Un-Leish-ed...

Paul Sheehan Hello Golfers Following on from last week's newsletter, our regular reader Clint Walker alerted us to the fact that Paul Sheehan had won an event in Japan, thanks for picking us up on that Clint. To compliment his win, we have featured Paul Sheehan in this weeks GT news, good on you Paul. At Golf Traders we really value our readers feedback, do you have any feedback about our organisation? then we would love to hear from you david@golftraders.com.au

Un-Leish-ed Marc Leishman - Future Champion? Marc had a very successful amateur career in Australia, winning many junior tournaments. He won the Warrnambool Club Championship as a 13-year old while playing in the same group as his father. In 2001 he won the Victorian Junior Masters, the South Australian Junior Masters and was the Victorian Boys champion. He turned professional in 2005. He played on the Von Nida Tour in 2006, winning two tournaments and topping the order of merit. In 2007, he played his rookie season on the Nationwide Tour finishing 92nd on the money list. He won his maiden title on the Nationwide Tour in 2008 at the WNB Golf Classic by a record-equaling eleven shots. He finished the year 19th on the money list to earn his PGA Tour card for the 2009 season. Leishman was voted the Rookie of the Year in 2009 after recording three top-10 finishes, which included a runner-up finish behind Tiger Woods at the BMW Championship, the third of the four FedEx Cup playoff events. Leishman subsequently qualified for the season ending Tour Championship. He ended the year 53rd on the money list. He recorded his second runner-up finish of his PGA Tour career at the Farmers Insurance Open in 2010. He finished inside the top 100 on the money list in both 2010 and 2011. He reached the BMW Championship in both seasons. Leishman won his first tournament after 96 starts on the PGA Tour in June 2012 at the Travellers Championship, coming from six strokes back of the 54 hole leaders to win by a stroke. He shot a final round of 62, which included eight birdies and no bogeys to match his career best round and second best comeback in the tournament's history. He became the second Australian to win the event after Greg Norman in 1995. At the 2013 Masters Tournament, Leishman was the co-leader after the opening round, alongside Sergio García, as he shot a six under total of 66. He maintained his challenge over the second and third rounds to go into the final day two strokes behind the leaders. He finished T-4 with Tiger Woods, four shots off the lead. Not bad for a bloke in only his second Masters and ranked just outside the world's top 100 - a mark sure to soar when the new rankings are released tomorrow. "I really felt like I belonged, which is a great feeling," Leishman said. "I felt really comfortable - it helps when you're hitting the ball well and putting all right to calm you down a bit. "You never really know how you're going to, but to do what I did, when probably people really didn't expect anything from me was a good thing. "It felt like everyone was waiting for me to blow up, I guess, but in my own mind, I thought I was in with a real good chance to win this. Who would bet against him winning in the future?

What's in the bag May 2012 Name: Jason Dufner Age: 36 PGA Tour Wins: 2 Clubs: Titleist Irons: AP2 712  Fairway Wood: Titleist 910F Hybrid: Titleist 910H Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM4 Jason Dufner is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He is a two-time winner on the PGA Tour and was runner-up at the 2011 PGA Championship in a playoff to Keegan Bradley. Jason is also a regular poster on twitter, you can follow this link to read all his latest tweets.

Player Profile Paul Sheehan Victorian golfer Paul Sheehan has won the Heiwa PGM Challenge at the Kasagi Golf Club, Kyoto, by two shots over a group of four golfers including eight time Japan Tour winner Toru Suzuki. The tournament is part of the Japan Challenge Tour, a gateway to the Japan Golf Tour working along similar lines top the European Challenge Tour and the Web.Com Tour. The events are typically played over 36 holes for total purses between A$100,000 and A$150,000. Sheehan, whose victories include the 2010 Vic Open and the 2006 Japan Open, has been battled a loss of form in the past year and has been working hard with BannLynch Golf’s Denis McDade to turn this around. Sheehan says “the strategies I have in place and the confidence of this win will go a long way towards regaining my full status on the main Japanese tour”.

Thunder and Lightning Something slightly unusual for our readers this week. Listed below are some tips to stay safe on the golf course during a lightning storm. We do not recommend playing in such circumstances, but you must be prepared for any such conditions that come along from time to time. 1: If outdoors during a thunder and lightning storm, avoid water! Also avoid metal objects such as wires, fences, power tools, railroad tracks, etc. Unsafe places include: tents, golf carts, underneath trees. Avoid hilltops and open spaces. Where possible, find shelter in a building or in a fully enclosed metal vehicle, such as a car, with the windows shut. 2: One of the safest locations is inside a large enclosed structure, preferably with electrical/telephone wiring and plumbing (to provide a safe pathway to the ground for any current) but keeping away from doors, windows, metal fittings and devices connected to the electricity supply. 3: If you can't find shelter, avoid the tallest object in the area. If only isolated trees are nearby, your best protection is to crouch in the open, keeping twice as far away from isolated trees as the taller trees. Some interesting fact about Lighting: Lightning bolts travel at speeds of up to 27,760 kilometres per second. A single lightning bolt travels through twisted paths in the air that can be as wide as one of your fingers or from six to ten miles. A flash of lightning is brighter than 10,000,000 100-watt light bulbs. A flash of lightning could power a light bulb for a month. Trees sometimes can survive direct hits from lightning because the electricity passes over their wet surface and go into the ground. Lightning can be made in a laboratory by an instrument called a Van de Graaff static electricity generator which could generate million of volts of artificial lightning from a metal sphere mounted at the top of an insulated column. About 71.4286% of all people struck by lightning still survive. Temperatures in the path of a lightning bolt can reach as high as 27,760 degrees centigrade.

I'm gonna wait until he's not looking!!

Crocodile Shoes! Well as you can tell it's not a crocodile, but it's still one heck of an obstacle to get around. Taking the term hazard to a completely different level, players in the PGA Tour Zurich Classic golf tournament in Louisiana, had to contend with alligators on the fairways and the bunkers during the first round. Clearly not disturbed by the players, the alligator(s) meandered around the course or lolled in the water on fairway-side lakes without a care in the world!

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PRO TIP: Align the Club face One of the most common mistakes amateurs make is improper alignment. Some think they should align their feet at the target, others try to get their shoulders parallel to it. Hey, some golfers try to align everything at the target! They’re all wrong. The correct way to align your shots is to always begin by first assessing your target from behind the ball. This will give you a perspective of the entire hole and help you aim right where you want the ball to go. Secondly, before you make your actual stance, set the clubface behind the golf ball and align it directly at the target. Do this before, not after, you get into your stance. PGA Tour players have a knack for aligning the clubhead in this fashion. Pay attention to how they do it the next time you tune in.

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