All Club 808 members had been looking forward to the May 5th tournament since early April. One primary reason is because we are playing at Chambers Bay – the 2015 official US Open golf course. The other reason is that we have good prizes to be awarded: a brand new sexy Cobra 2013 driver and Titleist golf balls. Thanks for the generous donation by our old friend Mr. Ben Zhang of $500. He is our honor member of 2013. Welcome onboard!

The weather was really cooperative with a bright sunny day and clear sky. Thirty-two of our members gathered at Chambers Bay Golf Course to kick off the first team competition event of 2013. Overlooking the link course from club house, the view of Puget sound is so beautiful, the nicely done golf course melted into the remote sea and islands. Looking at the course, everybody is confident, no trees to block the view, no water or pond to lose any balls, the fairway is so hard that ball rolls forever. Even though we started from the white tee, about 100 yard short of the PGA distance, the golf course gave all of us a lesson, the course was both challenging and frustrating. Even though the fairway looks exactly the same as the green, but you can never stop your ball on it, so many bunkers along the course; steep mountains to climb up and down; hilly greens with uneven pin positions; plus endless gutsy wind.

It’s indeed a unforgettable experience that we all endured the real test of the official US Open Golf Course and understand how tough it is to play a pro-golf game although our scores showed much less satisfactory than we normally play at other golf courses. But we can really proudly say: we have done it!

After the tough competition, here are the winners:
• The gross low: James Dong (89, the 2nd Best is 94), and received the prize of a $300 Cobra Driver.
• Longest drive in #5: Eric Zhao beating Ben Zhao and Michael Guo
• Close to Pin: Yongtao You, Ben Zhang, Steve Yang, Eric Zhao.

James Dong has won the prize with some injuries for both hands and knee, not sure if this is the strategy to win being an underdog. Ben Zhang had a good start by score an eagle on the first hole, but hitting a stone caused his wrist injury to recur so he failed a few holes. Eric has won both the longest drive and close to pin, congratulations, that is long and short game both improved!

All in all, it was a great game and our hard core golf players really had a wonderful and memorable event. In the end, we all can proudly say that we tested the US Open course to-be before Tiger actually did it.

On April 7, 2013, over 50 Club-808 members, their friends and families gathered at Barbee Mill Beach Clubhouse (sponsored by Mrs. Laura Counsell) to have a 2012 celebration and 2013 season kick off. After half an hour of social networking, East West Bank did a business presentation of their loan program tailored for Chinese enterprise. Club president of 2012 Roger Guo and treasurer Grace Yu presented the 2012 Annual Report covering: financial, operation, member benefits, events and business development

Roger also presented and acknowledged the 2012 Annual Award and Recognition to the following members:

• Most Contribution Award (最佳贡献奖) Yongtao You

• Most Improvement Award(最佳进步奖）Michael Wu – Drop 2.9 HDCP point!
• Best Attendance Award(最佳出勤奖）Jason Dai
• Best Club Promotion (球会扩大奖) Juliet Zhang
• Staff of the Year Grace Yu
• THANK YOU! Retired Board Director – Kerry Hu

Club 808 board director Mr. Steve Yang delivered the board messages. He acknowledged the thankfulness from board with what have been accomplished in 2012 under the leadership of Mr. Roger Guo and his team. The membership has made great progress and 16 new paid members joined Club 808, 2012 has seen not only membership expansion but also more active member participations in club events!
The new president Shuo Chen determined to keep on the momentum. The VP Martin Pei outlined a new year plan and. All the rewards will be carried into 2013. Shuo introduced the 2013 management team for Club 808:

• President: Shuo Chen

• VP of Operations: Martin Pei
• VP of Marketing: Shannon Sun

• VP of Public Relationship: Jin Ren

• VP of Business Development: Liren Wang

• Secretary: Juliet Zhang

• Treasurer: Grace Yu

• Director of Communication: Debbie Lin

• Director of Technology: Yongtao You

In year 2013, we will continue to strive for excellence of our programs and expansion of our club. Our dream is to build one of the best Chinese clubs in Northwest Pacific. We have the right location and perfect timing. As a fast rising city, Seattle is now attracting more and more attention internationally, especially from Mainland China. The big companies in Seattle area have become the big engine that boosted local economy. Also we have the right people, for the new season we have a very strong management team that is ready to serve our members and bring the club to the new level. I will disclose our new management team in our year end meeting.

Here are the three goals our club is aiming at for year 2013:

• Help our members improve golf skills in all levels, and enjoy more pleasant golfing through our rich prizes in tournament and discounted teaching programs,
• Getting more benefit for our registered members like shop discount, better green fee deals through marketing with local vendors and golf courses
• Build solid and broader social/business network through strategic partnership, traditional, new and large scale events. Increase our publicity and expand our territory by allying clubs and golf teams in multiple regions.

Our team sincerely invite and encourage all of elite members：进步，合作，共赢.

club 808 2013 membership fee:

2013 membership fee for 2012 members: $60

2013 new membership: $180 (with referral), $280 (withour referral)

2013 family membership fee for 2012 members: $40

2013 family new membership: $100

永远使用你最擅长的技术，练习你最不擅长的技术。

如果在练习场的时候你总是在试图将球击的更远，如果在练习场的时候你总是试图让挥杆动作更像麦克罗伊或泰格伍兹，如果在练习场的时候你总是做同样的事情，那么也许您的球技很容易遇到瓶颈。显然我们都希望我们的练习更有效率，而不是做一些事倍功半的事情。

介绍两种最简单的控球练习，打小左曲和小右曲，帮助大家更有效的去练习挥杆。

这两种练习适合任何水平的球友，只要能够完成全挥杆就可以，纯粹的初学者除外。不要觉得自己的水平不行就不去练习这些内容，其实这些练习也会让你的直球打的更好。如果把我们想要练习的球路分成三种的话，直球、小左曲、小右曲总会有一个球路是我们特别不擅长的，要么是小左曲要么是小右曲。这是因为我们挥杆动作的一些因素可能更加适合打出某些球路，那么练习其他的球路对于我们打出直球也是有帮助的。大多数初学者都会有这样一种观念，就是找到一种好的挥杆方式然后固定下来。其实挥杆是无法完全不变的，挥杆的稳定性会随着练习量的增加而增加，而动作会从刚开始大的调整到最后小的调整。但挥杆永远无法做到永远不改变，我们能做的就是通过各种各样的练习让挥杆变得尽可能的稳定。当我们练习控球时候我们对挥杆的掌控能力也就得到了加强，比如下场时对球路的调整，对身体的控制和敏感程度，这些都对提升球技非常有益。这些控球练习也可以让我们对改变不再那么抵触，要知道一些球友对挥杆的改变是非常矛盾的。所有的技术都需要通过练习、掌握、熟练最后在到球场使用，所以当我们学会了方法只是刚刚开始我们要通过大量的练习让自己体会和掌握这些技术。

控球方法：

1.不改变挥杆动作，不改变握杆，改变击球准备时的杆面指向。

第一种练习方法，在做好击球准备时仍然让双手V字型的指向是中性的（具体内容参考关键词“握杆”），但关闭和开放开面进行挥杆击球练习，体验球路。当我们关闭和开放杆面的时候，球杆在上杆过程中我们感受到的重量会发生改变，这种改变会使一些人自然而然的对挥杆动作进行一些调整，而另一些人会变得无法击球。我们要尽量控制不改变任何的挥杆动作，相信自己的挥杆仍然做到扎实的击球。

小左曲10次击球，小右曲10次，直球10次，循环击球，最难打出的球路可以增加一组。熟练之后也可以小左曲1次，直球1次，小右曲1次循环击球。

2.不改变挥杆动作，改变握杆，击球准备是仍然使杆面方正。

这种练习方法类似于比较常见的调整握杆，但难点在于不改变挥杆。要知道一般情况下，当我们改变握杆的时候，随着练习量的积累，我们的站姿、挥杆平面、转体、轨迹等都会受到影响。而这个练习就是让我们做到发生改变后不改变动作，而且仍然能够实现扎实的击球。这对起杆的要求是非常高的，需要更多的练习。但这个练习的好处是，让调整握杆不再变得那么难以接受。如果你经常打出大的右曲，我想你首先该学习的不应该是直球，而是如何打出大的左曲。

小左曲10次击球，小右曲10次，直球10次，循环击球，最难打出的球路可以增加一组。熟练之后也可以小左曲1次，直球1次，小右曲1次循环击球。