Golf Tips

To reach your potential on the golf course you must have a short game that you can rely on. Your short game includes chipping, pitching, sand play and putting. The better your short game, the less pressure on the long ...

Slow play in golf became a big topic of discussion at last week's Players Championship. A professional golfer has an obligation to play faster. Professionals know when someone is playing slow because most of them play fast. A slow player ...

A common area that many golfers struggle to keep flexible is their hips. The hip is a multiplanar joint, meaning that is functional into many different motions and rotations. The lack of any of these motions can directly affect your ...

Bubba Watson's Masters-winning shot put a big spotlight on what a player can do if he or she is able to move the ball.

When I was 15, my dad took me to the golf course. We did not go there to play golf because I had never hit a golf ball. We went to the driving range. That is where I received my ...

While in their car driving to a qualifying event for an upcoming Northern California Golf Association Four-Ball Championship, Moorpark resident Scott Linklater and his twin brother Jeff decided they needed some help with their mental game.

Why is it that practice swings feel free and easy, but ball swings get herky-jerky? The problem is the ball. It just sits there staring at you causing tension.

In Tiger Woods' book "How I Play Golf," he talks about how the downswing is race between the arms and the body, but the arms have to win.

This week is Masters Week. This is where you will see some of the greatest players in the world try to master the fastest greens of any golf course they will play all year.

Golf is a hard game. It's made even more difficult when you hit the ball "fat" or "thin." Fat means your club head hits the ground before it hits the ball. Thin refers to a club head that strikes the ...

Only the expert players can hit "pro backspin." Athletes who play "ball sports" control their shots with spin. Whether you are a pitcher or play tennis, pingpong or soccer, spin is in.

It wasn't too many years ago that most players only had two wedges in their bag: pitching wedge and sand wedge. Tom Kite, now playing on the Champions Tour, changed the wedge makeup for all of us in the early ...

Ever wonder why you will be hitting your driver really well and you can't get the ball on the green with your pitching wedge? This is very frustrating and it can drive you crazy.

Bunkers are one of the highest probability shots in golf because you don't actually hit the ball. All other shots in golf we are required to connect to the ball first with approximately 1/8 inches of error.