alex noren golfer on the move

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  Update

  2009-10-10 Fast update. Seriously low scores on the golf course, 60 from Ross McGowan today and 63-63 from Mikko Ilonen last two days. Really bad fotball in the Sweden-Denmark match today. Zlatan was good though! Madrid is not the place to eat before midnight...Burger King is the only place open, feels like a great excuse.
  
  Sweet to have a dinner in the city with the guys after just staying in and having room service every night. Saw a little of Madrid. Huge city. We stay really close to Real Madrid's football stadium, Santiago Bernabeu, but there are no "la Liga" games this week. Bad timing!
  
  Some photos from today...
  
  
  
  View from the gym
  
  
  
  Watching the President's Cup in the gym...I need to get a life!:)
  
  
  
  The city view from the hotel room.
  
  
  
  Mikko Ilonen is tired after shooting two 63's in a row! Amazing playing!
  
  Tomorrow is going to be a great day with loads of opportunities and I hope I can take them all to move up the leaderboard!
  
  See you then!
  
  
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  Questions and answers

  2009-10-09 Here are some answers for the questions you sent me!
  
  
  Q. Great Video and a great swing, however who do u believe has the best swing on the European Tour and who has the best swing on the PGA Tour? My top three swings would be Geoff Ogilvy, Luke Donald and someone called Alexander Noren lol
  
  A. I believe Tiger Woods has the best swing on the PGA Tour and Sergio Garcia has the best one on the European Tour.
  
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  Q. AL, haven't asked you this, but i take it you are practising with the new grooves for next year? How do they feel? I've heard from some guys that the difference is huge, which quite surprised me to be honest.
  
  A. I tried them out on the range at Gleneagles. They felt the same for the irons and very close to the same for the wedges. I only tried from the fairway cut grass and maybe there will be a bigger difference from the rough. Callaway will have a new softer ball, which still goes further so it won't be to big of a difference overall I think.
  
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  Q. Does your brother play golf too? is golf a game that has been played in your family before such as your dad? do you play golf with your family often?
  
  A.My whole family plays, brother is the best with hcp 3 and mom and dad are ok as well. I play a few rounds a year with them...It's fun...serious bets going...the loosers do the dishes.
  
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  Q. Could you send me some exercises that I can use in the gym. I want to work with the whole body to improve my swing. Please sent something that could fit a fifteen year old guy from Sweden who really wants to become a golfpro some day. Have fun and play well in Madrid.
  A. Exercises for you as a fiftheen year old would be most body weight to prepare yourself for heavier weights. I would do push-ups, chin-ups, all kinds of ab training. Different leg exercises like squats with no weights, different step drills, squats with jumping after and "utfall" as we say in swedish.
  
  I would recommend to play some other sports as training. Biking, running, rowing and stuff like that is great. Cross-country skiing and all other kinds of skiing. Anything that will make you improve your coordination, strength and stamina at the same time. Then in maybe 2 years you can start with weights.
  If i could be 15 again (which would be awesome by the way) I would work a lot on my technique. Get a good teacher and work on your swing so you are ready when you are 25:)
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  Q. Hi,
  as a big fan of both you and Martin Kaymer I was just wondering how well you get along with him off the course and how big your friendship with him is? What do you think of him golfwise?
  If Im not wrong u used to train with him during the winters in Arizona right?
  A. I'm a big fan of Martin's game and we are good friends. Sometimes we stay together and he is great to practice with. His game is very very good and it gives me a lot of motivation to practice with him! It's a shame he got injured but shit happens I guess and he will be back soon and hopefully in time for the Race to Dubai finale.
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  Q. Jag är en inbiten golfare som spelar så mycket golf att jag numera inte ens har tid med att intressera mig för tjejer. Nu undrar jag om det är likadant när man är proffs och spelar på touren? Har ni tid med brudar där ute, eller tar golfen upp för mycket tid? :-)
  Q. (In English) As a golfer, do you really have time for girls?
  A. There isn't too much time left over after practicing and working out. Most of the guys on tour have girlfriends or wives though. There is always a time for everything:)
  See you later!
  
  
  
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  Friday

  2009-10-09 Nice day today! No bogeys and 5 under par, 67. I like these kind of days. Can I maybe get some more like this, please?:)
  
  From this morning around 9 a'clock...looks more like 6 a'clock but the sun doesn't get up before 8.15 here in Madrid.
  
  
  
  Saw Pelle with his sweet look on the putting green after the round...
  
  
  
  In the taxi on the way to the gym I saw some serious artists in the road. At every red light they show up to do some tricks and then go around to the cars hoping to get some money for their performance.
  
  
  
  Gonna post some Questions and answers now. Look at the next blog post.
  
  Bye for now!
  
  
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  Back on track

  2009-10-08 Played with Thomas Björn and Thongchai Jaidee today and it was really inspiring...Thomas hit it so good all day. Such impressive iron shots. Straight and low into the wind. Great control. Tongchai is a very good player. He makes it look really easy to play golf and has one of the best attitudes out here. He takes a bogey with a laugh and gets on with it.
  
  Started great but had a terrible 5th hole, a par 5. Hit it left off the green with my second shot on the carpath and it bounced down into heavy rough. When we didn't find at once, I decided to stop looking for it since it was such a bad spot and it would be better off playing my provisional ball from the greenside bunker. The spectators didn't understand what I meant and kept looking for it and found it. The rule says I have to play that ball if it's found within 5 minutes. It was a bad lie, but I could still hit it out. Hit it ok but the ball hit a wooden pole a bit forward and bounced further back into a really bad spot. From there, I had to take a penalty drop and I ended up making a triple bogey, 8. I was furious. If they would have stopped looking for my ball when I told them, I would have made 5, 6 or 7. Now, I made an 8. I felt like all the energy just ran out of me. I started so well with birdie chances on every hole and now I was three over after 5 holes. 
  
  All i tried to do after that was to hit a few good shots in a row and get my game together again. Started playing better and better and when the round was finished I shot 1 under, 71. I was really proud of myself. I did it! This is what I've practiced the most at. To try to move on, whatever happens and focus on the next shot. If I give up in the middle of a round, it's the same as giving up golf in whole. Always play the next shot with total focus and koncentration. You can't do that if you're still mad about the last shot. My college coach told me that!
  
  There were a lot of good scores today and I'm not even close to the top but I'm still happy that I got it together today. There is still a chance with three rounds to go. Anything can happen!:)
  
  Thanks for the videos some of you guys sent me! I posted some comments in the comments box and if anyone else wants to send some videos feel free. I'd love to have a look and maybe help out...I have a lot of spare time at night here. Room service almost every nigh and good internet connection:) Could it get any better!!??
  
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  A good video of Ben Hogan

  2009-10-08 His swing was the best!
  
  
  
  Just great!
  
  
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