Xtreme cruiser has some spectacular pictures of the US team practice at the K Club over at golfdiscussions.com, enjoy!

(auf dem Herrenklo des GC Stolper Heide)

What you see on this scorecard of Yusaku Miyazatos is more rare than winning the lottery: scoring 2 aces in one single round of golf. It happened during Miyazatos 2nd round at the Reno-Tahoe Open at Montreux Golf and Country Club. Four iron on the 231 yard 7th and seven iron on the 173 yard 12th and history was written. Congratulations!

(via American Arena)

The second big tournament in Germany is coming our way this week with the BMW International Open at GC München-Nord Eichenried. It will be the last tournament that accounts for the Ryder Cup rankings of the European Team, so it should be especially interesting to watch the players on the bubble.

The tournament warm up started yesterday with a 10hole shootout, the player with the worst score of the hole retired from the game. Retief Goosen had to battle it out with german Marcel Siem, in the end the south african won the chip duel and a BMW Mountainbike.

To follow the tournament check out the tournaments website, the livescoring will be all flash with embedded videos of selected shots from some of the players. BMW also offers a RSS Plugin (no regular feed available) that presents the lastest news on your desktop:

We will see how the weather changes for the weekend, the heavy rain of the last days should reduce and hopefully it will be a dry tournament. There is plenty of tv coverage of the tournament, so stay tuned.

You know how you once in a while feel that you can make this next shot, that it is the moment that you will make it right? I had one of those yesterday, playing the east course at GC Stolper Heide. I had a little trouble before on the par 4 7th, bad shot off the tee and a bad fairway shot, my third shot was 40m short of the hole and the bunker separated me from the green. I stood there, holding my lobwedge and thought “You can make this shot, 40m is acomfortable length for my lobwedge, the green is wet and the ball will bite, so I should be able to place the ball comfortably near the pin and then maybe save bogey.”

I adressed the ball, swung at it, it took of in a nice way, hit the green one meter in front of the pin, gently rolled towards it and …. fell! The shot that saved me par.

The nicest thing though was that, after three bad to mediocre shots, suddenly there I was and felt comfortable with the distance, club selection and the shot that I had to make. And what could have been double bogey turned into par. I’m sure this won’t happen every round, but it’s good to know this feeling, to have it in the back of your mind and remember it the next time I will be in such a situation.

If you think your golf swing is crap, it can get a lot worse! You’ll believe me when you see the worlds worst golf swings.

Be sure to check out this guy Alan Matusevich:

Whatever he is trying to do, it looks more like whacking a mole than trying to get a golf ball to fly. Hilarious. Maybe he should check out the lesson “Learn the perfect golf swing” over at lifehacker.com. But I doubt if this would help in his case.

(via Birdies & Bogeys)

Ist aber auch nicht einfach, denn: Ich habe Montag meine erste vollständige Golfrunde gespielt, also 18 Löcher. Quintessenz: Aua. Und gleichzeitig: Yeah, Baby.

Wobei „spielen“ auch nicht ganz der richtige Ausdruck ist. Für laienhafte Augen hat es wahrscheinlich mehr danach ausgesehen, als ob ich eine unschuldige Grasnarbe mit einem Eisenstab verprügelt habe und dabei ab und zu, nicht allzu oft, eher selten, fast zufällig einen kleinen, doofen Ball getroffen habe, der auf dieser Grasnarbe dumm rumlag.

Mein Putten war allerdings erste Sahne und der einzige Grund, warum ich nicht kleinlaut nach neun Löchern wieder ins Auto gestiegen und nach Hause gefahren bin und die Schläger verschenkt habe. Der Weg bis zum Grün war allerdings fürcherlich. Und ich ahne auch, warum.

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It is the BMW International Open in Munich this week and suddenly, TV is packed with coverage. I wish it was like this every week of the year!

Thursday, 31. August
22:30 DSF, European Tour, Day 1 of the BMW International Open 2006 in Munich

Friday, 01. September
00.35 n-tv, European Tour, Day 1 of the BMW International Open 2006 in Munich
22:30 DSF, European Tour, Day 2 of the BMW International Open 2006 in Munich

Saturday, 02. September
00.35 n-tv, European Tour, Day 2 of the BMW International Open 2006 in Munich
22:30 DSF, European Tour, Day 3 of the BMW International Open 2006 in Munich
18.30 n-tv, Abschlag - Golf bei n-tv
19.30 CNN, Living Golf
22:00 DSF, European Tour, Day 3 of the BMW International Open 2006 in Munich

Sunday, 03. September
00.35 n-tv, European Tour, Day 3 of the BMW International Open 2006 in Munich
09.30 CNN, Living Golf
15.30 CNN, Living Golf
18.30 n-tv, Abschlag - Golf bei n-tv
19.30 n-tv, European Tour, Day 4 of the BMW International Open 2006 in Munich
20.30 CNN, Living Golf
22:00 DSF, European Tour, Day 4 of the BMW International Open 2006 in Munich

Monday, 04. September
00.35 n-tv, European Tour, Day 4 of the BMW International Open 2006 in Munich

Then go to http://www.mytopscore.de/, pick one of three players - Alex Cejka, David Howell or John Daly - and fill out the scorecard with the score for their final round at the BMW International Open and you could be a winner. That is, if your score matches the score actually played best.

I picked David Howell as I wasn’t sure if the others would survive the cut….

Read this great entry over at Digital GolfBlogger!