A student at a recent golf instruction session asked about swingweight. He had read one of my golf tips in which I mentioned it and it sparked his interest. Never having heard the term he wanted to know what it was and how it affected his game. Those are good questions because swingweight is among […]
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If you’re anything like the golfers who attend my golf instruction sessions, you have some courses you like and some you don’t. Have you ever wondered why? We’ll probably never know for certain why some golfers like one course and others don’t. But there’s a theory that may explain the mystery and how it impacts
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Putting isn’t just about feel. It’s also about information processing. In other words, the better you are at reading greens, the more likely you are to sink a putt. You don’t need a golf tip to tell you that. Plumb-bobbing in golf is an old-school technique for generating information that’s useful in putting. Some players
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Teachers field all sorts of questions during a golf lesson. Not all of them are about the golf swing. In fact, many are not. During a recent lesson a student asked about golf gloves. A serious golfer, she wanted to know “why do golfers wear gloves” and if she had to? It was a good question.
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Most players who take golf lessons from me don’t have an official golf handicap. That comes as no surprise to me since most recreational golfers don’t have a golf handicap anyways. Of the more than 26 million golfers in the United States (adults who played at least one round of golf during a season), less
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