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World Golf Tour Online is one of the best online games ever. YuChiang Chen CEO of World Gulf Tour announced that he is excited to launch the best online golf games around the world. The newest version will be the Ocean Course at Kiawah, Island. You can feel that the game is like the real tour and the visual shows that you are playing for real. The game offers a hundred features, tournament options and basic course management tools. Everyone is invited to visit World Golf Tour and take their time and enjoy the different world gulf courses.

There is no software installation needed so its free to play World Golf Tours Online. The release of World Gulf Tour beta is a successful WGT charity challenge when 900,000 players tried this game. World Golf tours high quality online golf game. You will be more interested when you in some courses like The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort and Bai Hai Golf Club. And many more world class courses to choose. In the game there’s a chopper that captures highly digital images of the course. The technology of the company transforms the images into graphics so that the players will feel that they are actually playing the game.

Here are some features added to update the World Golf Tours Online. Multi-player capability with in-game chat functionality, four players can compete against one another. Alternative play options, players can choose between tee-to-greens play and closest-to-the-pin competition Tournament rewards, there are different prizes on players that compete on the game. Variety of swing options, punch, chip, flop and putt are also added. Personalized Avatars, several avatars are being added for the game so the players can choose what character they like. Personalized profile pages, players can post announcements video, pictures, friends, relays and activities. Forums, members can get game tips, share advice or talk about the latest golf news

Sounds on the game are dubbed from the voice of golf and from true golf icons like Peter Kessler, former golf channel host and current XM Radio personality. World Golf Tour Online players will be expecting a video content for WGT because Kessler will produce the video an he will share ideas on golfs history, personalities and tours through a bog on World Grand Tours. For now World Golf Tour has been creating magnificent experience in playing golf online. The high digital graphics is the key for the games success and the key for community’s acceptance of the game. Everyone is invited to play the World Golf Tour beta version.

As calendars changed from October to November and the brilliant leaves of autumn fell to the ground, some of the world’s best golfers were still busy pursuing trophies and pay checks all over the globe. The most notable domestic tournament took place in cloudy and mild San Francisco, where the game’s best players over the age of 50 gathered for the conclusion of the Champions Tour 2011 season.

The competitive and entertaining run was capped off by the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, which unfolded at the lovely TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, California. As can be expected in a tournament tightly contested by savvy professionals that have made a living playing golf for several decades, course management was in full effect, as many players let their wisdom and knowledge of the course supplant their slight erosion of power and flexibility over the years.

Wily veteran Jay Don Blake took first place after finishing all four rounds in 276 strokes, which equated to eight strokes under par. After building a sizable lead over the course of the first three rounds, Blake shot even par in a final round that featured slick greens and windy conditions. Mark Calcavecchia fired a final round 69 to gain two strokes on Blake, but it was only enough to put him in a 2nd place tie with Loren Roberts, Michael Allen and Jay Haas.

Much like the PGA Tour, the Champions Tour wraps up with a crowning of the overall points champion, and this year’s Charles Schwab Cup went to Tom Lehman. Lehman entered the tournament with a substantial points lead over Calcavecchia and was able to close out the deal with a one-over-par 72, which netted him the overall title and a payday of 1 million dollars. Lehman snapped the 3-year Champions Tour reign of Germany’s Bernhard Langer and forever etched his name into the history of the senior tour.

Keeping on the subject on Germans, Deutschland’s own Martin Kaymer caught fire halfway through the final round of the HSBC Champions tournament in Shanghai, and won the internationally prestigious tournament in dramatic fashion. After six pars on the first six holes, Kaymer went into a zone and rolled in 9 birdies over the final 12 holes. As a field of well-known professionals battled each other tooth and nail over the course of the final day, Kaymer whizzed past the group and found himself atop the leaderboard on the final tee. The amazing streak allowed him to makeup five strokes on the leaders over the span of about two hours, something that is rarely seen on Sunday anywhere in the golfing world.

Fredrik Jacobson was in an excellent position to once again seize victory on the European Tour, but Kaymer’s record-breaking round knocked him off of center stage and turned him into another captivated observer. Jacobson arrived at the 18th tee in second place, three strokes behind Kaymer, who was sipping refreshments in the clubhouse and could only be tied with an albatross on the par-5 finishing hole. After processing the situation, Jacobson played the 18th conservatively, ensuring par and sole possession of 2nd place.

A recent five day tour of some of Europe’s key boat building factories by The Catamaran Group yacht brokers highlighted important design innovations and new directions in technology from leading European builders such as Lagoon, Yapluka and Alliaura Marine.

The trip allowed yacht brokers and staff to see first hand how catamarans such as the Lagoon 500, Lagoon 420 and Yapluka 70 are put together using a blend of the latest technology and well trained labor specialists.

PART 1: LAGOON – BLENDING ART AND SCIENCE TO PERFECTION

Nick Harvey, President of Lagoon America, provided an in-depth and insightful tour of the Lagoon facilities that have all gone through incremental and sometimes revolutionary changes in the four key areas of boat building: molding, trimming, assembly and expedition/finishing.

Over the last 20 years Lagoon has been constantly tweaking and revising the process to include the use of robotics, template designs and rapid prototyping thus speeding up the production process. A highly skilled and mobile workforce ensures high-end finishing with up to three separate quality control checks before the boat leaves the factory.

One of Lagoon’s leading figures in directing design and implementation has been Bruno Belmont, a graduate of the Southampton School of Naval Architecture who helped introduce new composite techniques that have saved up to 50% in costs when applied to new models such as the Lagoon 500 and 420.
The construction of the Bordeaux III factory underscores the growth in production and engineering requirements that are taking place within Lagoon at the moment.

Situated between Bordeaux I (Aluminum) and Bordeaux II composite workshop, Bordeaux III will cumulatively occupy more than 15,000 square meters of space. It includes an assembly space 120 meters long; 25 meters wide.

The factory will also house a 2,500 square meter pre-assembly platform, offices overlooking the river, stores, diverse workshops and a company restaurant for the entire Bordeaux site.
Outside facilities will notably include a 6,000 square meter area outfitted for the pre-launch preparation of boats, an inclined plane launch facility and landscaped areas highlighting the facility’s integration into its riverside environment.

Bordeaux III will focus strongly on the Lagoon brand and the Lagoon 500 in particular. Advanced construction techniques are currently being applied to the Lagoon 500 and Lagoon 420 which are outlined further below under the molding section.
Inside the Construction Process

What follows is a brief description of the Lagoon boat building process that have helped establish the French yard as one of the dominant catamaran builders in the world today.

MOLDING

The construction process gets underway in the molding department where a female mould is sprayed with gel coat resin.
This is followed by a hand lay up of fiberglass, more cloth and more resin.

All fiberglass used in the mold room is pre cut, labeled, and delivered to mold room team for building of hulls, decks, and grids. The delivery of fiberglass kits ready for use assures precise fitting and correct quantities.
With each layer of fiberglass a coat of resin is applied, and the process of hand rolling the fiberglass layers begins. Each layer of glass is carefully rolled by use of small grooved rollers, which will remove trapped air and excess resin. Once this process is completed, then the next layer of fiberglass can be applied.

Overhead receivers are used for securing the bulkheads as well as locations for hatches and access areas for deck mounted hardware. The overhead liner also provides locations for conduits for running of electrical wiring as well as for instrumentation wiring.

Vacuum Bag-Infusion with Vinylester Resin

This technology is less than 10 years old and is revolutionizing the construction of modern catamarans such as the Lagoon 500, Lagoon 420 and recently the Lagoon 570.
After comparative laboratory trials, this technique provided excellent engineering results. These results are equal to or superior to pre-preg in as much as fabric compaction is achieved without the slightest possibility of air being captured in the composite.

The fabric is positioned with the same precision used in pre-preg. This technology also allows Lagoon to construct simultaneously the outer skin, core and inner skin, as well as the structure (in case of female mold construction). Using glue between each layer is unnecessary.
For each hull made, a sample can be saved for engineering or chemical testing. The Tg obtained is at least 80