I know I do.
The WGC Accenture Match Play Championship really reminds me of that fact. Of course, I enjoy playing and watching all forms of golf. But there’s something about that one-on-one competition that really gets me going.
Playing a stroke play tournament provides a definite set of mental and physical challenges, but in the end, you just need to go out there and put up the best score you can. The rest is out of your hands.
Playing [...]
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Long putters have been around for several years. You might have heard of them referred to as “belly putters”. That only really describes some of them.
For those unaware, I’m talking about putters that are significantly longer than what we’d think of as a standard putter.
The basic idea is that a player holds the end of the putter to their belly, chest, or chin. What that does is produce a more consistent pendulum stroke, removing some of the [...]
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Over the years, I’ve known people or just overheard conversations of people who seem obsessed with backspin. Of course, every golf shot that isn’t rolling forward has backspin. I’m referring to shots into greens that spin backward from where they land.
It reminds me of a story involving Tommy Armour. He was asked by a member at Winged Foot how to spin the ball back, like the pros do. Armour asked the player how often he hit [...]
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Recently, I stepped on to the first tee with my brother for the start of a 9-hole round and virtually the first thing out of his mouth was, “What are we playing for?” Naturally, my gut reaction was, “so I can get better and become a golf pro”, but I saved that one for myself and just told him that we could play for anything he wanted.
Within the next 30 seconds, I was just trying to understand what I [...]
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The debate has been raging for decades. Walk, or ride a cart? It seems like both sides of the argument are full of absolutists and lots of opinions that use the words “right” or “wrong”. It’s like the Coke versus Pepsi debate.
To me, walking wins out. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I never take a cart. If I’m playing with a friend that I know likes to ride, I’ll ride. But I [...]
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