This is a great clip from Tour Player, JC Anderson. This is how most golf instruction sounds to most players! As a PGA Teaching Professional, I love this clip! Thanks, JC!
I saw a hilarious video on You Tube the other day, where a man was making fun of golf pros teaching swing basics. I’ll try to find it again and post it, but he was using very advanced terminology that even I had difficulty deciphering! But the actual mechanics aren’t that difficult. It, like most things in the game of golf, just takes practice and then more practice. Learn to do it the correct way and then keep working at it. And whatever you do, don’t buy into some crazy golf scheme that tells you that if you buy their $100 club, you’ll chip like the PGA Pros. This is how the pros do it – and this info is free!
My wife swears that a shot of Tequila before teeing off improves her golf game. You see, I married a snow skier, who had never held a golf club in her life. We made a deal – I would learn to ski and she would learn to golf. The winter we were married, this Florida native bundled up and clicked on his first pair of skis and allowed some wonderfully patient man named Sven to convince him to go down the mountain. It wasn’t pretty, but I did it. I insisted on a good stiff drink after! It was medicinal! But a deal is a deal. That next summer, I took my new bride down to the range and taught her to grip and swing the club. About the 10th time she hit dirt, she said something like feeling as if she were Bugs Bunny, vibrating after being hit by Elmer Fud, and took off to the club house. About 15 minutes later, she returned – all smiles. She gripped the club, set up and hit the golf ball up in the air, about 140 yards! She turned and smiled. “Tequila!” She swears it is her secret golf weapon. I wonder if this young lady has the same secret. Hell, what am I saying? How about the guy holding the bottle??
One of the most frequently asked questions I receive is “What ball should I use?” Well, equipment has changed so dramatically in the last 40 years and ball construction is no exception. Instead of telling you what actual golf ball to play, it is better to explain your options so that you can make an educated choice. I could spend hours comparing the ball from yesteryear to today’s ball, but I’ll just go through the basic golf ball types, covers and construction. Read more…
Recently I received a great question about gap wedges – why and how we use them. Interesting history on these useful wedges! It used to be that golf clubs were sold in sets from a 2 iron through a pitching wedge. People didn’t really want the 2 iron and wouldn’t buy it. So the golf club manufacturers got wise and changed the lofts. Starting at the pitching wedge, which used to be 52 degrees, they changed it to a 48 degree loft. In essence, they made the pitching wedge the 9 iron, the 9 into the 8 and so on – making what we know as a 3 iron into the loft of the old two iron.
That change created a gap in the yardage between the wedge, now 48 degrees and the sand wedge, 56 degrees. Most people never use the 2 iron, so they buy 3-9, (which are the lofts of the old 2-8 irons) pitching wedge (loft of the old 9 iron) and gap wedge – which is now 52 degrees – just like the old pitching wedge.
That is marketing at it’s finest for selling 9 club sets!
