A golf tip from Jeff Eccleston - Boyne Golf Academy

Ben Hogan said that IF you have a sound grip, stance, and waggle, that you will never have a bad ball striking day.....  Wait a minute, A Waggle?  What does a waggle have to do with my golf swing?  Better yet, what is a waggle?

Well, provided that your grip and stance are fundamentally correct, the waggle portion of the equation goes like this.

From your address postion, allow your wrists to hinge the club so that the shaft is parallel to the ground and the toe of the club is pointed skyward.  Your arms should still remain in front of your body.  If done correctly, your top hand will have a slight cup in it, and the hands will move slightly ahead of the ball.  From here, simply return the club to address postion and repeat a couple of times as you let your eyes move between the ball and the target. 

By incorporating a waggle into your shot you are effectively setting the plane for your backswing, rehearsing impact, and removing tension from your swing.

 

The Nike Junior Golf Camps at BOYNE started Varsity Camp yesterday.  18 young men from Michigan, Nebraska, Indiana, Connecticut, Wisconsin, California, Illinois, and Kentucky converged on Boyne Highlands for a full week of intensive golf training. 

Camp started with a warm up round on the Cuff Links par 3 course before pizza and practice and finally a 18 hole round on the Heather!  This morning will start with a gourmet breakfast buffet, video analysis with the BOYNE Golf Academy, and lunch.  The afternoon holds a round of golf on the Arthur Hills, Moor, or Donald Ross Memorial.  

This evening we will start a match play tournament on the Cuff Links, UNDER THE LIGHTS!!! 

Instruction continues all day with Golf Academy staff accompanying each group for further on the course tips, advice, and lessons.

Camp concludes on Thursday with a tournament style round and awards ceremony.  This is the second camp of the summer of a total of eight.  Some spots are still open for the upcoming camps.  Click here for more information.  

It's been a 'winter of olde' — with plentiful and frequent doses of new snow adding to paradise for those of us who like to slide on snow. This evening promises another 6 inches of new snow and perfect temperatures for another weekend on the white playground. Even the recent warm spell hasn't completely erased the huge snowbanks which evidence nature's contribution to this old fashioned winter. Now the banks will be growing again and they'll be painted that blinding white by the March sun.

A few years back, I was starting to wonder if all the amazing improvements in ski resort technology - from snowmaking, to lifts, and grooming - and the even more impressive improvements in equipment and clothing - would go for naught because it wouldn't be cold enough to freeze water. But the string of long, old-fashioned winters we are notching for the last few seasons has me excited to renew my commitment to the sport. Seems the nightly news folks aren't the climate experts they pose as after all.

Who knows what the future will bring. But until Nature shows me otherwise, I'll be be making winter plans and investments of our family's recreational dollars based around the premise that there will continue to be a white wonderland to enjoy. It's been a great one this year — and it's not even close to being over with. In BOYNE country, we are content with the state of the weather and the sport. An attitude not to be confused with that of Richard III back in the Sixteenth Century.

Cary Adgate - BOYNE SnowSports Ambassador 

So, you're on the South side singin the blues about the rain down there?

Here’s a little exercise that sums up the weather pattern that is rolling through the “population belt” just to our south and it’s effects on snow conditions at BOYNE:

Step outside and hold your left hand up in the air so that you see everybody's favorite Michigan map. Now hold it out in the elements for a couple minutes.  If anybody looks at you funny, just smile and tilt your hand in the royal wave.

After a couple minutes tell me, where is it coldest?  

After a few minutes, take note: Do the heat and sweat vapors seeping out of the cuffs of your down jacket have any real effect on the tips of your fingers?

You’ll probably notice that your finger tips are still experiencing the full winter blast, even though the base of your hand is beginning to warm up a bit and other parts of your body are feeling positively tropical. In fact, the tips probably have no idea anything is going on to the South.

The same applies here. In fact, it’s snowing…with no real end in sight.

O.k. that’s enough. You can stop running in place. Point yourself north and drop the transmission into drive.

Just don’t forget your gloves. You'll need ‘em.

-JJ

You have to be careful this time of year.  Shots tend to stick and if you aren't careful they'll plug in a way that you can't get them out very easily.

This one dropped into my email box about a Top 100 Course You Can (should) Play:

It made me want to get out and play it one more time, but alas it's too late.  This will haunt me until spring. 

-JJ

If you aren’t living HD yet you’d better get a move on before you miss the show.
For many, that means weekends of bonding with HD TVs. Football season is in high-gear and that means HDTV at its’ best.
But it doesn’t come close to this.

This is High Definition Living brought to you by BOYNE.  It’s full of life-defining moments and the picture is so crisp and clear, it’s like your right there…because YOU ARE.

Now showing: Fireworks in Slow Mo
It’s that time for our annual spectacle of the spectrum.  Step right up ladies and gentlemen. A colossal collision of color awaits.
The world is turning…orange and gold. Erupting in Reds and yellows.
Boom.
Ahhh!

Kapow.
OOOHHH!

Trade in that trusty recliner for the best seat in the house- a chairlift seat.
How about that 360 degrees of vision and an immersive sound system?

Too “Type A” for slow mo?
Try an early morning run or strap on a helmet and blur all the colors together as you tear down the bike paths and trails.
 
Do I even need to mention the golf?
The turf grass is talking. If you listen, it will gush in cool greens. It's all a little greener, especially when set against a raging inferno of color. And remember, this is HD LIVING.  You can reach down and touch it, but please replace your divots.

Unfortunately, you can’t set TiVo to record this for you while you waste time doing other things.
This season is brief and there are no reruns.  You might want to tune in quick.

-JJ

It's www.michigan.org vs. www.virginia.org!

Michigan led in the finals for the best state tourism website in the country until early yesterday morning.  Now we're behind, but that can easily change.

With all due respect to Virginia, we believe that our state has a better tourism product, (the Great Lakes, more inland lakes, miles of freshwater shoreline, the Mackinaw Bridge, more golf courses, more boats, more ski resorts, more snowmobile trails, more beautiful color tours, two peninsulas, more lighthouses, etc).  

Next year, the award-winning "Pure Michigan" campaign will go nationwide, and will entice more visitors to our state than at any point in our history.  Frankly, we need the jobs those visitors will bring here more than Virginia does. 

To folks in Virginia, this contest is just for bragging rights, but to us it's about registering another first and helping in some significant way to position Michigan's economy for future growth. 

So please, go to http://traveltrendreport.blogspot.com/ and VOTE MICHIGAN!  More importantly, forward this email to at as many friends as you can.

Please join us, VOTE MICHIGAN and spread the word!  But hurry - voting ends tonight, 08/08/08 at 11:59! 

Sincerely,

BOYNE

 PS: Forward this message to your family and friends!