The Right Clubs

This article, written by Ozzie Carlson, appeared in the Bergen Record 2007 series

Fixing Your Game 

Article 1: Title:  Buying a Better Game

As we anticipate the upcoming “this is my year” golf season, barraged once again by the latest and greatest of innovative technology, our tendency is to rush out and buy that new tool that will [...]

Power and Accuracy

This article, written by Ozzie Carlson, appeared in the Bergen Record 2007 series

Fixing Your Game

Article 2: Title:  Accuracy and Distance – Co-conspirators! 

Players tell me all the time that they would give up distance for accuracy.  But we all know that’s hogwash.  We want to hit it straight and far! So how do we do that? 

Fortunately [...]

Post Shot Routine

This article, written by Ozzie Carlson, appeared in the Bergen Record 2007 series

Fixing Your Game

Article 3: Title:  The Most Important 10 Seconds to Better Golf 

What do you do after you hit a good shot?  After a bad shot?  These were the questions posed to Annika Sorenstam by instructor Pia Nilsson, former Director of the Swedish [...]

A Game Plan For Oakmont

This article, written by Ozzie Carlson, appeared in the Bergen Record 2007 series

Fixing Your Game

Article 4:         Title:   The Toughest Test in Golf – Strategy vs. Ego

Winning the US Open has become the toughest test in golf.  The USGA set up Oakmont to test not just driving accuracy, but the ability of the player to [...]

To Stack & Tilt or Not!

This article, written by Ozzie Carlson, appeared in the Bergen Record 2007 series

Fixing Your Game

 Article 6:         Title:   Understand and Deliver the Bottom of Your Swing Arc

 The hot new swing on tour, as reported by Golf Digest in their June issue is termed the Stack and Tilt Swing.  To learn more about The Revolution as [...]

Wind - Strategies & Techniques

This article, written by Ozzie Carlson, appeared in the Bergen Record 2007 series

Fixing Your Game                  

 Article 7:         Mastering the Wind

Every good player will tell you that his least favorite weather condition is wind. Wind is not only the most difficult of factors affecting the predictability and accuracy of ball flights; it serves to undermine one’s rhythm [...]

Concede to the Deep Rough

This article, written by Ozzie Carlson, appeared in the Bergen Record 2007 series

Fixing Your Game 

Article 8:         Playing from Deep Rough

 In this age of power golf, tour players often seem willing to run the risk of playing from the rough for the reward of having a much shorter shot into the green.  The combination of 4-piece [...]

Turn Your Center of Power

This article, written by Ozzie Carlson, appeared in the Bergen Record 2007 series

Fixing Your Game        

Article 9:         Title:   Feel a Wide Swing Arc for Consistency

There is a strong tendency among us golfers to swing the club with our arms and hands.  This quite naturally occurs because we do most everything else during our day with [...]

Pre-determine the Outcome

This article, written by Ozzie Carlson, appeared in the Bergen Record 2007 series

Fixing Your Game

Article 10:       Know Where It’s Going Before you Hit It

 For the competitive player, we need to KNOW where the ball is going to go BEFORE we hit it!  For the rest of us, we say that sure would be nice! So [...]

Speed Putting from the 3rd Eye Position

This article, written by Ozzie Carlson, appeared in the Bergen Record 2007 series

Fixing Your Game

 Article 11:       Putt Better Than The Pros

             Nearly every tour player would tell you that the most inconsistent facet of his game is his putting.  Among the top ranked players this year from Tiger and Vijay to Mickelson, Sergio, Els and [...]