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The Power Of Numbers
The new Golf Magazine or Golf Digest has arrived in your mailbox. You quickly open it and start flipping through the pages looking for any tip that might help your game. The vast majority of you probably scan through a magazine in about 30 minutes, and put it down never to be looked at again […]
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How To Shoot Lower Scores
There are several rules of thought on how to lower your scores. Practice your short game, make more putts, hit more fairways, or how about more greens in regulation. Would you like to know what the real answer is…improve them all! The problem that I see most of my clients face, is that they want […]
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What Influences You?
When you are playing a round of golf, what factors do you take into consideration to having a good round? I’m not talking about how well you played, although that is usually a biggie, I am questioning all of the outside influences on you day at the course. These are factors that you often don’t […]
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What’s Your Ratio?
An interesting aspect about the game of golf, is how the better you are, the more complicated you can tend to make the game. Sometimes going back to basics and simplifying the game will help you not only improve, but make things more enjoyable. Take for example the basic chip and run shot. This is […]
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How do you measure success?
One of the greatest aspects about the game of golf, is that players of any ability are able to enjoy a round of golf. Whether you are a beginner heading to the course for the first time, or a PGA Tour professional trying to win a major championship, there is something for everyone. But what […]
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Winning The Battle
“Winning in golf is winning the battle with yourself by producing the best game that your talent permits on the course you’re playing.” – Dr. Bob Rotella, “The Unstoppable Golfer” Golfers everywhere face two challenges when they play golf, the golf course and themselves. The first is designed by course architects to test the […]
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Show ‘Em Your Worst
“One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.” - Bobby Jones When you take a lesson from a PGA Professional, what are you trying to accomplish? What […]
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Do You “Tee It Forward”?
In recent times there has been an effort from the PGA and the USGA with a program named “Tee It Forward. In my opinion this is a great program for golfers everywhere, and makes an often frustrating sport, more enjoyable. The concept is simple, you simply move forward a set of tees when playing a […]
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Your Winning Attitude
“I don’t fear death, but I sure don’t like those three-footers for par.” – Chi Chi Rodriguez What is the one characteristic that “winning” golfers possess? They have a confidence and a positive attitude toward what they are doing. Seldom do you see the player in the lead being reactive to their shots. They maintain […]
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Technology and Golf…Good or Bad
“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” – Michael Phelps When looking at the game of golf today, things have changed drastically in the last few decades. The game of golf has long been a game of imagination and feel, a sport that has many different […]
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A Game Of Recovery
When you head to the practice tee, what is your intention? Are you there just to “warm up”, and get ready for your approaching tee time? Are you heading to the range to practice, make improvement? Depending on which question you are answering, you should have a different mental approach to what you’ll be doing […]
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The Emotion Matrix
What feeling comes over you when you step to the first tee? For some it may be nervousness. Having to hit a tee shot with the rest of your group, the starter and possibly a few other golfers waiting for their tee time observing from a far. Others may have an aura of excitement. Possibly […]
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Play To Your Strengths
It took a couple of weather delays, but the first tournament of the PGA Tour for 2013 is finally completed. Congratulations to Dustin Johnson on his victory! But there is a great story in the second place finisher as well, Steve Stricker. In the final round Stricker was paired with Johnson. As is well known […]
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New Year, New You!
The New Year has come and we are officially working on the 2013 golf season. Now is the time that many of us think of changing some, or all, of our golf equipment. Thinking that getting the latest and greatest from the equipment manufacturers will be the cure all that we need to get ourselves […]
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Is Your Putter Fit To Your Stroke?
Most every golfer is very aware of the benefits to having your club fit to your golf swing. But did you get your putter fit as well? This is often a neglected area when it comes to finding the perfect putter for you. You walk into the golf shop and see all the shiny new […]
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It’s New Year Resolution Time!
Well, here we are. The end of another year is rapidly upon us, which leaves many of us in a place to review the past year and look forward to the upcoming 2013! Fortunately, we survived the end of the world according to the Mayan calendar…can’t say I was really too worried about that one […]
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Are You Getting The Most From Your Lesson?
Getting a golf lesson from a professional can be the most rewarding thing that you can do for your golf game. However, you need to make sure that the lesson is right for you. When you are heading to the lesson tee to meet with the pro for the first time, or maybe the 50th […]
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Rock On!
Crank up the tunes? Are we still talking about golf here? Do you ever practice while listening to music? Did you know that listening to music could help improve your golf game? No really, it’s true. When you visit any PGA Tour stop, visit the driving range and watch how many of the players have […]
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Is Your Equipment Holding You Down?
Are your golf clubs holding you back from improving your golf game? Did you know that golf equipment that is improperly fit to you would cause the ball to fly offline? By now you have heard of the importance of having your NEW golf clubs fit to your swing. But if you aren’t in the […]
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Put Some Excitement In Your Golf
Do you find that you are playing the same course over and over again? You hit the same clubs on the same holes more often than not? Try adding some excitement to your rounds of golf by putting some variety in the course you play. Move forward from you usual tee markers, and don’t use […]
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