Monday, 25. October 2010
23:45 SPORT1, Audi Golf News

Wednesday, 27. October 2010
23:15 Eurosport, European Tour 2010 – Masters Costa Azahar in Castellón (ESP)
23:45 Eurosport, Golf Club

Damn, what a golf nut and likeable guy!

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The newest addition to the Golf Resort Berlin Pankow is a 6 hole short course. Par 18 with a total length of 514 meters (that’s 22 meters shorter than the 7th hole of the 18 hole Sepp Maier course).

So, except for the beginners in the worlds best sport, what good would it be to play a 46m par 3? Practicing 1/2 SW tee shots? No. But practicing your short game surely becomes more fun to do it out on the course than on the driving range. Except for the 124 meter 1st hole, I’d only need my wedges (SW, GW, PW) for the tee shots. Furthermore, these are the distances I’ll almost always have left for the shot into the green on regular courses, so precision is key here. I’ll check the course out next weekend when my sons make their afternoon nap. Should be enough time for two rounds on the short course.

Monday, 18. October 2010
23:45 SPORT1, Audi Golf News

Wednesday, 20. October 2010
20:50 Eurosport, US PGA Tour 2010 – Frys.com Open in San Martin, CA
21:50 Eurosport, European Tour 2010 – Portugal Masters in Vilamoura
22:20 Eurosport, Golf Club

Saturday, 23. October 2010
10:15 SPORT1, Golf Journal
11:05 SPORT1, Audi Golf News
19:00 SPORT1, Golf Journal
19:50 SPORT1 Audi Golf News

Today was a tragic day. I lost my pink ball of shame, a true companion during my last months of golf.

Here I am playing the ball during the Royal Benzinger tournament.

Our paths crossed during a round at the Baltic Hills Golf Club, where I was looking for my shanked tee shot and found it, a pink Wilson golf ball. During the last holes before finding the ball I played so poorly, I decided to humiliate myself in playing the pink ball and henceforth dubbed it the pink ball of shame. Oddly enough, I played better from then on. Everytime my game went down the drain, I pulled out the pink ball of shame out of the bag. And it worhed somehow.

But today, during a quick nine hole practice round in Pankow, I shanked the pink ball of shame into the thick rough at the seventh hole. And never found it again. Goodbye, my friend. Hope you are a good luck charm to the next person who finds you.

The Golfclub Kirchheim-Wendlingen is the nearest Golfclub to my parents house and I played it a couple of years ago with my wife and our friend Bettina (at 7 am on a sunday morning, there was no other way to get a tee time on that sunday).

Last saturday we went there again with the family to have dinner at the clubhouse. On that occasion it came to my attention that I never wrote a review for the golfcourse. Well, it’s never to late.

The club opened in 1997 and was designed on former fruit meadows. It features an 18 hole course (Par 72 with 6.050 meters from yellow, CR 71.3, Slope 128), clubhouse, driving range and practice facilities. The clubhouse overlooks the course and the clubhouse terrace offers a nice view of the 18th green (and the sundown):

The front nine of the course start with two easy and rather short par 4′s. Nothing to get your blood pumping. The long walk between the second and third hole will do that. You’ll have to walk all the way back again between the 7th and the 8th. This makes the course appear to be ripped apart.

The third hole is an interesting par 5 with a lake to the left getting in the line of play if you take the shortcut to the middle of the fairway. Number four and five take you uphill and downhill again before the next pond awaits your ball at the par 3 sixth hole. Number seven is probably the ugliest hole of the course – an uphill par 5 – as you play directly underneath some serious big high voltage masts. You hear the buzzing of the electricity standing on the fairway. These masts decrease the attractivity of the course as they can be seen from all over the place.

You start your back nine directly in front of the clubhouse terrace, so you better not shank the ball here. Personally, I liked the back nine better as they played more compact and with a better rhythm. Especially the stretch of #14 (par 4 dogleg), 15 (uphill par 4) and 16 (downhill par 3 with frontal water and pond guarding the green) were the most appealing to me. The 17th and 18th hole play both uphill, making them even longer.

Greenfees are between 60,00 € (weekdays) and 70,00 € (weekends), more expensive than in Berlin, but the usual for the Stuttgart region. The greenkeepers have done a good job in maintaining a good standard, in addition the club is certified in the “Golf und Natur” programme of the DGV and keeps an extra eye on the ecology.

Golfanlage Kirchheim-Wendlingen-Wernau GmbH+Co. KG
Schulerberg 1
73230 Kirchheim unter Teck
Telefon: 0 70 24 / 9 20 82-0
Telefax: 0 70 24 / 9 20 82-20
E-Mail: info@golf-kirchheim.de
Internet: www.golf-kirchheim.de

Martin Kaymer continues to impress us and moreover the rest of the golf world with his dominance in the last weeks (except for getting his ass whipped in RC singles by Dustin Johnson). He is now 4th in the OWGR and has already one hand on the Race to Dubai trophy.

But lets let others do the talking, Martin is featured in a couple of golf blog articles, e.g. the Armchair Golf Blog or Wei under Par or Devil Ball Golf.

And, especially since his first major win, the predominant language for reports about him have changed from german to english (source: Social Media Monitoring):

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