Friday, October 19, 2012

3 Tips To Make Your Score Sink Faster Than Fearless Felix

  There are mysteries a-plenty when it comes to our beloved game of golf, but fear not! I will share the three main secrets that will have your score plummeting faster than Fearless Felix from the fringes of outer space.

  1. Proper rotation. The first big concept that I see a lot of the pros utilizing to help their drives and irons is proper rotation around the waist. They all keep their lower bodies relatively quiet, and gain all of their power and accuracy from this torque rotation of the upper body. Longer and straighter shots will lead to lower scores.
  2. The short game. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 60% of all strokes in the game are taken from 100 yards or less from the pin. To that end, to lower your stroke count you have to spend about 75% of your practice time on chipping, putting and wedge shots. There's a good reason why some of the best putters and short game players in the sport are always near the top of the leaderboard.
  3. Consistency, consistency, consistency. This is the bane of every golfer's existence. We can go out and hit the perfect drive, or drop the long par putt. Can we do it on a regular basis? Not even the legends of the game could or can do it every single time. What separates them from the rest of us is the fact that they know how to recover from one bad shot and just move on. Don't let it weigh your mind down.

  There you have it! This is just a broad overview, of course. If you keep these three things in mind during your practice sessions and rounds you will see your game improve and your score fall faster than Fearless Felix. Until the next time -- hit them long and straight.

Monday, October 1, 2012

It's Been A While

It has been a while since I last played a round... kids will do that to you. My last round was played a Lockwood Folly in Shallote, NC. The course is amazing... and very difficult to play. This was my first experience playing on bermuda grass, and I hated it. Getting up and down out of the rough was deceptively difficult. The greens were fast, and their reads were a whole different creature altogether.

Despite my disgust for the grass itself, the course was immaculate. It had well-manicured grounds, the personnel were very courteous and the course gave me some spectacular views of the bay.