Ok, maybe it's just me, and maybe it's not racism, but I just read an article from The Times Online, apparently a British newspaper, that stinks like it to me. The gist of the article, "Tiger blackened by his all-white trophy cupboard" is that Tiger, as part African American should have cheated on his wife with black women instead of white women...at least that's the way I read it. For example:
"Woods does not consider himself African-American but “Cablinasian”, a mixture of Caucasian, black, Indian and Asian; he is none the less viewed by most people as “black”. Whether black people “should” or “shouldn’t” sleep with white people is a hot potato — I don’t mean just because of gun-toting, redneck loonies in the southern United States, but rather because of the views of intelligent, educated black people who have read their Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X. Put reductively, the idea is that if you’re going to celebrate your heritage and be proud of who you are — slave ancestry, misery, centuries of oppression and all — then you might want to get together with someone like you. Some might — and do — argue that it is a question of duty."
She goes on to say: "What has made Woods’s story so compelling is the added frisson of race: to put it bluntly, he has stopped being viewed as a white man who happens to have black skin (“one of us”) and has hurled himself back into the pit of stereotypes so many people are still, alas, fond of: “one of them”, a black man with a varied and insatiable sexual appetite, coming into his nickname at last and making it a whole lot less cuddly."
Does it really matter what color their skin is? Black, brown, white? The guy was an idiot for cheating on his wife, (who by the way is hotter than his mistresses), so their skin color means nothing. The author then when on to quote a columnist from the Washington Post:
I've recently added two new menu items to the website: Swing Academy & Oobgolf Course Finder. Both are located in the main menu.
SwingAcademy.com has allowed us to post a link to their website. I originally had the idea of allowing everyone to post their own swing videos in our video section, but unfortunately there wasn't a mad scramble to do so. I believe the ability to review your own swing is very helpful to understanding what you are doing wrong and allows you to see areas of your swing that need help. Having someone you may not know give an unbiased opinion of your swing flaws and give advice on how to fix said flaws is invaluable. The best way is obviously to have a teaching pro taking the video and reviewing it with you in real time. When that's not affordable or convenient, this is the next best way.
Five years ago, while on a quick vacation cruise, I took a lesson with their on-board Pro. He used video to show me where I was lacking and gave suggestions on how to fix some of the many problems with my swing. He also sold me a video swing analysis program. I brought it home, set it up, and started messing around with it. It was helpful, but since I was the only one reviewing my swings, it didn't really work out for me. I recently found the CD again and reloaded it on my computer. I promptly loaded up a video taken on a recent golf outing, and could immediately see that I had the dreaded over the top swing going again. With this program, you could draw swing plane lines, spine tilt, etc, but the problem was that you couldn't save said lines to a new video and had to redraw them each time you reviewed your swing video. So, I went on a mission to find something better....and I think I've found it.
SwingAcademy is a website that allows you to upload your swing videos, have them analyzed by others in the community, and gives you the ability to share the videos with friends and even teaching pros. The software on their website is amazing. You can even compare your video side by side with someone elses. And the best part of all is that it's FREE. To check it out, click on Swing Academy in the menu, sign up, and start uploading your videos. (our little swing section is still available if you want to continue to use it).
With 38,888 golf course listed and more being added, the Oobgolf Course Finder is probably the best and biggest of it's kind. Put in the name of the city where you plan on golfing, and it brings up all of the courses in that area from it's vast data-bank of golf courses. Select a course on the map that pops up, and it gives you the tee slope and rating of the course, and a brief description showing the length, course architect, and some info about the course itself. Need more information? Just click on "more details" and you get just that, more details. Need directions to the course? Does that too.
You can also filter your search to include the the weekday/weekend green fees threshold you want to set, the yardage, and rating/slope. So for example, if you were looking to play a golf course that costs between $20 and $60, has yardage totaling no more than 6600 yards, and has a rating/slope of 68/123, it will filter out everything else and give you the courses you want to play within those guidelines. If you are a member of Oobgolf, it will allow you to add the course right from the screen to a list of your favorites. Oh, and you can filter it down even more to search for just public, private, semi-private, resort, and military courses. And once you find that perfect course, click on Book Tee Times in our main menu and get a discount rate
We'll keep looking for interesting websites, tools, and gizmo's to help improve your game. If you run across a website you think should be added to River City Hackers, put in a comment below and we'll check it out. If it's something that would fit here, we'll create a link for it.
“What’s The Secret To Curing a Golf Slice
When Nothing Up To This Point Has Worked For You?”
... Are you tired of dealing with a nasty slice when you go out to play a round with your friends, family, or co-workers ? Not to mention the embarrassment ?
... Do you ask yourself after a bad round "Why am I even golfing at all" ?
... Have you tried all the latest training aid's only to find that your Golf Slice cannot be stopped by some gizmo you just spent 200 bucks on ?
... Have you gone to the range and somehow you miraculously started to hit straight golf shots, saying to yourself... "I think I got it, I think I got it!" ... then when you hit the course your score card still looked horrible ?
... Or are you the type of golfer that wants to get better, spending countless dollars on lessons and expensive clubs, but nothing seems to put a dent in your Golf Slice ?
I'm having issues with my swing plane right now and ran across this video. Makes a lot of sense.
I'll be practicing it to see if it will help me. Thought I'd share real quick here instead of posting it
in the video section (I'll do that later)
Title catch your eye? LOL. I love beautiful women and I love golf. That’s why I married my wife…she’s beautiful and tolerates my golf (although to tell the truth, I admit that the beginning of that
sentence, although true, was thrown in to keep me out of trouble for writing this article).
Anyways, I read a lot online about the Justin Timberlake’s, the
Charles Barkley’s, and other celebrity golfers, but not much is
written about the female celebrity golfers. Probably for the same reason the PGA pro’s are written about more than the LPGA pro’s.
So, I did a little digging and found some female celebrities that
you may or may not have known were golfers. I selected a few
female golfers that I thought were pretty hot, either now, or in the past, and have posted their photos below (click on the Read More link). You can also click on their names to find out more about them.
I couldn’t find much about their handicaps, but the top 5 best "estimated handicaps" for the
women on my list are as follows: Tea Leoni, Actress & producer: 12 handicap
Has played since 1997. When she first started playing, she says she went
crazy and was playing 36 to 50 holes a day. She plays with Callaway clubs.
Jodie Kidd, Actress & model: 18 handicap
Started playing at age 11. Her average drive is 280 yards. She
plays Callaway clubs also. Founded the Jodie Kidd Charity Golf
Classic.
Cheryl Ladd, Actress: 18 handicap
Introduced to the game by her husband, she is now an avid golfer. She’s
written a book about her golfing experiences, “Token Chick: A Woman’s
Guide to Golfing with the Boys”.
Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Actress: 20 handicap
Started playing in 1998 after being invited to a celebrity tournament in
Jamaica. Played golf while 7 months pregnant.
Ines Sastre, Model: 20 handicap
Has been on the cover of Golf for Women. Enjoys golf and plays when she can.
Alas, although it will be construed as being chauvinistic, I can’t help but post some “sexy” photos of these female golfers. They are celebrities after all, and as I said above, I love beautiful women. Click Read More to see all of the photos.
SwingAcademy.com has allowed us to post a link to their website. I originally had the idea of allowing everyone to post their own swing videos in our video section, but unfortunately there wasn't a mad scramble to do so. I believe the ability to review your own swing is very helpful to understanding what you are doing wrong and allows you to see areas of your swing that need help. Having someone you may not know give an unbiased opinion of your swing flaws and give advice on how to fix said flaws is invaluable. The best way is obviously to have a teaching pro taking the video and reviewing it with you in real time. When that's not affordable or convenient, this is the next best way.
With 38,888 golf course listed and more being added, the Oobgolf Course Finder is probably the best and biggest of it's kind. Put in the name of the city where you plan on golfing, and it brings up all of the courses in that area from it's vast data-bank of golf courses. Select a course on the map that pops up, and it gives you the tee slope and rating of the course, and a brief description showing the length, course architect, and some info about the course itself. Need more information? Just click on "more details" and you get just that, more details. Need directions to the course? Does that too. 
Title catch your eye? LOL. I love beautiful women and I love golf. That’s why I married my wife…she’s beautiful and tolerates my golf (although to tell the truth, I admit that the beginning of that 
