Worden Offers
Year-Round Golf
Dave Worden has been in the
golf-related business for 33-years and offers opportunities to golfers 12-months
of the year.
The 54 year-old former outstanding
four-letter Middletown Central School athlete opened The Golf Shop in Middletown
in 1992 and two-years ago leased the Honor's Haven Fallsview Golf Course near
Ellenville where he serves as the Director of Golf.
At the Fallsview Dave runs the show
making sure their is someone in attendance at the pro-shop, he does all club
repairs and club rebuilding and all golf course maintenance gets his personal
attention.
Taking golf indoors during the late
fall, winters and early spring months has become a speciality at Dave's Indoor
Golf Center located within The Golf Shop at 316 East Main Street, Middletown
where winter indoor golf is played on Deadsolid Golf
Simulators.
The Indoor Golf Center features
leagues for single men, two man teams, single ladies, two lady teams and
juniors.
Dave points out that the golf
simulators provide realistic computer images, swing speed, swing tempo, face
angle, face rotation , impact point and yardage. "This is real golf with amazing
feedback," Worden said.
Clubmaking has been a part of The
Golf Shop for over 20-years and Dave is associated with the Golf Clubmakers
Association and Professional Clubmakers Society.
He oversees eight employees at the
Fallsview and describes himself as "self-taught" when it comes to
clubmaking.
His wife Terry works closely with
Dave performing all the bookkeeping aspects while his daughter Janell serves as
assistant director of golf at the Fallsview. All members of the family play
golf.
Worden lettered in four sports at
Middletown High and played football and lacrosse at Hudson Valley Community
College before moving on to the University of South Florida.
During the months of January and June
Dave teaches International Leadership Training (ILT) at the Fallsburg Clubhouse.
This involves students ages 12-14 from mainland Korea who come here to learn
English, Math, Money, Budgets and various aspects about the game of
golf.
Dave Worden breathes, eats and sleeps
the game of golf and his outstanding enthusiasm for the sport and his desire to
help others enjoy the sport is a beautiful thing to see.
Stop by or call Dave at 845-210-3106 or
845-344-2582.
Ed's
Outlook
Golf Course Designer Robert Trent
Jones Sr. developed a gem when he put together the plans for the the Fallsview
Golf Couse at the Honor's Haven Resort and Spa located just outside the village
of Ellenville.
On this nine-hole facility there is
not a weak hole to be found and some consider holes seven through nine the
toughest three finishers in the Tri-State area.
This week we will take you through
the first three holes and follow up with three holes each for the next two
weeks.
From the blue tees the total yardage
is 3,432 and 6,342 for 18 holes.
Hole No. 1 is a par 4 totaling 401
yards and is a fairly straight hole with a lake down the left side of the
fairway and a bunker down the right side which requires you to drive straight
down the middle. A large undulating green has sand traps to the left and front
of the green. Keep it straight and you get your par here.
Hole No. 2 is a 173 yard par 3 and a
safe play to the middle of the green is recommended. The pin positions usually
tempt golfers to attack on this shortest of the par three holes. An errant tee
shot here and your looking at a bogie.
Hole No. 3 is a 509 yard par 5 with
high risk. The Sandburg Creek greet golfers off the tee and runs parallel to the
third hole and Gully Creek must be traversed off the tee. A bunker lines the
right side of the fairway and is reachable with your tee shot. The green is
defended by a pond on the right and a deep face bunker greenside. A five on this
hole requires accurate shooting.
Complete photo coverage of this
course can be seen at http://bght.blogspot.com
The Golf Tip
By
Robert Menges
The Importance of
Wedges:
In today's ever-changing golf game,
most players are under the influence if they hit the ball longer they will play
better.
Even though technology has
increased now far the ball will travel, the scores are about the same. There is
no doubt that if you hit the ball longer you should have less club to the green
and be able to get the ball closer to the hole and make more
putts.
I believe this to be true, but you
better be able to hit shots on the green close to the pin. In order to hit the
ball close, I feel it is important to carry three wedges in your golf bag. Most
people have a pitching wedge that some with their set. This club has 47 to 49
degrees of loft. You have a choice to make for the other two wedges. A gap wedge
with about 50 to 55 degrees of loft and a lob wedge is about 60 to 64 degrees of
loft. I would choose between these two clubs depending on how far you hit the
ball.
A lob wedge will save you shots
around the green and a gap wedge will help you with the in between yardages in
the fairway.
You should always carry a sand wedge
that has 54-57 degrees of loft.
Some touring Professionals will carry
4 wedges in their bag.
The next time you play a round of
golf, count how many shots you take from 100 yards in to the green. I think you
will find that this will total about 60 percent of your
score.
When you are trying to improve your
score, it is important to lower the number of shots you take close to the green.
I think having three wedges in your bag will help you accomplish a lower
score.
Robert Menges is the head golf
professional at the Swan Lake Golf & Country Club, Mt. Hope Road, Swan Lake.
He is available for private lessons and if you have a question or subject you
would like covered, he can be reached at 845-292-0323 or email at
menges@hughes.net
The
Putting Tip
By Joe
Bermel
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