Today was one of those unique opportunities. It’s a week of vacation. (Don’t you just love “Use or Lose?”) And, it was a bit of a “Throw-away” day. There were no hard-and-fast plans. Tommorrow we’re going to a very nice tract. It’s a super golf course. So today was a home day. Just an opportunity to
Tournament Results
Day One: Day one was the best ball format. We got to use 90 percent of our handicap, and I was put down as an 8 handicap so I got to use 7 strokes, Chuck of course had to add one stroke to his score on the easiest hole being a +1. I was surprised
Upcoming Tournament
This weekend Chuck and I will be playing together in the Member-Member Tournament at Windermere Country Club. It’s a two day tournament in which the first day is best ball and the second day is a cumulative score between the both of us. If I shoot 80 and Chuck shoots 70, then we get a 150
One Tight Tee Ball
My regular foursome plays one course that has a particularly tough par-5. Most 5-pars have some room for error. Not this one. It’s only 543 yards, but, it’s a three-shot hole. Three good shots, that is. The last time we were there, this hole kicked us all. In the odd way that golf
Today’s Lesson
I have to gloat a little bit. Chuck and I had a chipping lesson today, and we worked on adding more flow and release to my chipping. I have always chipped a little stiff armed that produces little to no spin. We worked on adding a little more speed to essentially produce more spin. The
Assessment Day
As Chuck put it in his blog post, yesterday was my Assessment day of the past month of work. We had the 18 hole chipping contest first. I’ve been somewhat uncomfortable over my chips lately. I am putting almost zero spin on the ball so it’s tough sometimes to control how far they roll out,
P.A.T. Number 1
For those PGA guys out there, you’ll know that P.A.T. stands for Player Ability Test, or Player Assessment Test. It’s part of the final step to passing the grade as a PGA professional and is basically a way for the PGA to measure one’s golfing ability through a round or two of golf. Today, I
The Iceman Retuneth
(With apologies to Eugene O’Neill) There are messages that arrive from time to time that demand attention. Today came one of them: URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 317 PM EDT THU OCT 12 2006 …FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT FRIDAY… THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
Swinging On Plane
I unfortunately had to take another few days off from practice this past week to go back to Virginia and meet with a surgeon to fix some health issues. I came back and was very rusty, shooting a 4 over par 9 hole score for my school tournament last wednesday. My lesson with Chuck on
The Shaft Plane Drill in Action
One of the golf instructional videos in the Members Vault is called the “Shaft Plane Drill”. This video teaches you a drill to help get your golf swing starting up on plane rather than just going inside and too shallow early on in the takeaway. This is something that Pat has always struggled with so
Today’s Round
Played 18 holes today with Chiuck instead of having a range lesson. I need to get a handicap for future tournaments, so we started on that today. I hadn’t been able to practice in three days at all because I was house searching for a place to live in the next few years. I have
Top of the Swing Improvements…
Progress, it’s what we’re all after in the golf swing. All my students want to make progress as quickly as possible and so do I. I don’t care for the “to get better you’re going to have to get a lot worse” mantra. If I do the proper fundamentals in the golf swing correctly, I
