There are the Majors and there are the very major championships in golf, namely the Tour Players, the Volvo PGA and the World Championship events. You can add to this list the respective end of season finales on both sides of the Atlantic, the Tour Championships, but in just a handful of years, World Championship Golf has taken its place in the Golfing calendar.

The man in charge of the grass on a golf course has one of two probable titles . He could be the greenkeeper or perhaps the Superintendent - whatever his nomenclature he is the man in charge and the billion or more blades of (hopefully) green grass on his course are the love and the bain of his life.

Golf and Fitness now seem to be brother and sister, notably at Tour Professional level. The benefits of conditioning, of a healthy lifestyle and most notably flexibility are there for all to see and have produced significant earnings increases for a number of the best players in the World. What happens at Tour level always filters through to the amateur game so you are sure to have thought about fitness and for more and more players, even of average handicaps, its a change in lifestyle which has already started.

Englishman Lee Slattery mastered gusting winds of up to 40 miles per hour to secure his maiden European Challenge Tour victory at the Telia Grand Prix, capping an unbelievable two month run of form that has seen him secure his 2005 European Tour Card in just nine events since July.

'Mind' Games' titles itself as 'inspirational lessons from the World's biggest sport stars'. Its a book of five sections each one specific to a part of the mental process of winning and coping, and learning, from losing or the fear of failure. The introduction is by Sir Clive Woodward, whose World Cup success was a combination of leaving nothing to chance in preparation and creating a mind set amongst his players of winners under any conditions.

GOLF BOOKS - 'Fit for Golf by Boris Kusmic and Jim Gorant is an excellent book from one of the top Personal Trainers on the US PGA Tour. If a client roster which has included Vijay Singh and Ernie Els doesn't grasp your attention then you are missing out on what is THE factor in playing better golf these days for top amateur and professionals alike. Will this book be of help?

'How to turn your team into winners' is a secondary title for this very interesting book. If books were rated as per their celebrity factor, then with Sven's name having appeared on every front page of every newspaper for the Summer of 2004, his status would place this book as per. Casting aside the aspirations of those wanting to take their place as one of the experts who 'know' what 'is wrong' with Sven, this books looks at why English Football IS MORE SUCCESSFUL than it has been for some time.