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Winter and Spring Golf means lots of moisture. Wetness changes the dynamic of many aspects of golf, including how your clubface grips the ball, how the ball flies through the air, and what it does once it lands. The best advice is to take one more club than you would use if the conditions were [...]

Arron Oberholser won his first PGA tournament on Sunday at the storied AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Playing the famous course that he grew up near, Oberholser had a comfortable lead going into the back nine in the final round. It appeared to be smooth sailing. Then his nerves got ahold of him and he [...]

The Futures Tournament is the avenue to success for so many female golfers. It’s also a very interesting tournament to watch. Last year, the Futures was played at the Kankakee Elks Country Club. Kankakee is my hometown and it was indeed big news. The Elks spent a lot of time and money prepping their course [...]

On Friday, golf’s top draw dedicated his Tiger Woods Learning Center in Anaheim, California. Built next to the city-operated public golf course he grew up playing (Dad Miller Golf Course), the sprawling 14-acre complex is all about education – not golf. Woods says he thought of the idea just after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrrorist [...]

Quick story… I’ve got two buddies who I play golf with regularly, and they are a study in just how different players can be when it comes to reading greens. One of them makes a lot of golfers behind us angry because he really gets in there and studies each green. He plumb-bobs with his [...]

Well it seems that the hottest debate on the LPGA tour is whether Michelle Wie should be exempted from qualifying for the US Women’s Open. In 2004, Ms Wie was extended a special invite to the US Women’s Open because she earned the equivalent of the top 35 earners on the LPGA official money list. [...]

There are any number of things that can break down in the golf swing, as most of us know only too well. But one of the most common breakdowns is one that many golfers don’t even know is happening because it’s so subtle. That is, maintaining your spine angle that you set at address. Spine [...]

The USGA released at the beginning of the year, the revised rules and new decisions within their “Decisions On The Rules Of Golf For 2006″. When going over the new decisions that have been made, some of them are quite interesting and can be agreed on, while others can be debated over coffee. I will [...]

The importance of your leading arm in the full golf swing cannot be overstated. Some of the most common causes of errant shots can be traced to a breakdown of proper arm position at the point of contact between club and ball. Probably the most famous example is the ‘chicken wing,’ where the leading arm [...]

Continuing on with Ben Hogan’s five golfing fundamentals, today we will briefly go over the stance and posture. Fundamental 2: Stance and Posture Many golfers make the sizable error of thinking of the stance as that preparatory part of the swing in which the player merely lines himself up on the target he’s shooting at. [...]