We’ve all been through some terrible times as golfers, and our enjoyment for the game seems to disappear. Here are four ideas that I think can cure your mailaise: Stop Keeping Score My fixation on my scores has bordered on obsessive over the years. If I wasn’t on track to sh…

My first interaction with golf was picking up some old clubs from the 1950s from my grandmother’s garage. She had an abandoned schoolyard across the street from her house, and I would go over there and smack the ball around. I used to pick up clumps of grass and stack them u…

This is going to be a good news/bad news article. I am going to inspire you, and discourage you! But I think I will help you uncover something about golf that might help you understand the game better. The Bad News I am a bad news first kind of guy, so I will start with that…

We can spend a ton of our time on the range, but I think a golfer can eventually reach a limit on how much they can improve on that kind of practice. I wrote an article about how I think being on an actual golf course is important, because a large part of playing well is bei…

There is an endless debate over which shot shape is better, the fade or the draw. Some will argue that the fade is better because it provides more control, and can offer a softer landing. Others will say the draw is superior because the ball with travel farther, and cut thro…

Many of you reading this article might have come to golf from different sports. I believe that playing great golf takes many of the same elements of success from other sports; practicing hard, mental toughness, etc. I also think there are many things that are unique to golf…

Ben Hogan thought that your grip technique was one of the most important things to get right in your golf game because your hands are the only part of your body that are actually connected to the club. I’m not going to talk about technique in this article (that one is coming…

When we are left with 40, 50, 60, and 70 yard wedge shots things can get a little bit awkward. Our wedge game can turn into the pimply teenager who is stumbling over his words trying to ask out the girl he likes for the first time. If I had to point to the type of shot that…

I usually shy away from talk about how to hit the golf ball farther because I do not believe that this is the ultimate key to lowering scores for most average players. I do want to give the readers what they want though. Here is the Practical Golf way to hit the ball farther…

I usually don’t want to bore anyone with the details of my own golf game. But what I would like to discuss is the day I had my biggest breakthrough on a golf course. It was a special round that was not short on drama, and I hope recounting it for you will accomplish two thin…

I’m not big on regret, and typically don’t like to look back on decisions I’ve made. However, in my golfing life I have quite a few things I wish I had done differently. The one thing I wish I could go back and do is stop myself from throwing away so many rounds because I wa…

Swing tips are everywhere you look in the golf world, but you have to be careful. You simply can’t listen to them all at once! I believe this is one of the greatest golf quotes ever, from one of the greatest golf books ever written. When I tell you to take an aspirin, please…