On the Green
Of all the phases of the game, putting arguably has received the most attention when it comes to printed instruction. Ironically, most golfers won’t take formal putting lessons, but they have no problem reading everything they can when it deals with the flat stick. Putting management, of course, deals with distance and direction. The best putters manage this part of the game noticeably better than others. Less-skilled putters may not...
Around the Green
When an approach shot misses the green, golfers usually have two options to put the ball on the green, a chip shot or a pitch shot. Generally, a chip shot runs more than it flies, and a pitch shot flies farther than it runs. Chips are usually played with a stroke similar to that of a putting stroke, while pitch shots are like mini-swings. Finally, chips are played with lower-lofted clubs, while pitches are played with sand or lob...
Approach Shots
If there was one rule of thumb that needs to be followed when hitting an approach shot, it would be to avoid “short-siding” yourself at all costs. What is short-siding? Short-siding is missing the green on the same side that the hole is, which means that the player will have little green to work with for a chip or a pitch. Short-siding is not always avoidable, but it should be minimized if at all possible. Depending on the skill of...
Off the Tee
Golfers today are enamored with distance. Many of them think nothing of plunking down several hundred dollars every time the latest and greatest driver comes along. Promising junior golfers are led to believe that they cannot compete at a high level unless they hit the ball over 300 yards on average. Television coverage is replete with announcers telling us that the bunkers 280 yards away are not in play for the majority of the field,...
The Road to Repeatability
We all strive for that marvelous feeling of the machine- like repeatability available to us as players and teachers, when the golf swing is working as designed. We, as teachers, are trying to sell this possibility to our students that we possess the keys to that magical, almost mystical exclusive goal of a truly repeatable golf swing. We know it exists, yet few have been its master. Why is a truly repeating swing so difficult to...
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