Watching my ball shoot of my club straight right immediately catches my attention. I become mystified to see my ball go away from my intended target. I am puzzled as to why my ball is now flying 90 degrees from my aim point. My god, I just shanked a ball! Continue reading
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Creating Power in Your Golf Game
It is challenging to hit the ball a long way. In some cases, it is challenging to hit the ball at all. Interestingly, regardless of who you talk too, most golfers over-estimate the distance they can hit the ball. A perfect example is “The Rock” claiming he hit the ball 490 yards and John Daly disputing his long tale. I am not sure exactly what went on, but I am leaning towards Daly and would have to see it to believe it. Continue reading
Never Forget Your Golf Roots
When is enough? If we are always searching, are we ever really satisfied with our golf game? If you read the biographies of great people, they all have one thing in common: they never stopped searching. They were always on the lookout for some better way to do something, to improve something, or to invent something. Their tenacity or quest to improve never stopped.
Great golfers are the same way. Players like Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus or Tiger Woods were always searching for that one skill to give them the edge over their opponent. As they continued on their journey to improvement, they reach dizzying heights most people see as out of their reach. They should be commended for showing us the way, but their quest of improvement also had one common theme: they never forgot their roots. Continue reading
Looking at the Right Things With Your Favorite Iron
When standing over your ball lining up your shot, what are you looking at? Are you looking at a specific point on your ball, your club, or the ground. It is purely personal and depending on your visual acuity, your choice might be clear. Continue reading
Focusing on the Right Fix in Your Golf Swing
“Can’t see the forest for the trees!”
Most golfers are fixers or at least we think we are. We have a tendency to tinker with all parts of golf swing because we think that a tweak here and a tweak there is exactly what we need. Unfortunately, as the above quote suggests that many of us are too involved in the details of a problem to look at the entire situation.
Not focusing on the right fix, adjusting our golf swing can cause a domino effect of challenges. Most of us like to jump in and change something because it lets us think we are making progress and improving. However, I would suggest steaming ahead without looking at the whole process is folly. The holistic approach is critical to identifying the ‘root cause’ to any swing challenges Continue reading
The Grateful Golfer 