Flights - Golfers vacationing in Myrtle Beach can choose to tee off during AM or PM flights. Usually morning flights run from 7 AM until 9 PM. Afternoon flights generally run from 9:30 AM until Noon. During daylight savings time afternoon flight often is extended until 2:30.

Double Teeing - Most courses along Grand Strand follow practice of double teeing. Golfers tee off on either first or tenth tee box. Courses do this for obvious reason of getting more golfers on course each day which brings in more money. Of course, this also gives golfers a nice little pit stop after first nine. The few single-tee golf courses usually provide golfers beverage carts and a restroom at turn.

Tee Time Intervals - Expect slow play during busy seasons. The reason for this is more than an abundance of golfers. Most Myrtle Beach golf courses only give golfers eight minutes between groups. This often produces same effect as hitting your brakes on a crowded freeway - gridlock.

In 2004 Olympics, an all-star group of athletes from around world gathered together to compete for titles in gymnastics. In spirit of competition, there are always tensions between analysts and spokespersons about whether or not athletes deserve medals they receive. Sometimes, judges are found to be at fault for controversy, and other times fiasco is trumped up by uneducated speculation. In this case, Paul Hamm stir was due to an ancillary error.: judges mistakenly set his rival’s starting score at 9.9 rather than 10.0. Many believe that it is this error that cost Yang Tae Young, South Korean rival of Paul Hamm, all-around gold medal in gymnastics.

Gymnastics judging is not a science.

This is proven again and again. There is no mathematical way of measuring gymnastics routines -- in fact, gymnastics is perhaps one of most subjective sports of all. No goals are involved, as in soccer - no hoops like in basketball; no bullseyes are involved, as in archery; one does not go for distance or height, as in pole vaulting or shot put. In gymnastics, an athlete is judged on form, scored on perfection. It is exceedingly difficult to do so accurately, as there are no vectors that can be calculated to see if someone grasps hold of parallel bars incorrectly or lands with a wobble.

If you have ever been to a gymnastics competition, you probably understand that panels look at execution for their scoring: something that is full of twists and turns and is poorly executed will score lower than something that is simpler but perfectly executed. The criteria for measuring this aspect of gymnastics include stability and landings -- whether or not he or she wavered in element’s terminus, or held position for less than three seconds at end of routine, or took an extra step or stumbled. This does indeed lead to criticism of judges’ abilities to do their job, and leads also to mistakes in scoring.

Why does Paul Hamm deserve gold?