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.