As passionate golfers, we want to watch the best professional golfers play in the biggest tournaments on TV. But don’t you get the feeling sometimes that you’ve wasted the entire weekend on the couch watching golf instead of improving your own game? Well, that doesn’t have to be the case. In fact, you can actually […]
Mind Games What separates the great players from the really good ones? In most cases, it’s what takes place between the ears. There are fabulous players out there who can hit some extraordinary golf shots and have tremendous ballstriking skills and near-perfect swing mechanics. But that doesn’t mean they know how to shoot lower scores […]
Social media outlets such as Twitter provide an entire new channel to absorb a wide range of golf information, and offers a convenient place for teachers and golfers to argue, too. As an active Twitter user, I try to read as much as I can regarding the trends and ideas teachers are touting on social media. […]
The past week, you went to the driving range you were killing it. You had a baby draw nailed down with the driver and a killer flop shot around the greens that you pulled off 90 percent of the time. So when Saturday came around, it was time to win some money. That beautiful draw with the driver […]
Many players that I encounter get the club too inside on the takeaway. They feel like if they can get the club inside quickly it will be coming from the inside as they approach the ball on the down swing. This is far from the truth. If the club gets inside quickly on the back […]
How Does Balance Translate to Accuracy and Power? Balance at address can have a great influence on the path of the club along with how you can create ground force and power. I see many mid to high handicap players and even some low handicap players more on their toes at address than their heels. […]
As adults, we tend to shy away from learning new things because it’s difficult, and sometimes embarrassing. But I promise, learning the wonderful game of golf will be worth it. It’s just going to take some work. As a resource for beginning golfers, I put together a list of my top-10 tips to getting started […]
While I can’t verify that they’re completely original, here are some sayings and proverbs we use all the time to players to help them improve their golf games. “One in a row is not a streak” The biggest mistake players make when taking a lesson or trying to make swing changes on their own, is […]
One of the most perplexing aspects of the game we all love is this: What we feel we are doing and what we are actually doing are generally not even close to the same thing in golf. I can’t tell you how many golfers over the years I have seen and/or worked with who think they are doing […]
By Guest instructor John Haime A big problem I see with golfers is that most players understand the importance of the mental game to performance, but don’t know how to develop it. There’s a lot of work required to build the necessary mental skills, just like there’s a lot of work that goes into building a […]
