By Brad Ewart, Real Golf eNewsletter Editor

Planning a fabulous fall golf retreat? The Kamloops region is the place to play and Sun Peaks Resort is the place to stay.

Sun Peaks Resort Golf Course is designed by Graham Cooke. The front nine is both strategic and penal if one strays from the narrow, tree-lined fairways while the back nine is open and inviting. This is a course where you can play the back tees at 6,352 yards.

Cooke has squeezed 18 holes into a narrow valley where the difficulty is not in the overall length but more with a premium on accuracy. The well-conditioned greens are as fast and undulating as the ski slopes above—a good blend of par-threes makes this course an enjoyable test.

Sun Peaks is more than a golf resort: there’s something all-season for the entire family. Some of the best powder snow on three mountains makes this a popular winter playground while summer activities include chairlift rides to the top of the mountain; nature walks throughout the alpine region; trail rides; bungee trampoline and outdoor swimming pools. After golf, a stroll through the Sun Peaks village offers a number of eating and shopping options.

For the peripatetic golfer, there are six outstanding golf courses within an hour's drive from Sun Peaks: Tobiano, Talking Rock Golf Course, Rivershore Golf Course, The Dunes and Sun Rivers. Sure to satisfy the most voracious golfing appetite.

Photo by Bob Huxtable, courtesy of Sun Peaks Resort

TaylorMade Penta TP

TaylorMade Golf has introduced Penta TP, the first tour ball with five solid-layers, with each layer engineered to optimize performance in five key shot categories that skilled players need – driver, long-irons, middle-irons, short-irons and partial wedges. Coming to Canada in early 2010.

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Eliminate the Slice

The slice is the most common shot in golf and the bane of nearly all high handicappers. If you slice, your club head is traveling from outside to inside the target line. To correct it, you must ingrain a swinging action in which the club head never moves outside the target line as it contacts the ball. Align your body parallel to the target line and groove an inside swing path.

Move Club Back With Body

A common fault among high handicappers is they lift the club back with their arms and not their upper body. To start back on plane turn your upper body and arms away from the ball together. This way, the body establishes a consistent takeaway path instead of a random, hand-only movement.

Turn Your Back to the Target

Strive for as full a body turn as you can, so that your arms and the club head stay on the plane established by your shoulder turn. If you do this the club head will move on a smooth plane, coming gradually inside the target line.

Uncoil with More Accuracy and Power

Making a full-body coil going back makes it easier to groove an inside path on the downswing. You’ll automatically start down along the same path that brought the club back by releasing the pent-up energy stored in the backswing. Work on an improved backswing turn in which your arms follow the full coiling of your torso.