Who doesn’t love the big “easy”? The big giant golfer from South Africa with his quiet demeanor and almost effortless swing has golfers around the globe mesmerized. Every time he plays, a good amount of his fans are quietly waiting to see his name atop the leader board. But sadly, it hasn’t happened for the past two years. Reason being, he was held back with a knee injury and out for about ½ a season.

Golfnick has recently been busy helping to bring up the numbers of golfers into the world. And in the future posts, we hope to bring forth to our viewers the very own diaries of these individuals. Each coming from a different background and most of them have never held a club until our very own golf meet a fortnight ago. Please note that all of them share only a common interest, they are all bloggers! Let’s introduce them as well as what Olaf thinks each have to do to improve their swing:

Olaf has started in only a handful of charitable tournaments thus far. But the experience that he has been getting from fellow tournament go getters has given him invaluable advise, for future ones. This list is never complete as each person or professional will always prepare differently, based on their own needs. But if you are a newbie in this area, check out these things which I find are very useful.

No wonder Golfnick gave this man the top marks at our recent post as the man to challenge Tiger Woods for his No. 1 spot. His short game was tremendous! Phil had made shots out of nowhere even he was staring at big numbers. His scrambling ability was nothing short of miraculous. And the most apparent improvement came from his once suspect long game (especially his driver). I wonder who is laughing louder, Phil or Butch Harmon (his new swing coach). Can we credit at least 30% of this success to Butch? This man has already proven his worth with (who else!) Tiger, Olazabal, Adam Scott and former great Greg Norman. But let’s not take the full credit away from Phil, who has been knocking at the door for too many a year now.

My dear friends and readers, I am proposing that we meet up again this Saturday 12th May 2007. Venue will be the Bukit Jalil driving Range. Time: 3.00pm. For some additional news, Olaf’s Grand Master will be joining us for the meet. Take this opportunity to see this wise man who may hold a 24-handicap but is always ready to play. Just for the love of the game!

For those who will be joining us for the first time, you will not need to bring anything but just dress in a shirt, shorts, socks and a pair of trainers. If you happen to have a club with you, bring it along! If you have other things such as gloves and the likes, please feel free to bring them.

After the driving range meet, I thought it would be nice to share some information on Olaf. I hope it could maybe help my fellow beginners and to share with you all, the equipment that I use and how you can use it as a reference point to choose the gear for yourselves.

Here it comes, Olaf’s equipment:

Continuing from the last installment of the series A Beginners’ Guide to Golf, let’s look a few things that you will need in order to start playing the game. As always as your pro will tell you is to get a pair of gloves. And there are a few for you to shop for! And please don’t borrow or nick somebody’s old gloves. For one, gloves come in sizes. And if you are a right handed person, you buy a left hand glove and vice versa for the left hander.