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wubskis, did you get the deal with American Golf? The Di7s plus a free Wilson Staff bag.

I may hold on for it, I can't see me taking a tripod onto the course!

I'm in the UK so I'd be buying over here. Thanks though!

Tried watching that early, my shoddy old Pentium 4 really doesn't like these .movs but the quality is very good, even if I need a new PC to watch them. A new PC is on my 'to buy' list though!

iacas, per chance would you have any videos online that you've taken with the Zi6?

Wow, that Zi6 is that good? That's a LOT less than I was expecting to get for that kind of money. Only about £80-100 in the UK.

The G10 irons were £499 a couple of weeks ago at my local shop and they were £409 when I was in on Saturday.

I've started playing a lot with my brother and I'm going to hit the range a lot more, so I want to invest in a camcorder to capture my play as a learning aid also to document our rounds a little bit for memories sake. Can anyone recommend a decent camera for a nice low budget of around £100-150 (about $150-200) that would be good enough to allow swing analysis? I don't need it to have high FPS, I don't think I need that. Thanks!

Yep, the era of Rory McIlroy is here.

Rory McIlroy.

I actually played some pretty good stuff yesterday mixed in with the duff shots. That's how I know my game is definitely improving, I find myself hitting the ball better and better every time I play. Yesterday was the first time I've ever played when I hitting those "fizzing" type shots that you hear when you compress the ball, take a little divot and the ball then sticks on the green instead of bouncing out the back. I generally have been picking the ball clean off the deck on good shots, which looks nice but it doesn't control the landing. Like I've said above, I hit more than one good shot yesterday but that was the one that really sticks in mind. I know you single digits can't understand our hacker's delight at sticking one that close. By terrible hole I was alluding more to the mindset that can set in when you're a high handicapper. You see the tee shot drift onto the next fairway and sometimes it's very hard to get over that and you beat yourself up over it and the subsequent shots are impacted. Well, for me anyway. And don't worry, when I get my ace, you'll know all about it. Think someone asked me what the extra challenges were from the next fairway. I had to carry over a couple of small trees and a huge patch of rough. For a high handicapper like me, those things stick in your head even though they shouldn't be in play at all. It also made reading the distance a little bit tougher and it make the wind not just a sideways obstacle now but a diagonal one.

Tough crowd.

Well, I was playing this morning and not going so bad. Terrible front nine, including a nine at the first (arrived at course at 10.40, teeing off at 10.52 so no warm up whatsoever and I haven't played in a month). After about 6 holes, the rain starts and the wind is so strong that it's virtually sideways rain. Clubs were getting soak, I didn't have my waterproofs and basically it's becoming a chore to even grip the club as my glove is so wet but we struggle on until the rain stops but the wind is blowing a gale still. So anyway, I start hitting my irons pretty well and then I have a very strange hole. It's a par four 335 yards, which I tee off from with a 4i because I know I'm hitting it well. Or I thought I was. I drag it left and the wind does the rest, landing it squarely on the fairway of the next hole. No one was out on the course, really, the weather causing the group in front of us to give up so I decide to play it from there. I make it about 160 yards with the wind going left to right towards a greenside bunker. This is where I did everything right and did things the way I wouldn't have two months ago. I trust my club selection, I trust my judgement of the wind and I trust my swing. One thing I am very good at is club selection and distance. I have great feel around a golf course for distance. I make it about 170 yards, given the angle from going to the next fairway and decide the wind is ever so slightly forwards as well as left so I pick out the six iron. I line myself up, don't hesistate and tense up and just hit it. Two or three bounces and it's nestled two foot from the pin. No fluke, exactly where I aimed it. I made the putt and in a round of mostly double-bogies, I carded a birdie. That's why I love golf. That feeling, knowing I have the potential and I just need to practice and I have the distance and course management to get my handicap at least into the teens. Beautiful game, this. Even in the wind and rain.

26 years young.

McIlroy and Harrington, my favourite golfers, doing me proud so far.

Harrington and Woods in the same group.

Why not shorten courses and bring the shorter players into the game instead of benefitting those who crush the ball off the tee?

Tiger Woods Ross Fisher Zack Johnson Retief Goosen Soren Hansen

Lottery numbers please.

Exactly. People think that Woods had some impact there when it was really just Harrington overclubbing three times in a row.

He hit an 8. Of course that's Harrington losing it. It wasn't like Harrington did well but Woods bettered it. Harrington simply messed up on this occasion. Why is every so defensive to Woods? Fantastic player but he didn't need to be fantastic to make what just happened happen.

Nope, it didn't. Harrington just hit a woeful shot from the rough and it's cost him the tournament.

A shame that Padraig has contrived to lose it rather than Woods earning it.

Clearly Giggs trying to give the guy a shot of confidence. He has potential but hasn't shown it for a long time. The song that rings around Old Trafford proclaiming that he "shits on Fabregas" is cringeworthy. He's just a mindless player. He never seems to spot the simple thing and gets caught in possession far too often. I weep a little every time I see his name in the starting XI. If he wants a future at United, he needs to develop his footballing brain very quickly indeed. As for me knowing nothing about Man Utd, good one. Get over yourself.

Meh, I disagree with pretty much everything you say. I think Foster is a great keeper in waiting but is desperate to play games. He should've been out on loan these past seasons, not sat in our reserves frustrated. VDS played more in preseason when it mattered. Anderson is toilet. Can't pass, can't shoot, loses the ball constantly in midfield with his indecisiveness and just blatantly not good enough. Vision? The fella couldn't read a football game if it was a book. Stephen Ireland is leagues ahead of Anderson.