Monday September 28th, 2009:  Liberty Management and Consulting becomes official today offering a wide range of management and consulting services to both the Golf Industry and the Tennis World. Liberty’s core belief is that each Facility has an untapped potential in terms of the overall experience and the profitability it can generate. Liberty will help each property realize that potential whether it be through Management, Consultation or Acquisition. Liberty has experience nationally and will offer knowledge along with cutting edge technology to ensure that each facility it deals with will realize new heights

Liberty has developed a team with a proven track record of success and a long standing commitment to excellence, here is a look at the principal partners of Liberty Mgmt and Consulting.

Bud Connors: As a native of Boston MA, Bud attended Bentley College in Waltham MA. Bud’s 30 year career in the Golf, Tennis and Hospitality Industry entailed positions as Regional Vice President with Club Corp of America and Meadowbrook Golf Group where his focus was “Turnaround Operations”, Rejuvenation, Management and Capital Construction. Bud’s 30 years in the industry was primarily on the east coast of the United States with the last 16 being mainly in the Mid-Atlantic. Bud recently engineered a revival of the municipal course of Philadelphia and introduced the First Tee Program there as well. Bud’s affiliations are many, some of them are Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, United States Tennis Association (USTA), United States Golf Association (USGA), NGF (National Golf Foundation), National Golf Course Owners Association (NGCOA),  Philadelphia Better Business Bureau and the Publink Golf Group

Bob Ewing: Bob has lived in the Philadelphia area his entire life and was educated at Temple University in Philadelphia.  Bob’s Industry career has spanned over 15 years and has included positions with such companies as Club Corp of America, Meadowbrook Golf Group and Gotham Golf. Bob has most recently been the Vice President of Ron Jaworski Management and over saw properties in the Mid-Atlantic States including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and West Virginia. In his time with Ron Jaworski Bob took the company from managing one course to six in his seven year term. Bob’s affiliations over his career start with the PGA of America and include The National Golf Course Owners Association (NGCOA),  The National Golf Foundation (NGF), the United States Tennis Association (USTA), United States Golf Association (USGA), The Dick Smith Golf Teaching Academy (DSGA)

Liberty Management and Consulting prides itself on being ready at a moment’s notice and be at your facility making a difference immediately. Visit their website for more details and contact information: www.libertymc.us

“The Scoreboard is great.  It’s one-of-a-kind advertising for our business and it’s a great value,” said Giuseppe Celano, owner of Italian Affair.

Giuseppe Celano of Italian Affair in Glassboro and Don Freda of New Golf Media.

“New Golf Media is very excited to have Italian Affair on the Scoreboard once again in 2009,” said Don Freda, president of New Golf Media.  “It’s the best Italian restaurant in South Jersey and they have an incredible wine list.”  Italian Affair has recently updated their website and you can check it out here.

New Golf Media offers businesses in South Jersey an unprecedented opportunity to reach a prime consumer group - golfers - at South Jersey’s premier golf course, Ron Jaworski’s Valleybrook Golf Club.  To learn more about New Golf Media’s Business Development Packages at Valleybrook, click here.

It’s reminiscent of this great scene from Caddyshack:

I’m not sure which is funnier - Ted Knight’s reaction or Rodney’s swing!

As an amateur golfer, you are more than likely going to know that golf can be a rather tiring game. While many people see it as a relaxing and slow sport, when you actually stop and think about what is involved with the game, you soon start to realize that there is quite a bit more to it than simply just taking a swing and hitting the ball.

Think about it: you have to take a swing, hit the ball and then you have to go and get it. Now depending upon how far you have managed to hit the ball, this can be quite a trek! There may be carts available to help you, but most of the time golfers have to walk quite a distance even with the carts available. This means that you can quickly become tired and that can then start to affect the way that you play. So if you want to really improve your game, you have to first improve your golf fitness.

What Golf Fitness Entails

When it comes to preparing the body for golf, there are some specially designed exercises that you can do. Now while it is always good to be as fit as possible by doing as much exercise as possible, if you do not do the right exercises then it will not help your golfing game. This is because you need to focus upon certain parts of the body and ideally you should get a professional evaluation to see exactly which areas you need to improve upon.

However it all depends upon how dedicated you are to the sport. So you need to decide whether you just want to relax and enjoy the sport, or whether you would like to improve to a professional level instead.

Generally golf fitness includes:

• Realizing your current weaknesses
• Learning to prepare before a round
• Improving coordination and flexibility
• A proper diet

By improving all of the above, you should start to see the positive results fairly quickly. No golfer has ever got to where they are now without putting in the extra effort. So if you want to improve your game then you need to be willing to pull out all of the stops and get your fitness in top condition.

Next: Finding Out Your Weaknesses

Cost is $125 per golfer and includes greens fees, cart, lunch, and dinner.  Trophies and door prizes will be awarded.

Sponsorships are also available. Please contact tournament director Carl Luzi at (856) 767-8330 or cluzi@luzinsurance.comfor more information.

In addition, Ed Kramer and Bob Ewing of Valleybrook, will join the Dick Smith Staff as instructors.  Coupled with the superior practice facilities at Valleybrook, The Dick Smith Golf Academy has to be considered one of the premier golf instruction options for local golfers.

For more information, visit The Dick Smith Golf Academy site.

Featured courses include Valleybrook, Ramblewood, Pennsauken, and White Oaks.

If you have an outing that you would like to promote, please email all pertinent details to editor@reachthegreen.com for review.  Please be sure to include your contact information.

Here’s a nice video featuring one of their many happy customers:

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Here’s another short video on their manufacturing process. Very impressive.

You can learn more at the Granite Transformations website.

Tiger, who is putting on a historic display of dominance at the start of the 2008 PGA Tour season, was immune to the pressure and made the putt.

Bart Bryant, who would have tied Tiger if the putt was missed, was in the the scoring trailer as Tiger was approaching the 18th green.  If it was any other player on tour - any other human - Bryant would have to like his chances of a playoff.  But he had to be thinking the same thing I was:  It’s going in.

Isenhour decided the easiest and most effective solution to his problem would be to shoot golf balls at the red-shouldered hawk, a migratory species that is protected in Florida.

After coming close a few times, he struck the bird, knocking it from the tree and killing it.

Witnesses said he took multiple shots, even pausing for a bit, before the kill shot.  After, Isenhour stated he was an “animal lover” and felt bad about the incident.

I’ve made some bad judgements in my life, for sure, but most of them were made in my teens.  I’m amazed that the 39-year old Isenhour didn’t come to his senses after the first few shots and figure a better course of action. Instead, he now faces fines and possible jail time.

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