos from Thursday.

Full Screen Slideshow

The third last shot in the slide show. That looks like a tough life out on the road there boss!

:headbang:

Blue Angels
 

Those are the Grey Goose Girls who tend to the patrons at the Halekulani Resorts/Better Brands Skybox off the 18th green.

"Mem'ries . . . light the corner of my mind."

:angel1:

Aloha Section / PGA / Sony Open Public Clinic
 

Compliments of The Sony Open and the Aloha Section of the PGA of America, I will be doing today's 'Featured Instructor' clinic at 11 AM. It will be held in Spectators Village at the PGA Instruction area off the 18th fairway.

If you're an LBG'er and can be there, please be sure to introduce yourself. I always enjoy meeting our friends at tournaments and other special events around the world.

:3gears:

Wish I could be there.

Good luck with it. Knock em stiff.

Yes fine work there Yoda. Very good of you to show your support for the sponsors.
LBG and the Grey Goose Girls. A united front that reminds me immediately of Churchill and Roosevelt at Yalta.

Hope Mrs Yoda was out shopping that day. My wife starts to get kind of Stalin like whenever I get caught doin my "supportin". Esprit de corps comes with a price, I always tell her.

Keep fighting the good fight Yoda , we're going to win this war.

(Uh who are we fighting again? I cant remember.)


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Beach People
 

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Here's the Blackberry view from our dinner table at Ocean House in the Outrigger Reef On the Beach Hotel in Waikiki.

Silhouettes, sunsets and sand.

Good things!

:-D

Black and Blue Amid the Angels
 

Yes, O.B., I do all I can to support the sponsors. In fact, to properly promote the Sony in Hawaii, I had to elbow PGA TOUR commish Tim Finchem out of the cart and from amongst the assembled Grey Goose Girls.

As we say down South: "He was a hard dog to get off the porch."

&B

It's a long, winding road out here, but someone's got to trudge it.

:toothy1:

Sony LBG LeBGTaderboard
 

Oh, by the way . . .

BG is at 68-69-70=207, T-33.

Sunday cometh!

The two par 5's had to be a little bit disappointing on Saturday...not sure what happened.

Team Mates
 

Yeah, those were tough, especially #18, the second-easiest hole of the week.

Kip argued for driver. Brian liked 3-wood.

Thursday, BG cut a 3-wood into the right bunker, got it out and made birdie with a wedge from 97 yards.

Friday, he hooked driver into, in Kip's words, the "only impossible place" in the left bunker (under the lip) and made par.

Saturday, it was BG's choice of 3-wood, but he cut it again. This time . . . Bogey.

Sunday, another 'discussion' between the two, and it was 3-wood into the magnetized right bunker. Then out, on and birdie.

For several reasons, Kip still thinks driver is the right choice and was very frustrated, even after the closing birdie (and a 4-under 31 inward nine) at tourney's end. For an equal number of reasons, Brian thinks 3-wood and defended that choice mano-o-mano in the interview area after signing his card:

Kip: You gotta hit driver on that hole.

Brian: I never hit it a good shot, so you can't say 3-wood is wrong.

:think:

Life on the PGA TOUR . . .

The best of the best.

Strong players.

Strong caddies.

These are two strong guys, and they make a great team.

:salut:

Teaching A Crowd and One At The Sony Open
 

At the Sony Open each year in Honolulu, Hawaii, the Aloha Section of the PGA constructs a three-bay teaching facility off the 18th fairway at Waialae CC. There, Section PGA professionals give more than 1,000 lessons to all comers.

At noon on each of the four days, two of the three bays are closed for a half hour, and a featured speaker holds forth. On Saturday of the 2010 Sony Open, I was privileged to be that speaker, and we all had a great time 'educating' our Hands.

Under my direction, each person in the audience learned, demonstrated and recited the Three Planes of Motion of the Hands -- Horizontal, Perpendicular and Rotational -- and the Three Wrist Conditions in each Plane:

Horizontal: Flat, Bent and Arched.

Perpendicular: Level, Cocked and Uncocked.

Rotational: Vertical, Turned and Rolled.

Then, they learned the three simultaneous Wrist Conditions of Impact:

Flat . . . not Bent or Arched.

Level . . . not Cocked or Uncocked; and

Vertical . . . not Turned or Rolled.

We also got acquainted with the precision Address alignments of the Arms and Body.

During the half hour, the chanting crowd grew very large. In fact, it was three times as big at the end of our time than at the beginning! That's because interested bystanders wanted to join in the fun. And join they did!

Along the way, I called on various members of the audience to come center stage and permit me to demo a point or two. We laughed . . . and we learned. At the end, everybody knew a whole lot more than they did at the beginning, and they enjoyed the journey. As always, that is my own personal measure of success.

Immediately following my presentation, I was asked by the Section to give a private lesson. The student and I spent 20 minutes together, during which time I found three very important mis-alignments and prescribed a positive remedy for each. Together, we put them on the run.

Later that afternoon, the Executive Director called and asked if I could do an encore at 10:30 the next morning with this same student. Which, of course, I was happy to do. When it comes to teaching -- as everybody knows -- I'm always ready to go!

:3gears:

Anyway, this particular golfer is a very special lady. She is intelligent, athletic and obviously trained in golf. Her problem was, in her own words, "Why don't I break 100?" Trust me, with her new alignments and more secure grip, she will. And soon.

The name of my newest most wonderful student?

Naoko Okada.

Daughter of Akio Morita, the late co-founder of Sony.

Our lives are obviously very separated, but she and I struck a bond -- a golfer's bond -- and there is no doubt in my mind we are destined to meet again.

:salut:

Free PS3s for all 7000 members of LBG!!!!

That calls for balloons!

:laughing9

Been looking for one for a while :laughing9
Imagine a networked game of TW2010 with the whole of LBG?? :golf:
Alex

even better than that Alex, imagine being able to build your own stroke on LBG 2011! :laughing9

Scotland Trackman
 

Alex,

As everyone knows, accommodations around St. Andrews are tight -- and have been tight -- since the nanoseconds following the annnouncement of the 2010 Open Championship. As a result, Mrs. Yoda and I need your on-the-ground 'inside' counsel regarding same.

Just like last year!

Please PM, and we'll coordinate from there.

Thanks!

:salut:

PS3's new GOLF game: T.G.M.

Beware the Cardinal Sins. Learn the ways to direct the Force, to Feel the Force. Learn how to bend your projectiles around trees to smote the hiding enemy, The Hole.

Yeah I can just see Yoda's avatar being the 'instruction button".

Think of all the Star Wars fans who'd learn about TGM just because they'd buy the game cos of 'our' Yoda on the front!

We'd probably end up gettin sued by George bleedin Lucas though:sad2:

PM on its way Lynn

'The Force is strong in this one....' :laughing9
PM on the way Lynn.
Alex

The two par 5's had to be a little bit disappointing on Saturday...not sure what happened.