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| Posted On Friday, June 3, 2022 |
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| | Dataw's French Open - by Laura McCarthy Marketing and Comm. Director | | |
| | Here on Dataw Island, we celebrated the start of the French Open with our very own tournament! Bordeaux Blanc took the win, but good times were had by all | | |
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| Posted On Wednesday, May 18, 2022 |
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| | Inaugural Pickleball Club Championship - by Laura McCarthy Marketing and Comm. Director | | |
| | Members competed this past weekend for the 2022 Pickleball Club Championships. Nearly 40 men and women competed in either a six-team, or 3-team Round Robin. The inaugural event drew lots of fans, too. It's | | |
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| Posted On Wednesday, June 23, 2021 |
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| | USTA Dataw Splash! Tennis Tournament - by Laura McCarthy Marketing & Comm. Director | | |
| | After a one-year hiatus, the USTA summer kick-off event returned with a splash this past weekend | | |
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| Posted On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 |
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| | Dataw's Tennis Director Recognized for Excellence | | |
| | Warren Florence, Tennis Director at Dataw Island Club, has been honored with Beaufort Gazette Reader’s Choice award for best Tennis Pro/Tennis Club -- a coveted local award exemplifying his teaching skill and friendly demeanor. | | |
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| Posted On Wednesday, May 11, 2016 |
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| | Aggravated on the court? Try a smile and let it go! | | |
| | At risk of turning into the TV commercial guy who needs a Snickers bar to be himself? Before you carb up, we have another approach you may want to consider.
Quite often the #1 source of aggravation on the court is missing a shot and the rumblings that go along with it, however misplaced they may be. Even worse is the irritation when you opponent gets “that lucky shot” off from the back 1/8” of the line and your 40/30, and then comes back to scoop the game away from you.
Think about this -- Who gave him or allowed him “that lucky shot”? And who stayed disengaged during the next two points to lose the game because they were overdosing on disappointment? When you can take responsibility for giving him that opportunity, you cannot be upset that he took advantage of the situation, as you would also have done just the same.
Once you become aware of the circumstance and the outcome it produced, you will be less inclined to get negative and be able to stay in the moment when it counts. This is sure to add to your game score and fuel your confidence.
We all make mistakes as we play and will continue to do so. Making less of them as time goes on should be the goal, not to eradicate them totally. Also, remember to smile. It is really hard to be mad and smile. At first this will really hurt, but it is sure to break the ice and may change your outlook if you continue the practice.
Good luck with the new smiles, it should make things quite fun for the crowd.
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| Posted On Friday, May 6, 2016 |
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| | What is Masters Tennis and What the HECK is Pickleball? - by Laura McCarthy | | |
| | Masters Tennis may sounds like it would be reserved for seasoned champions (like the Master’s Tennis Tournament is for Roger Federer) but in reality it is almost the opposite.
Masters Tennis is a new spin on the tennis game, using lower compression balls (which move slower) on a modified, smaller court (so there is less ground to cover). In other words, there is less court to cover and the ball speed is easier to keep up with. It first gained popularity in Florida and has quickly been migrating North. | | |
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| Posted On Monday, May 2, 2016 |
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| | Croquet Should Be in the Olympics Now. Period. - by MalletHead | | |
| | First off, anyone that wants to debate the merit of croquet as a sport can turn around and walk right back out the door right now.
Okay, now that we've cleared out the deadwood, let's roll. Mallethead doesn't see how you can count the one-year entry of croquet in the Olympics in 1900 (before switching to roque for the 1904 event) as a valid attempt to evaluate the sport before giving it the boot. Consider this excerpt from Wikipedia:*
After the success of the 1896 Games, the Olympics entered a period of stagnation that threatened their survival. The Olympic Games held at the Paris Exposition in 1900 and the World's Fair at St. Louis in 1904 were side-shows. The Games at Paris did not have a stadium, however this was the first time women took part in the games. The St. Louis Games hosted 650 athletes, but 580 were from the United States.
As the Croquet Association became more established in Great Britain throughout the last century, it seems like if the event could have stuck around until 1920 or so that Olympic history would have been quite different for croquet. In a just world, and based on the short shrift the sport received, the IOC would give croquet an exhibition for London 2012. It is the world capital for the sport -- why not take advantage of the opportunity? Not to mention that it would be a nice little nod to the history of the games.
Nonsense you say? What about the question of popularity and "televisablity?" While the sport certainly has struggled to catch on, at least in America, virtually everyone has played croquet. So, most people actually are very familiar with the sport. They get the principle -- hit balls through wickets, go to the stake and win. With the advances in sports broadcasting, I think you can quickly get spectators up to speed on the sport -- especially golf croquet.**
Compare that to curling which oddly captivated the world last winter, yet few have ever played the sport (to be honest, Mallethead has never even played shuffleboard -- bocce, yes). To be clear, the purpose here is not to denigrate any of the current sports. The idea is to simply compare to demonstrate that croquet does fit. And I think curling is a great example as it had a "tactical" element, that I know 90% of viewers could not comprehend.
And that is, of course, one of the objections to croquet -- non-players can't comprehend what is happening. True, but as stated before, that didn't seem to factor in for curling, but to assuage that fear, I do think golf croquet is the starting point. At least from a spectator standpoint, it makes more sense.
And what about this when making the case for croquet? Not only is it a sport that virtually everyone has played, it's also a sport that everyone can play. It's difficult to name many true sports that are more gender and age equal than croquet. Sure it's great to watch young people in their physical prime perform athletic marvels, but there is also something to be said for presenting a sp | | |
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