Tiger Woods’ 2014 season got off to a rocky start, and after withdrawing from the Arnold Palmer Invitational this past Tuesday due to back spasms, it doesn’t appear to be getting any better. Woods has won the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill 8 times in his illustrious career, including last year. In the past,…
Golf isn’t about having a good looking swing. It’s not about hitting every fairway or hitting every green in regulation or making every 10-foot putt either. It’s about recording a score — and it doesn’t matter how you do it. A 4 on the scorecard looks the same for everyone, regardless of how they got…
For some people, putting and chipping naturally come easy. And by some people, I mean hardly anybody. For the rest of us, we’re forced to chop our way around the green and hope that our ball eventually falls into the cup. So if you’re one of those golfers whose game progressively gets worse as you…
There was a lot of excitement heading into the final round of the The Honda Classic this past weekend. Rory McIlroy occupied the top spot on the leaderboard and after a rather unorthodox 5-under 65, Tiger Woods had put himself into contention heading into Sunday. But as is the case with most things, the events…
Range Finder – Price: $100 – $400 – A range finder is easily one of the best non-club investments you can make. They’re simple, easy to use and extremely effective. You pull it out, look through the eye piece, hit a button and the device immediately gives you the exact distance to your aiming point….
How many times have you hit a ball that looked perfect in the air but ended up flying the green? How about the number of times it didn’t even make it to the green? Well, it happens to everyone and most of the time the reason for it is pretty simple; you don’t know your…
The title of this article isn’t “Why Closer Isn’t Better”. It’s “Why Closer Isn’t ALWAYS Better” (hence the word always). Most of the time, the closer you are to the hole, the easier your shot will be. However, there are a number of instances when this isn’t the case….
There are few things that feel more satisfying than a perfectly struck iron shot. Unfortunately for most of us, it doesn’t happen all that often but that can easily be changed. A lot of players like to go to the range and pound their driver all day but the truth is, if you can hit…
Valentines Day is almost here and the Masters is just around the corner (or at least we’d all like to pretend it is). Pretty soon the 2014 PGA Tour will be in full swing and while there’s nothing we can do to speed up the passage of time over the next couple of months, we…
It’s that time of the year. Call your buddies, book your flight, pack your suitcase, clean the clubs and head South for a long, warm, relaxing golf vacation. If you’re going to Florida, you’ll be just in time for the PGA Tour’s Florida Swing — a stretch of four tournaments starting on February…
If you’re using equipment from four or five years ago, you’re not doing yourself any favors. Every year, club makers spend millions of dollars trying to develop more advanced technology that can make the game of golf easier (and more enjoyable) to the average player. Over the past few years some of the biggest advances…
Though we may not all be members at historic venues like Olympic Club or Augusta National, it doesn’t mean we can’t take in the “pro golfer” experience. There are literally hundreds of courses littered throughout the U.S. that only require a set of clubs, a collared shirt and a couple hundred dollars to play. The…
The 2014 PGA Tour isn’t quite in full swing yet but it’s still in swing. The Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines concluded this past weekend and while it isn’t the first event of the year, it draws some of the top players in the world and is unofficially regarded as the beginning of the…
Golf is a game of managing your misses. Oftentimes, the best players aren’t the ones that hit the highest number of great shots but rather the ones that hit the lowest number of bad shots. A “perfect” shot — for lack of a better word — can change a par into a birdie or maybe…
Golf isn’t about how good your swing looks, or how far you hit the ball, or how many birdies you make, or how many fairways you hit. It’s about how well you score. At the end of your round, there’s a number on your card and that number is the only thing that matters. All…
Call it what you want — funk, slump, cold streak — sometimes you just flat out can’t play golf. And it happens to everyone. Even professionals go entire months where they fall off the map, though they’re still pretty good even when they’re bad. For the rest of us, slumps happen much more often than…
The 2014 PGA Merchandise Show was in full swing Thursday at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, where vendors from all over the world are unveiling some of the game’s newest equipment, gadgets and clothing for both golfers and golf professionals to see. Among the almost 1000 exhibitors is Ship Sticks, who has…
The better you get at golf, the harder it becomes to improve your game. That statement might seem confusing but it’s really pretty simple. It’s much easier to go from a 30-handicap to a 20-handicap than it is to go from a 20-handicap to a 10-handicap. Furthermore, it’s much easier to go from a 10-handicap…
Being able to move the ball every which way is something that any golfer would like to be able to do. Unfortunately, you have to be pretty darn good to do it and even better to control it. So if your one of those players that has enough trouble getting it in the fairway and…
Throughout history, some pretty interesting things have been said about the game of golf. Some were said solely to provide entertainment, others were said to spread valuable knowledge, but most of the greatest golf quotes of all time came as a direct result of the utter frustration and dismay that we all feel when we…
