Swing gadgets and training aids have been around in some form or another since… forever, I suppose. Some are really good, while others are really bad....
I’d like to invite any of my readers to try this experiment: Play a round with your club pro, a scratch, or near-scratch player in your club....
There is a plethora, maybe an overabundance, of golf information available online these days. While some of this information can be extremely useful, it can also...
The internet has given birth to a plethora of golf swing advice, tips and how-to information. For average golfers, I think it has become a source...
Omar Uresti recently won the PGA Professional Championship. The victory caused quite an uproar due to the fact that Uresti has spent a good part of his...
Have you ever seen your swing on video and realized that your hands were really far from your body at impact? There are drills and training...
This is the second article in our “Faults and Fixes” series with PGA Master Professional Dennis Clark. In this series, Dennis explains specific swing flaws and the...
The idea of correcting your golf swing is one that all of us entertain, and we probably all should work to fix our swing at one time...
The passing of John Jacobs at the age of 91 last week was noted by too few, and a great loss for those of us who...
The very first thing a golf instructor should do, in my opinion, is ask the student her/his short-term and long-term goals. When and only when that has...
The release, perhaps the most discussed term in the golf instruction lexicon, is also one of the least understood. Let’s take a few minutes to define it,...
You’re thinking too much. Just hit it. Stop thinking about it. Paralysis by analysis. Does any of this sound familiar? If you’ve ever been to a driving...
“When I came to this seminar, I was confused. I’m still confused but on a higher level.” Enrico Fermi I have worked with many great teachers...
As I reflect on the passing of the immortal Arnold Palmer, “The King,” I can’t help but wonder about all the things that made him the...
There seems to be a debate in golf instruction concerning old-school versus new-school teaching. I think the discussion is mostly academic and largely a product of...
In my last article I discussed “sidearm” golf, and I made a reference to Ben Hogan’s image in his book Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of...
“What is the secret of the golf swing?” That’s one of the eternal debates in our game, and as with anything as dynamic as the golf...
The most important part of any golf swing is the club face. You can do everything right in your golf swing, but get the club-face positioning...
In my experience, the most underrated part of setting up to the golf ball is without a doubt ball position. If a golfer moves the golf...
In this video, I compare the driver swing of Jason Day and Dustin Johnson, two of the longest and most accomplished golfers in the world. I did this analysis...
I need to preface this article about consistency by making one point quite clear: Golf is inconsistent! Pure and simple. If you can’t accept that fact, you...
I read my colleague Ben Alberstadt’s very insightful article on the Dustin Johnson debacle and thought I’d take a minute to offer what may be “practical”...
I offer an online swing analysis program, and golfers from around the world have sent me their swings to analyze. I am always quick to mention that with...
First-time visitors to the Masters are struck by a couple things. Those of you who have been there know what I’m referring to, and I welcome...
The easiest way to understand the difference between tempo and timing in the golf swing is this: tempo is a preference, timing is a principle. Timing is the process of...
One of the most common phrases in golf instruction is “coming over the the top.” It’s a phrase even the most novice golfers use, but it...
Most golfers think of practice as hitting balls on the range, and for the majority of golfers that’s their only practice. Any practice is better than...
Recently, one of my students said this to me: “I have a friend who is a pretty good golfer and he said I shouldn’t lift my...
So you’ve decided to take a golf lesson… congratulations! There is no more-proven path to getting better at this game than working with a trained professional....
So you’re thinking about taking golf lessons, but there are many things to consider before you do. Most importantly, will lessons actually help you get better at...
When we were young, we played baseball; now we play softball. We used to ski the expert slopes, but now we ski cross country. Our pickup basketball games against all...
Golfers hear a lot about using the bounce when pitching the golf ball. It makes sense, because bounce plays an important role in pitching. Bounce is the...
One of the most perplexing aspects of the game we all love is this: What we feel we are doing and what we are actually doing are generally...
There is a lot of information about the importance of swing width, and I don’t think any good instructor would argue the value of sufficient width...
This story was selected as one of the 15 best GolfWRX stories of 2015! I’ve often said I would hate to be at a rifle range...