Golf Tip of the Week

Don’t Keep Your Head Still

One common myth you hear around the golf course is to keep your head still. What everyone should be saying is keep your eyes on the ball. In a golf swing the head is going to move a little. The more you try to keep it still and down the more rigid and stiff the golf swing becomes. Instead just think, keep your eyes on the ball.

Golf Tip of the Week

Posture Check!

Recreational golfers who constantly struggle to fix their swing problems would do well to fix their posture first. Rounding the back, flexing the knees too much and tucking the head down to see the ball are common setup faults that can lead to a poor swing. If your posture isn’t right, you’ll be forced to swing with mostly your arms and hands, creating very little shoulder turn.

If this sounds like you, here’s a drill you can try within the confines of your own home. Stand in front of a full-length mirror and bend from your hip socket so that your upper body tilts forward approximately 45 degrees. Notice that your head is in line with your spine and isn’t tucked downward. Next, release your knees slightly. A problem most golfers have is too much knee flex and not enough bend from the hips. Finally, let gravity drop your arms and club to the ground (they’ll naturally hang straight down if you’ve achieved the correct posture). This improved position will enable you to make a more complete shoulder turn without a lot of arm and hand action.

Cuscowilla on Lake Oconee re-opens award winning course

It is a great pleasure, and with a huge amount of relief, that we can announce today that after 5 months of closure our golf course will now be re-opening for regular play 6 days a week (Tuesday through Sunday) starting tomorrow, Tuesday December 28th. Please contact our Pro Shop at 706-485-0094 for more information or tee times.

Update on the greens

Cuscowilla friends

I would just like to take a moment of your time to give you an update on the progress of our new bentgrass 007 and Tyee greens here at Cuscowilla.

We have had a tremendous growth week last week. Optimum growing temperatures for this kind of grass are for temperatures to stay between 62 degrees and 86 degrees. While we only experienced that for two days over the last 2 weeks the grass is able to react very positively in this range. Another upside to growth of this grass is when the diurnal temperature variation (range of high and low) reaches 30 to 35 degrees of separation. We experienced this on a few days too over the last week.

We are continuing to top-dress and in the near future will be spiking the greens too. We will be applying fertilizer again this week, but this time it will be one that has the higher levels of phosphorous added, which will provide energy for growth. I will not include pictures this time in mu update to you, as the greens are green!! The bentgrass has started to spread laterally now, which is what we needed to see happen, so the thinner parts of the greens that were washed away in the early August thunderstorms can start to fill out. We are all very excited at the early success rate to date, and will keep you updated as we keeping moving along.

For those of you around the World, and the Nation that get this email from me, and so are not living here locally full time – the weather pattern for this week in Eatonton is Highs of 93 and lows ranging from 60 tonight (very nice change!) to 68 towards the weekend. Looks like we will not be in our optimal ranges this week, but the cooler nights are going to help.

“Did you know?”…. did you know that we had over 30 cup holes to fill on the greens before we could start the upgrade. Normally, cup holes for the flag and cup are taken from one area on the green and used to move around to another area on the same green. With 18 holes of greens, plus practice areas and chipping greens, this left us with 30+ holes to fill! The materials we removed from the surface and first few complex layers of the greens were used to fill these holes!

Thank you for your continued support of Cuscowilla, please keep following us on our blog and face book for further updates.

Greens Project at Cuscowilla on Lake Oconee

Day 1 of our Greens project -- Project off to a fast start! We were able to get sod cut on greens 1-7, and cleaned up on greens 1-4. Talked at length today with Dr. Leah Brilman, the geneticist who developed the seed we intend to use, and she is urging us to speed up anticipated seed date. She doesn't feel the heat will adversely affect this grass. With that endorsement, we will strive to finish the first phase of project by weeks end, start and finish phase 2 by mid week next week and seed by weeks end. This may help tremendously as we move thru the fall.

11Global Race in Georgia's Lake Country

I was very excited when I visited the 11Global website to see that the May 22, 2010 race was coming to Georgia's Lake Country. Though the event will be at the Reynolds Plantation, Cuscowilla Golf Resort on Lake Oconee will also offer special room rates for any athletes or fans attending the event. Just mention that you are attending the 11Global event when speaking with reservations at 706-484-0050. For more information about Cuscowilla on Lake Oconee, vist us at www.cuscowilla.com