Overcoming poor golf – Club Championship article #3
The thing with golf is that you’re never going to be able to play each shot well. If you play long enough, there will be times when you hit the worst shot at the worst possible time. You’ve only got to watch Tiger Woods for a duration of a tournament to see that he can…
Tiger Woods is not a perfect golfer
Tiger Woods has came and conquered the Australian Masters at Kingston Heath. He now has a win on Melbourne’s famous sandbelt and can tick off another achievement in his long list of accomplishments. But Tiger is not the perfect golfer. He does not hit the ball perfectly all of the time. He makes mistakes and…
Expectations – Club Championship article #2
Expectations can ruin your score. They take you out of the moment and encourage you to make up stories. Expectations are your conscious mind’s way of hijacking your game and fighting for control. It’s a hard lesson to learn and something every golfer will need constant reminding of. By the morning of the second round…
Club Championships – article #1
Would you like to play better golf when the pressure is on? This series will look at how I approached my recent Club Championship and overcome pressure and injury to perform well. There’s some good lessons to be had. Round 1 As usual the first round causes it’s fair share of nerves. Everyone wants to…
An Artful Champion
Here’s a great golf story. It’s from the Artful Golfer and one of the few golf blogs I read. I like this post because he goes into great detail – what he was feeling, what he was trying to do and his thought process. A useful learning experience for us all. Here’s some further thoughts…
The 3 round challenge
Each new student receives my three-round challenge. This requires them to implement automatic golf for the duration of 3 rounds. They can’t think about their swing. They’re not allowed to worry about their score. They must play in a free flowing and instinctive manner. And they must do this for a minimum of three rounds.…
Course strategy with Matt
Matt and I spent 90 minutes on the practice fairway hitting shots, chipping balls, playing bunker shots and putting. We finished the session by playing 9 holes. This is where it all comes together and is the only true way to measure your game. If you can’t take your game onto the golf course then…
A five minute bunker lesson with Matt
Bunker play requires a sound understanding of the technique involved. From here the standard green-side bunker shot becomes straight forward. The key concepts are: 1. Ball forward in stance – because you are not striking the ball but rather the sand first. (the opposite of the chip shot) 2. Open club face – the sand…
