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Start With Your Finish

Reverse weight shift. Poor body rotation. Swinging over the top. All are common faults committed by golfers as they start their swings. If you start incorrectly, you’ll find it hard to execute a smooth, free flowing swing. This in turn hurts your ballstriking and diminishes power and accuracy.  To create a smoother, more free-flowing swing […]

Options From Behind The Green

If you’re like most weekend golfers, you’ve hit your share of shots that have run past the hole and off the back of the green. What are the play options from behind the green? If the green’s elevated, you might see it roll all the way down the slope and come to a rest on […]

Don’t “Spill” Your Chips

If you find yourself stubbing your chips a lot, you may have the “yips.” That’s right. You may have the yips. They are not confined to just putting. The yips can strike any time any place and with any club. The drill below helps eliminate the yips from chipping. Test Tube Drill Imagine there’s a […]

Get Your Swing Back In Sync With These Three Drills

Everyone’s swing gets out of sync at some point. Players with low golf handicaps tend to recover rather quickly from being out of sync, so it doesn’t cost them a lot of strokes. Buy players with high golf handicaps don’t recover so quickly, so it often costs them dearly in strokes. Regardless of how you […]

Adding “Bite” To Your Wedge Shots

PGA pros can hit impressive shots. But no shot is more impressive than a high-spinning wedge shot that “bites” when it hits. You’ve probably seen this shot on television or in person a hundred times. The ball comes in hot, hits, hops once or twice, and then dies. It’s a great shot that can save you […]