Every golf course has them – at least one short and seemingly easy par 4. A short par 4 adds a lot of excitement to your average golf course. At my course there are two easy par 4′s. There’s always at least one trick to the easy par 4 if they are well-designed. On both [...]

If you want to break 80 and can’t seem to break away from your fixation on shooting par for each hole, then create your own personal par. Let’s face it, we are all so wrapped up in the idea of par that, by default, it becomes our goal for the hole as soon as we [...]

If you have ever come close to breaking 80 then you know what playing under pressure is like. Let’s say you get through fifteen holes and realize that you need to par the last three holes in order to break 80. All of a sudden the throat gets a little tight, the mouth gets a [...]

When I look over some of my best scoring rounds, I realize that one thing they all have in common is I rarely used the driver. In fact, sometimes I didn’t use my driver at all and still shot one of my best rounds. This is because it is more important to keep the ball [...]