Manage the aspects you can control

Manage the aspects you can control

Manage the aspects you can control Golf throws a constant challenge to all of us who play the game in the many number of different aspects that can affect our game but sometimes having the wrong attitude to things that...

Read More
Mobility is the Key

Mobility is the Key

The average golfer has limited range of motion. This range is limited even more so because of inactivity and large amounts of time dedicated to sitting behind desks hunched over a computer. So when you go straight to full speed,...

Read More
Mobility is the Key

Mobility is the Key

The average golfer has limited range of motion. This range is limited even more so because of inactivity and large amounts of time dedicated to sitting behind desks hunched over a computer. So when you go straight to full speed,...

Read More
Thoracic spine

Thoracic spine

Thoracic spine A key to longer drives is making a bigger, more powerful rotation with your torso, first away from the target and then toward the target. To do that, you need to learn where that rotation should come from...

Read More
Thoracic spine

Thoracic spine

Thoracic spine A key to longer drives is making a bigger, more powerful rotation with your torso, first away from the target and then toward the target. To do that, you need to learn where that rotation should come from...

Read More
Proper Practice

Proper Practice

Proper Practice For those who go to the range, spend time on the chipping green or just simply visit the putting green for a bit of practice here are a few things to consider. Proper practice means working on “what...

Read More
Proper Practice

Proper Practice

Proper Practice For those who go to the range, spend time on the chipping green or just simply visit the putting green for a bit of practice here are a few things to consider. Proper practice means working on “what...

Read More
The chipping utility

The chipping utility

Most golfers these days carry hybrid clubs or sometimes called rescue clubs. They are an incredibly useful alternative to long irons, and for a lot of golfers also help bridge the gap between the woods and irons. If you don’t...

Read More
Squat for better control

Squat for better control

Squat for better control Increasingly one question seems to be asked of me, “What exercises should I do for golf?” A very simple deep squat is a great exercise for 2 reasons. Research has shown that any limitation performing a...

Read More
Squat for better control

Squat for better control

Squat for better control Increasingly one question seems to be asked of me, “What exercises should I do for golf?” A very simple deep squat is a great exercise for 2 reasons. Research has shown that any limitation performing a...

Read More
Putting to the beat

Putting to the beat

Great putters have a wonderful ability to control the speed of the ball. This skill really is the foundation to good putting. A common feature of these golfers is they have a pendular/ metronomic timing to their stroke. That is...

Read More
Putting to the beat

Putting to the beat

Great putters have a wonderful ability to control the speed of the ball. This skill really is the foundation to good putting. A common feature of these golfers is they have a pendular/ metronomic timing to their stroke. That is...

Read More
Putting Rhythm tip

Putting Rhythm tip

Here’s a little putting practise drill that can help keep your rhythm smooth during the transition (backstroke to forewardstroke) period of your putting technique. You will need a putter with a cavity at the back to try this drill Place...

Read More
Practice

Practice

Recent studies in sports practice methods have shown there are two variations that can have a significant effect on learning skills, these are blocked practice and random practice.           Blocked practice – consistent drills, the same movement pattern repeated in...

Read More
Left Heel Downswing Trigger Drill

Left Heel Downswing Trigger Drill

In the early part of Jack Nicklaus’s career his backswing was a very full big turn and he had quite a prominent left heel lift. He said the way he started his downswing was triggered by the putting of the...

Read More
Finding the rhythm to the putting stroke

Finding the rhythm to the putting stroke

Rhythm is one of those skills in golf that is essential to underpinning any technique we use, whether it is a full swing, pitching and chipping or indeed a putting action. It is also one of the skills that seems...

Read More
Fear Factor

Fear Factor

On a recent trip abroad I picked up a book to read on the journey, it was called “Deep Survival” by Laurence Gonzales. It looked at some of the elements of why some people survived in certain situations and why...

Read More
Build a Powerful Platform

Build a Powerful Platform

So many golfers would get better by simply improving their address posture. In my experience one common trait among elite players is that they are very aware the ground under their feet and how it can best be used to...

Read More
Are you Trying Too Hard!

Are you Trying Too Hard!

It is quite common these days to read or hear the phrase in golf “your trying too hard”. If understood this can be a very useful idiom about how our golf technique works best, however it is more often misconstrued...

Read More
Are you Trying Too Hard!

Are you Trying Too Hard!

It is quite common these days to read or hear the phrase in golf “your trying too hard”. If understood this can be a very useful idiom about how our golf technique works best, however it is more often misconstrued...

Read More