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It has been said that pressure busts lead pipes. That is true.
Stress, anxiety and tension can cause all types of explosives problems for us in everything we do. Interestingly, most of these pressure come from inside. We create our own pressures. So, since we create them, we can eliminate them.
Join us Wednesday evening. We’re going to talk about how preparation can defeat the pressures we face.
Change. Think. Golf.
August is back-to-school month. It is also the start of new Sixtyone Golf Academy year. This year will see some significant changes in the way we do things, and we will be talking about some of them Wednesday evening.
And, we have a little surprise. One of the golf parents is an author. They will be discussing their newly released book. Come see who it is.
Change. Think. Golf.
Sixtyone is an idea. The idea is based on a mission to change the way people think about golf. The vision is to connect more people with the positive aspects of the game, especially young people with limited access to the golf course.
Our country club is not a physical located; it is a way of thinking. Sixtyone members embrace the Change. Think. Golf. philosophy. We share time, treasure and expertise to help more people become golfers.
If you share our vision, whether you play golf or not, and want to join the Change. Think. Golf. movement, reach out to us.
The third week of summer camp focuses on culture and etiquette. Have you ever heard the phrase “There is no honor among thieves?” Ever thought about its meaning? Thieves can not be trusted. Thieves have no honor.
Golf, on the other hand, is all about honor. Golfers are expected to accept a code of polite behavior. It is called golf etiquette. Being honorable is the basis of golf culture.
At Sixtyone, we not only embrace golf culture, we also add a culture of our own. We have a particular way of doing things, and all of them come back to golf. Everything we do comes back to being honorable.
And, remember, we promised to learn the code by the end of the month. Do you know it yet?
Also, don’t forget about these golf terms:
This month’s Golf Talks session is truly an open conversation. We will talk about our own personal relationships with golf.
Have you had a personal best on the golf course? Let’s talk about it.
Have you done something special this summer on the golf course or off? Let’s talk about it.
Have you learn something new about golf or yourself? Let’s talk about it.
Change. Think. Golf.
This month our Golf Talks guest is Salvador (Sal) Camacho III. Sal is from Oxnard, California and considering all that we have planned this summer, we could not have a better person join our session.
Sal grew up in Oxnard and started playing golf at a very young age. He competed in junior golf tournaments around Southern California and did pretty well. He stayed in the area and went to college at Cal State Northridge, graduated and started his on business.
Sal has focused on learning and applying new strategies his entire life. From preparing to be successful in junior golf, to running four marathons, to helping families through his real estate business; he has figured out ways to manage obstacles and comfortably play golf multiple times each week.
Join us Wednesday evening and find out his secrets to success.
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Week one of camp is complete. We have all promised to commit. We have promised to do the work. So now, it is time for us to build our plan.
The second week of summer camp is about strategy and managing obstacles. Tiger Woods once said that he smiled at obstacles.
What do you think he meant by that?
And, remember, we promised to learn the code by the end of the month. Do you already know it?
Oh yeah, what about these golf terms:
At Sixtyone, we use four weekly themes to help us focus, develop and be our best. Self-awareness is the focus for the first week of each month. We work on paying attention to how what we say, what we think, what we feel and what we do affects ourselves and others.
The first week of summer camp started with a promise to go back to the basics. We promised to start over from the beginning and do the work needed to learn more about golf and learn more about how to be a Sixtyone golfer.
We promised to focus on the weekly themes.
We promised to learn the code.
We promised to work on our swing sequence: 1) Start behind the ball, 2) Check your grip, 3) Check your space, 4) Align & Posture, 5) Balance & Tempo, 6) Follow through.
We also promised to learn golf terms. Here are a few:
During the entire month of June, we’re all going to use this golf camp to start over. We’re going back to square one. When we’re done, we’re all going to be better. We are all:
Basically, we are all going to help each other get better at being Sixtyone golfers. Then, we are going reach out to our friends, family and others to help them change the way they think about golf so they can learn to have fun at the golf course too.
The schedule is simple. For the month of June, we are going to meet at Shandin Hills GC every Monday and Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. We will go over what we plan to work on for the week. The rest of the week we will do the work. Then, at the end of each week, we will meet up for our traditional Sunday session to go over what we’ve done.
New Zealand is a tiny country. But, though the total population is only a little over 5 million people, its national team dominates world rugby competition. There could be many reasons why this is true. One might be their haka.
Haka are traditional dances performed by the Maori people. The Maori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. The national rugby team, the All Blacks, are probably the reason haka are best known outside of New Zealand. The All Blacks perform haka before every match.
Haka are part of New Zealand. Haka are culture. When combined they create a powerful force that is tough to defeat.
Do you have haka?
Change. Think. Golf.
The Sixtyone Golf Academy will hold a golf camp during the 2024 summer break. The camp will cover golf basics, the meaning of being a Sixtyone golfer and prepare the students to be able to take advantage of the positive aspects of playing golf.
Join us Wednesday evening. We would like to have your input as we finalize planning.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Change. Think. Golf.
News, thoughts, and events about Being Sixtyone.
News, thoughts, and events about Being Sixtyone.
First Reads
The Journal is the latest news, thoughts, and conversations on being Sixtyone.
The Journal is the latest news, thoughts, and conversations on being Sixtyone.
Welcome to our blog. This is a running conversation thoughts, news, and events to help change the way we all think about golf.
Sixtyone is hosting a Par Tee, and you’re invited.
All weekend during the LPGA’s JM Eagle LA Championship we will be meeting up with friends at the Three Clubs Hollywood! Located at 1123 Vine St, the Three is five minutes away from Wiltshire CC, the host site of tournament.
The weekend starts with the Par Tee event on Thursday night at 7 pm, and we will meet for a Sixtyone happy hour on Friday, Saturday and Sunday following tournament play each day.
Make sure to stop by and join the Change. Think. Golf conversation.
