I love their tv commercial:

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By looking at the current leaderboard of the Estoril Open de Portugal at Quinta da Marinha, I see some fine weekend prospects for our german plazers Martin Kaymer and Sven Strüver:

Not all top players have finished their round yet, but with a projected cut around +3 / +4 Martin should be safe and sound for the weekend. Sven is three holes into his second round and is level par for the round and one under for the tournament. A solid performance should earn him two more tournament days as well.

Kariem Baraka though has had a rough tournament, after +12 in his first round he added +6 to his scorecard today and is T153. Better luck next time, buddy!

Dropping everything for a good cause seems to get its tradition not only since the movie “Calendar Girls“. Now, numerous proettes from the ALPG Tour have posed for the womens golf calendar. Organised by former golf pro Jenny Sevil, the revenues of the calendar partly go to charity.

The calendar has caused quite some controversy. Initially, the fundings were to support the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) of Australia, but the charity has withdrawn her support for the calendar. Sue Murray, the general manager of the NBCF said she was concerned that the “perfect breasts” on (partial) display in the calendar photos would be “too confronting” for women who had lost their breasts to mastectomies.

Now, a third of the calendar proceeds will now go to the McGrath Foundation, another Australian breast cancer charity. The McGrath Foundation works to provide hospitals with the specialist services of breast care nurses, each estimated to cost AUD $90,000 a year to employ.

Golf addicted persons strive to express their love for the game in odd manners. Some of us – maybe for therapeutic reasons – joined the Golf Nut Society, others now have the possibility of telling their story on Golfoholic.de.

Send in your golf story or pictures to undermine your golf madness and a jury will pick the best stories. Prizes aren’t bad, 1st prize is a 7 day cruise aboard an AIDA-cruiseship, second prize is a week of golf at the Golf Club de Andratx. Competitions runs until August.

Tonight I really got to appreciate motion sensors. Especially when they operate the light at the driving range hut at GC Pankow, where I arrived at 7.30 pm tonight. As it went dark around 8 pm the mentioned light enabled me to carry on my practice session.

Today I just concentrated on my short game and chose as range targets the flags set at 50, 75 and 125 meters. Furthermore I tried to hit the targets using different clubs. For the 75 m flag I would normally use a full SW, but also tried to make it with PW, 9i, 8i and 7i. During the very windy round last sunday I tried to keep my approach shots ‘under the wind’ but found out, that I hadn’t a very good feeling for the different lenghts. The practice tonight helped me a lot and I am looking forward to our easter vacation, where we will take on the first course for the GD Island Trophy, the GC Rügen.

Are you tired of winning the same ugly crystal trophies at your club tournaments? Ready to go after the big cash? Then the Ultimate Game is something for you.

The tournament is open to any amateur golfer that brings along $ 50.000 entry fee. The field is limited to 160 players which will compete in some preliminary rounds, the 12 remaining players play in a two-day, 36-hole stroke play golf competition, with the winner receiving a total of $2,000,000. Venue for the final rounds will be the Wynn Las Vegas.

Just for the fun of it, here a simple comparison of the winning purses of some selected tournaments:
The Ultimate Game at Wynn Las Vegas: $2.00MM
The Players Championship: $1.44MM
The British Open: $1.338MM
The Tour Championship: $1.170MM
The PGA Championship: $1.224MM
The U.S. Open: $1.125MM
The Masters: $1.260MM

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In the current issue of Golfmagazin you’ll find a big poster with a map of Germany that has all german golf courses marked on it. A great tool for planning your next golf trip.

Furthermore, I discovered that almost every german island has its own golf course. Here’s the list from Baltic Sea to North Sea:

Why do I feel tempted to play all those? Call it the Golfer’s Delight Island Trophy!

In preparation to next weeks Masters here is a collection of TW’s best golf shots so far.

I dunno if you could pick just 10 as there are so many out there. The famous chip in at the 16th isn’t even included. Sit back and enjoy!

Wednesday, 28. March 2007
22.30 Eurosport, Golf News

After a shaky third round Martin Kaymer pulled his stuff together and deliverd an almost flawless performance today at the Madeira Islands Open. He shot four under and ended up in T15 for the tournament. Congratulations to the second time in the money.

Sven Strüver had a rougher day today, his 78 final round puts him at T57. Double bogeys at 8 and 10 messed up his scorecard a little bit.