Check Your Lies

Monday, November 25, 2013

With misfit lie angles, it’s easy to groove a swing error. Lie angles that are too upright (toe up) at impact cause your ball to finish left of target. If they’re too flat (toe down), your ball flies wide right. If you make good swings and the ball consistently flies to the right of the target,

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Underswing/Overswing

Monday, November 25, 2013

In  an “underswing,” your arms move too slowly during the downswing and can’t keep up with your body turn. As such, your club becomes trapped (right) and the ball flies to the right. Underswinging is especially prevalent among women. Overswinge

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Don’t Play Your Hunch

Monday, November 25, 2013

While it feels powerful to reach for the ball at address, it actually costs you power because it decreases coil. When you overreach to the ball, your upper back invariably “hunches,” and for every one degree of hunch, you lose two degrees of coil. In the correct setup, try to touch your shoulder

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Cover The Ball

Monday, November 25, 2013

The golf swing is a complicated event, full of many moving parts and varying demands on your body at different points during the motion. A well-oiled swing flawlessly keeps all of these parts in order by synchronizing their movement, from takeaway to

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Warm-Up For Power

Monday, November 25, 2013

Prepare your round for heavy doses of power with this drill. Stand upright and make non-stop practice swings as though you’re hitting waist-high fastballs. Keep the motion continuous as you gradually incline your spine toward your normal golf swing position until your clubhead clips the grass. R

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Remember To Rebound

Monday, November 25, 2013

  As you swing through the golf ball, your club whips past your body at a high rate of speed, a result of your body whirling around your front hip joint. In order to stay balanced while you whirl, your spine must be allowed to tilt slightly away

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Pre-Round Tips

Monday, November 25, 2013

Before your round, ensure that you’re nice and loose. I like the “Superman Stretch.” Stand with both arms stretched out in front of you. Reach under your left arm and curl your right wrist behind your left elbow. Keeping this relationship, place your right palm on the right side of your face (se

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Generate, Transmit And Deliver

Monday, November 25, 2013

  Web Tip: Learn How To Generate Power  Imagine a generating station located on the outskirts of town. Here, the big turbines generate the power that’s transmitted via power lines and dumped to the end user. In the golf swing, the turbine

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Own A Release

Monday, November 25, 2013

A horse and rider arrive at a seven-foot wall at top speed when, suddenly, the horse stops, catapulting the rider over the jump. The image that’s important for your golf swing is the “passing along” of energy because this is how you transmit power to the golf ball. The wall of your golf swing is

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Switch On The Power

Monday, November 25, 2013

      Here’s a simple thought to help turn on your power switch: Your weight shift and the clubhead should travel in the same direction. During the backswing, both the weight and the clubhead move away from the target; duri

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Brush it back for better iron play

Monday, November 25, 2013

Most golfers understand, or at least have heard, that they want to create width in their backswing to drive the ball better.   What they might not realize, however, is that creating width is equally important when it comes to iron play.   If your swing tends to get a bit narrow with

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Make more clutch pars when you need them like Day

Monday, November 25, 2013

  After losing eight family members in the devastating typhoon that recently hit the Philippines, Jason Day overcame that personal tragedy to take individual honors and lead Australia to victory in the World Cup this past weekend in his home cou

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Take more time to practice swing with all your clubs

Monday, November 25, 2013

If you want to play better from tee to green, make a resolution to spend more time practicing your golf swing, but to do it with all of your clubs.   The golf swing is a motor skill, meaning you are training muscles for a specific act. Constant repetition of the same moves will eventually

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Let kids play first, learn technique second

Monday, November 25, 2013

Golf is simply a game just like any other sports. We have a set of rules. We have a field that we play it on. We have specific equipment. So how come we introduce our kids to this great game so much differently than other sports? Think about when you were young and you learned how to play baske

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How to hit out of long greenside bunker

Monday, November 25, 2013

One of the most challenging shots for many players is the long greenside bunker shot. The first thing to consider is what club to use. Because we’re talking about a shot where more distance is needed, the sand wedge may not always be the correct choice on a long greenside bunker shot.  

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Parenting tips for junior golfers

Monday, November 25, 2013

I spend a lot of my time either running junior golf tournaments and watching my students compete in junior golf tournaments. One thing that I have noticed that makes a tremendous difference in a junior’s performance is in how their parents relate to them.   I find that most parents are v

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Fat pitch shots a result of grip pressure

Monday, November 25, 2013

A common complaint from golfers are fat shots when pitching to the green. It is my observation as a longtime golf professional that 95 percent of the time the problem is grip pressure. Way too much of it.   These delicate shots, usually from 40 yards in to the green, require the hands of

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'Eyes on the ball' isn't a fundamental

Monday, November 25, 2013

  I’d like to bust a myth for you: Keeping your eye on the ball in golf is not a fundamental. In fact, if you introduce your junior to golf in this manner, you may unintentionally do more harm to their swing development than actual good. Here’

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Get club in right position at top of backswing

Monday, November 25, 2013

The position of the club shaft at the top of the backswing should be pointed at your target if you were to take the club to a parallel position.   It is not mandatory, however, to have the club shaft parallel to the ground to have a good golf swing. In fact, many of your longer hitters ar

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Finding the swing plane that fits your body type

Monday, November 25, 2013

The more consistent your swing plane is the more consistent your ball flight will be. The more consistent your ball flight is the lower your scores will be. But just what is swing plane? A swing plane is the path that the clubhead takes around your body. A perfect swing plane would be if the c

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