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Hoerner the Bobcats. Navajo Prep lost a pair of games to Rehoboth and Hatch. On the men’s side, Farmington and Piedra Vista headed to Los Alamos for their annual tournament. PV goes 1-2, knocking off Bernalillo and losing a pair of games on a penalty kick and a shootout. The Scorpions go 2-1, losing to Roswell and beating Clovis and Bernalillo. Aztec fell to Grants, Bloomfield lost to Bosque, and Prep was shut out by Robertson. The local volleyball teams got off to a great start with Kirtland Central sweeping Bosque, Piedra Vista routing Gallup in three, and Aztec taking a pair of games from Thoreau and Belen. Navajo
Yost face is less than 10 degrees. With the evolution of the adjustable driver, I can’t – for the life of me – understand why anyone would play a driver that has 8 or 9 degrees of loft, and here’s why…. A driver with less loft will not stay in the air as long nor will it go as straight as a driver that has more loft. With a driver that has at least 10.5 degrees of loft or more, a player will hit the ball straighter and actually increase the carry distance on their driving club. There is a reason that your 5-wood goes straighter than your driver, the same reason that your pitching wedge goes straighter than your 5-iron – the answer is more loft. The next thing I look at is how low the numbers on their iron set go down. If I see the numbers 3 or 4 in the bags of these amateurs, I immediately explain to them the power of the hybrid club. Unbeknown to me, club manufacturers continue to produce sets with 3 and 4 irons, when in my opinion they should be obsolete – at least to the higher handicapper. A hybrid club offers the same loft as the 3 and 4 irons – and lower – but offer more mass behind the hitting area – like a wood. The center of gravity of the hybrid club is lower, thus allowing
TRI-CITYTRIBUNE Friday, September 6, 2013
Prep defeated Shiprock 31. This Week’s Schedule Friday, Sept. 6 Football Schedule Piedra Vista hosts Grants on Fox Sports AM 1340 and 93.9 FM Aztec hosts Roswell Goddard Bloomfield is at Pojoaque Farmington heads to Los Alamos Navajo Prep travels to Wingate Kirtland Central welcomes Durango Aztec Women’s Soccer hosts Belen Piedra Vista Women’s Soccer at St. Pius Kirtland Central Women’s Soccer at Show Low Tournament Farmington Volleyball at Gallup
Saturday, Sept. 7 Piedra Vista Cross Country at UNM Lobo Invitational Piedra Vista Women’s Soccer at Roswell Piedra Vista Soccer hosts Alamogordo Navajo Prep Women’s Soccer hosts Desert Academy
for a higher ball flight. Hybrids are also infinitely easier to hit out of rough than their long iron counterparts. If you have a 3 or 4 iron in your bag, take them out immediately and use them to clean cobwebs or dig trenches. If you don’t have a hybrid, go see your PGA golf professional to discuss your options and hit some demos. Finally, I look to see how many wedges these players carry. If a higher handicap player only has a pitching wedge and sand wedge in their bag, then I know that they are leaving a bunch of strokes on the course around the greens. At a minimum, players should have three wedges, and I would highly recommend they carry four. The wedges that would greatly improve their games come in the form of a gap wedge – wedge in between their pitching wedge and sand wedge – and a lob wedge which has more loft than their sand wedge. Wedges are considered scoring clubs, which means they are designed to get the ball close to the hole when a player is close to the green. The closer the shot gets to the hole, the lower the score for the hole becomes. Therefore, the more options a player has, the better the chance the player has of getting it close. When a pitching wedge has 46 degrees of loft and their sand wedge has 56 de-
Kirtland Central Women’s Soccer continue at the Show Low Tournament Farmington Women’s Soccer hosts Miyamura Aztec Soccer entertains Bernalillo Aztec Women’s Soccer welcomes Capital
to Los Alamos Farmington Volleyball hosts Pagosa Springs Aztec Women’s Soccer vs. Oñate
Kirtland Central Women’s Soccer at Gallup Farmington Soccer at Academy Tournament Farmington Women’s Soccer goes
Oh Technology Football season rolls around and I’m obsessed with fantasy football. But technology has ruined a day that I look forward to like Christmas. When fantasy football started, most groups got together and drafted teams while sharing a beverage and making fun of the other guy’s picks. No more. Now we sit in front of our computer watching a clock tick down, looking at who our provider rated as the best choice or being stuck with an autopick because you are off line. You don’t have to even be in the same room. This is the largest downfall of our obsession with tech-
grees of loft, the loft difference of 10 degrees is way too much in between these clubs. Most clubs have a difference of 4 or 5 degrees of loft, which is a good starting point for the wedges you put in your bag. Therefore a player with a 46 and 56 degrees configuration should look to add a 51 degree gap wedge and a 60 degree lob wedge. The loft difference has now been cut in half and a player can now hit accurate shots from a plethora of different distances and situations. Oh, and on a side note, a lot of players carry a rock
club as one of their 14 clubs to prevent scratching up their “real” clubs. This rock club is a waste of space and is delaying the inevitable scratch and nick that will be coming out of your brand new set sooner rather than later. Hit your rock shots with your newly acquired gap wedge – it will give it character and will actually guarantee that the ball gets out of the desert. So this offseason, become proactive and change your set configuration. This will give you a head start in allowing you to play your best golf in the 2014 season.
Monday, Sept. 9 Bloomfield Boys’ and Girls’ Soccer are at Miyamura
Tuesday, Sept. 10 Piedra Vista Volleyball at Bayfield Aztec Volleyball hosts Shiprock Bloomfield Volleyball heads to Kirtland Central Navajo Prep Volleyball travels to Santa Fe Indian Kirtland Central Women’s Soccer continues, welcomes Rehoboth Bloomfield Boys’ and Girls’ Soccer host Gallup
Thursday, Sept. 12
nology. We are more connected than ever with cellular devices and social media, yet we are more isolated than ever as well. I for one love my laptop and my cell, but I also miss having the guys get together for our annual draft, and I enjoy their company. By the way, when did it become socially acceptable to interrupt a person-to-person conversation to answer your phone or check a text? It’s good to know that your face-to-face time with me is not as important as checking the message from somebody not even around. It’s like having the restaurant you’re at wait on their drive-thru customers before the people
that actually take time to come into the establishment. But that complaint is for another day. Sports on Fox Sports New Mexico AM 1340 & 93.9 FM Friday Night Experience Piedra Vista hosts Grants Pre-game 6:30 Kickoff at 7 p.m. Florida Gators vs. Miami Hurricanes, Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Atlanta Falcons vs. New Orleans Saints, Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Green Bay Packers vs. San Francisco 49ers, Sunday at 2 p.m. Philadelphia Eagles vs. Washington Redskins, Monday at 4:30 p.m. Houston Texans vs. San Diego Chargers, Monday at 8 p.m. First Sports with Steve Bortstein, weekday mornings from 7 to 10 a.m. The Fast Track, Saturdays and Sundays from 8 to 9 a.m.
Coming Sept. 22 Light - Meditative Worship 8:15 am Bread - Traditional Worship 10 am Salt - Contemporary Worship 11:30 am
Bethany Church • 711 E. 30th St. Farmington
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