TPGS Tips to Improve Your Golf Game
by Tom Patri | Aug 3, 2015 | TPGS Tips to Improve Your Golf Game
. 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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by Tom Patri | Jul 27, 2015 | TPGS Tips to Improve Your Golf Game
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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by Tom Patri | Jul 25, 2015 | Tom's Blog, TPGS Tips to Improve Your Golf Game
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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by Tom Patri | Jul 17, 2015 | TPGS Tips to Improve Your Golf Game
. . 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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by Tom Patri | Jul 17, 2015 | TPGS Tips to Improve Your Golf Game
. . Swing your club to the top of your backswing. If your right arm (right-handed player) forms a perfect right angle, chances are your left arm is in a relatively extended condition. This is an example of a good back- swing radius. Radius, in fact, is a speed source. Try again, only this time…
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by Tom Patri | Jul 14, 2015 | TPGS Tips to Improve Your Golf Game
.. . If you can build a good structured backswing, you can store a tremendous amount of energy to be unleashed in the forward motion. There are three 90 degree angles that if built properly, will make your backswing condition extremely powerful. 1) The right arm bend at the elbow should form a perfect 90…
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by Tom Patri | Jul 13, 2015 | Tom's Blog, TPGS Tips to Improve Your Golf Game
Hey Folks – Please watch this wonderful analysis by Peter Kostis noted teacher and CBS commentator. I love the points he makes about the issues of tempo and tension. We all experience the difficulties of those two fundamental issues in our own games. We must first develop a cue to relax our upper extremities before each…
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by Tom Patri | Jul 8, 2015 | TPGS Tips to Improve Your Golf Game
. . . . Through impact the player should feel as if the clubhead is getting a long way away from his/her center. This is called extension. The player should also feel as if his/her body is pivoting to the left opposite the direction of which the clubhead is moving. Hence, the club swings right…
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by Tom Patri | Jul 7, 2015 | Tom's Blog, TPGS Tips to Improve Your Golf Game
Well here we are after the completion of the 115th playing of this year’s US Open Golf Championship. Interesting, dramatic, controversial, scenic, historical? All of the above. How will history remember this Open 30 years from now? Will it be Jordan’s second major on the way to the Grand Slam? TBD. Will it be the…
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by Tom Patri | Jul 1, 2015 | Tom's Blog, TPGS Tips to Improve Your Golf Game
(PART I) Let’s assume that you work with a great deal of physical effort on both your full swing as well as your short game. You take lessons on a regular basis, pay attention and retain information. You would assume that you should be able to go out and perform your golf skills without a…
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