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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

How to Play Winning Golf

First of all there is no secret about how you win a handicap golf tournament. You win because you have the lowest net score. The net score is your Real score minus your Handicap Index. The USGA handicap system allows players with different skill levels to be able to compete with each other. It is the fairest way get two players to a level playing field. The system is not perfect. Mainly because your handicap is a mathematical formula that takes and averages your last 10 best scores. If you as a player can turn in one of your better than average rounds of golf you stand a better than average chance to win the tournament.

This is my winning strategy. Try to play a round of golf equal to or better than your average score for your last 10 best rounds. You should know what this score is before playing in the tournament. If you can post this score or better you have a good chance of winning the tournament. I know that I may have over-simplified this winning strategy. But, If you just follow my suggestions you may just find yourself in the winners circle at the completion of your golf tournament.

It is a fact that the average scores for golf tournaments are usually higher than a normal round of golf. This is a good indication that most players put more pressure on themselves during tournaments.

The better player understands this phenomenon and adopts the following philosophy - Take What the golf Course will Give You on any hole. This means that if you make a mistake on a hole don't turn that mistake into a disaster. Accept a bogey or even a double bogey as the best that you can do on that hole. Don't try to make an impossible shot in an effort to save par. Most of the time this only compounds the mistake and creates a disaster hole. If you do this just once in the tournament you could loose the tournament. Do it twice and you will definitely loose the tournament.

In my opinion, this strategy may be the difference between winning or loosing the tournament. When you play conservative golf you are more likely to score at or below the average of your last 10 best golf scores. Just remember that your competitors scores are likely to be higher than normal because of tournament pressure.

This is a very simple strategy and ironically most players never use this approach during tournament play. Everyone thinks they have to play their career best round in order to win. Most of the time this just isn't the case. Although, if someone does shoot a career best round you haven't a chance to win that tournament.

I based this strategy on the experience of playing quite a few years as a member of the northern illinois Mens Amateur Golf Association. NIMAGA hosted handicap golf tournaments monthly during the golf season. A high percentage of the over 500 regular members never in their life time win a tournament. I was fortunate to have won 4 times, tied and lost in a playoff 4 times, and finished in second place numerous times. Although not foolproof, I can attest first hand that without adopting my tournament strategy I wouldn't have won a single tournament.

Here is my challenge to you. Eliminate triple-bogeys or worse from your tournament and see if you can break through into the winners circle.

I have over forty years experience playing amateur golf and being the winner or runner up of numerous Handicap golf Tournaments, I have a theory about what it takes to be a golf tournament winner. I am certain my theory will help you get into the winners circle.

Sam Novak http://www.bestgolfgear.net

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Learn Japanese Language - Did You Know That There Are 3 Different Japanese Symbols?

Especially for those who have started to learn japanese, you should know the difference between three different japanese symbols or writing form called:

  1. Kanji
  2. Hiragana
  3. Katakana
japanese people use 3 different japanese Symbols

About Kanji Symbols: Normally, many Westerners think that kanji symbol is the only writing form we use in japanese. It is true that we use kanji symbols more than hiragana or katakana symbols when writing something in japanese. However, unlike Chinese people who use only Kanji symbols, we mix up all japanese scripts.

About Hiragana symbols: Hiragana symbols are normally used by supporting Kanji symbols' meaning. For example, if you write "I love You" in japanese, you would use the kanji symbol for Love, but the rest of characters are written with Hiragana symbols. Of course, we just use only Hiragana symbols to write a word or phrase in japanese as well.

About Katakana symbol: Finally, Katakana symbol is often used to represent foreign words, or names which have adopted into the japanese writing system. Therefore, if you can read the Katakana symbols, you can normally work out what a word or phrase means in English. Nowadays, the majority of companies write their names both in English and Katakana symbols.

Each japanese symbols are used something like this in Japan.

If you travel to Japan, you would see how each japanese Kanji Symbols, Hiragana and Katakana symbols are used.

For example, japanese magazine normally use 80% of Kanji symbols, and 10% of Hiragana and Katakana symbols.

This picture is a part of a japanese magazine. In this case, they use Kanji symbols and Katakana symbls for the title. But, otherwise, they used all 3 japanese symbols.

Because this page of the japanese magazine is talking something about the name of the company in Unites States which is foreign name, they used the Katakana symbols for its name.

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Burn Xbox 360 Games - Worth The Risk?

Do you really want to burn xbox 360 games? Microsoft's most advanced console to date continues to be one of the most popular consoles around, and more people than every want to learn to back up their games. Is burning your 360 games the answer though? In this article we are going to try and explain why burning the games may not be the answer...

Ok first up, probably the biggest reason of all-it's against the law to burn copies of games! The only time it's legal is when someone already owns an original copy and would like to make themselves a spare in case of damage etc. So if you're the kind of person looking to visit their local blockbuster and copy the whole collection of games, it looks like you are fresh out of luck!

Want another reason? How about the fact that to burn xbox 360 games, you'll need to flash the firmware on your 360 in order for it to give you a different kind of access to the dvd drive. Now this may not be illegal, but it will certainly invalidate your warranty. Now imagine if you made a mistake-one dead 360, and microsoft certainly won't replace or fix it for you, because you broke the warranty.

Another huge reason is the amount of effort it takes. If you want to burn xbox 360 games, you'd better make sure you are committed. Running copied games on modded consoles is not for the faint of heart. There are quite often problems, and it's not uncommon to have to make 2 or 3 copies of a disc because the first one comes out as a bad burn. Not only that, sometimes you'll find that you get a game running just for it to not be able to load the second level, or any other number of glitches.

If you want to burn xbox 360 games, you'd better make sure you have plenty of free time on your hands and the patience of a saint!

Although there are some good alternatives around these days, so you may not have to go as far as burning.

The most obvious alternative is to buy preowned games. You can get these at all kinds of places these days, with the best selection probably available at ebay. You can get some serious bargains on ebay, especially if you wait until 2 or 3 in the morning to look.

Another helpful alternative is to download the games instead. These days it's not necessary to download games from some kind of shady peer to peer site-you can actually get high speed downloads from reputable companies. It can be hard to find them, but once you do, the sky is the limit. Sites like this would usually have you pay a one off fee to get initial access, but this covers you for life-you will literally get free games for as long as you want them, which seems like a good deal to me.

Hopefully this article has given you an idea of some alternatives and some extra information for those of you looking to burn xbox 360. Check out the links below for some of the best download sites.

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