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Apr 26 - 5th Annual SLO TourWednesday, February 13, 2008 Cal Poly's Delta Sigma Pi would like to invite you to participate in the 5th Annual SLO Tour Golf Tournament on April 26th, 2008 at the Monarch Dunes Golf Club in Nipomo, CA. The 1:00pm Shotgun Start tournament will benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Luis Obispo County and The Work Training Programs of San Luis Obispo. The Big Brothers Big Sisters is seeking to launch a second "High School Bigs" program in San Luis Obispo County with the contribution from this event. This mentor program will reach more at-risk children as well as develop mentors at an early age in our more economically disadvantaged neighborhoods by matching elementary students with high school mentors. Work Training Programs is dedicated to helping people with disabilities and disadvantages to live and work in our community with dignity and independence. They are currently in urgent need of funding for their transitional living program in SLO County, which is a six-resident home and living program that offer essential living skills for those who are making the momentous leap to living on their own. If you'd like to participate in or help sponsor this event, visit the SLO Tour website at: www.slodeltasig.com/slotour/. John Hinds, Golf Conditioning & Physical TherapyMonday, October 29, 2007John Hinds is a licensed Physical Therapist located on the Central Coast who is a lifelong golfer who specializes in Golf Conditioning, Injury Prevention and Orthopedic Rehabilitation. He is included among the Titleist Performance Institute's Approved Fitness Professionals.John utilizes his education in biomechanics, kinesiology, exercise physiology and knowledge of the game to design scientifically sound, practical and customized programs that optimize golf specific flexibility, strength, balance and coordination. He works one on one with each client and realizes that while all golfers can benefit from a golf specific conditioning program everybody is different. Juniors, seniors, men, women, and those with a history of injury have unique strengths and weaknesses that need to be addressed. Some of the more common goals in the game of golf are improved consistency, scoring and increased distance. One sure way to improve these is to develop a reliable, repeatable swing. Lessons from your golf pro, practice and more lessons are priceless and players of all levels must possess and continually practice the fundamentals. A basic understanding of technique and swing mechanics is also invaluable. Proper weight shift, timing and sequencing (among others) are qualities better players share and essential to consistent ball striking as well as distance, no matter individual style or the swing type. Another quality that better player's share is efficiency. An efficient golf swing is virtually free of compensations or wasted movement and produces greater club head speed with less effort; less effort is less stressful on the body and reduces the risk of injury. Practice and knowledge is one thing but the ability to physically execute and execute consistently is another. The golf swing is an athletic movement that requires flexibility, strength, balance, and coordination. Adequate flexibility and strength allows the energy generated through the legs, hips, trunk, back, shoulders, and arms to be efficiently transferred and sequenced into the club head. If your body is physically unable to perform the required movement pattern consistently then your ball striking will be inconsistent. A common denominator to a consistent, repeatable and efficient swing is conditioning. Whether you are a recreational player or professional, a junior, senior, man or woman, you have unique strengths and weaknesses. Of the hundreds of training devices on the market today, not one is more effective at improving your overall ability to play the game of golf better than your own body. Golfers are athletes and should be treated as such. Flexibility and strength are two variables of the conditioning equation that provide and contribute to the mobility, stability, posture, balance, power, endurance and ultimately, the coordination needed for an efficient golf swing. Proper conditioning maximizes your ability to play the game. As a golfer and Physical Therapist specializing in Golf Conditioning, Injury Prevention and Orthopedic Rehabilitation, John Hinds understands the game and the biomechanics involved. All exercises he teaches are biomechanically sound and safe, meaning they are effective in accomplishing their intended goal while NOT placing undue stress in other areas, such as the vulnerable back, neck or shoulders. John utilizes a scientific and practical approach in my golf conditioning programs and do not claim to reveal any 'secrets' or promise Tigeresque drives. What he will do is: 1. Discuss your experience, goals and any relevant medical history 2. Evaluate your golf swing and identify your strengths and weaknesses as they relate to your body throughout the swing 3. Perform a comprehensive flexibility, strength, posture and movement evaluation 4. Develop an individualized golf specific conditioning program to overcome your weaknesses and improve your strengths Anybody can benefit from a golf specific conditioning program but everybody is different. Combined with lessons and practice, improved flexibility, strength, balance and coordination will provide a more consistent, repeatable and efficient swing while reducing your risk of injury. Better scores will follow. You will also be more confident over the ball and come away with a greater understanding and appreciation of the mechanics involved in the golf swing. To learn more about John or to setup a golf conditioning session, see www.golfconditioningpt.com. Labels: Golf Conditioning, John Hinds, Physical Therapy April Golf Tournaments at Cypress RidgeWednesday, April 11, 2007Rise and Achieve Golf TournamentSunday April 22nd, 2007 12:00 Shotgun Benefits scholarship funds. www.riseandachieve.com ESPN 2-Man Best Ball Tournament Thursday April 26th, 2007 12:00 Shotgun Gross/Net Prizes & Skins, etc ($3,000). www.espnradio1280.com Cal Poly Wine Festival Golf Classic Friday April 27th, 2007 10:30 Shotgun On course contests, Box Lunch, and Dinner. www.calpolywinefestival.com/golf.html Tags: San Luis Obispo Central Coast Golf Labels: Cypress Ridge, Golf Tournament More SLO County Wine GrowthMonday, April 02, 2007Area vintners and public officials are trying to capitalize on San Luis Obispo County's booming wine industry while they plan for more.Winery trade groups are taking steps to promote local wines and draw more tourists to area tasting rooms to increase sales. And city and county officials are making sure they're prepared to handle the growth, primarily by finding ways to reduce traffic congestion. In the last decade, the number of wineries in the county has tripled to 217. Most are in the Paso Robles area, which now accounts for 86 percent of the retail value of county wine. The growth is continuing. Last year, the county approved new or expanded wineries at the rate of one a month, most of them near Paso Robles. Jon Fredrikson, who has studied the California wine industry since 1970, believes the Paso Robles region is still in its infancy - and that it may get some of the market that Napa County is losing because of overdevelopment. Wine grapes now represent a third of the value of all crops grown countywide, according to the latest statistics available. They generate more than $61 million in state and local taxes and have an economic impact of about $1.6 billion, including 6,364 full-time jobs, according to a report by MKF Research of St. Helena, a wine business adviser. Article: Grape expectations The Tribune, P. Kim Bui Tags: San Luis Obispo Central Coast Wine Labels: Central Coast Wine, Wine Business Chalk Mountain in Trouble?Wednesday, March 28, 2007Chalk Mountain, the county's 27-year-old golf course in Atascadero, is in such bad shape that it is losing golfers to other courses and may be on the road to closure, according to a new report.The county may have to get out of the golf course business altogether because of declining use and deteriorating income, warns the grim report prepared for the Board of Supervisors. The General Services Department are asking for a one-time, $350,000 infusion of cash to fix problems at Chalk Mountain. But in doing so, they have raised a major policy question: Should the county use taxpayers' money to subsidize golf? Until now, the courses have paid for themselves. Depending on how the supervisors answer that question, they could end up closing one or more of their three courses, which also include Dairy Creek and Morro Bay Golf Course. In Chalk Mountain's heyday, the early to mid-1990s, approximately 80,000 golfers a year played a round. Today that number has slipped below 40,000. Article: County-run course low on green, The Tribune Tags: San Luis Obispo Central Coast Golf Labels: Chalk Mountain, Golf Courses Mar 24 - Dairy Creek to Host 10th AnniversaryThursday, March 22, 2007San Luis Obispo's Dairy Creek Golf Course is throwing a birthday party Saturday to celebrate its 10th anniversary.The celebration will honor the more than 500,000 golfers who have played the course by rolling prices back to 1997 rates (50 percent off today's green fees). This will be a casual, fun day for golfers who have not played for awhile to come out and get acquainted with the course and other golfers. Dairy Creek Golf Course, a county-owned park, is operated by Fairway Management, which also operates the Morro Bay Golf Course in Morro Bay State Park. Fairway Management is a California-based company involved in managing golf courses and providing food service. Tags: San Luis Obispo Central Coast Golf Labels: Dairy Creek, Golf Discounts May 21 - Young Life Golf MarathonTuesday, March 20, 2007Calling All Golfers! The 3rd Annual Young Life Golf Marathon is scheduled for Monday, May 21, 8am shotgun start, at the premier Blacklake Golf Course in Nipomo. Play 100 holes of golf, have lots of fun, and help raise money for Young Life in San Luis Obispo. It's easy! All you have to do is get 10 of your friends to sponsor you for $1 per hole to raise a tax-deductible $1,000 donation for SLO County Young Life."Wait just a minute! I can't play that many holes." You don't have to be a great golfer to do this. Each golfer plays two balls on every hole using the best ball for each stroke played; that is like having a "mulligan" for every shot! Each completed hole will count as two holes played. Stop early if you want, that's okay too. It is a really fun day and a wonderful way to support the local Young Life ministry at San Luis Obispo and Arroyo Grande High Schools. We will have exclusive all-day use of "The Oaks" course. Entry fee is $1,000 in pledge support. Breakfast, lunch and dinner included. The most unique and fun golf experience of your life; you won't want to miss it! For more information or to sign up, contact: Jerry Boyle (805) 474-0813 jerryboyle@charter.net Tags: San Luis Obispo Central Coast Golf Labels: Blacklake, Golf Tournament, Young Life Read More |
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