The original design for Life in the Rough has served me well, but it’s time to move on.  Starting on or near Monday, you’ll notice a new look here.

The old design was excellent but it presented limitations, the biggest of which is, its width was designed to accommodate users with 800×600 screen resolution.   Since that represents about 5% of the readers, I felt it was time to widen it some to permit less scrolling for my epic, long-winded, wordy [...]

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Recently, I’ve been telling you all about the Max Golf Workout.  If you checked out my interview with author John Little, then you heard a lot about my experience already.

To briefly summarize the Max Contraction system (on which the Max Golf Workout is based), it is characterized by these two main points:

Loading a muscle with maximal weight for a brief period in a fully-contracted position until 100% of its energy is drained.
Longer recovery times spanning from 7-14 days between workouts, [...]

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One of the best ways work on short putts is the 100-putt drill.  It basically consists of putting a ring of balls around a hole, with each one about three feet out (approximately a putter length).  Simply start putting until you make 100 in a row.  It’s much more difficult than it sounds.

Not only is it a test of the mechanics of the putting stroke, but it’s also a test of concentration.  Staying properly focused on 100 short putts in [...]

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