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4 Ways To Start Your Golf Season Successfully

The start of every golf season is always exciting. But I want to make sure all of you have a successful start! Golfers tend to fall into similar traps, and it can hinder their performance, but more importantly, their enjoyment of the game. Here are four ways to get yourself…

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Want to Become a Better Golfer? This Is a Prerequisite

A common trap that many golfers fall into is that they’ll spend countless hours practicing and assume that alone will entitle them to lower their scores. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. As a junior golfer, I used to get frustrated after hitting hundreds of balls and…

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What Can You Actually Control in Your Golf Game? Here Are the Big 5

Focus on what you can control and accept what you can’t. Some variation of this phrase appears in religious texts, self-help books, and social media accounts that supply endless inspirational quotes. It’s one of the most clichéd (and essential) concepts out there. When it co…

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To Tinker, Or Not To Tinker, That is the Question

Golfers tend to gravitate towards extremes with how they approach the game. Some players are always on the search for new answers, and their game is one big continual experiment. Others stand completely still and stick with what they’ve got. I want to explore why gravitating…

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How to (Potentially) Solve One of the Most Difficult Problems in Golf

Golf is a relative game, which is why it is so enticing to such a wide variety of skill levels. For one player, breaking 100 is a milestone that is worthy of celebratory beers and a bunch of text messages to friends. For another, it could make them question life in general (…

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Nobody Cares, Move Along

A couple of months ago I had an interesting (I use that word loosely) experience during a tournament with one of my playing partners. He was having a nightmare round, and what followed was the most extreme case of excuse-making I had ever seen. “I’ve never played this badly…

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It’s Not Beneath Tiger, and It Shouldn’t Be Beneath You Either (If You Want to Get Better)

There are a few topics I avoid on this site: Writing about current events Hopping on the Tiger bandwagon Telling you what tour players are doing, and how you can copy them to get better at golf Many other golf outlets do this well, and I’m happy to let them have at it. I’m g…

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It’s Not All or Nothing: Incremental Progress Is the Key to Golf

Progress happens too slowly for people to notice; setbacks happen too fast for people to ignore. – Morgan Housel One of the hardest things in golf is to keep perspective of where your game stands. You can have weeks or months of great play, and all it takes is one shaky roun…

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How Does Performance Change By Handicap Level? Shot Scope Data Provides Insights

Statistics can have a way of putting things quickly into perspective for golfers. For the most part, the golf world is used to seeing what players are doing at a professional level. Many times I like to use PGA Tour stats as a way of managing expectations for recreational go…

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This Simple Strategy Will Lower Your Scores (I’m Serious)

All you have to do to get most golfers’ attention is say “drop your handicap by __ strokes immediately.” The golf industry has generated billions of dollars for itself by throwing these promises around. Sometimes the products and methods are genuine. Other times they are gim…

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youth on course

Why I Am Supporting Youth On Course

There’s a lot of talk in the golf world about what can be done to make the game more attractive to prospective youth players. I’ve partaken in many debates, and to be honest, I’m tired of talking. I want to do something. For a while now I have been trying to think of a way I…

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Start Ripping the Pages Out of Your Golf Shot Menu

Have you ever gone to a diner that has a menu as thick as a book? There are more than 100 options, and you’re flipping through the pages trying to make a decision, but not confident anything will be that good. How could the cooks possibly execute that many dishes well? Unfor…

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