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Start Thinking About Your Set Makeup

How you organize your set makeup this year can really take some strokes off your scorecard. Take the time to evaluate which clubs you need in your bag and which ones you don’t. Here’s how to get started: Go through a typical round of golf and count the number of times you use each club […]

Posting A Tournament Score for Your Handicap

What Determines A Tournament Score In Terms Of Posting For Handicap Purposes? The USGA Handicap System™ is based around the concept of a player’s potential, and scores made in a tournament setting can provide a very good indication of such potential. One of the procedures within the System deals with identifying players who have at […]

A New Year, A New Year to Shine

The calendar has now turned to 2013. It is a great opportunity to hit the “reset” button on your golf game and make a resolution to do what it takes to improve your skills. Do you keep any statistics on your golf game? This is a new chance to start keeping records so that you […]

Don’t Lie to Yourself

Do not let anyone lead you to believe that not having properly fit golf clubs is fine. It is extremely important to make sure your equipment is right for your body type and swing style. One of the important items with clubfitting is the “Lie Angle” of the club. This, in essence, is how the […]

Winter Rules

Distance control is a vital part to playing sound golf. If on a warm 70 degree day with no wind and a flat lie you know you hit your 7-iron 167 yards then you have a great opportunity to control your distances into the greens. Some players of lesser experience may have a range they […]

Tool Time

If you are thinking about re-tooling your golf equipment then this is a great time to make the adjustment. Since you are probably not playing as much, mostly due to the cooler conditions, this would be a wonderful time to “tinker” with your bag. You might want to try out different golf shafts in your […]

Why Should I Get a Handicap?

For the casual to average golfer, most players do not see a need to have a USGA handicap. They feel that they do not play often enough to bother with it. Golf is a game that is played as an individual and the only way to truly compete against yourself is set goals to improve. […]

Know Your Off-Season

Golf can be a year-round game in some parts of the world, but is important to know what your “main” season is so that you can prepare, implement, or maintain your game. In the Northeast US, for instance, it is a given that you won’t play much golf between November 1st – April 1st. This […]

What Do You Know About Pressure?

Golf is one of those games that you really don’t know how good someone actually is until they have some pressure put on them. Most good players can hit quality range shots and even light it up playing 9-holes with their buddies. A true test of pressure is competition. This past weekend at the Ryder […]

Yoga: A Total Body Endeavor for Your Golf Game

Yoga is not your gym class of the 70’s. Yoga has exploded into different sports over the last several years with golf being one of the main sports influenced by this craze. Yoga isn’t a fad, however, and it isn’t new. Yoga has been dated back to around 3000 B.C. and some historians believe possibly […]