Aug 31, 2010
From one Oakland University grad to another, I enjoyed talking with you on the range. I’m sorry you didn’t get it done on the back nine on Friday to make the cut. My wife was planning a great home cooked meal for you guys over the weekend. I was even going to throw [...]
Aug 31, 2010
Tiger, I’m sorry I missed your practice session on Saturday evening. My mole called to tell me you were on the range all alone. Though my note said I’d be there following your round, unfortunately, I had to leave to give a playing lesson.
What has always amazed me about you is your ability [...]
Aug 30, 2010
Nick, I enjoyed finally getting to meet you on the practice range at the Barclays. I believe you are potentially one of the best young talents on tour. From what I see, your game needs two critical improvements: Confidence and retained angles. Working on the second should lead to the first. So here [...]
Aug 30, 2010
Retief, I have long felt that the way you release the club through the region of impact is robbing you of both distance and consistency. It really makes no sense for a player of your calibre to have won so few times on the various tours.
My first suggestion would be to hit 1/2 [...]
Aug 30, 2010
Josh, I really enjoyed meeting you this week at the Barclays. You have obviously accomplished a lot to date with your game with what I would call a “timing” swing. As well as you were hitting it on the range, I can only surmise that your putting is the facet of the game [...]
30 Aug 2010
Brandt, your current “quick trigger” process of shotmaking: [hit it before you let your mind get in the way of your athletic ability] doesn’t appear to sufficiently focus your attention and feel of motion on where you are going BEFORE you swing. Consequently, your ball flights are not zeroing in on target as well as they [...]
Aug 30, 2010
To my eye, Ernie, your struggle with with your set-up feel all week, can be readily remedied. It looks to me that you are out of balance. I’d like to see your butt behind your heels as far as your eyes are ahead of your toes, and with minimal knee bend.
From this postion [...]
Aug 30, 2010
The Barclays
A big congrats to Matt Kucher whose final round 66 was second only to Rory Sabbatini’s closing 64. The playoff, as so typically happens, produced two errant drives. But the golf gods were smiling on “Kooch” as his run-up 7 iron from the left rough did a victory lap of the green [...]
17 Aug 2010
This article, written by Ozzie Carlson, appeared in the Bergen Record 2010 series
Scoring From ½ Wedge Distance
One of the questions I am most often asked is how do I feel and control distance from less than a full wedge shot away. My first answer is don’t put yourself in the “throw-up zone.” You [...]
Aug 26, 2010
At the Barclays
Brandt, as I followed your round today your routine appeared to by one of making sure your mind doesn’t get in the way of your talent. In short, “hit it before you start to think.”
Bobby Jones also found that he would find a way to think himself out of shots when [...]