Well here we go for another Masters and there’s a lot on the line at this first major and golf’s best international field tees it up for the coveted green jacket. Will it go to a play-off this year? I kind of think so. The best of the best play in two somes in a select field.
Will Tiger Woods win and go one up on the first leg of the Grand Slam or will some key player like Ernie Els, Phil Michelson or one of the tough Aussie players like Geoff Oglivy or Sout Africa’s Ernie Els and Retif Goosen step up and win their first Masters.
What about former Masters champion Fred Couples and his recent stellar play. He has made more cuts at Augusta I think than anyone else. He really knows how to play the course. If he putts well I think he’s in the running especially with his long length off the tee.
The weather looks cool and possibly wet on the weekend making the lengthened Augusta Nat’l golf course play even longer than its almost 7,500 yard length. The greens should hold nicely being softer than usual. And should aid scoring.
Look for Tiger to be right there at the end. There are a lot of great players in this field and I think there is one whose going to raise his game to a higher level. Tiger doesn’t succumb to the pressure but thrives on it at a major. You got to play your out right best against him to beat him. He doesn’t beat himself.
Top players need to reach into the well of courage and find more of their fire and pay more attention to that and realize that the real opponent is not Woods or Nicklaus or Jones but “Old Man Par” and overcoming their own inner demons and short-comings and believing more in themselves and their own ability! Not theirs. That to me is where the secret lies to be discovered and nurtured.
My prediction. Look for a three player play-off this year between Tiger, Phil Michelson and Geoff Oglivy with Couples finishing third. Phil will jump out nicely in round one or two with a strong International presence on the leaderboard at the top spots.
I’ll be there watching this weekend like you and will be there especially on Sunday by the tube when they come down the stretch. I’m definitely a Tiger fan but what about the underdog creating some super heroics and fire-works like last year with Zach Johnson down the stretch on 15 thru 18 th! Could Couples be our oldest Masters champion this year at the ripe age of 48 yrs? Wouldn’t that be great!
It’s my favorite golf major of the year and its happening now. What a great course and final nine for golf theater. You got to love this one!
If you ever get the change to go to the Masters, do what ever you can to do so — as it is a huge thrill but also an outright spiritual experience in golf like no other. It will change your idea of the majors and being a golfer.
See you in front of the TV this weekend! Best, Bob Cisco on golf.
Tags: Golf Training · Mental Game
The golf season started slow here in So Calif. but now as we approach spring is really in full bloom. Now let’s get the rust off on our golf games. Our e mail system has been a problem here lately and we have fixed that now and are up and running again. That’s why you haven’t gotten much from us or myself here at the golf school early in the season.
Here’s a Short Game Tip to keep in mind as you get going here in 2008 with your golf plan to play better golf. If you want to play your best and have good scores you need to have a good short game. These words of advice have been around along time. I have been preaching this with golf students and clients for some time now. You here if from the golf TV commentators a lot as well. Those who score well have a good or great short game. There’s no getting around it.
Key players have always attribute a tournament win or a good round of golf to a solid short game performance and is the key to not just winning, but your score and morale. Every golfer comes to realize the importance of being able to convert strokes from around the green… The best way to start the new season out right and get the rust off is to practice indoors as the weather gets better. Just keep a putter in the living room or study and pick it up and make a few strokes at different times of the day. Do one minute drills with your putting and chipping stroke.
Making simple putting, chipping and pitching motions are what you want to do and in many cases you don’t need to be hitting a ball. If you have a practice cup or net you can pitch into then that’s even better. It’s all about getting the golf muscles working again and getting the sense of weight and the feeling of rhythm and timing going and worked out again in the short shots and putting.
If you’re watching the Golf Channel or watching other TV why not be working on your putting and chipping motion or stroke and be productive. Then when you can get to the golf range or course, practice putting and chipping for a half hour or so a couple of times a week.
You will find that your feel and sense of timing returns rather quickly and you can turn your attention more to your long game and work on that area as well. This has always been the successful way I have done it and have used it with advanced players and pros.
Let me know how it works for you and if you have certain questions on short game technique and how it all works. More at www.allaboutgolf.us
Best, Bob Cisco,
Golf Performance
and Short Game Advisor
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If you want to play your best you need to have a good short game. These words of advice have been around along time. I have been preaching them with golf students and clients for some time now.
Key players have always attribute a tournament win or a good round of golf to a solid short game performance and is the key to not just winning, but your score and morale. Every golfer comes to realize the importance of being able to convert strokes from around the green.
Being able to convert that bogey to par and avoiding double bogeys does more for your score than you realize. Making those crucial 4-6 foot putts are huge for your confidence. Add in a few key birdies as you go and golf becomes the game we all love.
It’s truly a game of scoring and each day the scoring potential is going to be different from the next. As a matter of fact that difference can be anywhere from four to ten strokes or more and that truly makes your score.
This week PGA tour players are at Riviera CC in Los Angeles, CA for the LA Open and will revisit Hogan’s Alley along its fabled fairways and greens.
The golfer who putts the best usually is usually the player in the last group on Sunday.
So here is my tip of the week to use: work on your short game and learn to CONVERT strokes to par. You can make a few bogeys but you must eliminate the double bogey to be able to score. Are you a conversion specialist?
Tiger Woods certaintly is. www.tigerwoods.com. You can win at your game in your own way too.
Work on your 100 yard and in game and get good with the wedge shot. Practice your sand and flop shot from around the green. Practice putt several times a week. Lunch time or on the way home from work. Just for 10-15 minutes or so will make a big difference.
A good story here: I remember Corey Pavin in the 1990s winning two LA Opens and being out driven by Fred Couples by 50-60 yds on most of the holes. Yet when it was all over it was Corey with the great short game and putting that was victorious in the end.
Work on your short game: Cisco’s Rule: practice 70% short game in your practice sessions.
Play more nine hole rounds of golf and work on your short game around the green. This keeps you working on these various shots that need practice.
Your short game: Go splurge on it!
If you would like more help with your short game call me and I will assist you in this area with private instruction and or one of our short game boot camps in the Los Angeles and So. Calif. areas. www.allaboutgolf.us. Phone is 323-255-3935.
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I was fortunate to get some time away from work and to practice my game at the range and course over the holidays. Although we have some colder weather and rain, living in S. Calif kind of helps too at this time of the year. The weather here in January as been pretty good after a major storm and lots of rain but the temperature is now 65 to 75 degrees. Good golf weather mate!
Anyway, back to the subject of practicing and after a few sessions at the range and getting the rust off and reacquainted with my golf swing, I started hitting the ball nicely with the three wood and driver. This was real encouraging I must say. I was impressed with the trajectory. A “stage two” with the driver. One day maybe the ‘golf gods’ will let me experience the might secret “stage three” like Hogan hits and Tiger does at times. (a stage two is the ball jumps to the next level in the trajectory and levels off and the stage three is the same but jumps lightly to another level very briefly than the first two stages and then falls towards the target). I hit maybe 1-3 of these in my career.
Anyway back to more earthly matters.
I had to remind myself that there are two swings to keep in mind in hitting your irons and your woods. There’s a different approach here in these swings. With the irons you’re hitting more down and with the woods you’re sweeping the ball off the clubface. I had to remind myself on this quickly and it made a real difference.
If I have a 2008 New’s Year Resolution or goal it would be to play some great golf here and challenge myself to see just good I can really play. With dealing with some injuries and having written my fourth instructional book over the last couple of years, Perfect Balance, which officially launches at Masters time or the US Open - I am happy to announce I am ready to go for a year of taking it to the highest level. That’s a nice challenge I might add.
I am looking forward to 2008 in a lot of ways! I hope you are too. On a personal player level, wouldn’t it be great to break 100-90-80-70 this year and really feel great about your game? I included 70 for you more advanced players. My goal is to breal through the 70 barrier.
One of the areas of the game I am concentrating on is stellar short game play and taking my relatively good short game to a whole new level. And the key here is to practice and find time to do that, which requires discipline and creating the time to do it.
So I am going to tell you here in this post how I am going to do this. I think I’ll practice what I preach and select some key drills from our Short Game school that work the best. That’s what I’ll do. Like the “feel” drills and the balance drills especially.
The key early in the season is to get some feel and touch going with the short game especially the putting and chipping I would say. If you are rusty then start first here with the short game and work up to the longer pitch and wedge shots, etc.
I’ll let you know how I am coming along in one of the next posts.
Here’s to playing great golf in 2008!
Bob C.
www.allaboutgolf.us
Tags: Golf Training
Hi golfers:
One of the things you’ll here me say a lot is that there is a “power in simplicity” and the golf swing was meant to be swung without a lot of attention centered on the mechanics of the swing. When you play your best your attention is more focused on balance and the target and when you are playing poorly your attention goes to mechanics and technical swing positions as a solution.
If you saw Sam Snead’s last interview on the Golf Channel some years ago with Jim Mc Lean, he was asked if there was one disease more than anything else in golf and was asked what would that be and he smiled and said without hesitation, “it would be thinking” in the golf swing! Thinking about all those things you’ re suppose to do including the don’ts.
The other day I saw this artilce from Mark Solomon on the golf swing and thought you would find it of interest. Mark is the director of golf schools at Golf Made Simple and I couldn’t agree with him more on his take on how golf instruction has gotten more and more complicated over the years. I’ve included a good part of the article here for you to read and you can see his complete article at www.golfmadesimple.com.
As a matter of fact, I think we share the same view on a number of areas when it comes to the golf swing and keeping it simple.
As I stated in my new upcoming golf book, Perfect Balance, this whole thing has become a serious issue in golf instruction and has a lot to do with why students are failing in their games and why three million golfers take up golf each year, followed by three million leaving the game heading out the back door. www.allaboutgolf.us
This is something most golfers don’t know about and isn’t publicize by certain formal golf circles and associations in instruction. Actually what’s been occurring is that we have a failed model that needs handling and I intend to see this ineffective system change for the better.
It’s great to see some other golf teachers like Solomon talking the “real deal” and truth about the golf swing.
Go ahead and read the article here and the full version at his blog. It’s worth the read and musing. It certaintly tells you where golf instruction is going today! Perhaps we can do something about it and right the ship once and for all. It’s entitled: Golfers Are Funny –
And I Don’t Mean The Good Kind Of Funny!
‘I’m going to try to the Stack and Tilt. I’ve tried the 8 Step Swing, The X Factor, Slow and Low, Square to Square, along with every other new swing that has come out.
‘I’ve tried video analysis, I’ve tried the new Matt System, I’ve tried Golf Tec, I’ve even tried getting down on my hands and knees to pray.
‘Yet, I still have the same inconsistent golf swing. I’ve spent hundreds – well, thinking about it …. I’ve spent thousands …. well, let’s just put it this way …. my kids inheritance isn’t what it used to be – trying to find something to help me become more consistent.’
We live in a society that thrives on making things simpler. Perfect example: Would you rather use Microsoft Word or go back to loading the paper into a typewriter and then having to go through the hassle of making a simple mistake. (Really, I tried to type mistake wrong to illustrate my point, but Microsoft won’t let me make a mistake even if I wanted to).
Make Life Simple
Yet, the Golfer that’s having a hard time on the golf course seems to be looking for more difficult. We’re actually thinking of changing our company name to Golf Made Difficult, but we feel if we did – there would be too much demand and we wouldn’t be able to keep up with number of Golfers calling and emailing us to help them make complicated swing changes.
So we’ll keep it Golf Made Simple
Why do most people today have their automobiles shift gears automatically as opposed to manually shifting? Why don’t you have a rotary telephone in your house anymore? Do you know anyone that still fiddles with an answering machine that’s hooked up by a cord to your telephone as opposed to voice mail?
Yet, the Golfer isn’t happy until your Instructor sits you down to analyze every movement of your golf swing. The Golfer wants to know everything they’re doing wrong in their swing. ‘You see my right elbow at the top of my swing, is that where it’s supposed to be?’ “Well Mr. Lewis, you’re right, according to our highly advanced technology that can analyze every movement in your golf swing, along with determining if you’re getting enough calcium in your diet – shows that your right elbow is about 2.394 degrees out of place.”
In every aspect of our life, we’re trying to make things ‘Simpler’. We’re trying to use less thought to accomplish difficult tasks. Yet in Golf – the so-called Swing Guru’s are trying to make things more difficult!
An 8 Step Swing? I have difficulty walking and chewing gum at the same time.
To give you an idea on how embarrassed I am about this ‘complicated is better philosophy’ that has hooked Golfers to the point of me relabeling it as ‘Crack for Golfers’ – somebody sent me this amazing comment they found on the Golf Tec website – ‘By primarily working in an indoor, controlled environment, clients can focus on the swing process as opposed to simply relying on ball flight. By ignoring ball flight in some of (the) lessons, clients can avoid reinforcing bad habits.’
Ignoring your ball flight can avoid reinforcing bad habits? Is that a joke? Are they trying to be funny? Don’t tell me they’re serious. That comment may be the #1 reason that company will really mess up your golf swing!
Do I smell Snake Oil?
Technology has helped us create better golf clubs and golf balls. It’s helped to make the golf club out of better materials (from Persimmon Wood and Hickory Shafts to Titanium and Graphite Shafts), along with allowing us to fit you to the correct equipment to match your golf swing.
All these other complicated swing techniques that are based upon you copying Jim McLean’s 8-Step Swing or the Golf Tec model swing or the Stack and Shank … ahhh, I mean the Stack and Tilt swing - hasn’t helped anybody (I have ever met) swing better. It might make a Golfer feel better that at least they’re doing something to try to improve – but has it helped your swing to improve to the point that your scores have gotten better?
Bob Cisco comments here: The essence of the golf swing has to do with swinging the club head and timing the arms swinging with the body in one unit and getting it all working together. Keeping this simple and not complicating it.
How can you think all those mechanical thoughts in less than two seconds and at club head speeds of 90-100 mphs and get it all right? Rather impossible I would say when you think mechanics and swing thoughts of where the club has to be positioning.
Like Mark said, I am a big believer in keeping the golf swing simple and swinging the club head and keying on feel especially balance in the golf swing motion. Keep it simple Mate!
Bob Cisco
www.allaboutgolf.us
Bob Cisco is a former PGA tour instructor and performance advisor to top amateurs and pros and is a golf educator to instructors. He has written over five golf instructional books including his latest book, “Perfect Balance: Your Key to Consistency and Shot-making in Golf”. Due for April, 2008 release. His first book, “Ultimate Game of Golf” was a best-seller.
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Last week, I mentioned to you the announcement of a new golf training program that I have been working on for sometime. Actually eight years to be exact. It addresses a key aspect of the basics to golf instruction that in many cases has been neglected, over-looked and discarded for years. And that I would give you more details about it. Here’s the next part of that message.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to actually play golf to a level that is potentially exciting and gives you the feeling of doing just that.. Where you just “trust” your swing” with a minimum of “swing thoughts” in your head? And just swing the club head. Well, the good news is that you actually can and I would like to share my thoughts on doing that!
If there is an inside golf secret or swing code to the golf swing, I think I have found it and cracked it. Truth is an interesting commodity. Something is either true or it isn’t and there are many areas where there are threads of gray. Individuals however have an ability to spot or recognize truth when they see it.
I am willing to share with you what I found that really works and teach it to you as well. I think you will marvel at the simplicity of it and the ease it takes in learning the key motion to the golf swing. I can tell you this much that when you think better balance in your golf swing and focus on that, you will improve your shot-making and scores!
For years, golf instruction has become complicated and developed into somewhat of a pseudo-science with many swing theories. The national average however is still hovering above 100 for Men golfers and higher for Women at 108 – and has not changed in 50-65 years, despite all the new golf equipment and changes to clubs and balls, especially in the last 10 years or so. (It has changed less than one stroke to be accurate).
Why is this? Is golf as a game too difficult to play with all the shots one has to master to play the game well? But why is it so difficult for so many golfers and students of the game.
I’ve wanted to know and have spent many years and hundreds of hours of studying the golf swing itself to find what I would call is a common denominator to all these theories that would simplify things and would be a foundation and key series of basics for such theories.
This is one of the main reasons I choose to write another golf book on instruction. I was not satisfied as an instructor and teacher and as a player myself on why this great game has become too difficult for the majority of players to play the game and enjoy their skills.
In researching this area further, to my surprise and dismay I have found an alarming statistic going on that would make most business owners cringe and would literally shut-down their operations of business within several months time.
Since 1997 when Tiger won his first Masters and Tiger Mania was born, three million new golfers have entered the game each year. 50% of these new golfers are women and junior golfers. At the same time three million golfers leave out the back door in frustration and disappointment and quit the game of golf! This stat is not published for several reasons. One of which is the failure to codify and define the key fundamentals to golf and other other has to do with vested interests in what captures sales in golf equipment .
To me, this is a serious problem and is not to be taken lightly and is a crime in the world of instruction, yet it is happening quietly everyday here in the United States and abroad. Many a golfer throws in the towel in utter frustration and quits the game on a daily basis. That’s a real travesty in our game of game.
I wanted to also find out two other key things that I felt were of interests especially to me. These were1). Who was the top player of all time and what instructional method did he use? And 2). Who was the best instructor who had the most victories in major events with his or her students?
I figured that there must be a method to swing the club more efficiently than others and I wanted to know if golf instructional method had technique or technology that had been abandoned or some reason left along the road. The true masters of the swing like Snead, Jones, Hogan, Watson, Els and Couples make it look simple and swung the club head with great timing and rhythm in their swings.
In my new golf book, Perfect Balance: Your Key to Consistency in Shot-making in Golf, these issues are identified and addressed and out of this examination of swing theories and what truly works in the golf swing and my own successful techniques, you will find some very key information and some of it newly discovered for the first time in the forms of axioms and principles about the golf swing motion itself. And the true simplicity of it. Plus. you will learn the key role of balance as the primary basic that needs to be emphasized in your golf swing and how to practice it with key balance awareness drills I have developed for you.
Here are some of the key areas covered in the book. (190 pages with Glossary).
The New Balance Principle to Golf: And Five Step Balance System,
Golf’s Magic-Move in the Golf’s Swing and How to Make It,
The Hidden Secret the Pros Use in Generate Power,
The Three Major Components in the Golf Swing
Here’s What Others Are Saying About the new “Perfect Balance” Golf Book
What a difference in feel at impact! I am actually feeling the club dropping down on the ball. The shot is more effortless, going longer and much straighter. I found by centering my weight better especially with the feet and lower body, I could really feel the difference with my golf shots. Thanks for the great session! M. L. – 16 HP
I had a real success with Bob’s Perfect Balance session, and have a real surge of hope concerning my golf swing. Now for the first time I feel I have the correct information upon which to work, to build a good swing. I am looking forward to working with Bob on the rest of the program to get my handicap down to single digits! G.B – HP 18
We have a limited supply of golf training programs that we were able to get from the publisher for Christmas! You are the first group of golfers to see and get the pre-publication offer ahead of time. (The official launch of the book is in April-May).
You can get a personalized copy of the book, along with the training manual and Audio C/D for yourself and a golf friend but you have to hurry to order. You can receive an Early Bird Special 10% discount price if you order by December 3rd.
Order now and get a very special one hour, bonus golf lesson from Bob Cisco on the new Balance Principle to Golf as part of the package!
Call 323-255-3935 to order the limited edition of the book, along with the training manual + Audio C/D. Visit www.abbaboutgolf.us for more information on Bob Cisco, his new golf book and golf seminars and speaking tour.
I’ll be sending you an additional e mail message early next week to give you a special Golf Balance Tip taken from the new Perfect Balance golf book.
Talk to you soon!
Bob Cisco – Author
323-255-3935
www.allaboutgolf.us
Tags: Golf Training
I thought it would be good to share this information with you. www.allaboutgolf.us.
As a golf teacher and trainer, there are many factors that can inhibit a golfer’s ability to play his or her best. Swing flaws leads the way and lack of flexibility and swing motion ranks a close second. Another factor which is overlooked and not seen as often and many instructors tend to miss is the following scenario.
Recently, one of my golf students was having trouble hitting the ball and was losing more and more distance over the last two or three months. He came to see me for some help with his swing. Although he was progressing well with our lesson plan, and going back to what worked fundamentally for him in the swing, he was still having trouble getting the distance he once had. And complained of this as a problem. He was losing club head speed due to several injuries and had put on some weight to boot.
So after I recommended he see his chiropractor or physical therapist and get a few issues address along with some exercises to improve his range of motion, I decided to take a closer look and check out his golf clubs and his shafts in both his irons and woods.
In doing so, I found that he was using a shaft that was too stiff or firm for him that he still using over the last eight or ten years. So I met John at the Roger Dunn Golf Shop (So. Calif) close to where he works and not far for me and as an experiment, I had him try a more flexible shaft, in this case a Senior Flex and hit with these.
He liked the feel of the shaft and seemed to hit the ball with less effort. So after trying a couple of different type of clubs, he liked the Cobra irons best and purchased a good used demo set with a four thru the pitching iron, with the Senior flex.
He went a hit them at the range and really liked them and noticed he was hitting the shots ten yards longer with very little effort. The clubs in other words were doing more of the work and the shaft was flexing more for John and his club head speed.
You should be able to swing the club at about an eighty percent pace and guage your swing speed where you are at a comfortable pace with your swing. The tendency with golfers is to end up too early in their golfing career with a shaft that is too stiff to hit, so they learn a swing pattern that causes them to force the shot swinging hard from the top of the swing and try to release the club quicker at the bottom of their swing than necessary, as they swing back to the ball.
John liked the clubs so well that he gave me the difference saved in his purchase of the irons. It’s nice when the student does this and especially so when you aren’t expecting it. Getting a tip is recognition of a job well done!
Anyway, we then decided for him to try the three wood this way with the same shaft that he had in the Cobra irons or something close to that. John did and he hit the three wood nice and sweet and noticed he had gotten back the lost distance — all mainly because of getting the right shaft right. So he ended up ordering the driver and five wood and they are working nicely for him. Plus, he says he is getting some draw on the driver and 15-20 extra yards as well. I like it!
I think it is a smart idea to get custom clubs where you can as it makes a big difference in getting it right and getting it right makes it a lot easier for you to make your swing work more smoothly.
So the story here is to use your swing speed as an index to the type of shaft you need (senior or ladies, regular or stiff flex) and as we get older, we tend to lose flexibility and strength and need more flex in the club shaft. So it’s a good idea to go see “the shaft doctor” and have your golf clubs checked out as well. You’ll be a happy camper or I meant to say golfer!
One of the services I provide with my golf students and clients is to not only help them swing and play better, but for them to have the right golf equipment. Golf can be an expensive sport so if we are going to play it, then we should have the best equipment for our needs.
Here’s John saying what happened. Wow! Did this make the difference! I am hitting the ball 15 yards longer without having to swing harder and the club does more of the work now. I am impressed and highly recommend to golfers to get their shafts checked and my instructor, Bob Cisco, helped me immensely in solving this dilema and I am eager to play and practice more again! -John O.
You can reach me and tell me more of the issues or problems you are having not only with your swing, but with your clubs as well @ www.bobcisco.com.
All for now, Bob Cisco
The Golf Doctor
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The Secret Golf Grip the Pros Use for Putting & Chipping just off the green!
There is a special putting grip that most advanced golfers and practically all the pros on tour use to putt the way they do. As a matter of fact, 80% of these players use this one grip — not just for putting but also for chipping, just off the green in the fringe area.
It’s the “reverse overlap” grip that configures your wrist and left hand position in a more comfortable position that creates better feel and touch. I watched Tiger Woods use it last December at his Invitational event in So Calif. and he took an eight iron with this grip and chipped the ball from 35 feet away off the fringe to about one foot range.
The first finger of the left hand is placed outside or over the back two or three fingers of the right hand and extended down these fingers (on the outside) of the right hand in the putting grip. This grip can be used also for chipping off the green.
Many of you are using the regular Vardon grip with the right and left thumb down the shaft. If this works well for you, continue and disregard this advise. The great Bobby Jones used this style nicely and during his Grand Slam run. Other pros use this style as well.
As an option, the first finger of the right hand can also be placed down the shaft of the club to give the stroke more support if needed. I find this helps in my chipping by making th grip more snug in both hands.
It basically comes down to what creates the best feel for your stroke that counts and the pros including Tiger Woods use the reverse overlap grip and have been very successful with it results-wise.
If you are looking at sharpening your short games skills than this is one that really works and will save you strokes.
Try it and I think you’ll like it. The short game is the real deal to the scoring game.
We use this chipping technique along with our feel the club drills at all our short game boot camps at our golf school here in Los Angeles, CA. And golf students are really amazed at how well it works for them and are surprised they don’t know about this basic technique.
Its fun seeing golfers get their basics in on the short game area and improve more in one day than they thought posible! You can see more golf tips like this one when you go to our golf site at www.allaboutgolf.us/tips.
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Technorati ProfileIt’s great to see Lorena Ochoa playing so well and having won her seventh tournament of the season.
She has become the best ladies player on the LPGA and in the World now! Where’s Annika? Will she fade into retirement and become a culinary master chef as planned now or meet the challenge in 2008 and fight it out with Ochoa for the top spot. I’m not giving up yet on Anika however.
On another note and a continuing down-turn of events, Michele Wie continues to head downhill in performance and has reached a low point in her young pro career.
It’s gotten pretty bad! She will need to reassess what’s more important and focus more on the LPGA Tour in 2008 and forget about the Men’s PGA Tour for the next year or two and show that she is a force on the LPGA and start winning there.
Hopefully with all that talent, she will not continue to make mistakes like she has and she has made a lot and we would hate to see her end up the likes of Ty Tryon. Who did you say?
Remember him? Just two years ago, at the age of 18 or 19 yrs. he qualified for the PGA Tour and was one of David Leadbetter’s top student pros.
He started the season at the Phoenix Open as I recall that year and arrived with an entourage of swing coaches, mental game specialist, message therapist , exercise physiologist, manager and agent, etc.
I’m sure the bill for the eight of them was quite a bit for the week and scared the wollies out of Ty. Where is Ty Tyron as we speak? And what happened to his game.
I’ll have to go behind the scene and find out as my curiousity is peaked. Hopefully he can refind his game. If his putting is the problem, I can definitely help. Putting and the short game is my area of specialty to players.
Unfortunately, many promising players get with top notch swing coaches who want to fix a flaw in their swings, and in doing so they get too mechanical with their students and their player can’t create the swing – their own authenic swing — that got them were they are.
Its tough to play something other than your own game and make a swing so different, that you don’t know enough about what you are doing and why.
And besides, in my opinion, it doesn’t make good sense to try to change a champion golfer so quickly for the better. Work on his 100 yard and in game instead! That’s my advise that I give to the many golfers I have worked with on, both amateurs and pros.
All for now!
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It was just a matter of time as I figured it, that we would be ordering a “Tiger Woods” drink at the golf course after a round of golf. Or it would be out at dinner at a near-by restaurant or something. But I am a bit of a “A P” or Arnies Army fan and like my ice tea and lemonade drink. Preety good if you ask me!
I don’t know if I will change afterall to Tiger’s drink. Perhaps I will after trying it a few times. Sounds pretty powerful. Wonder if I should try it with “Wheaties” for breakfeast!
But what about all those “Arnold Palmer” drinks that are served daily across the country. There are probably several million of those served in restaurants and golf courses. Will Tiger’s Gatorade special drink have something special in it to hit your drives longer? A little Ginseng perhaps and special electroltyes that energize and play on the mind?
Will just have to see what all the excitement is about with Tiger’s new drink. I’ll let you know after I’ve tried it. Let me know your take as well.
Meanwhile hit your drives in the short grass! Bob C.
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