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This is a good article that explains a little about how posture effects your arc. Please read and re-read this.
Posture is basically your setup at address, that is, it’s the way you stand to the ball before initiating the golf swing or stroke. Some people might not regard the posture as an important fundamental in putting because we see so many different methods and styles on Tour and elsewhere.
For example,
* Arnold Palmer, knocked-kneed and crouched… [Read more...]
Not any more, no one wants to spend $250 on a club that everyone knows is illegal if the rules change goes thru. So sales will not be quadrupling.
Just 18 months ago some manufacturers were tripling or quadrupling their fourth-quar-ter forecasts for sales of long and belly putters. That’s because the demand was skyrocketing after the major success of Keegan Bradley at the 2011 PGA Championship and several wins on the PGA Tour by other players. Eventually consumer interest reached a point where manufacturers struggled keeping up. [Read more...]
Keegan Bradley was the first golfer with an anchored putting stroke to win a major title, but he has struggled with putting this year. [Read more...]
Great Tournament for Tiger Woods at the WGC, looks like he’s on his game!
Woods claims WGC-Cadillac Championship golf (via AFP)
Tiger Woods captured the WGC-Cadillac Championship at the Blue Monster course with a closing round of one-under 71 for a two-shot victory over fellow American Steve Stricker. Woods earned his 76th career PGA Tour win and posted his second victory of the year as he steps up his game ahead of the upcoming… [Read more...]
Oh Holly Sanders!!!! Srry…
Arnold Palmer outside the new Morning Drive Studio
We all remember our first girlfriend, office, and, most importantly, home. When the network executives conceived Morning Drive back in 2010, the initial premise was for the studio to be a man cave containing a show whose format was styled after a radio broadcast. I was fortunate to be one of the original hosts hired and was thrilled to be in the chair when we lit the lamp on Morning Drive on January 3, 2011. [Read more...]
Always tinkering these guys, its no wonder they are so good, changing things, experimenting. I love it.
A few weeks ago during a commercial shoot in California, Hunter Mahan was admiring Bubba Watson’s new Ping Tour Gorge wedges. At the Farmers Insurance Open, Mahan had a pair of the clubs in play. The reason, however, had little to do with his look into Watson’s bag. [Read more...]
Now it looks like it could go either way with the PGA Tour, PGA of America, and the NGCOA all saying that they should not bann it….
ORLANDO, Fla. – Bifurcation, anchored putting and growing the game of golf were all on the agenda for the State of the Industry forum on Friday, featuring nine industry leaders taking part in a roundtable discussion at the PGA Merchandise Show.
As one of the game’s biggest hot-button topics, bifurcation dominated much of the debate, with some of the game’s heavyweights weighing in on whether there should be two sets of rules – one for professionals and one for amateurs. [Read more...]
Anchoring helps golfers play well, this is a needed thing for elderly golfers as well as juniors. They play better. period. Golf is hard enough….
PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem addressed the media Wednesday to discuss the mandatory players’ meeting that was held the previous night at Torrey Pines. The main topic discussed: The governing bodies’ proposed rule to ban the anchored stroke, beginning in 2016. [Read more...]
Teen golf sensation Ko says no to turning pro (via AFP)
New Zealand’s teenage golfing sensation Lydia Ko will resist pressure to turn professional following an eye-catching performance at the Women’s Australian Open, her coach said. The 15-year-old, already the world’s number one amateur and the youngest tournament winner in US LPGA history, came close… [Read more...]
Bubba Watson laughs off Masters miracle shot (via AFP)
It was the wonder shot that propelled him to his first major, but Bubba Watson said he’d try and avoid a repeat at this year’s Masters of the astonishing lob that helped him win at Augusta. “Hopefully I hit the fairway from now on so I don’t need to practice that shot anymore,” he said of the high… [Read more...]