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FROM THE FRINGE & ON THE GREEN HOLE OF THE WEEK.


No. 8, par 4, 368 yards

Tierra Rejada Golf Club, Moorpark

Offering perhaps the most spectacular view on a course loaded with gorgeous vistas, Tierra Rejada No. 8 challenges golfers to clear a wide wilderness area Broadly, a wilderness area is a region where the land is left in a state where human modifications are minimal; that is, as a wilderness. It might also be called a wild or natural area. (Very low or immaterial human impact or "footprint.  to reach a narrow, angled fairway that has a bunker bunk, bunker

large storage bin.


bunk forage
forage, usually ensilage stored in a large storage bunk and made available to cattle or other livestock along a face of the storage.
 positioned at the most optimum line of attack. The severely downhill hole is rated third-most difficult on the daily fee course in Moorpark. Part of the difficulty is the anxiety it presents for first-time Tierra Rejada players, who, given the large drop in elevation, might worry as much about hitting through the fairway as reaching the fairway. This is one hole where picking the tees best suited to your skills can be a big advantage, if for nothing else than easing the anxiety.

- Dave Shelburne

BOOK REVIEW

Tour Tempo: Golf's Last Secret Finally Revealed

By John Novosel with John Garrity

Published by Doubleday (www.doubleday.com)

Novosel studied footage of PGA (1) (Professional Graphics Adapter) An early IBM PC display standard for 3D processing with 640x480x256 resolution. It was not widely used.

(2) (Programmable Gate Array) See gate array and FPGA.
 greats from all eras to find what made their swings so effortless ef·fort·less  
adj.
Calling for, requiring, or showing little or no effort. See Synonyms at easy.



effort·less·ly adv.
, yet powerful. He then devised a system based on tempo in which he could teach it to all levels.

He writes that if you want a successful swing, you have to have a 3:1 tempo. In his research, he found that great golfers had identically proportioned timing.

His conclusion? Almost everybody swings a golf club too slowly.Tiger Woods' elapsed time e·lapsed time
n.
The measured duration of an event.

Noun 1. elapsed time - the time that elapses while some event is occurring
 is 1.06 seconds. A weekend hacker A person who writes programs in assembly language or in system-level languages, such as C. The term often refers to any programmer, but its true meaning is someone with a strong technical background who is "hacking away" at the bits and bytes.  swinging his or her clubs might take 3 seconds.

Novosel, a businessman and inventor who has patents on four golf training devices, includes in his book practice drills which will produce quicker swings.

This isn't just a book. It comes with an instructional CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc.
CD-ROM
 in full compact disc read-only memory

Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser).
, complete with an audio track that can be used at the driving range.

- Jill Painter

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Box:

(1) TRACKING THE PROS

(2) GOLF CALENDAR
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Aug 18, 2004
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