Sports Oakville Beaver By Jon Kuiperij BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR: JON KUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 255) Fax 905-337-5567 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2007 23 Indoor golf simulator offers chance to fine-tune game Want to get an early-season jump on your golfing buddies? Steve Somerville and his high-tech golf simulator might be able to help. Somerville, a retired 47-year-old Oakville resident, opened the Oakville Indoor Golf Centre this past winter as a way to work on his game and offer others the chance to do the same. The centre's main feature "One guy... shot is the About Golf simulator, which 150-something. offers a variety of ways for golfers to fine-tune their skills. He said it was Players hit the ball into a large the highest score screen from appromixately 10 feet he ever had and away and can simulate almost anyit the most fun thing, from hitting wedge shots on he ever had." the range to pulling out driver on the first hole of Pebble Beach. Steve Somerville After each shot, the screen displays a detailed analysis, including total distance, distance in the air, speed of the ball, speed of the club, rotations per minute of the ball, smash rating and degree of launch. "It's a fun and realistic way to play a round of golf, and it appeals to people who want to work on their game," said Somerville, who averagely shoots in the mid-80s. "One guy came in and shot 150-something (in an 18-hole game). He said it was the highest score he ever had and it was the most fun he ever had. "I like the money they're spending on improvement," Somerville added about the About Golf program. "A lot of companies focus on the recreational golfers, but they target BARRIE ERSKINE / OAKVILLE BEAVER ANALYZE THIS: Oakville Indoor Golf Centre owner Steve Somerville points out some of the details his golf simulator, About Golf, will provide after each shot attempt. See Birds page 24 Young sniper pots 20-second hat trick versus St. Catharines Oakville Rangers hockey players must be quickly developing a reputation for being explosive goal-scorers. For the second time in the past year, a local rep player has scored three times in less than 21 seconds -- the long-time National Hockey League record held by former Chicago Blackhawks forward Bill Mosienko. Ten-year-old Colt Jaime was the latest Oakville player to turn the (natural) trick, sniping three goals in 20 seconds during a minor atom AA game last weekend in St. Catharines. Michael Paonessa, then with the minor midget AAA Rangers, scored three times in 19 seconds last March. "My first goal, a St. Catharines guy fell down and I had a one-on-one with the goalie and put it short side," recalled Jaime, a Grade 4 student at Our Lady of Peace Catholic School. "The second goal, Robert Hudson won the faceoff to Tim Arnold and he passed it back to me, I had another (breakaway) and went same side. The third one... I shot it upstairs." Jaime, who estimated this was his third hat trick of the season, credited his linemates Hudson and Arnold for their unselfish play. The quick trick came late in the second period with the Rangers trailing 1-0. Oakville went on to win 6-1. -- Jon Kuiperij QUICK TRICK: Colt Jaime, a 10-year-old hockey player with the Oakville minor atom AA Rangers, shows off the puck with which he scored three goals in 20 seconds last weekend against St. Catharines.