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Archive for May, 2010

Improve My Golf Game – Golf Instruction

I always get asked “improve my golf game“!  This is part of being a certified Instructor and I truly ENJOY helping everyone play better. The first thing I always ask is what are your long term goals?  Goals are important for the both of us because without any vision, it will be hard to track [...]

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Golf Target – Where To Miss

I once heard the saying that golf is a game of misses.  It’s a game of many different things but this  statement is true and very overlooked.  Most of this post will talk about course management and opening your eyes to what really is a good shot and what is a bad one and I’m [...]

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Golf Instruction – Targets And Aim Points

Targets and aim points are two very different things.  A target is where you want to ball to end up and and aim point is where you need to start the ball to ensure that it reaches your target.  Based on your ball flight your aim point will be different and one you will have [...]

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Golf Tee Box, Golf Strategy – Where To Tee The Ball

A few days ago I was playing with a group of friends at the club I belong at.  One of the players hits a hard hook and is right handed so his ball flight starts right and hooks hard to the left.  In our group we were playing a match between the 4 of us [...]

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Clutch Putting

I played a match last night and coming into 18 I was all square with my opponent.  My opponent was 35 feet away and ended up making it!  I was 15 feet away, missed it for the half of the hole and match so I ended up losing 1 down.  After the round this got [...]

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Golf Mental Game – Remove yourself from the outcome

How man times have we hit a tee shot out of bounds and creamed the second one down the middle of the fairway.  Or how about missing a 5 footer and then trying it again and making it.  Why does this happen?  It happens because we remove ourselves from the outcome and hit the shot [...]

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Preparing for a round

Yesterday I played one of my better rounds in over well over a year.  I tried to pinpoint why though because honestly, I was caught off guard.  There were two things that I REALLY made a difference in yesterdays round. The first has confidence.  If you have been reading my posts and have signed up [...]

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Mental Golf Game – Confidence

If you’re a first time visitor to my site, you will notice by looking at the my previous posts that the majority of my tips deal with the mental game and short game.  These two areas are the most overlooked when it comes to golf and are the areas you can improve at the quickest [...]

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How to think during a “career” round

How about Rory Mcilroys amazing 62 on Sunday at the Quail Hollow Championship?  It was one of the best rounds I have seen played in a VERY long time.  The thing that impressed me most was that he took COMPLETE CONTROL of the tournament even after he had just tied for the lead.  He made [...]

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Learn from Tiger Woods

Last week was only the 6th event in which Tiger Woods didn’t make it to the weekend.  His round Friday was probably his worst round as a professional under the conditions (he shot 81 at the Open Championship in brutal weather) as they were pretty straight forward.  I was actually expecting this poor performance at [...]

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