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DJ learns a valuable lesson about how "sensitive" your equipment can be during a round...
Don Trahan on the importance of "alignment" in the golf swing. Surgism: "The setup determines the motion".
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I received this E-mail from Gaetan, who was one of the students in our first PPGS Golf School in November at The PGA Golf Center for Learning and Performance in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Gaetan references speaking with Greg at the School and asking for [...]
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Continuing on with KH’s golf lesson, it was now time to address his swing problem. K was deep and laid off at the top of the backswing. He had improved from his last lesson in that he was less deep with the short clubs. Unfortunately, [...]
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Continuing with the lesson I had with my 12 year old left handed student KH, we’ll now look at his setup and the necessary adjustments he needed. A short review of his ball striking problem is that K was hitting a lot of thin iron [...]
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The basic purpose of a golf lesson to anyone other than a new golfer has two elements. The main one is to diagnose the setup and swing problems. The second is often overlooked but is the ultimate purpose of the lesson: know how the student [...]
The Surge asked me to do an article regarding shaft dynamics and how they relate to the golfer. Unfortunately there is a lot of misinformation propagated by retail clerks, professionals, and even the shaft companies themselves when it comes to shafts and what they do or don’t do. There are several characteristics of golf club [...]
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I turned on The Golf Channel the other day and caught a short piece of a “Playing With the Pros” show featuring JB Holmes. I had seen this show featuring JB a few times but had never watched it all. This time I came in [...]
While walking around the PGA Show I ran into a subscriber who asked me a question about the takeaway. He said that he had a problem starting his takeaway with a slight sway off the ball. The longer the club the worse the sway was and the more he laid the club off. His question [...]
Note from the Surge: Travel day today, so I’m using a “page” from my old tips booklet on Stance. These illustrations are only meant as a general reference. Soon we’ll be using photos when we can.
Stance:
Width…shoulder side, inside of feet to outside
edge of shoulders. Building Effect (Illustration
A) vs. Eiffel Tower (Illustration B). Building Effect
has legs [...]
Note from The Surge: We’ve finally finished in Orlando. I always learn some new about our sport and make some new friends. Did a good interview, which I’ll tell you about later — don’t want to “scoop” the writer. All in all, a good show.
Going through my notes, I ran across a drill I’ve used [...]
Note from The Surge: We’re still in Orlando and the PGA Golf Merchandise Show. If you’re not familiar with it, there are about 1,000 exhibitors here, showing off the latest and greatest in clubs, gear, clothing, you name it. It’s not open to the public, just those folks in the golf industry. This is where [...]
Note from The Surge: We’re down at the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, FL. I’ll be having a report soon on the treds we’ve seen. Pretty amazing stuff. This is the biggest golf show on earth. Something like a million square feet of nothing but golf. Of course, I run intro old friends, many of [...]
(Note from the Surge: We were very busy shooting a new putting video yesterday and my on line guy, Paul, put up the wrong article. I know I promised you one from Dr. Armstrong — which it was for awhile. But it was old as the hills and not too accurate. Paul says he’s very [...]
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I watched the last few holes of the final round of the PGA Tour’s “Bob Hope Classic,” as DJ was playing well, finishing 7th. I was hoping to see a swing but really wanted to see his new putting setup and stroke he worked on [...]
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Tom Watson and Fred Couples played some awesome golf Sunday in the closing round of the Mitsubishi Electric Championship in Hawaii. It came down to the final putt on the 18th hole, with Watson sinking a 5 footer to beat Couples by one shot. Watson [...]
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I was watching The Golf Channel and I saw a commercial featuring PGA Tour Caddy, Lance Ten Broeck. Lance cadies full time for Jesper Parnevik in his second life on the PGA Tour. In his first life he played the PGA Tour and played rather [...]
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Jack Nicklaus turned 70 years old this week and The Golf Channel celebrated his birthday with a documentary about his life and career. The show theme focused around a 12 day business trip he took checking out courses he designed that we under construction all [...]
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Less than a month ago, December 30th to be exact, the daily article was titled, “Release…Defined and Explained.” The opening sentences are as follows;
“Release for many golfers and for that matter instructors is a nebulous term that they know exists and they know they have [...]
One of the major tenets of the PPG setup and swing involve the concept of the wide knees at address and the outward pressure that must be applied. The wide knees, being unique and noticeable, have become the “Trademark” of the PPGS setup. Mr. Woods, in his question below, asked for a clarification about the [...]
Many years ago (in late January before golf season), I met a golfer who was desperate.
He loved to play golf, was pretty good at it, but was having trouble with his swing due to his “enormous” size. It seems the fat in his arms and torso was literally making it hard for him to [...]
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The baseball swing vs golf swing article drew a lot of comments, agreeing with me that there are a lot of similarities between each. I was also happy to see so many references made to other sports also having swing motions similar to golf and [...]
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