Yes, I went and did it. I created a podcast for Life in the Rough. For the inaugural edition, we’ll have a contest, talk about grooves, when Tiger is coming back, and have a look at the state of my game and how winter impacts me. It’s kind of an experiment here, so let me know what you think. If you have comments, criticism, or suggestions, please let me know. Either drop it down in the comments, or feel free to send me an e-mail. And yes, I know, the COR limit is actually 0.83. It’s a very rewarding feeling to have factual inaccuracies in the very first podcast (though I did correct myself, at least). Without further ado, you can download the file using this link, or you can use the little podcast player below. Enjoy (I hope)!
Instruction Review: Knoodle Golf Instruction Series
February 4, 2010 By 2 Comments
Note: please see below for an important disclosure. You may not have heard of Knoodle because it’s fairly new, but it’s a pretty interesting place. It’s stated goal is to be “a place where people who are bad at stuff go to get good at stuff, and people who are good at stuff go to help people who are bad at stuff.“ In other words, it matches up teacher and student, providing the tools for teachers to easily put together compelling instruction and a place for students to go to take advantage of it. When I was asked to review the Golf Instruction Series by Josh Zander, naturally, I was interested in seeing what it was all about. First a little background on Josh Zander. According to his mini-bio at Knoodle, Zander is a: “…Class A PGA Teaching Professional at Stanford University Golf Course and Presidio Golf Course. Josh is a member of the Golf Digest Magazine Pro Panel and contributes articles on a regular basis. In 2007, Josh was voted one of the top
Trading Science for Art Around the Greens
January 20, 2010 By 9 Comments
As most of you realize by now, I’m a big proponent of the type of short game that Dave Pelz advocates. Not only do I recommend his books, but I enjoy his articles in Golf Magazine each month. In the February 2010 issue, he wrote an article about choosing wedge lofts wisely. It kind of centered around the new wedge groove rule changes and, as usual, was full of great facts and advice. One thing kind of caught my attention, though, and I’m not sure I’m fully on board. Because of the lessened spin resulting from new groove regulations, he points out that players can expect around 50% less spin from the rough and about 20% less spin from the fairway for wedges of comparable lofts. He goes on to point out that to stop shots on the greens as effectively, players will have to adopt higher and softer trajectories than what we’re used to producing. And, he says, there are two ways to do that: either open the faces to current wedges to produce
Five Recovery Skills You Need in Your Game
January 12, 2010 By 10 Comments
You’ve probably heard it a thousand times. Golf is a game of misses. If you think about it, you only make 18 shots per round. Every other shot misses to some degree. As we all know, some of them miss by an extremely high degree. Unfortunately, they tend to build golf courses so that the worse you miss, the more harshly you’re punished. Golf courses are filled with trees, water, sand, rough and so on that are just waiting to dole out some punishment. It’s critical, if we want to score, that we learn basic recovery skills so that these trouble situations have a minimal impact. Following are five recovery skills you need in your golf game. Learning to Say ‘No’ That’s right, one of the most important recovery skill is a mental one. We’ve all been there. Off the tee, your drive was off target and you end up in the rough. It’s fairly thick, but you can see the ball. You have 200 yards to the green with a creek guarding the front,
Nine Things You Might Not Know About Golf Handicaps
December 29, 2009 By 3 Comments
I just got my USGA membership renewal packet in the mail today. Not only did I get my 2010 U.S. Open Pebble Beach hat, but they also included a little booklet called Shortcut to the USGA Handicap System. As the 2009 wore on, I got to be meticulous about keeping my handicap and learned a few things I didn’t know before. If your only experience with the USGA handicap system is entering scores in a computer and affixing a new sticker to a card every couple weeks, then you’ve been missing out. There’s a very complex system for computing handicaps which, in fact, takes up a whole book. Don’t believe me? I broke out my copy for this post. Of course, an iPhone image of my manual doesn’t do you much good. Luckily, the USGA has most, if not all, of that handicap information online. I recommend digging in to understand the handicap system a little better, but here are nine things you might not know about USGA golf handicaps. All of this information was
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