Jon Rahm won in the desert this week, his second victory on the PGA Tour this year, shooting -27 to win by a shot. Steve Stricker shot -23, including a round of 60, to win by six shots on the PGA Tour Champions. He is only the second player to shot a round of 60 [...]
In this post I want to show you how to swing a golf club step by step. Golf is a difficult game, and the golf swing is a difficult athletic movement to master. This is particularly true for adults who are just learning how to play golf. One of the major issues for new golfers is [...]
His game is not flashy. He won twelve events on the PGA Tour, and has won five on the Champions Tour so far. He never won a PGA Tour major, but he finished in the top six in all four. Two of his wins on the Champions Tour are majors... The Tradition and the Senior [...]
Years ago, when I was about 24 years old, I lost my swing for the first time. It was very frustrating because it was just a year after I had played pretty well. At the time, I attributed it to the yips I had developed the season before. I ended up giving up the game [...]
Every golfer alive wants to hit the ball further, which could help them lower their scores. In order to understand how to properly train for golf strength, it is necessary to learn which are the key muscles used in the golf swing. The golf fitness industry has taken off over the last twenty years for [...]
One thing I preach early on when I am working with a new golfer, or just a really bad golfer who has not been given any instruction is how the club works to get the ball in the air. In the video below is Tiger Woods' swing at impact with a 2 iron, one of [...]
About 15 years ago, an appraisal client of mine (appraising commercial real estate is how I've paid my bills for nearly 30 years) asked me to play in a four-ball tournament, one that I had won in 1989. I had not played much golf for a few years up to that point, and was quite [...]
After you’ve been playing and practicing for a while, you should start to notice some patterns to your shots. Bad shots tend to be caused by one swing fault or another, so I thought I’d cover some of the basic issues. The Slice For a right handed player, a slice typically starts to the left [...]
One of the most common issues that new golfers and those golfers that still struggle to break 100 have is that they try to control the club in their golf swing too much with the hands and arms. Many of these golfers also hold onto the club too tightly in an effort to gain control. [...]
Go to a driving range and chances are that you will find a few people who are barely making contact with the ball, yet swinging one club, the driver. Many people just want to go to the range and blast away with the driver, trying to hit it as far as they can. Meanwhile, I [...]