. Students often say, “Well, I saw that out of bounds right and hit my ball dead left, and I was scared of the lake on the left and pushed my drive dead right.” I’ll answer by saying, “When you drive down the highway at 65-70 mph, do you look at the guardrail or do…
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It’s hard to believe we are already into August. The summer is flying by and we are just a few weeks away from this seasons 4th and final major, The PGA Championship August 13th-16th at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin. There are so many story lines developing for this event it would be hard to…
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. If you find your ball snug up against a deep fringe around the green, but not completely in it, and contact with any club is difficult; try this! Take out your putter and turn it sideways so the toe of the putter is pointing directly at the ball. Make a few rehearsal motions to…
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More amateurs than not come to me slicing their golf ball and one reason is a golf swing that is much too steep. That is, their arm swing is too vertical and needs to be somewhat more horizontal. The first thing I will do is take them to a sidehill lie with the ball several…
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I don’t know about you folks out there in the golf world but The Open Championship sent me home from teaching each day glued to the evening replay of the day’s action! Here at Friar’s Head where I teach during the summer months we have a wonderful teaching/training center and in between lessons during the…
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. . I call transition, that is, when the backswing ends and the downswing begins, “the fork in the road.” This, I feel, needs to be a very patient, quiet moment. This is the moment when most players try to add a little something to their effort and destroy the very fragile sequence that leads…
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