The Golf Channel is now defunct. The 'Personal Lessons' I found to to be
interesting and useful, recorded a few.
Setanta is the alternative but it is bundled with football etc.
I'll miss it.

Anyone used a golf gps?

MI5 Persecution: BBC Newscasters Lie &. Deny They're Watching Me

Central to the. persecution campaign waged against me for some nine years
now by the Security Service is their use of the media,. and in particular
the broadcast media, to make clear. to me that I am under surveillance and
being watched within my own home, even by BBC newscasters. while they read
the news. This is really an act. of arrogance; MI5 and their tools in the
television and radio are so sure that they can never be caught,. that they
have many times made explicity clear on broadcast. programmes that they are
as capable of seeing me as I am of seeing the broadcast pictures.. Even
when they have known I am taping the programmes. they still carry on this
practice; for examples of TVand radio. presenters caught "in action", see
the Evidence area. of my website.

If you wish to reply to. this article......
then please include. your name and fax number! I provide the means for
recipients to send me their thoughts on the. topics discussed, but ask that
you provide me with your fax number or email address if. you require a
response. Also would you please send. not more than one or two pages, if by
fax.. Thank-you!

It started with a Newscaster, and it continues with Newscasters. today

Four Years of "MI5 Persecution" Posts on Internet. Newsgroups

For approximately the first. three years of the MI5 persecution, from June
1990. until late 1992, I kept as quiet as possible, in the hope that by not
reacting, MI5s interest in me would decrease. and they would simply go away
of their own accord. This is the sort of behaviour some people. employ
against bullies; if the bullies arent getting a reaction, then. they might
simply go away and victimize someone. else.

Unfortunately, this tactic. didnt work. The quieter I became, the more
shrill and hysterical the noise from the Security Service operatives.. For
about two years I didnt watch TV news at all. Yet this only. heightened
their obsessed fixation; they. continued to follow me wherever I went, they
continued to induce harassment at work by managers and fellow. workers, and
they continued to encourage me to commit suicide.. They seemed to regard my
refusal to react as a crime which they would have to "put right". by ever
more extreme. forms of abuse.

MI5. Persecution Update: Friday 30 April, 1999

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Somewhere. between 0 and 100%%

The last few days there have. been no clear recordable instances of
abuse. However, while travelling on the Underground,. while walking around
near my home and going to friends homes,. I am constantly troubled by
thoughts that those people over there might be about to. get at me; that
the couple sitting in the opposite seats laughing are in. fact laughing at
me; et cetera,. et cetera.

A comment by a scientist to the BSE inquiry sticks. in my mind. He
described. the possible scale of the epidemic as "between 0%% and 100%%". It
might not be happening, it might. not happen at all, to any discernable
degree.... or it might be total. Without clear recording,. which seems to
have become impossible the last couple of weeks,. there is no way of
knowing whether the harassment. really is continuing, whether we have
entered a temporary hiatus, or whether perhaps it has perhaps stopped. for
now.

...on uk.sport.golf

Golf club closed today so no excuse for not joining the rest of the family
for Xmas lunch :-)

Malcolm

Hit down like an iron or sweep like a wood?

Hello All

Me & my partner have managed to get to the quarter-finals of our
club's winter pairs knockout. It's format is matchplay better-ball.
Unfortunately my partner has to work abroad in January so will miss
the cut-off date at which the next round must be played by a week.
Upon initial enquiries the h'cap secretary won't allow an extention to
this date.

It was mentioned that I may play against the other pair on my own but
as it is 3/4 h'cap (& I'm off 17 with our opponents off of 7 & 10) I
don't see any point in trying to play them as it will probabably not
be much of a challenge to them & a monumental task for myself.

A lad in work though suggested that the 3/4 h'cap stipulation was
probably due to the fact that there were two people on the team & as
such, I would be playing on a two to one basis, I would be entitled to
play with my full h'cap. Is there any ruling about this or has anyone
out there come across this situation before.

Mark.

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16.1 d
d. Testing Surface During the stipulated round, a player must not test
the surface of any putting green by rolling a ball or roughening or
scraping the surface.

Exception: Between the play of two holes, a player may test the surface
of any practice putting green and the putting green of the hole last
played, unless the Committee has prohibited such action (see Note 2 to
Rule 7-2).
__________________

I must be missing something here because I can't see what significant
benefit or advantage can be achieved by 'testing the surface' of a
putting green in order to put.

The RoG specifically forbids it but allows actions which could be
construed as testing the surface as long as they are not done to
actually knowingly 'test the surface' for instance repairing a pitch
mark, brushing aside loose impediments, cleaning a ball, pressing down
behind the ball to test how wet the green is or indeed WALKING on the
putting green!

http://sillypicks.com/?photoid=19

What tournament is this from?