Mover Mike

For you golfers, WSJ Online has an excellent article on the technology affecting the game of golf, How Science Can Improve Your Golf Game (by subscription only). The article covers the latest info about the difference between great putters and naifs: the difference in where you focus as you strike the ball.

Practice: scientists have found the best way to practice and have found the brain needs time to process the information.

Scientists have come up with grasses for fairways that can be cut to 3/8 of an inch and play like greens.

New technology of ball design and the reason for dimples. Dimples create airflow that has less drag and thus more distance.

And finally, advice for me: New scientific advice on what works best to cure the slice.

I may just have to take up the game again! While on golf, the WSJ also has information about one of the most exclusive golf courses, Morefar, the course owned by Starr Corp. of AIG.