In this week’s news, world No. 1 Ash Barty wins a local golf tournament and Rafa Nadal details what tennis can learn from golf.
Month: September 2020
In this golf backswing tip, I’m showing you as simple way to learn the coil. This is vital if you want to hit longer and straighter shots with both irons and driver. A lot of people have trouble coiling in the backswing which is costing them power and consistency in their shots. This can be
8:00 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders Hudson Swafford won last week’s event in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, and the tour next heads to Jackson, Mississippi, for the Sanderson Farms Championship, where Sebastian Munoz is the defending champion. Who is underrated, and whom should you fade? What bets and props are worth a look? Sports betting
It might be difficult for some of us to fathom, but in the 1990s new golf courses were blooming across the country like wildflowers in summer. Favorable lending, the continuing expansion of the suburbs and exurbs and an unrealistic expectation of the game’s growth convinced developers there was money to be made in golf. Capital
Scottie Scheffler didn’t have the opportunity to celebrate his selection as PGA Tour Rookie of the Year in the manner he would have preferred. He didn’t get to celebrate it at all, frankly. He was at home, isolated from friends and family when he should have been in New York preparing for the U.S. Open
The sun had barely cracked the horizon on Monday morning in Orlando and Rob Fodor’s cell phone was buzzing with an incoming text from Andre Iguodala, who was already on the golf course. No one had gotten much sleep—a few hours, tops—after the Miami Heat knocked off the Boston Celtics the night before to advance
Jay McLuen is not going to win this week’s Sanderson Farms Championship. That’s not a knock on the 40-year-old pro golf journeyman; only once in the last 10 years has a Monday qualifier won a PGA Tour event (Corey Conners, 2019 Valero Texas Open). And from the sound of it, McLuen is OK with that,
welcome to 18 to 8, the series where i plan on going from an 18 handicap to an 8 handicap, and to hopefully break 80 as an amateur golfer ! i will document my lessons, my practice, my gym-work and fun competitive rounds with my celebrity mate(s). whilst trying to upload a full 18 every
THESE SHOTS WILL LOWER YOUR SCORES – Simple Golf Tips Every golfer will have hit the wayward tee shot or from the fairway, when this happens it leaves you in trouble! When this happens, you have to make sure you don’t compound the problem and add more shots to your score! In this golf lesson
For all the daunting super-narrow tee shot corridors, forced carries and rough, something as subtle as grain could well be a PGA Tour player’s kryptonite. It’s a relatable struggle for average players—even if it’s a low-pressure money match with friends, just a hint of pressure can cause us all to mis-hit the touch shot with
The field at the Country Club of Jackson is slightly better than last week’s field. Each of the last two Rookies of the Year are two of the biggest favorites, Scottie Scheffler and Sungjae Im. Louis Oosthuizen has withdrawn, leaving a gap in the top end pricing. This is going to create some interesting roster
After years of working at high-end golf clubs that required teaching professionals to wear golf pants or skirts, Emily Farrell was fed up choosing between uncomfortable and unflattering women’s golf pants or a pencil skirt that was not suited for running around a golf course. So Farrell decided to design a pair of golf pants
The words in the tweet were simple but insightful, and the emotion behind them raw. “Golf is hard,” Adam Long pecked out on Sunday night, a few hours after the conclusion of the final round of the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship. “And it’s really difficult to win on the @PGATOUR.” Especially when you
9:20 PM ET Associated Press Dustin Johnson leads the top five players in the world who have committed to play the CJ Cup at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas, the start of a two-week stretch of relocated Asia events that includes Tiger Woods returning to California. The CJ Cup typically is held in South Korea,
After Nike quietly released a red, white and blue version of the Air Zoom Infinity Tour and Victory Tour golf shoes, the brand also announced a winter-ready golf shoe to allow you to play golf comfortably later into the season. The Nike Air Zoom Infinity Tour Shield Golf Shoe is listed on the website as
At this week’s 2020 Dubai Duty Free Irish Open at Galgorm Castle, Northern Ireland, we challenged Shane Lowry, Padraig Harrington and others to hit a kids’ size club in a nearest-the-pin challenge. Home of the best challenges on the European Tour, such as The 14 Club Challenge Series, The Hickory Challenge, The Fastest Hole of
On Sunday afternoon, while most Americans were watching football, an American golfer was pulling off a stunning feat. The golfer, though, wasn’t Bryson DeChambeau or Phil Mickelson or Tiger Woods. It was John Catlin, someone who even golf geeks know almost nothing about. Playing in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open, Catlin birdied three of
Yes we’re now offering a free golf lesson online LIVE. With new software available we can both converse live while performing the lesson. Ask questions live! Quick Fix Golf is the brainchild of Bobby Lopez. partnering with Darren deMaille, former teaching professional for Jack Nicklaus at The Bear’s Club for over seven years. Darren has
Here are a few ways for you to create more speed and distance in you golf game with your Driver! The Jess Frank Golf Academy You Tube channel is dedicated to bringing as much value and high quality FREE content as possible to golfers all around the world. Jess has given over 15,000 golf lessons
T-shirts are as comfortable as they are versatile, making them a perfect pick for Zoom meetings, get-togethers with friends or lazy days on the couch. Look good and feel better in some of our favorite comfy golf T-shirts that will express your love of for our game while keeping things cool and casual. Scroll through
Scottie Scheffler makes his first appearance after having to withdraw from the U.S. Open after a positive COVID-19 test. Oddsmakers have made him a slight favorite over Louis Oosthuizen—after the South African’s third-place finish at Winged Foot—and Sungjae Im, who gained more than 4.5 strokes at the Tour Championship and the U.S. Opens in his
Hudson Swafford was on “cruise control” Sunday at the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship. After three birdies and an eagle through his first nine holes, and with a four-shot lead with six to go, he had every reason to feel that way. Then a stubbed chip rolled back to his feet and he double-bogeyed
6:44 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Hudson Swafford lost control of the tournament without ever losing any confidence he could hit the right shot when it counted. Standing in the 13th fairway Sunday in the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship, he had a four-shot lead. Walking off the 15th green,
Tony Finau is being sued by a former business associate for $16 million. The Deseret News was the first to report the suit, filed in 3rd District Court last week. According to the Deseret News, Molonai Hola, the owner of Icon Sports, says he became acquainted with the Finau family around 1997. Hola, a former
Here’s 24 minutes of uncut footage from my lesson with Mike (see below for timestamps). This whole lesson was about 2.5 hours of Mike spitting straight FIRE on so many different elements of the golf swing. Thank you Mike!
3 BIGGEST GOLF SWING MISTAKES GOLFERS MAKE – Simple Golf Tips These are the 3 biggest and most common golf swing faults seen when giving golf lessons or watching golfers play out on the golf course. In this golf lesson, Matt Fryer Golf runs through the 3 mistakes made in the golf swing, from poor
9:46 AM ET A Tiger Woods backup putter from 2001 sold at Golden Age Golf Auctions early Sunday morning for $154,928, which is believed to be the most a putter of this caliber has ever sold for. The putter is a Scotty Cameron Newport II produced for Woods as a backup to the putter he
Golden Age Golf Auctions confirmed on Sunday morning the winning bid of $154,928 on this backup Scotty Cameron putter, which was produced for Tiger in 2001 in case his Scotty Cameron Newport 2 became damaged. It’s been reported that Scotty Cameron produced one or two extra putters for Tiger per year, and he would practice
It was Moving Day on Saturday at the Irish Open, and Englishman Aaron Rai produced among the strongest rounds on the tough Galgorm Spa course in shooting three-under 67 to own the solo lead at eight under. But that was far from the most eye-catching development of the day. Ballymena, an inland Northern Ireland town
9:07 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Adam Long went from trying to hit a fairway to a course so open it’s hard to miss. He went from grinding over pars to pouring in birdies. One week after he toiled to a tie for 13th at Winged Foot in the U.S. Open,
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