Most beginners quickly get a feel for the direction the ball will travel, even on sloping greens.
You've probably seen it yourself when a newcomer to the game places the ball within inches of the hole on a sloping green time and time again.

What you won't see quite so often is the ball stopping a few inches past the hole when they miss. picked by maxfeed 1 year ago

Scientists at the University of St Andrews have used lasers to simulate a black hole in their laboratory. Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Friedrich König used intense light pulses to create an artificial `event horizon' - the defining feature of a black hole known as `the point of no return'. The development may allow researchers to test Professor Stephen Hawking's theory that black holes are... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

Astronomers studying a nearby galaxy have spied a rare type of star system -- one that contains a black hole that suddenly began glowing brightly with X-rays.
Though this type of star system is supposed to be rare, it's the second such system discovered in that galaxy, called Centaurus A. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists' wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth?

Unlikely, but that story sure gets a lot of free press. picked by PulsisX 3 months ago

Sheila Drummond didn't need to see her hole-in-one. She heard it. Drummond, blinded by diabetes 26 years ago, experienced the highlight of her golfing career Sunday, recording an ace on the 144-yard, par-3 fourth hole at Mahoning Valley Country Club. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Next week, paralyzed man wins marathon. picked by Moogle 6 months ago

A German restaurant found a rather unusual way to circumvent a smoking ban, a hole in the wall. Pics in link. picked by Stadsman 9 months ago

Measurements made by the agency's Envisat satellite found a peak loss in the ozone layer of 27.7 million tonnes, compared to 40 million tonnes last year. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Moral of this story: if you're digging yourself into a hole, stop digging.

You sir, are a bag of douche. picked by doggylives 4 months ago

Listing of Classified and Restricted Documents at the Air Force Historical Research Agency

Over 500,000 documents cover almost every aspect of US military history from the 1920s to the early 1990s

Very few of these documents have been released to the public picked by jLoSsDh 6 months ago

This history of the Gulf War by William M. Arkin draws on declassified documents and inside information It was published on the Website of the magazine Stars and Stripes (a privately-owned magazine, not the US military newspaper of the same name). At some point the Website disappeared and with it, unfortunately, went this important piece of work. The Memory Hole is pleased to resurrect it. picked by 2manyusernames 8 months ago

Long before tourists arrived in the Bahamas, ancient visitors took up residence in this archipelago off Florida's coast and left remains offering stark evidence that the arrival of humans can permanently change -- and eliminate -- life on what had been isolated islands, says a University of Florida researcher. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

After desperate attempts to find a South East Asian bolt hole, convicted child abuser Paul Gadd a.k.a. Glam Rocker Gary Glitter has been forced to return to Britain. Here he will be forced to sign the Sex Offender's Register and Police will monitor his movements and he will be banned from approaching children. picked by pocksucket 2 months ago

A digital camera inside a parcel looks out through a small hole and captures images of its journey through the postal system. The camera is set to take an image every 10 seconds for a total of 6994 images. picked by ogri2003 1 year ago

Somebody please explain why this is getting past somebody. Are we (humans) this stoopid? picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

I fell down a video rabbit hole and emerged with this. It's simple, yet I was strangely spell bound. picked by bunnysutra 9 months ago

With news that hotels in Beijing will be spying on internet users during the Olympics,Zach Honig (pop photo blogger) gives real world tips about hacking the firewall and dodging spyware while at the games. picked by carguy4life 2 months ago

This guy purposely flooded his neighbor's house - with his garden hose. By drilling a hole through their ceiling. Niiiice. picked by gnikgnok 1 year ago

Black holes don't just consume everything nearby - occasionally they fire out huge corkscrews of gas. Now the first look down the barrel of one of these jets has uncovered its origins. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

Susan Mitchell, of Denton, said she was scared when television stations in the area began broadcasting tornado watches and warnings during Tuesday's severe storms. picked by dollyllama 7 months ago