I don’t understand why people always buy 3 and 5 wood and not 4 wood. I use my 4 wood all the time and i love my 4 wood.

well it just really helps when you are really close to the green but too far away to use your pitching wedge.
i use my 5, when i have about 100 yards to go, and my 3 when i have less.
i never use my 4, but maybe that would’ve helped out my game yesterday.

i’m sorry if that didn’t answer your question but that’s the main thing that i know. oh and wood hits better, but that’s all i can say.

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As for golf courses, they may actually see an increase in business. It has been shown that as the economy starts to sag, consumers cancel vacations and travel plans, opting instead for leisure activities closer to home. Local golf courses and driving ranges are often a first choice for these consumers.

One exception to this may be high-end country clubs. Consumers often cut such big-ticket luxury expenses quickly before making smaller, lifestyle-changing modifications to their budget.

If the economy continues to decline, then the general recession will begin to affect these other areas of the golf industry.

By RICK DAVIS
Special to The Press-Enterprise

Q. Lake Elsinore resident Pat Sanders said — to save gas on grocery runs and other local trips — her husband has contemplated buying a motorized golf cart.

The cart would be street-legal and have license plates. She said a golf-cart dealer representative told him such a cart is legal for street driving, provided it travels only on streets with speed limits of 25 mph or less, and cross-streets have speeds no greater than 45 mph. Is that all that is required?

A. It seems oversimplified, according to the California Vehicle Code. The vehicle code defines a golf cart as a motor vehicle with at least three wheels in contact with the ground, an unladen weight less than 1,300 pounds, designed for carrying golf equipment and not more than two persons (including driver), and with a maximum speed of 15 mph.
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Golf carts — even nonstreet-legal ones — can be driven legally on some streets near a golf course or a real estate development offering golf facilities — provided the street’s speed limit is 25 mph or less.

Section 21115 of the vehicle code states a local municipality, by resolution or ordinance, can designate such streets (or highways in some locations) for combined use by motor vehicles and golf carts, if they are designed and constructed to safely permit such traffic. The section states local regulations established regarding speed limits, crossing zones and other operating standards on such streets have the force of law.

Per section 21115.1, a golf cart also can be driven at any time other than during “darkness” (that period from a half-hour after sunset to a half-hour before sunrise, and any other time when visibility is not sufficient to render clearly discernible, at a distance of 1,000 feet, any person or vehicle on the road), on any street (other than a state highway), that has been designated by local authority as a golf-cart crossing zone. But such a street must have a posted speed limit of 45 mph or less and be immediately adjacent to a golf course.

As for driving a street-legal golf cart on certain other streets — with maximum speed limits of 25 mph — California law requires that any golf cart driven on any public street must be equipped with: seat belts, front and rear turn-signal lights, headlights, tail lights, brake lights; either left and right side mirrors, left side mirror and rear-view mirror or a multi-directional cross-bar mirror; red reflectors on rear of cart, parking brake, windshield, backup buzzer, horn, covered passenger compartment, unobstructed rear view and locking device.

Also, all the state’s rules of the road apply to golf carts driven on public streets and a registered/license-plated golf cart driven on a public street must have proper insurance coverage.

The DMV requires a “manufacturer’s certificate of origin” before registering and issuing license plates for a street-legal golf cart, according to Ellen Highsmith of Prestige Golf Cars’ Temecula store.

“A person considering use of a street-legal golf cart for local errands needs to consider exactly every area where the cart will be driven,” said Karen Haverkamp, Riverside Police Traffic Bureau administrative supervisor. “You’re OK legally in residential neighborhoods where the speed limit is 25. But if you have to at some point drive into a business district, the speed limit there is 35 mph. Driving a golf cart in that speed zone, generally, is illegal.”

Confused about state or local traffic laws? Concerned about a traffic condition? Send your questions, along with an e-mail address and phone number, to ontheroad@PE.com or contact Rick Davis at 951-375-3720. Please note that due to the volume of questions received, only those published in the column can be answered.

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Tennessee head men’s golf coach Jim Kelson announced the Volunteers’ 2008-09 schedule this week. The Volunteers will participate in four events this fall followed by seven events in the spring leading up to the NCAA Championships.

The Vol golfers will open their season with the Carpet Capital Collegiate Sept. 12-14. The tournament will be held at The Farm in Dalton, Ga., for the 20th annual running of this event. Next up for UT will be highlight of the fall as the Volunteers have been invited to the 2008 PING/Golfweek Preview.

The 20th annual Preview will be played Sept. 28-30 at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. The 54-hole stroke play event will consist of 18 holes each day with a practice round Sept. 27. The Preview is held each fall at the site of the following spring’s NCAA Division I Men’s Championship. Charlotte won the 2007 tournament and finished tied for eighth at the NCAA Championship.

UT will then head to Reno, Nev., for the Wolf Pack Classic Oct. 6-7. This will be the Volunteers first appearance in the Wolf Pack Classic. The Vols wrap up their fall schedule with a trip to Jonesborough, Tenn., Oct. 24-26 for the Ridges Intercollegiate. The event will be held at the Ridges Golf and Country Club. Last season, the Vols finished tied for fifth with Coastal Carolina while junior Chris Paisley took medalist honors for his first collegiate victory.

The first stop for the Volunteers in the spring will be the PING-Arizona Intercollegiate Feb. 2-3 in Tucson, Ariz. Last year, the Volunteers took home the team championships at this event. The John Hayt Collegiate Invitational in Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 22-24, will mark the Vols only action in the state of Florida. The month of March kicks off with a trip out west for the ‘Braveheart’ Classic in Beaumont, Calif., the 2-3.

Tennessee will spend the final two weeks of the regular season in Georgia. The Schenkel E-Z-Go Invitational is first up for the Vols, March 20-22 at Forest Heights C.C. The Volunteers will then head north to Augusta for the Adminstaff-ASU Invitational April 4-5.

The Vols will participate in the 2009 SEC Championships when they take place April 17-19 at the Frederica Golf Club in St. Simons Island, Ga.

The NCAA Regionals will take place May 14-16 with Columbia University, the University of Texas and the University of San Francisco hosting the East, Central and West regional respectively. The University of Toledo will host the 2009 NCAA Championship, scheduled to run May 27-30 at the Inverness Club in Toldeo, Ohio.

RENWICK TO COMPETE FOR ENGLAND AT BOYS HOME INTERNATIONALSIncoming Tennessee freshman Darren Renwick of Worthing, England, has been named to the England team for the 2008 Boys Home Internationals announced Thursday. The event will take place at Royal Country Down Golf Club in Northern Ireland, Aug. 4-7.

Royal County Down is one of the oldest Golf Clubs in Ireland with traditions dating back for more than one hundred years. Situated in Newcastle, where in the immortal words of Percy French, “The Mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea”, Royal County Down is not only a fine test of golf but has accompanying scenery that is spellbinding.

Teams of 11 golfers from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England will play for the R&A Trophy, which England won in 2007.

Countries will compete against one another over three consecutive days in a round robin series. Each fixture comprises five morning foursomes, followed by ten afternoon singles. The R&A is golf’s world rules and development body and organizer of The Open Championship.

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