The Goose (not Retief)

This is our 13th tee (championship tee) at De Zalze. This mother Egyptian Goose had 7 eggs under her. I only managed to persuade her to move when I took my driver and got within half a meter of her.
The EG is becoming a bit of a pest at golf clubs in general in the Cape. I first played De Zalze in 2004 and only noticed one or two. In the last 2 years I have noticed the numbers have been escalating.
The EG used to be classed as a protected bird, but I heard recently this may be changed to a bird in the pest category. Please correct me if I am wrong! Some of our green keeping staff and members have been trying to help to keep their numbers down by destroying some of the nests. It is important to remember that when you destroy a nest that you should leave one egg. If you destroy the whole clutch, the birds will simply move on to a new nest site an try for a whole new clutch of up to 15. But if you leave one, the birds will continue to look after the individual egg.

Today's Storm

The threat of the storm came today from the west. It came in gaining momentum. Suddenly after 25 minutes of downpour it disappeared eastwards over the mountains.
Thank you Lord for watering our golf course!

Another hick - up!

Just as I was starting to enjoy the flow of making and uploading my golf instruction videos, for all to see (YouTube) some of the main concepts behind my teaching methods, my Panasonic video recorder decided to retire from duty. I have had it since 2003 and it seems when something like this breaks in SA, there are not many businesses that offer a repair service. After asking in the main camera stores around Stellenbosch and Somerset West, there is only one business to go to and it is in the main city of Cape Town.

Thankfully, in the mean time, a good friend of mine and past pupil, David L, is lending me his camera until I get sorted. it is the upgrade from the camera I had and it is a pleasure to use. Baie Dankie David!!

Can anybody out there give me some info on the new cameras today? eg. can the new HD cameras do the slow motion play back without any blurring without jeapordising picture quality in the way that mini DV tape
cameras are able to do?

The upload of instruction videos will continue as planned.

Golf Drill - Body Movement

Click on the link below to view the latest YouTube golf instruction video upload.

The Boland Ladies squad were with me for training this week. Those that came for training all experienced trying the drill. For some it was fun, some have gone away determined to achieve contact with the ball, and some players surprised themselves with the ease of making good contact with the ball.

Try it! It will help your golf!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfgBJa4t5oU

viewers comments

Thanks to Dale and Irene for noticing that one of the links to my You Tube video golf tips was not working. Please check again as some upgrades were done. It now works fine from my side. Please let me know of any more faults and advice on how I can run my Blog better.
Regards
Willie G
PS
I forgot to mention to you that I had an old nickname from Scotland, "Willie G"

The Open

It looks like it will be an interesting last days play today at The British Open. I would like to see one of the old guys go on to win, like Clark, Jimenez or even Watson. Having played in The Open at this course in 1993 it has been giving me goose bumps as I watch shots from some of the areas I remember playing from.
I would like to see the wind blow a bit! Yesterday was quite tame compared to what could happen.

Ball Strike

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg4h4qeik7c

Click on the link to see the video on how to strike the ball from the ground.

Bunker Shot Golf Tip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNckSxgmhBc


To view my bunker shot video tip simply click on the link above.
It is a basic, but effective concept on how to get out of the traps!