My tale of woe… Playing a 9-hole course yesterday, one of the Turning Stone offerings. For the first seven holes I’m playing very well for me, bogeys except for a double on a long par 5 (the bogey putt lipped out), and after #7 I’m at 36, eight over. Definitely one of my best rounds [...]
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Another “Ah-ha!” Golf Moment
I told you guys this was going to be a blog for the dedicated weed-whacker. That means sometimes I’ll come up with things that to me are revelations, while to the more skilled golfer they’d be in the realm of, “Well, DUH!” Witness my recent post about gripping the club: even if it’s embarrassing I [...]
An Ode to the Short Game
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that the confirmed hacker spends a lot of time wishing, “If only I could hit it that far.” In the dreams of Hackerland all your golfing woes would be dispelled, if only… Okay, again, maybe it’s just me. That being said, today I’m all about how that’s really [...]
Funnybone for the day
So, I expect a lot of you subscribe to the golf.com newsletter as I do. Did you notice the subject line of the latest edition? Lessons: The New Way to Improve Um…they’re just figuring this out? Heh. Okay, so it struck me funny, at least.
One of those “Ah-ha!” moments
Okay, so this past week has seen me finally realize something important with respect to my golf swing. I’m almost ashamed to admit this epiphany, because it’s so obvious, so basic, that the first reaction I expect is for you to give me massive shit for not having this down pat years ago. I know [...]
Spinny’s Golf Lessons, part the second
Round two. To start with I didn’t feel well prepared for this next lesson. Sure, I had played a few rounds in the interim, but I only got to the range once. It amazed me how much I had already forgotten in just one week. This is going to take a while, I can tell. [...]
Spinny takes a golf lesson
So, I just had my first lesson with a new (for me) pro. I’ve had a few lessons before, about a year ago, but wasn’t happy with them. In the case of the first person I tried, it was an hour’s drive each way to a Golf Galaxy, and the lessons were indoors and just [...]
Review: “Swami 1500″ Golf GPS by Izzo
You’ve probably heard it a thousand times: “I never win anything.” Well, I don’t–until a couple of weeks ago. I was on Twitter and happened to see a “re-tweet” about a short-term contest being run by the fine folks at Rankmark: sign up for their discussion forum in the next hour and have a chance [...]
Stupid Golf Rule of the Day
Okay, I understand golf can be a complicated game, and lots of weird things can happen. Still, that being said, every now and then I come across something in the Rules or Rulings that really stands out as “WTF?” Here’s an example: 25-1b/23 Ball Enters Burrowing Animal Hole Out of Bounds and Comes to Rest [...]
Getting Beyond “Faux” Golf Reviews
As a struggling hacker trying to improve your golf game, have you ever spent any time looking into some of those “swing systems” out there? You know the ones: “Guaranteed to lower your score a bazillion strokes in just a week without even having to practice!” The minute your address gets on their radar the [...]
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