My down sleeping bag was a 17-ounce Western Mountaineering HighLite. It was first time I would use it below freezing (It hit 25 degrees fahrenheit that night). Fortunately, it wasn't too windy.

At edge of forest, behind dunes, I set up my small tarp. I piled pine needles and dead bracken ferns under it, finishing just as it became dark. This made a warm mattress, and I slept well, listening to coyotes, and to waves pushing ice around in lake.

In morning I was happy to see only a dusting of snow. My one-pound sleeping bag had been warmer than my three-pounder - and I thought that was light. I poured alcohol in cut-off bottom of a pepsi can (my 1/2-ounce backpacking stove) and made tea. After some crackers I was soon hiking in my mostly-dry shoes, along Lake Michigan shoreline.

Backpacking Lessons Learned

I ended my trip that afternoon, with a hike to village of Empire, seven miles away. I was mostly satisfied. Only two problems: My tarp was too small, and alcohol I brought was wrong type.

After backpacking in Michigan for years, I know it well. I know where to find dead grass and bracken ferns, for example, to make a warm mattress in a few minutes. Knowledge, obviously, can be as valuable as expensive backpacking gear.

If you have carefully watched woods and his golf swing technique, you will note that he usually allows club head’s momentum to extend his follow-through far around his back, thus completing a long and smooth club-head rotation.

Tiger’s golf swing technique cannot possibly be achieved by somebody who is not physically fit or somebody who does not work out regularly. In fact achieving an effective golf swing technique these days requires conditioned muscles that will enable you to perform consistently and at your best.

Gone are days when golf was viewed as a leisure sport where players would move around course in electric golf cars to avoid breaking into a sweat of any kind.

This is not to say that a good golf swing technique calls for rigorous exercising. Actually, most of critical golf-specific exercises involve stretches. There is also lifting of light weights to build specifically on strength rather than muscle.

Clearly golf-specific exercises are only way to develop a good golf swing technique.