The flag is behind a bunker and you’ve got a little 10 yard pitch to play. You don’t have much green to work with but you can’t help trying to throw it way up in the air and have the ball land soft near the hole. Wouldn’t that be great, you can save [...]

You can’t perform your best if your equipment is not at its best. Here’s a checklist to keep your equipment from holding you back.
1 - If your grips are worn - re-grip. Re-gripping your clubs is an easy fix that will definitely give you a big bang for your buck.
2 - If your [...]

Here we are slightly on the upslope just off the edge of the green. In fact, I have about 6 inches of the second cut to get through and then about three feet of fringe to plow through as well. This shot was just over 20 feet. I was hesitant to take [...]

Want to get a psychological edge on the golf course, then practice from the set of tees just behind your normal set of tees. If you normally play from the white, try the blue tees for a few rounds. When you come back to the white tees, you’ll have gained that little psychological [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]