Quitting Hands
Has “it” ever happened to you? Whether it was an important tournament round, or a round with a few guys that made you nervous, or a special day when you were on track to have your best round ever, and then, “it” hit you. You started playing scared. A dangerous symptom of playing scared is [...]
The Power of the Sand Drill
When I went to Quail Ridge to work with Ben Doyle many years ago, I was introduced to the sand drill. I knew the sand drill was important, but it wasn’t until I introduced it to my students that I realized how important it was. I quickly found out that most students, especially the high [...]
The Backswing
Take a look at these pictures of current PGA Tour players: Almost all of them have the golf club set in a different position at the top of their backswing; Tiger has his set in four different positions. With the players above there are 109 PGA Tour wins and 18 major wins, Tiger accounts for [...]
The Chip Shot Sand Drill
This “go-to” drill will help develop – or re-focus – a forward swing bottom. The Sand Drill begins by drawing a straight line in the sand, and, using your sand wedge, addressing that line as if it were the ball and you were preparing to hit a chip shot. Now simply make the chip shot [...]
The Golf Ball Surrogate Pitch
When I was going to Robert Louis Stevenson High School, located right off the 17th green at Spyglass Hill on the Monterey Peninsula, I would often take my books and study in those lovely light-dappled woods. Well, in addition to books, I’d also take my sand wedge in order to execute the pitching drill of [...]