Our First Golf Trip to Scotland
I have waited a long time to summarize our two golfing trips to Scotland. The first one was back in the summer of 2001. The second was in late June of 2003. My memory of some of the details...
The Golfing in Ireland Really is Tremendous
After planning a golf trip to Ireland for almost 18 months, Judy and I finally got there this July (2004). Our conclusion: Ireland is a wonderful place to visit, and golfing in Ireland is pretty incredible. Home base was about...
Our Golf Trip to the Moose Mountain Region of Saskatchewan
On the second leg of our Saskatchewan trip we headed about two hours southeast of Regina to the region called Moose Mountain, just north of Carlyle in the southeast corner of the province. If you think you had Saskatchewan wrong...
Golfing at Dakota Dunes in Saskatchewan
A few days into our Saskatchewan trip this summer (July 2005) we headed up the road towards Saskatoon to play the new golf course called Dakota Dunes. This course is located on the Whitecap Dakota First Nation lands in...
Another Ben Hogan Swing “Secret”
Ben Hogan was not only one of the most dominant golfers of the 40s and 50s, but also a master technician, and the most influential swing analyst of the entire 20th century. Like Bobby Jones twenty years before, Hogan...
What’s So Important About Hogan’s Rubber Bands?
Most golf instructors would agree that Ben Hogan's book called Five Lessons, The Modern Fundamentals of Golf (1957, Simon & Schuster) is one of the most important and most influential golf instructional books ever written. And one of the...
A-Game Golf
Say you coached a young golf phenom named Tiger Woods for eight years between the ages of 10
and 18. And then a few years later he turned out to be one of the greatest golfers in history. You'd probably...
A Study of Dave Peltz’s Short Game Bible – Introduction
Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible was published in 1999. It is not just another book featuring some guy's opinions on the short game. Pelz is different. For more than 30 years he has been both a keen observer and...
Why Dave Pelz Concentrates on the Short Game
As we saw in the Introduction, in the early part of his golf career Dave Pelz had a typically traditional attitude towards playing and teaching golf. Like most of us, he assumed that graceful textbook swings would result in...
Best Golf Irons Reviews
Best Golf Irons on the Market
One of the biggest problems facing many golfers is how to choose the best golf irons for personalized technique and swing. The decision is not that easy and requires dedication and the right information...