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A Splashing Time!

By Padraig Harrington Bunker play is a bit like chipping, at least when it comes to your address position. As you did for the chip shot, you want to create 'impact' at address. So set up this time with your sternum directly above a point about an inch behind the ball. In other words, above the...

Posted to Golf Instruction (Weblog) by Padraig Harrington on 07-27-2007
How to Recapture Your Control

By Steve Wakulsky Director of Training and Certification Worldwide In this technology-driven age, golfers are benefiting from exotic driver design, red-hot golf balls and launch monitor club-fitting that has placed distance firmly at the top of the agenda for many. It's funny, even the older guys...

Posted to Golf Instruction (Weblog) by Steve Wakulsky on 07-20-2007
Sand Saves

By Sean Hogan - Senior Instructor, DLGA Choosing the right combination of loft and bounce to suit a given situation is a key ingredient to making a consistent escape from a greenside trap. Here, let me share some thoughts on playing a short, soft 'popup type shot to a tight pin, and then look at...

Posted to Golf Instruction (Weblog) by Sean Hogan on 06-29-2007
Respecting the Game's Fundamentals Can Quickly Help You to Become a Better Player

Photography by Andrew Redington/getty images. Shot on location at The Wentworth Club When the average club player goes to his PGA pro for a lesson, the last thing he usually wants to hear is that they are going to be working on the fundamentals. He feels ripped off if the lesson revolves around the grip...

Posted to Golf Instruction (Weblog) by Justin Rose on 04-13-2007
Total Recoil

By Steve Wakulsky DLGA DIRECTOR OF TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION WORLDWIDE David Leadbetter Golf Academy, Champions' Gate, Orlando We've all been in this situation: you go after a tight pin, closely guarded by a bunker, and wind up just short in the protecting bunker. The ball ends up just a few...

Posted to Golf Instruction (Weblog) by Steve Wakulsky on 03-30-2007
Stay Relaxed And Create Width

Looking at Collin Montgomerie's backswing sequence, the first thing that strikes you is just how relaxed and comfortable Monty is over the ball. Out on the course you can spot him a mile off – he has this distinct, easy posture. There are no false positions. He stands to the ball with a straight...

Posted to Golf Instruction (Weblog) by Golf International on 03-16-2007
What Hogan Really Did

By Luther Blacklock To make short work of hammering a nail the hammer needs to be close to the ideal line of the strike and be dead on it at impact. Not quite so clear – but equally true – is the concept that the ideal Swing Plane for the golfer is one inclined at an angle to the ball. To support this...

Posted to Golf Instruction (Weblog) by Luther Blacklock on 03-09-2007
The Law Is Plane

By Luther Blacklock The concept or application of a swing plane is indeed a 'Principle'. A man striking a fence post into the ground will swing the hammer up and down in a vertical or perpendicular 'plane'. He can choose to address or stand around the post in any one of 360 degrees –...

Posted to Golf Instruction (Weblog) by Luther Blacklock on 03-02-2007
Plane Beginnings

By Luther Blacklock On Page 78 of Ben Hogan's book The Modern Fundamentals of Golf appears one of the most famous and influential images in the history of golf instruction. It shows Hogan addressing a driver with a huge pane of glass resting on his shoulders, his head poking through a hole in the...

Posted to Golf Instruction (Weblog) by Luther Blacklock on 02-23-2007
Soft Hands

By Colin Montgomerie I have four main thoughts when I'm practicing. And I say practicing deliberately, because I don't want any technical thoughts when I'm playing. The courses that we tend to play on tour are set up in such a way that it's tough enough getting around them without having...

Posted to Golf Instruction (Weblog) by Colin Montgomerie on 01-12-2007

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