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June 2018 A Royal Treat See page 4 -5 Magalies Park Golf Club Membership Fees 2018 Gold Membership R1850 + R3000 This membership entitles you to the use of the golf course & the resort facilities for a maximum of 5 people & one vehicle Silver Membership Golf R1850 This membership entitles you to the full use of the golf course Bronze Golf Membership R1000 ACCOMMODATION This membership entitles you to the Looking for somewhere full use of the golf course from Mon- for the whole day to Friday only family to holiday? Contact us on 012 207 9000 Join TEE AND SANDWEDGES at Selborne and Umdoni in beautiful balmy KZN 15 - 17 July 2018 Tee and Sandwedges hosts a 3 day Betterball Stableford Competition, for men and women, at Selborne and Umdoni golf courses. Accommodation Golf Package: R3 445.00 per golfer sharing • R4 025.00 per golfer single PROGRAMME: Sunday 15 July 2018 INCLUDES: 2 nights shared accommodation, 2 breakfasts at the luxurious Selborne Lodge, 2 rounds of golf at Selborne 11h00: Tee off in first round of Betterball Stableford Golf Club, 1 round of golf at Umdoni Golf Club, share of golf cart daily, 1 curry evening and 1 prize giving buffet lunch Competition at Selborne GC 15h00: Golfers check into hotel 19h00: Curry evening at Selborne GC ACCOMMODATION RATE FOR SATURDAY AND TUESDAY AVAILABLE ON REQUEST MOnday 16 July 2018 Golf only Package: R2 245.00 per golfer Breakfast at leisure 09H00: Golfers Tee off in second round of Betterball INCLUDES: 2 rounds of golf at Selborne Golf Club, 1 round of golf at Umdoni Golf Club, share of golf cart daily, 1 curry Stableford Competition at Umdoni GC evening, 1 prize giving buffet lunch, Competition fee and gift Evening at leisure BreakfastTUEsday at leisure 17 July 2018 Golfers check out of the hotel 08H30: Golfers Tee off in third round of Betterball Stableford Competition at Selborne GC +- 13h30: Prize Giving Buffet Carvery at Selborne GC To book online go to www.teeandsandwedges.co.za and click on Promotions FOR MORE DETAILS OR TO BOOK CONTACT: Allan Jones 082 888 2014 or [email protected] or Lynn Jones 066 235 7881 or [email protected] 2 by Michael Scholz – The 40-Year-Old Rookie It takes Ballsimprove, scores in cricket will (especially if times are also you consider the changes that are currently getting better so being employed by batsmen in the IPL why supply Wayde and T20 formats) get better. Records will van Niekerk with weighted spikes at the next be broken and much of this is due to Olympics to ensure that he doesn’t spoil the technology. 200metre dash by breaking the record and This isn’t restricted to equipment either. lifting the bar for future generations to aim The technology behind training and sports at. science is remarkable. If you want to stick with the “real” Almost every “athlete” on the PGA Tour is traditional values and style of play as was donning a six-pack and spends hours in the played by both Old and Young Tom Morris, gym everyday. contact Paul Adams from Hickory Golf South All of the bigger tours have multi-million Africa and organise a round of golf with dollar mobile gym facilities and there are hickory shafts and replica balls from the queues of pro’s hanging out the doors. early days. It’s great fun, but it’s different to Gary Player was probably the pioneer the way golf is played today. IT’S a hot potato! Across the many golf soap” ball to a limp marshmallow that had of “golf fitness” but was probably the only I watch golf weekly with great excitement publications that decorate the shelves of been sitting in the sun for a day. player in his day to even consider such for the way in which the game has evolved the news vendors, the “great bone” of Then, take the clock back further to training. and how these professional young athletes contention blessing the pages is about when the great Bobby Locke won the Open All of this lends itself to the average (Tiger was the instigator of the popularity how far the ball is flying these days and Championship in 1938 … I remember it well professional hitting the ball further! of the modern “athletic” golfer – perhaps how the old stalwarts of the game are …. Not really, but picture it. These are the The great argument that is being he should be fined for this?) plot their outraged at the evolutionary shift of “long exact balls used of that era. considered at the moment by the “governing way around some of the grand design hitting” in the game of golf. Here is my 30 A few old newspaper articles hint that bodies” of golf is to curb the technology of masterpieces in search of golfing perfection cents worth … the leading “big-hitting” pro’s hit the ball golf equipment to bring it back to what they and hunting for silverware. Get over it! It has been around forever around 220 yards (200 metres) at that time. deem to be “normal”. Low scores and loads of wedges are and the progression over the past hundred Let’s go back another 24 years, 1914, The truth is that if they do this, the comparable with super-fast bowling and big years has actually been rather consistent. when Harry Vardon wielded his hickory guys will work harder and break their pre- sixes of cricket, or the big-serve and smash What? That isn’t what the others are shafted tools with hand-beaten steel heads determined boundaries again and more techniques of modern tennis. saying? Really? Yup! at a ball made from the sap of a rubber tree alterations will have to be administered. Nobody plays a baseline forehand Here it is... Nick Faldo was rather and won the Open Championship with this Let it be! Amateur golfers, who are anymore! disgruntled when a fellow broadcaster peach of a goon. He made them himself in inevitably the viewers of sport on the It’s called evolution and that’s just the way stated that Jason Day hit an iron further a mesh ball press! networks, don’t want to see the pro’s using it is! n than he hit his drive … Imagine Jordan Spieth making his own substandard equipment, different to their Retort: Nick Faldo mentioning that he balls before the next Major? own, struggling their way around a golf For feedback, slander, opinions, stories and used to swing a piece of laminated wood I’m pretty sure that proportionately course. anything golf that you wish to share, stalk me hitting a ball that was like a bar of soap. you will find everything is in-line with the Hell, they buy equipment specifically on Facebook (Michael Scholz), Agreed. By comparison, I would say that progress time-line. because “said pro” uses that driver or that would be quite accurate, but the same could The whole topic does bring about a few ball. Twitter (@TrickShotGolfer), be said for Gary Player hitting it shorter in worthy points that “change the game”, The fact that golf courses are becoming Instagram (40yearoldrookie) his day 25 years prior. but inevitably, the real point that needs to shorter for all due to technology advances is or via my email, The ball technology from the 60’s and be accepted is that scores will get better, okay. Let them shoot lower scores. [email protected] 70’s would have classified their “bar of the same as times run by athletes will That’s supposed to happen. Running 3 A Royalby Michael Treat Scholz – The 40 Year-Old Rookie THE drive through the entrance at Royal Swazi Spa was Later, I was to find some form as a professional golfer Lance Rossouw – sun like a trip down memory lane for me. around the testy design and I found a few top finishes InteRnatIonaL – aRea At the age of 14, my and the course was both kind and ruthless to me over GENERAL MANAGER, ESWATINI brother and I convinced the years. (formerly known as Swaziland). my Dad to take us on The Sunshine Tour has forever been a great patron of With 36 years flying the Sun an adventure to meet the wonderful layout designed and built in 1966 (front International banner (with a few the Liverpool football nine) and then 1967 (back nine) by “Uncle Max” Wilhelm, short breaks in between), Lance team who were which nestles magnificently in the Ezulwini Valley. is like furniture when it comes to scheduled to play I remember watching the live broadcast when Mark hotel management and ensuring Tottenham Hotspur McNulty dominated the field of South African, European that the resort runs smoothly and at the Somhlolo and American golfing greats as he romped home to a profitably. Stadium (1984). sizeable victory with a world-record lowest recorded Having cut his teeth at many of Sun International’s popular A number of score of 29 under par. This has since been beaten, but it destinations such as Sun City, Wild Coast, Gaborone and even highlights stood was an incredible feat back in the day. the famous Friday evening venue of Sunnyside Park, Lance’s out from that Then of course there was also the “act of infamy” portfolio has seen every conceivable type of hotel guest and trip: when John Daly decided that his hotel room should bear recreational requirement imaginable. Playing golf the brunt of his anger after a poor round and some poor The casino too, is a massive draw-card that complements the with Bruce luck in the casino.