For new golfers or people interested in learning to play golf, I thought I'd write a primer on how to play golf. As I started writing, I realized that just discussing the golf course itself, this primer needed to be broken up into multiple posts. So, I decided to produce a series of posts, starting [...]
This past weekend I visited my alma mater, The College of William and Mary, for Homecoming to celebrate my 30th class reunion. While visiting with my friends, naturally, golf came up as a topic since I played for W&M during my college years. My first evening in town I was sharing a couple of pitchers [...]
About 15 years ago, an appraisal client of mine (appraising commercial real estate is how I've paid my bills for nearly 30 years) asked me to play in a four-ball tournament, one that I had won in 1989. I had not played much golf for a few years up to that point, and was quite [...]
A few weeks ago, I played my second round of golf in five years in a friend's annual gathering. I was paired with my friend and two other golfers, none of which can break 90, and two of them can't break 100. I will give a pass to one of them...it's apparent that he rarely [...]
I played a round of golf the other day with a group of friends in their annual outing. This was my second round this year, and effectively, my second round of golf in FIVE years. My last round of golf was about a month ago, and it wasn't pretty, but I had made some progress. [...]
If you want to become a scratch golfer, you’ve got to learn how to practice. Simply going to the driving range and beating balls will not turn you into a ball striking machine. The other day, I was on the range, and in the stall next to me was this young man, probably early 20's, [...]
When you watch a tour player, you’ll notice that they ALL have a pre-shot routine that they run through to get focused on the task at hand. They also use this routine to get properly aligned at the target. Most amateur golfers have no routine whatsoever. Occasionally they take one practice swing, and then for [...]
After you’ve been playing and practicing for a while, you should start to notice some patterns to your shots. Bad shots tend to be caused by one swing fault or another, so I thought I’d cover some of the basic issues. The Slice For a right handed player, a slice typically starts to the left [...]
For most golfers, the basic set of golf clubs consists of a driver, 3 wood, 4 wood and 5 wood, 3 iron through 9 iron, pitching wedge, sand wedge and a putter. However, this basic set can vary quite a bit depending upon the skill level of the player, and how far they are able [...]
One of the most common issues that new golfers and those golfers that still struggle to break 100 have is that they try to control the club in their golf swing too much with the hands and arms. Many of these golfers also hold onto the club too tightly in an effort to gain control. [...]
