遼、「一打一打に全力を尽くす」

2012年09月19日20時52分






21歳の初戦はどのようなプレーをみせてくれるのか（撮影：福田文平）






＜アジアパシフィック パナソニックオープン　事前情報◇19日◇東広野ゴルフ倶楽部(7,020ヤード・パー71)＞

　国内男子ツアー「アジアパシフィック パナソニックオープン」が20日(木)より兵庫県の東広野ゴルフ倶楽部を舞台に開幕する。ホストプロとして今大会に臨む石川遼はイン9ホールをラウンドし最終調整。「先週は終わり方が良かったし、ショットの安定感も増している」と手ごたえを口にした。

【関連リンク】「1打速報」でこれまでのプレーを振り返る

　「初日、どういうスタートを切れるのか集中したい。一打一打に全力を尽くして、その結果どうなるか。結果が出なければまだまだということ」と抱負を語った石川。大事な初日、目の前のプレーに集中し先週以上の結果を残すことを目指す。

　石川は予選ラウンドはディフェンディングチャンピオンの平塚哲二、インドのディグビジェイ・シンとのペアリングに。初日は10番ティより7時59分にスタートする。

＜中間速報＞遼は前半イーブンパー、池田＆藤田が好スタート！

2012年09月20日10時29分




リーダーズボード
順位 選手名 スコア1 池田　勇太 -9
2 宮本　勝昌 -7
小田　孔明 -7
宮里　優作 -7
藤田　寛之 -7
山下　和宏 -7
7 キム・ドフン -6
8 近藤　共弘 -5
上平　栄道 -5
野仲　茂 -5


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＜アジアパシフィック パナソニックオープン　初日◇20日◇東広野ゴルフ倶楽部(7,020ヤード・パー71)＞

　国内男子ツアー「アジアパシフィック パナソニックオープン」が兵庫県の東広野ゴルフ倶楽部を舞台に開幕。ホストプロの石川遼が前半のプレーを終了。1バーディ・1ボギーのイーブンパーで現在32位タイとなっている。

　現在、首位は12ホールを消化し6アンダーまでスコアを伸ばした池田勇太。ここ3戦連続で2位と後一歩のところで足踏みしているが、今大会では待望の今季初勝利を挙げられるか。1打差の2位にはプラヤド・マークセン(タイ)、2打差の3位には先週の「ANAオープン」を制した藤田寛之ら3選手がつけている。

Find An Effective Golf Training Routine

Proper training is an important factor in improving your game. An often overlooked aspect of golf training is the short game. Extra time at the range hitting the long ball is a blast; nothing will improve your game more than spending you time working on shots ranging less than 100 yards.

The secret to any training system is to stick a routine. Split your training time evenly between both the long and short game. Two hours pounding drives should equal committing to two hours putting on the green.

Do not neglect approach shots either, or chip shots and or shots out of the sand. A long, arrow straight drive is a thing of beauty to watch, but an accurate chip shot will save two-puts and win matches. When training, it is best to simulate real world conditions. Sure, you could rake the sand perfectly smooth for each and every practice shot and place ball gently on top, but that will never happen on the course. Toss the ball straight up in the air to simulate the dreaded fried egg flop. Set your practice shots up right against the wall of the sand trap practice high angle outs, or the smart shot off to the side.

There has to be a park in the neighborhood that is not always trimmed on time. Train at rescuing your game from the deep salad. Not making it to the driving range is not a reason to skip training. If you spent an hour at the driving range this morning, then you owe yourself an hour of short game practice. A bucket of balls is the only equipment you need to practice chipping from the unattended edges at the park.

Your putter swing is absolutely the most important part of your routine training. Matches are lost and won on the green more than other sections of the course. Practice shots from inches to feet, uphill, cross slope and downhill while on the putting green.

It is also important to remember that you can practice at home as well. There may be a part of the garden that a few deep chips will not hurt. You can let the back yard go without mowing an extra week and practice short, gentle chip shots without hurting the turf.

Metered practice will improve your game more than any elements of your golf training routine. Spending an hour, a few days a week, will pay off more that long stints on the weekend. Weekends are best-spent playing eighteen any way.

Golf Swing Instruction

The golf swing can always be improved, it's something which you can always be building upon, whether you're a beginner or not. In this article I just want to give you some really simple yet effective golf swing instruction that you can put into practice very easily for great results.

So let's get started!

The Basics

First of all I would just like to cover what I consider to be the basics of the golf swing and that is swing path and swing plane. This is pretty basic so if you're not a beginner you may want to skip over this, but anyway I just want to give you a quick definition of these terms, and how they relate to one another.

The golf swing to put it simply is a circular shape, your club follows this circular shape as it tracks through the ball. The 'swing path' refers to the circular path which your swing takes, whereas the 'swing plane' refers to the angle of the swing path in relation to the ground.

So let me just explain this in a little more detail just so it's a little clearer, your club travels on a circular swing path however this swing path is not flat, but rather as the club is following this circular swing path it follows an inclined plane.

As you can see these terms are different from one another, but they are very much interrelated as the swing path follows the swing plane. As I said earlier your swing path is not flat instead it follows an inclined plane. So this plane is not horizontal like a merry go round, but it's also not vertical like a Ferris wheel instead it is tilted somewhere in between.

So that's the basics out of the way I hope that's cleared a few things up for you. Don't worry too much about the technicalities of the swing plane, it's going to differ depending on your height and other things anyway.

Now it's time to move onto the more advanced golf swing instruction.

Using Your Body Correctly

Any golfer knows that in order to swing and swing well you must have a really great body rotation. The swing is lead by the body, not by the arms! One of the most common swing mistakes is starting the swing from the arms and letting the arms just become way too overactive through the swing.

If you're starting your swing with your arms that's going to cause all sorts of problems. the most common being a slice. Not only that but a swing that comes from the arms has no power, causes miss-hits and is going to take your club off of its correct path.

In order to achieve a great swing you must begin the rotation with your body, so at address the hips and shoulders should be parallel as you swing to the top of the backswing, the hips will complete their turn before the shoulders.

The shoulders rotate at a right angle to your spine until your back faces the target. On the downswing the hips begin their rotation before the shoulders

When it comes to lower body rotation a problem which a lot of golfers have on the downswing is that when they start the rotation of the hips, they make the mistake of jutting their hips out and slide their lower body out too much.

Golf Psychology: Coping with Anger

Coping with Anger

It is extremely difficult to play well when you are angry. I know we have all hit a peach of a drive that was loaded with anger after 3 putting the last green but if you're honest that's the exception rather than the rule. If things go wrong on the course for you, you can't loose it because you will jeopardise the whole round. The following exercise is designed to help you tap into a more positive reaction when the red mist rises. We'll be incorporating the idea that your mind works though habitual behaviours*, as discussed in other articles. So we will train it through repetition, how to handle anger. Only now you will be using an accelerated learning technique and reducing the time it takes to make the change by 80%. It's time to change the anchor* from one that sets you off - to one that calms you down.

Exercise:
Sit down and use your peripheral vision to induce calmness and relaxation.
Recall a typical round and count how many times you clearly reacted with anger
Make a pact with yourself to reduce that number by one the next time you play.
Now watch a movie of yourself in one of those moments of anger and make sure that you see it in black and white.
Once you have played the movie, get a picture and feeling inside of someone you admire. A person who's opinion really matters to you. Someone you truly respect.
Now, imagine YOU are this person you admire. Act as if you are in their skin watching the movie of you on the course loosing it.
While watching the movie and feeling like this person you admire, what are they thinking of you as a person who explodes in anger and over reacts to what, after all, is just a game? Take your time; try to fully engage with what you believe this person would think of what they are seeing.
Now, with this sense of the person you respect, how do you feel about the way you handle yourself on the course?
With this new understanding, ask the person you admire, "how would you like to see me respond?" Wait for their answer and seriously take note of it
Now step back into your own body in the movie and while watching the movie of your old self reacting with anger and imagine exactly how you want to respond in every future situation on the course that might cause you anger. Use the insight provided by the person you admire and respect.
Get fully associated into these desired feelings. Fill your sense with this new feeling of being completely resourceful. See the new you in full glorious" Technicolor".
Run the movie from just before the anger reaction and relive it with this new feeling. Repeat the movie. Be fully associated with this new, calm confident you.
When the feeling are at their peak, anchor them so you can recall the feelings of control on the course at will.
Spend the time necessary applying and repeating this exercise and your new habit will enter your game as effortlessly as downing your first pint at the 19th.