Golf Articles

The hardest part of giving golf lessons is diagnosing a student’s problem. I give hundreds of golf lessons every year and the most difficult part of working with a new student is diagnosing his or her problem. Once I’ve done that, I can plan a golf instruction session around it or suggest a golf tip […]

Recreational golfers will go to great lengths to buy a set of clubs. They’ll research manufacturers, compare models, and read reviews. They’ll test clubs on the practice range or on the course, if they can. They’ll even go to professional clubmakers to be fitted for new sticks, if they think that will help. Their goal

Conventional wisdom isn’t always the solution in golf. For example, when holding instruction sessions, I advocate using your left side to ignite your swing. This approach eliminates several common swing errors. Golfers igniting their swings with their right sides often start the club back too quickly or jerk their hands too far inside the target

This article is the second of a two-part feature describing exercises I use in my golf instruction sessions. We discussed Part I in the last article. Last week we said that no single swing is right for all golfers. All golfers’ swings are different because of their builds, their ages, their strengths, and so on.

When you’ve given as many golf lessons as I have, it doesn’t take much thought to figure out that slicing is golf’s most common swing error. In fact, many weekend players who attend my golf instructions sessions for the first time slice, with both men and women slicing about the same amount. And they all