Jan
07
2008

Progress Update - January 6, 2008

Posted by Double Eagle in My Progress - 4 Comments

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… (apologies to Charles Dickens)

The last two weeks have been rough. I’ve been on vacation from work since the Friday before Christmas. I didn’t go anywhere. I just did 16 days of R&R. Not good. I had a total breakdown in discipline.

It’s weird how that happens. In the weeks leading up to it, I kept thinking how much I was going to [...]

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Jan
03
2008

Learning From Feedback Devices

Posted by Double Eagle in Equipment - 8 Comments

Over the years, I’ve never really been into using golf feedback devices to learn. It always makes me think of that scene in the movie Tin Cup where Roy has a hopeless case of the shanks and Molly catches him in his trailer dressed head to toe in the same golf gadgets that he denounced as junk early in the film.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against using them. I’m just selective because I think that while many [...]

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  • Random Tip

  • Check Your Foot Work for Solid Putting
  • I’ve been on a real putting kick lately. If you’ll continue to indulge me, I’d like to talk about foot work.

    Let’s back up for a second and look at the putting stroke first.

    Most of us have heard the basics of the modern putting stroke - keep the hands and arms quiet and let the stroke originate from the shoulders in a pendulum-like action.  This is true whether we choose to putt with a square stroke or with an open [...]

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