Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Team golf will test your nerves. Bring your zen along.
Team golf will certainly test your temper. You have to reach deep down to level your nerves and find a balanced sense of calmness without eroding your competitiveness.
We generally get impacted first on our short game, chipping and putting. Either too aggressive or too timid.
In any case, no Tiger Woods in this group. But certainly a nice combination of long and short game players. We didn't win but we certainly scored honorably :)
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Golf is such a funny game. Funny, How?
Sitting in the media center Sunday for a post-round interview, Brandt Snedeker had just started talking about falling a few strokes short and finishing second in the Farmers Insurance Open. Less than an hour later, he was holding the championship hardware.
Brandt Snedeker watched on television as Kyle Stanley made a disastrous triple-bogey 8 on the final hole of the South Course at Torrey Pines Golf Course to wipe out what once was a seven-shot lead. After racing to the putting green and refocusing his mind, Snedeker matched Stanley's birdie on the first playoff hole, then won his third PGA Tour title with a par on the second playoff hole when Stanley three-putted from 47 feet.
"It's just crazy," Snedeker said moments after his victory. "To get my mind around what just happened is tough. I'm...read more: Snedeker wins a shocker at Torrey Pines
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Race to save 'Lungs of the World'
The Yasuni National Park, known as "the lungs of the world" and one of the most bio-diverse places on earth, is under threat from oil drilling. The race is on to find the funds required to develop new sustainable energy programmes that would leave the oil - and the forest - untouched.
In the early light of dawn, the Napo River, running swiftly from its headwaters in the high Andes, swirled powerfully past the bow of our motorised canoe.
Suddenly, a dense cloud of green parrots swooped down from the canopy of the jungle and in a cackling din started scooping tiny beakfuls from the exposed muddy bank.
The heavy mineral rich clay, the birds seem to know, is an antidote to the toxins present in the...read more Race to save Ecuador's 'lungs of the world' park
Saturday, January 21, 2012
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