If you are looking to impress on the golf course, have a look at the Rolex Submariner. The one pictured here is actually a Pre Owned Rolex, “Green” edition and has the 50th Anniversary dial.
You can actually purchase this pre owned for less than $8900 which makes a significant discount of over $1500. The reason is a clever idea by the site www.bobswatches.com where they buy and sell rolexes resulting in a much fairer market price.
Rolex has long been associated with rich and famous. Ian Fleming the author of James Bond was known to wear a Rolex as did Che Guevara.
The Submariner rolex has been used in eleven of the James Bond movies starting with the famous Dr. No.
Steve McQueen was also well know for wearing a submariner and was later sold for $234k at auction in 2009. Just like Steve McQueen in the …
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For golf fans, the last decade or so has been all about finding the next Tiger Woods, or at least a few other names to populate the leaderboards. Fresh talent was hard to come by, and it was easy to keep track of newcomers who showed the skills to join the big league.
Today, golf is “hemorrhaging” with such players, according to sports columnist Scott Michaux. Thirteen of the most recent majors have gone to a handful of different golfers, most of them on their major tour debut. Case in point: Keegan Bradley, who recently nabbed the PGA title, follows six other first-time winners, adding to the longest string of first-time winners in the game’s history.
One obvious reason for this is that the old-timers are aging. By next year most of them, Woods being the major exception, will be in their forties. This leaves the door open for newcomers …
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In tennis, there were Andre Agassi and the Williams sisters; in golf, there were Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, and Arnold Palmer. But these days, Americans are largely off the leaderboards in the world’s two most popular individual sports.
The favorites to win at the U.S. Open tennis championship, which opened this week in Bethesda, Maryland, and at Wimbledon on next week, are mostly Europeans. Last month, the U.S. placed off the top ten in tennis rankings for the first time in almost 40 years.
American golfers aren’t doing much better, especially after Tiger Woods, without doubt the country’s strongest contender, conceded the top spot. Luke Donald and Lee Westwood of the U.K., and Martin Kaymer from Germany, have since surged to the front. They’ve also steered clear of men’s tour titles: the reigning U.S. Open champion is Irish golfer Graeme McDowell, and South Africans Charl Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen hold …
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Changes are afoot in the historic St. Andrews Golf Club in Scotland, home to the world’s oldest golf course: it will soon start admitting women for the first time in its 257-year history.
Current rules do not explicitly ban women, but they provide limited membership information, referring to full memberships for men, junior memberships for youths, and juvenile memberships for boys.
New equality laws have forced the club’s management to recommend a change in these rules. Although the Equality Act, which obtained Royal Assent in 2010, allows single-gender golf clubs to keep their stance, St. Andrews believes it is in the best interest of the club and its members to make the rules “clearer and more robust.”
In a letter addressed to members, the club said it had three ways to comply with the new legislation. One was to operate as it always has, with male members given access to …
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As smart phones such as the Apple iPhone become more and more a part of everything that we do it was only a matter of time that people would start to use their smart phones for statistics and scoring while playing golf. The App store provides numerous options when it comes to golf applications and golf scorecards for iPhone with TeeShot the best golfing application currently available.
The TeeShot application is available for iPhone and iPad and is a single player application which you can use quite easily while moving around the golf course during a game. The application requires very little set up as there is a live search feature included in TeeShot which searches for and loads the course data for you. As well as the courses available for download you can also enter data about the hole you are about to play if the course you are …
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