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Lexus Cup....getting started.

  The moment we’ve been waiting for has almost arrived.  The first round of the Lexus Cup begins tomorrow and we kicked off the festivities today with the Opening Ceremonies.  We also had a press conference in which Se Ri and I announced our pairings.  Making the pairings for fourballs and foursomes is always difficult, but it is fun trying to strategically position different groups of players against her picks.  I think we will be competitive. 

Perth has been great and we’ve gotten a break on the hot weather so far.  It's actually been cool the past two days.  We went to a winery, toured the city, and checked out the beach, which is where we heard there was a 19 foot Great White Shark spotted last week.  I think I’ll wait until next week to swim. 

Well, I’m off to the team dinner.  I’ll check back in tomorrow. 

The Importance of Club Fitting

Hi All. Christian checking in to see what's been going on here at annikablog.com.  I wanted to share a little something about the club fitting we offer to all of our guests.

Here at the ANNIKA Academy we are very pleased to be able to offer club fitting using Callaway Golfs C-PAS System.  C-PAS stands for Callaway Performance Analysis System and trust me it is exactly that! Not only do we learn exactly which clubs are right for our guest, we learn a lot about their golf swing by putting them through club fitting. We are very lucky to be able to offer such an in depth club fit to our guest and we truly appreciate our partnership with Callaway Golf.

To get to the point of this post. Yesterday I received an e-mail from a past guest and thought I would share some of it. Sue came to the Academy in early October and had a set of Callaway X-20 irons with Ladies flex shafts and a standard lie. After our hour in the club fit room we discovered that Sue should be in a light flex shaft and her that the lie of her golf clubs should be bent two degrees upright based on the way she swung the golf club. So Sue left the Academy and went to get her clubs repaired to the specifications that we gave her at the Academy. This was her reaction via e-mail:

I got my clubs back from Callaway two weeks ago and I can't tell you what a difference there is Bending
them 2 degrees upright has really helped me out. I don't work anywhere
near as hard to keep the ball online. It's amazing!!

Having clubs that fit ones golf swing is such an important part of golf and gives a player such an advantage over someone that has not been fit. As I talked about before we love hearing back from past guests especially with stories of such great success! Its a good feeling to know that you've really helped someone
improve their golf game.

Hi from the Academy gym

Hi everybody, my name is Kai Fusser and I am the Director of Fitness at the Annika Academy. I have been working with Annika as her trainer for almost 7 years now and it has been a great adventure, one could not ask for a better student ! As you know Annika is in Australia at the moment and she took a workout program with her which she will do until she gets back after Dubai. Then it is time to hit the gym hard and get ready for the next season, we will work out 4-5 days a week in different phases. We will keep you posted on the workout progress now that she is injury free again we have set some high goals.