After hitting your tee shot on a short par-3, you discover that your ball has not only landed in the greenside bunker but is well below your feet. There’s no mistaking it; this is a difficult shot even for the pros. With a few adjustments to your setup, even a high handicapper can execute this Read more…
The holidays. Less daylight and colder weather are now upon us, creating fewer opportunities to break through your golf milestones before the end of the year. Don’t panic! You can still make this happen. Being patient and allowing your current skills to take you there will work. But if you’ve determined that next year is Read more…
One of the biggest things that all of us feel as we get older (I’m 48!) are the random aches and pains after spending too much time on the practice tee or working on short game. We need to learn to practice to play golf as long as we can. Hopefully forever. Let’s face it, Read more…
There are many things in life we can’t control. As a golfer, we can’t control the weather, how the golf course is set up, and many other items. So they may not figure directly on how you can improve at golf. Then there are things in our lives we do have control of. Once placed Read more…
If you’re one of the predictably large majority of golf fans who will pass on The Match between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson on Nov. 23 — what, two fortysomething gazillionaires playing for $9 million of someone else’s money doesn’t rivet you to the tube? — allow Golf Tips to offer you a wealth of Read more…
Arguably the two most important clubs in your bag are the driver and the putter. You must put the ball in play with your driver to enable you to score with your putter on the green. The extreme opposites of each other in your golf bag have one thing in common when it comes to Read more…
Do you practice to play golf? In other words, are you making the most of your range sessions? In a lot of the clients I see are golfers looking to gain an edge and reach not only the next level of play, but at least one level beyond. They spend time at the golf practice Read more…
I probably give far more playing lessons then the average bear. Let’s be clear: on the lesson tee I’m a teacher, on the golf course I’m a coach, and the whole plan, clearly, is to achieve lower golf scores for my clients, and that means not thinking about score. During a playing lesson I ask Read more…
The great Allen Iverson once said, “Listen, we’re sittin here talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, but we’re talkin’ about PRACTICE.” So what does this have to do with your golf practice? As a golf professional and an avid writer I noticed that we generally write awesome articles about Read more…
Beginning with the June-July 2016 of GolfTips I will share with you what I have learned and come to strongly believe in during my nearly 40-year teaching and coaching career. My journey as a teacher-coach is headed towards its fourth decade and a few years back eclipsed some 50,000 plus lesson hours given. I would Read more…
