I played another tournament yesterday. Didn’t go as well as I expected from the training this week. Somehow I gained 10m in length with my irons but coulnd’t integrate that into my play. This resulted in not hitting the greens, in most cases my shots landed behind the greens. My whole game felt not calibered, what bugged me most that I wasn’t able to gain points back on the Par 3′s of the course. Putting didn’t go well, most of the time my putts we’re too short, resulting in too many three-putts.
Well, we gotta lot of work to do. But I am not too disappointed, as my iron shots we’re straight and long. Something to build upon.

I just discovered some beautiful golf photography over at flickr!

Check out Stephen Motte’s photo set:

I’m just watching the report on the Evian Masters on Eurosport. Can anybody tell me the difference between the figure of Laura Davies and John Daly? In my opinion Laura has the wider back!

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As I was cleaning up on the weekend, I found the scorecard of the first round my wife and I played after we got our Players Permit. This was almost exactly three years ago, on July 27th 2003 when we played on the Golfanlage Wulfsmühle near Hamburg.

Fun to see the scores from back then! Not that I would miss them

This definitely should be fun to watch. Unfortunately it’s not broadcasted over here. I gotta find somebody to tape it over in the states!

The Deutsche Bank Players Championship are under way since yesterday on Gut Kaden in Alvesloe near Hamburg.

The immense rain (50l per square meter) led to the postponement of the first round. A reasonable decision when you look at the course condition yesterday (image borrowed from Fairway Marketing GmbH):

So, the first round will be played today and only 50 players will make the cut. Rounds 3 and 4 will both be played on sunday.

You can follow the scoring here, unfortunately, the scoreboard doesn’t denote which hole the individual players are playing at the moment. The scoreboard on Golf.de isn’t even live yet, all a bit disappointing, this was done way better at the British Open.

Yesterday we played a round of After Work Golf, this time at the Golf & Country Club Seddiner See.

Fortunately the weather stayed dry and the thunderstorm warning was false. We played the North Course designed by Rainer Preißmann.

I was pleasantly surprised by the condition of the practice areas and the course itself. The North Course is the easier one of the two but still had its challenges and interesting layouts. We only played the front nine, but I am already looking forward to playing the whole course on the next occasion.

The clubhouse in my opinion had a little too much new-rich luxurious style, but the staff at the club office and restaurant were very friendly and helpful. Although it takes me a one hour journey to get there (the course is located in the south of Berlin next to the exit Beelitz/Michendorf of the A10), I’ll play there again.

Golf- und Country Club Seddiner See AG
Zum Weiher 44
14552 Michendorf

Tel: 033205 732-0
Fax: 033205 732-29
E-Mail: info@gccseddinersee.de

Congratulations Tiger!

German qualifier Tino Schuster certainly was the surprise of the day today at the The Open in St.Andrews. After shooting an eagle at the 9th hole he went eigt under for the tournament and moved up to second place behind Tiger Woods. Sadly, his charge didn’t last long after shooting four bogeys from the 11th to 14th hole and even a double-bogey on the 17th Road hole.

Tino made the cut anyway at two under and I hope he can mentally deal with his back nine today and head off to a fresh start tomorrow morning. We’ll watch out for the new german hope. Joining Tino on the weekend will be Bernhard Langer as tied 15th, Alex Cejka will be heading back to the US after finishing two over.