Local Golf Photos...

Brenna - Newest LPGA hopeful in training. More on her story later. Hopefully she will be the next "Big Break" star. (Bre - send me an email with correct spelling.)

Michael - New to golf but very determined. Frank says, hey man, I see the problem. Do it like this...

Parker - Mike's golfing buddy. As you can see... Parker has played golf.

More later... they are going to GolfTEC. (They met Ray Sharp there - If you don't go see Ray - you may never play golf... and you might be a "Redneck.")

Hawkins Logan. He's sure to bag a couple trophies before yearend.

Hawkman - we know... Headed straight for the PGA tour. Mercy... a foot taller than last year. See last years swing photos below.

Now here's a kid that has a plan. First time out he took forty strokes to get to hole number one from the first tee. Now with a couple months under his belt - look at the difference. With a little polish and lots of practice by the time he's sixteen or seventeen he'll have all his scholarships wrapped up - plus a wall full of trophies. Way to go Hawkins - he just turned thirteen!!! Hey, tell me about your China connection!

A few months later... Way to go Hawkman!!! 

Uh Oh... Swing analysis or what? Frank, Murry, Wayne and Chuck. Looks like old Chuck is holding his own against these  "Professionals." (Zoom in boys and examine away!)

GolfTEC says Frank has good start and good finish. Murry Golf Swing (Guess he knew we had a camera in the bag - he wore red.) Whoa... Tiger! Wayne’s World – Wayne Wren. Straighten the arms in the middle of the swing and you'll have 300 yards! Old Chucks head is always down before/after swing contact. Finish looks almost like Sergio's swing finish!

Sergio Garcia's swing sequence. Courtesy of Golf Digest Magazine.

Sergio

Green Tractor

Here we go... green, green on the way. Howdy Freddie! He will turn the whole golf course green. Freddie thinks his tractor is sexy. Heck, look at that bald head - looks like he ought to be a TV host or downtown making music with Sam and Dave at Stax Records.

Winged Foot 18th hole. (Wow, talk about definition - long and short grass!) Paiute Wolf - Las Vegas. Heck... all we wanted was ONE sand trap and a bump or two, a little up, a little down and a stretch of water to collect all the balls!!!

Hello 2009. Yes sir, a brand new year, a new president, golf course renovations in the works, and wouldn't you know it - Chucks birthday is actually on the very first day of the year! Antique maybe - been here since the first week the golf course opened - we know he is over twenty and can't possibly be one hundred. So we dressed the cake with seventy seven (77) and his new name "Braggadocios" which he said was correct.

Old "Braggo" is still working eight (8) days a week (yeah, had to work on his birthday) and a few early birds dropped by to share the cake and wish him well. Frank Trevino (in red shirt - not sure he is Lee Trevino's cousin or not - both are from West Texas and New Mexico) was out for an early morning of golf. Werner was also there, cause he's the head knocker - he thinks, Ms Kitty is actually the "ruler" so, as you can see, he let her have a piece of "Braggo's" cake.

Happy birthday Chuck.

Wow... It looked like we were on a movie set this morning. With fog this thick I thought I would see Bagger Vance (Will Smith) come over the hill any minute and give us a lesson or two. Nope... But it was Sam and Glenn in good form on the 7th tee. No need to raise up your head looking for the ball - it disappeared soon after ball strike into the fog - if you had any loft at all. Check it out - the photo - good back stroke, head down. I'm sure he hit the green with this one.

    Extreme - fog to sun - same course.(Southaven Hole 3) Is this beautiful... or what? Wow, look at the ball. Is it an eagle or birdie?

Kenny... at number 8 ahead of storm. Still trying for another hole in one. Looks like a birdie shot coming up to me!

Uh Oh... take Kenny off the amateur new golfer list. Today, Sunday, October 26, 2008, he scored his first "Hole in One." Ken hit one shot off the tee on number four and immediately started yelling. Heck, we thought he hit his foot with the club! Waving and yelling like that, we turned around to see him pointing toward the number four hole. I knew it... a hole in one. He yelled for us to go check it out before he went over to the hole. Sure enough, the ball was in the hole - squeezed in beside the flag pole. A straight shot at the hole hitting the pole smack-dab in the center. Luckily we had our camera with us for verification and I understand he will get his picture in the local paper also. Congratulations Kenny.

               Okay Tiger, where are you? I'm ready! Practice, practice, practice.

               Kenny... Brand new golfer. Wow, we gotta get more pictures of the swing arc. However, in these photos you can see the baseball swing windup and release. I bet the ball goes left or right as though it had a mind of it's own!!! Arms not straight (just before contact) in first photo. Look at Sergio Garcia at bottom.

Wow, Golfsmith (GolfTEC actually) knows how to do it. Slight bend in elbow but they certainly have me on track. Perfect shoulder and hip turn. (More pictures soon.)  

Months later - finally rid of the chicken wing and swing plane is back on track.

Get back... Finally won a big one!