A tough, but ultimately easier, way to fix your golf swing

The other day I wrote about my experience of playing with some great coaches. I’ve received some great feedback from those guys and Scotty reminded me of another, more profound, incident. As mentioned, Scott doesn’t play a lot of golf. He is a once or twice a year golfer at best – this is not…

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What I taught 3 of Australia’s best coaches

Last Thursday I got to play golf with three excellent coaches. It was a social outing, but I was keen to learn as much as possible from these guys. Scott Barrow has been talked about here (and here) before, David Rath is the High Performance Manager at Hawthorn Football Club and Damian Farrow is perhaps…

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Some bad golf journalism

This article appeared on the ABC News site about Adam Scott’s win in the Australian Masters. For the most part the article is fine, but I don’t like this quote one bit. Unlike at the British Open, where Scott relinquished a four-hole lead with four holes to play in July to let slip what would…

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A golfing debacle

Chipping for most golfers is the worst part of their game. Bunker play may sneak in front, but day in and day out a golfer’s chipping game is what lets him down the most. By the way, this is my opinion as many won’t confess to having any sort of chipping problem – they all…

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Do you know a golfer like this?

These kind of golfers used to drive me nuts. I could never understand why they were able to play so well. All this despite, [green_tick_2_list width=”100%”] Having an ugly/unorthodox golf swing Seemingly being unprepared A lack of physical skill and talent Limited practice time Hitting the golf ball all over the place [/green_tick_2_list] It took…

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I was completely over golf coaching

It wasn’t that long that I was completely over golf coaching. I had spent years and thousands of dollars getting my swing tweaked and prodded and messing about trying to work this game out. I reached the point when I realised the standard coaching hadn’t really helped me and if anything, hindered my development. I…

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A golf lesson learned a little late

This is sort of a continuation of yesterday’s post – thought a story would resonate with more golfers. Here’s the story. It was my first big golf event. I had qualified through to the match play rounds of the State Championships and was paired against a gun golfer. This guy had won a lot of…

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The best way to overcome a performance rut

Stop searching for the right answer or the perfect tip to show up. This is the reason you’re stuck. Yep, it’s hard to swing freely when you’re lacking confidence or not sure, but this is exactly what you’ve got to do. Swing the sticks. And do it now. Waiting for “perfect” to show up is…

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