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Do you Chunk or Skull your Pitches? Making bad contact on pitches cost you strokes. It hampers distance and direction control. With pitches, you have a slim margin for error, so missing by just a few feet can land you in trouble, like coming to rest in the deep grass just of the green. It’s […]
“I want to be remembered as the man who hit the straightest—not the longest.” That’s a quote from Ben Hogan—perhaps the game’s greatest player. His quote provides a rare insight into how he thought. It’s the way you should be thinking, too. The more you can repeat your iron swing, the more often you can […]
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 […]
Tom Watson’s great finish in the British Open in 2010 taught us something: You can play great golf at any age. Some seniors I know have single digit golf handicaps and compete favorably in their club championships. And they continue to play challenging courses whenever they can. But to play well after 50, you must […]
Like most avid golfers we watched as much of the U.S. Open last week as possible. The Olympic Club’s Lake course is a beautiful but tough course, as the leader board indicated throughout the tournament. The changes the Olympic Club initiated for the Open made this tough course even tougher. The first six holes were […]