[ezcol_1half] . Add imagination to your short game practice. Strive to gain a more realistic grasp of what “feel” is. Go out to where you practice your short game with three clubs: a 5 or 6 iron, an 8 iron, and your most lofted wedge. Take three balls and drop them in one particular starting…
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Checkpoints of the Finish and What They Mean! (Part 1) Very often, when I view a player for the first time, there are several areas I immediately look at to generate instant information. Certainly set up, posture and swing plane (on plane/off plane conditions) are important feedback sources. The finish, however, often sends me many…
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[ezcol_1half] . One of my favorite putting “feel” drills is to have my student set up to their target, ready to putt, then just as they’re ready to start their stroke, close their eyes. After the ball is long gone, they may look. I ask them to repeat this process many times. As they continue,…
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Oftentimes, we will find ourselves “behind” an obstacle like a tree, unable to go over it. We are in need of a shot that will purposely curve around the tree. The process is really very simple. All you do is aim the clubface directly where you want the ball to finish, then aim your body…
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Wow! What a golf season we just witnessed. All of you who are old enough (yes I’m about to date myself) surely remember The Big Three. Palmer, Player, and some guy called Nicklaus! That was an exciting time for golf. Arnie burst upon the seen and TV was there to capture his swash buckling antics!…
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Chipping the ball around the perimeter of the green is an overlooked art form and certainly an under-practiced area of the game. Fundamentally, aside from mechanical technique, I ask my students to focus not on the eventual target, The Hole, but on practicing making the ball land at a given point. I call this point…
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Most golfers never learn to control their golfball because they never fully understand or feel where their clubface is during the swing or what it does. You will, I am sure, agree that control of the clubface is vital to ball control. I have my students work with an impact bag, a very simple teaching…
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Well our winter season is creeping up on us in Southwest Florida. Soon most of the country will be waist high at times in the white stuff and most often we will be in short sleeved golf shirts chasing the dimpled monster around our favorite course in Paradise! We often forget just how lucky we…
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Examine your iron divots. If they are steep and deep, you’re probably not happy with your ball flight. A few things you might want to examine. 1) Ball position could be too far back. 2) In your backswing, you may be lifting your arms and not turning your upper torso enough or any?! 3) May…
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For most amateurs, practice swings are meaningless. I often hear them say, “My practice swing is always good but my real swing stinks!” I disagree. Yes, it may be slightly better, but I feel most amateurs waltz through their practice swing, never really giving it enough attention. Your practice swing is your dress rehearsal, if…
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. Ball position is vital to consistent contact. A ball too far forward will cause you to move laterally; a ball too far back will cause you to hang on your right side and not transfer your weight. Your irons should be placed starting with your short irons at your sternum and moved progressively forward…
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Well it’s really heating up! The FedEx Playoffs are under way and what just one week ago seemed like The Jordan Spieth Show may have just turned into The Jason Day Show! Listen, no doubt there is still a ton of great golf to be played but these two young Superstars, yes I called each…
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A very high percentage of the amateurs who come for instructional help have in their bags improperly fit equipment. Usually we find when we take students through an equipment evaluation that their shafts are too strong, lie angles way off, and often grip sizes too large or too small. All these factors, plus others, will…
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It is 20 shots better than just before we started working together. Short game and tee ball needs the most work. Tempo was much improved just trusting to let the driver release. —Dave W.
Tom, Shot a 72 today!!!!! 10 GIRs. 27 putts. Two birdies. 7 birdie chances in total. Driver: solid. 11 out of 13 fairways. Scrambling: major day. 6 / 8. Had tap in’s on four of these. Putted well. Holed two 20 footers and a tough 7ft on 16 to keep the round at level par. Things I tried today: A…
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Hi Tom – Guess what? I just won the Club Championship at Canterbury Golf Club! Who would have thought? I didn’t play particularly well — definitely not my best round this summer, but played well enough. You weren’t there with me, but believe me, you WERE there! When my heart was pounding wildly, I really did…
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TP, ventured onto the Black Course at Bethpage today, saw promising signs, the feeling of flatter swing especially with the woods helped a lot didn’t miss a fairway from 9, in, big help on those pitches didn’t butcher anyone of them went 3/4, shot 77, gave three away from the fairway, no way I do…
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Hey Tom – Just won club championship at Cold Spring. Thanks for your help. —Steve
Every shot involved a step through rehearsal and I was very consistent and long off the tee. Thanks for your help. —Jeff Jacob
Making money hand over fist. Singing your praises! —Doc Freedman
