Golf Articles

Over the years we’ve talked a lot about swing plane and its impact on golf handicaps. Swinging a club on plane greatly influences—if not controls— depth of divot, centeredness of contact, starting direction, and curvature of ball flight. In other words, It greatly influences you’re ballstriking. The better you’re ballstriking, the longer and straighter your […]

Poor greenside bunker shots add more strokes to golf handicaps than probably any other shot. That’s because they intimidate many golfers—even those who’ve taken golf lessons on how to hit them. In fact, most golfers would rather hit from deep rough or a side hill lie than a greenside bunker. As soon as their ball

What’s the most frustrating shot in golf? Some say it’s the pop-up after a great drive. Others say it’s hitting a dribbler on an easy approach shot. Then there are those who say that topping the ball from a great fairway lie is the most frustrating shot. Those mis-hits certainly hurt. But for our money

By Jack Moorehouse This is the second part of a two-part article about the role of plane angle shifts in your swing. Last week we talked about the four different plane angles. This week we discuss plane angel shift models. Every golfer—no matter what his golf handicap—must go from the backswing to the downswing. Making

By Jack Moorehouse Every wonder why a golf ball has dimples? It’s not a question that comes up a lot during golf lessons or group golf instructions sessions. But every once in a while, someone will ask about dimples. Some golfers think they’re just for decoration. Well, they’re not. There’s a practical reason why golf