Mountain Views News          Saturday, September 25, 2010

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SPORTS

 Mountain Views News Saturday, September 25, 2010 

With Bobby Eldridge 
October is The First Tee of Pasadena Month

On Monday September 20, 2010, the Pasadena 
City Council proclaimed October 2010 as The 
First Tee of Pasadena Month. 

 The First Tee of Pasadena has been impacting the 
lives of Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley youth 
by providing learning facilities and educational 
programs that promote character development and 
life enhancing values through the game of golf. With 
facilities at Brookside, Altadena, Arroyo Seco and 
Glen Oaks (Glendora) golf courses, the First Tee of 
Pasadena has grown from an initial enrollment of 
62 participants at Brookside Golf Course in 2006 to 
serving over 2,800 San Gabriel Valley youth in core 
and outreach programs. Learning the game of golf 
is somewhat secondary to the First Tee’s mission, 
a mission which is primarily to promote character 
development and life-enhancing values to youths 
from every walk of life, using the game of golf as 
our means while instilling nine core values in the 
process: Honesty; Integrity; Sportsmanship; Respect; 
Confidence; Responsibility; Perseverance; Courtesy; 
and Judgment.

The First Tee of 
Pasadena’s programs 
are directed toward 
youth ages 5 to 17, 
with a specific target 
for 5th through 8th 
graders. Since 2007, 
The First Tee of 
Pasadena has also 
offered our “Mulligan” 
programming to over 
123 special challenged 
youths from Optimist 
Youth Home, 
Pasadena PAL, Rose 
City High School and 
Five Acres. Since 2008, 
we have also worked 
with the Pasadena 
Parks & Recreation 
Department in 
providing introduction programs in a non-golf setting and in 2009 implemented the 
National Schools Program into 10 PUSD elementary schools. While The First Tee 
core programs cost $25 per 8 week session, scholarships are available so that no youth 
is turned away due to economic circumstance. 

The First Tee of Pasadena would like to thank Mayor Bill Bogaard and the Pasadena City Council for proclaiming October 2010 
as First Tee of Pasadena Month. For more information about The First Tee of Pasadena and its many programs, please visit www.
thefirstteepasadena.org.


Pulling your iron shots to the LEFT

 There are two things about pulling iron shots that I know 
for sure. Number one, they always feel solid and they go 
further. Oh, I forgot, the ball usually winds up in deep, 
deep trouble. Any shot that goes further than you expected 
and left of your target, can not be good.

 Let's spend some time on why you pull and then I will 
give you something to work on to stop it from going left. 
Remember that a pull is a shot that starts left and stays 
there, it does not curve left, it stays on a straight line, left of 
the target. (For left-handed golfers, the ball starts right and 
stays there it does not curve right, it stays on a straight line, 
right of the target.

 Since the ball isn't curving, then you know for sure that 
the clubface was square at impact. Yes, it is closed to the 
target line but it was square to the swing path at impact. 
The great news is that you only have one thing broken, not 
two. The clubface is square and the path is too much from 
outside to inside.

 For starters, let’s take a look at the ball position. If the 
golf ball is too far forward in your stance, the golf club has 
to swing way outside the target line to make contact with 
the golf ball. If you think the golf ball is too far forward in 
your stance, make sure that you move it back one inch at a 
time. It is a very difficult change to make so take your time 
and go inch to inch.

 While you are at it, I want you to check your shoulder 
alignment, they have to be parallel of your target line and 
not to the left of the target.

 

Golfingly yours, Bobby Eldridge

www.igolffixes.com

 

Bobby's Weekly Pearl: If you are pulling your irons left 
of the green, check your ball position first and then your 
shoulder alignment. 


Sierra Madre Resident Nails A Hole In One At Mountain Meadows

Sierra Madre resident Hattie 
Harris did something that all 
golfers dream of, she got a ‘bona 
fide’ Hole In One last Sunday.

 The ‘leftie’ (left handed golfer), 
with a classic golf swing, is 
known to be ‘long off the tee’ 
and proved it last week.

 The feat was accomplished 
at Mountain Meadows Golf 
Course in Pomona where she 
was competing in the Los 
Angeles County Golf Club’s 
Annual Championship.

 Her shot, 175 yards from tee to 
cup, was on Hole No. 13, the No. 
2 handicap hole. With perfect 
execution, Harris’s ball went 
over the canyon, up the hill in 
the wind and landed about a 
foot from the pin were it gently 
rolled directly into the cup. She 
used a 17 degree Bobby Jones 
hybrid club.

 Harris has been playing golf for 
close to 20 years and although 
she is very close to having a 
single digit handicap, she has 
never had a hole in one.

 The others in the group saw the 
ball roll into the cup but Harris 
wouldn’t believe it until she saw 
it for herself. (See photo at left).

 A student of Golf Pro and 
Mountain Views Columnist 
Bobby Eldridge, she repeated 
the words that he always 
encourages his students to 
repeat. Eldridge asks those he 
teaches to, “Tell ‘em where ya’ 
learned it!”, and Harris did just 
that. 

 While ecstatic over the 
‘ace’, Harris did not win the 
tournament. Staff/MVNews


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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS CALENDAR

September 25 - October 1, 2010

LASALLE HS

ARCADIA HS

PASADENA HIGH SCHOOL

Boys Junior Varsity Football 4:00PM 10/01/2010 

La Salle High School vs Bosco Tech H.S.

Boys Varsity Football 7:00PM 10/01/2010 

La Salle High School vs Bosco Tech H.S.

Girls Junior Varsity Volleyball TBA 10/01-10/02/2010

La Salle High School @ Valencia Tournament

Girls Varsity Volleyball 3:30PM 10/01/2010

La Salle High School @ Duarte Tournament

Girls Varsity Volleyball 8:00AM 10/02/2010 

La Salle High School @ Duarte Tournament

Boys Varsity Water Polo 3:30PM 09/30/2010 

La Salle High School @ Hoover High School

Boys Junior Varsity Water Polo 4:30PM 09/30/2010 

La Salle High School @ Hoover High School


SIERRA 

MADRE’S 

FARMERS 

MARKET

Wednesday 

3-7pm

 Fresh 
vegetables and 

seasonal fruits 

from 
California 

family farms. 

Specialty foods, 
vegetarian and vegan 
dishes, ethnic foods and 
hot food - Everything 
you’ll find at the 
farmers market has 
been made or picked 
fresh, is pesticide-free 
and preservative-free. 

Free public parking on 
Mariposa.


September 28

 Varsity Girls Volleyball at 

 Herbert Hoover High School

 Frosh/Soph Girls Volleyball at 

 Herbert Hoover High School

 Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball at 

 Herbert Hoover High School 

September 29

 Varsity Boys Water Polo vs Flintridge Prep School

 Junior Varsity Boys Water Polo vs Flintridge Prep School 

September 30

 Varsity Girls Volleyball vs Glendale High School

 Frosh/Soph Girls Volleyball vs San Marino High School

 Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball vs Glendale High School


September 29

 Varsity Boy's Water Polo at Sierra Vista

 JV Boys Water Polo at Sierra Vista

September 28

JV Girls Tennis at Burbank 

V Girls Volleyball vs Burbank

JV Girls Volleyball vs Burbank 

September 30

V Girls Tennis vs Burbank

V Girls Tennis at Hoover

JV Girls Tennis vs Hoover

V Girls Volleyball at Hoover

JV Girls Volleyball at Hoover

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