In case you haven’t heard, Pete Dye, the designer of the Kiawah Island Golf Resort, was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame earlier this month. His imaginative designs on the Ocean Course (coming soon to WGT) made for some truly amazing photography. We can’t wait to unveil the new course in late summer!
Some live on golf courses, others on golf balls…it’s all a matter of perspective. I’ve seen a lot of close-up shots of golf balls, but never one with Atlantic slippers clinging on. Wonder if they have a Plan B ready for high tide.
Rememberance and thank you, to all who have served and are currently fighting for our country.
Photo Credit: allthepages.org
PGA and LPGA professionals nationwide are offering free 10-minute golf lessons during the month of May. For those WGT players who don’t play real golf, this is a great way to be introduced to the game. Hurry though, there are less than 10 days left in the month!
Congratulations to the following WGT players for winning prizes in our April drawing:
TaylorMade Burner: hulr2
World Golf Tour Shirts and TaylorMade Balls: DecentHairJelly, jreichma, RStuto, watcoh, dohertt, Manx
Congratulations to the winners! The drawing for May winners is coming up the first week of June.
Hole #6 on the Charity Challenge is arguably the toughest to master on WGT. Luckily, many helpful WGT players have offered tips to make a decent shot. Below are a few of them, so try some out and let us know how they worked out!
Greggles
“The trick with no.6 is (if you use pro clubs, which you should) to put the ball at the front of your stance, with backspin halfway between the centre and the bottom, you then can either aim left at the hump and purposely fade it (if you aim left then you can totally slice it and it will be ok) onto the fringe and it rolls close, or you can leave the aim and fade it less (about half way between the “perfect shot” and the “push” line), as for power it’s about 1/2 cm from full…this is a risky shot but can be very good.”
Tibbets
“The trick to #6 is…..SWITCH TO PRO CLUBS! If you’re just starting to play this game, use beginner clubs for 2 weeks tops, then switch to Pro Clubs. If you’ve played hole #6 400 times already with Beginner clubs, you’re way overdue to switch. Trust me, you can’t get any decent scores with beginner clubs on this course, and small amount of time you invest in getting used to the faster speed will be worth it within a week, as you will get scores much lower than you ever would have gotten otherwise.”
TheCaptain
“The trick on #6 is to go after it. If you play it safe, the best you can do is ~17 feet. If you aim for the fringe, like on the old #2, it will sometimes hit and slow down and get you within 10 feet. But it’s an all-or-nothing shot, if you miss hit it, you’re probably in the water. I use the beginner clubs, full backspin, about 5 ticks less than full power on the 3-iron, and aim at the bump on the fringe. I think I have gotten under 10 feet about 3-5 times.”
iconian
“Closest I got was using 1 club short, max power, and hitting left of best shot, maybe 2mm? It hits fringe and rolls over hill and down. I got that shot maybe 4-5 times total out of 400? 
Always inside 15ft.”
ptolemy
“Only way I am able to get inside 30 ft, is to use club short, max top spin, max power and hit left of the perfect by —>”
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Lorena Ochoa is an inspiration to us not only because she’s the best female golfer in the world, but also because she’s real. An accomplished athlete and budding philanthropist, she is known to be humble, caring, and generous. That is why we are cheering her on this week as she attempts to tie the LPGA record of five consecutive wins at the SemGroup Championship in Oklahoma.
As female golfers gain recognition and respect—Ms. Ochoa became the first woman to earn more than $4 million in one season—interest in the game is growing ever more quickly among women. Many of you have asked us for female avatars in WGT, so we wanted to give you a preview of one that will be available in our next release. Below is one of three different outfits you will be able to choose from, modeled on one of three different face/body combinations.
Did I mention Ms. Ochoa’s sense of style inspires us as well?
Enjoy,
Alex