Archive for February, 2009

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What Part Of Your Golf Game To Work On?

Short game, driver, focus on putting, improve my chipping? I get lots of questions from visitors and subscribers to our newsletter about where they should focus to improve their golf game. I will be doing an article on this shortly, but I wanted to get feedback from all of you other golf nuts out there [...]

22Feb2009 | | 5 comments | Continued
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Golf And The Economy

We’ve read all over about how bad this recession and economy is. And it’s on a global basis, not just one country. And we’ve read and heard that it’s having a big impact on golf. But what is the real impact on golfers and what does it mean in the short term? As usual, like [...]

21Feb2009 | | 1 comment | Continued
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See Your Favorite Pro Golfer In Slow Motion

Are you always wishing that you had a swing like Tiger or Ernie? Well as amateur golfers, I think that we should probably forget about that. But we can learn from watching the pros. And here is an opportunity for you to watch your favorite pro golfer in slow motion and see what he/she does [...]

19Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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It All Starts With Your Golf Grip

Smooth, easy tempo is so key to a good golf swing. And you have to use the big muscles to execute the golf swing. Those two things together make a good grip one of the main foundations of a good swing for all of us amateur golfers. Read on to see what I mean.

16Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Great Podcast On Golfer Phil Bundy’s Quest

I wrote just recently about Phil Bundy and his quest to join the pro golf circuit in 2009. If you missed that post, be sure to check out Phil’s blog at Phil Bundy. Now there is a great interview of Phil online that you can listen to him talk about his quest. Great listening for [...]

14Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Help With That Golf Slice

This is possibly the most asked question related to the full golf swing. From my experience, significantly more amateur golfers struggle with a slice than a draw or hook. And many times it comes from a couple of basic problems. And they are fairly easy to correct

13Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Free Golf Book

You can get a free golf book titled “Uneven Lies” from Titleist. No obligation, no purchase. It’s about the history of African Americans and Golf here in the US. Read on to get the link.

13Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Short game still the key to a solid golf game

I was doing some reading recently after getting several questions from readers about their short game and found some interesting numbers in a couple of recent articles that continue to reinforce that the short game remains the key to your golf scores. This area of our games falls into what I call the “knowing-doing gap”. [...]

11Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Golfer On A Mission

If you want a great story that is motivational not only for golfers, but for everyone, then you need to read about Phil Bundy. Phil is a golfer who is on “A Quest To Play On The PGA Tour”, as he calls it, but I call it a fantastic story and I just had to [...]

7Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Is this a one golf stroke penalty situation?

Dear Golf Nut, I have a golf rules question for you. Recently, during a friendly round of golf with my usual foursome something unusual happened with my golf ball. We were about half way through the round when I noticed that I was playing the wrong golf ball. It was one like mine but had [...]

4Feb2009 | | 1 comment | Continued
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I need help with my putting game Golf Nut!

Golf Nut, I hope that you can help me with my putting. I keep pulling putts to my left (I am right handed). It seems like I have tried everything and can’t seem to correct this. My line is usually good (I think so anyway) and I think that I am getting a good stroke [...]

1Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued