Slope. Generally speaking, most golfers utilize a GPS with slope to be able to find the true yardage to a green, whether elevated or down the hill from your hitting position. However, in today’s blog, here is the reason why you should account for slope. Here are 3 shots with a 6 iron, with all […]
Slope. It’s Yards of Difference! Advice Blog #26 Read More »
Sway is not necessarily a bad thing. It is a swing characteristic. What matters is that for whatever distance you move away from the target, you must move back before impact. A look at the illustration shows a golfer at the top of their backswing. The green represents the original swing arc from the address
Sway. What You Take Away, You Must Put Back. Advice Blog #22 Read More »
BOUNCE Bounce is the design that your wedges have to provide you with the ability to steer through turf and sand and allow a smoother exit. The higher the bounce in degrees, the more the leading edge is off the ground at address. I’m sure you’ve heard about it, but what is all the bounce
What’s All This Bounce About? Advice Blog #19 Read More »
Hit Down Hit down on the golf ball with an iron for it to get flight. This concept is about physics, yet time and time again, I see golfers thinking they know more about physics than Isaac Newton. There are literally two clubs that you should present positive attack angle with, maybe the driver if
Hit Down For Flight, Sweep to Kill Some Worms Advice Blog #17 Read More »
8-Iron 8-Iron, typically ranging in loft from varying degrees depending on the manufacturer, can be the all-around club for attacking the green, pin, and even fairway. Let’s talk about why. Cobra Dark Speed 31° Ping G430 32° Callaway AI Smoke 32° PXG Gen 6 34° TaylorMade P790 35° Titleist T150 36° The average 8-iron distance
8-Iron It’s The Workhorse of Your Iron Set Advice Blog #16 Read More »
Chipping Chipping, face it: you’re scared. You think as strong as you are that a little bit of speed is going to send that ball 400 yards, so instead you chop down at the ball with your 4 mph swing and the ball barely goes two yards, and then you act surprised. You do not
Chipping Stop Making It Harder! Advice Blog #15 Read More »
Score. Chase Birdies or Avoid Double Bogeys? Score. When it comes to golf, that’s what every golfer is chasing. Ego suggests that in order to score well, they must birdie every hole. Birdies, birdies, birdies. Let’s analyze golf scoring for a second and see if that’s true. 1 Stroke/Hole-(Hole in One/Ace)-Score 18 2 Strokes/Hole-(Par 3-Birdie,
Score. Chase Birdies or Avoid Double Bogeys? 4 Tips Advice Blog #13 Read More »
Flush The Strike. Flush the impact of the golf ball by having a center strike hit. Tiger Woods holds Lee Trevino and Moe Norman in high regard, having watched them hit golf balls on his rise into the golf world, and one thing that never changes in his mind, even with junior clinics and amateurs,
Flush It! Tiger Harps On Massive Center-Face Contact Advice Blog #12 Read More »
Golf Ball is the #1 Way to Gain Distance To gain distance, you have to understand that ball compression is key to distance. Golf balls have become almost a social construct of “you’re a good golfer only if you play Titleist ProV1’s or ProV1X’s” and although Titleist is known for their superb golf ball lineup,
Gain Distance Now by #1 Changing the Golf Ball Advice Blog #11 Read More »
Thrifty? Thrifty golf ball wise? Perhaps after you read this, you won’t be thrifty anymore. Now, I am certainly not one for plagiarism; having written three books, the time I spent to get them written, and proofreading, and on and on. I am not going to call this article my own, but whenever I know