Golf can be confusing; Make a ‘perfect’ set-up Maintain lag Finish in balance Start down with the hips Shift your weight Turn shoulders You’re mad While some of the advice may pertain to you and your individual swing, I can categorically say that doing all of the above will not guarantee a good shot […]
When I worked at Turnberry, I once had a blind golfer come for a lesson with me. He was part of the Scottish National Blind Golfers team, and was a pretty decent player. He worked with a different pro at the academy, but this pro had called in sick this day, so I was going […]
If you are not interested in technical details of the golf swing, click away now. People often believe I am not a technical teacher – this is quite true; I normally teach very simple stuff. But that is a long way from saying that I don’t understand technique. Understand something in its complexity in order […]
Everyone wants the supposed holy grail of a draw shot (forgetting the fact that Nicklaus, Watson, Hogan etc all faded it). But, if you want it, let’s give it to you, in 60 seconds or less. Step one You need to get the club moving in to out through impact. Like shown The red […]
Prepare yourself – this article is going to make you think! I do over a thousand hours of coaching each year – each time, I ask my pupils the question What do you think you need to do to create a good shot? I am then invariably met with responses of cliches which players believe […]
Want to know how to hit the ball 300 yards with a swing speed slower than any on tour? Read on. I have always had a pathetic amount of swing speed. As a junior, all the other kids much younger than me used to whack it 40 yards past me. One of the deciding factors […]
This post includes a lot more technical detail than I normally talk about. I am going to discuss a topic that will hopefully spark some good quality discussions which can further our understanding of the golf swing, and specifically impact. I am also going to, in this and future articles, suggest the practical implications of this information. Full credit […]
Do you know the ball flight laws? Do you even know what a ball flight law is? Do you believe in the old ball flight laws, or the new ones? Ball flight laws are simply the physical laws which determine why and how a ball flies through the air. They can tell you what a […]
If you have been working on your putting stroke and not been holing more putts (or even getting worse), listen up. While modern statistics have shown that putting may not be as relevant for low scoring as we once thought (apparently, the long game plays a bigger part), it is still an important area where many […]
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