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Long Irons & Woods: Does the Club Know?
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 [...]
Pin In or Pin Out?
(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 [...]
BAD, FAD, & The X’ED out Factor in Alignment
Yesterday, we discussed how 7 of the 8 students had poor to bad alignment and were aimed no less than 20 plus yards outside wide or closed to their target, to the right for righties and left for the lefties. Inside wide or open to the target would be aiming left of the target for [...]
Weight Back on the Heels … Not So Good
My friend Harold had called me a few times trying to get together for a lesson at The Golf Club at Star Fort. He was hitting some awful golf shots. He said he was driving the ball pretty well but his irons were ugly. He was hitting everything from chunky pull hooks to [...]
Figuring Out Slope of Green — With Your Finger!
Playing golf today is made much more simple and exact with the help of GPS devices that show the layout of a hole, yardages to bunkers, lakes and then to the green. Some even show the location of the hole. Then there are the laser guns and devices that shoot the flag and give [...]
Check Pin Placements While You Play
I went to The Golf Club at Star Fort in Ninety Six, SC to visit my friend and club fitter/builder PGA Professional Billy Delk. Billy is my “near home” upstate South Carolina club fitter (72 miles away). When I’m in the Beaufort/Hilton Head area, doing PPGS video taping and other things at our office/studio [...]
Tee It High to Hit It Low
Your reading it right! Tee it high to hit it low. Sounds counterintuitive, right? You tee it high to hit it high, but how can you tee it high and hit it low. Well, my good friends, I am about to tell you.
What we are looking for in hitting a ball [...]
Lie Angle: Will It Change?
I was speaking to Ken at PPGS.com Customer Service and he asked me to comment on a question a customer called in to ask. Since he changed from a rotational swing to the PPGS limited turn vertical swing and was doing well with it, the customer asked, “Do I need to change the lie [...]
How do they do it?
I received an e-mail on June 9th from a club manufacturer who specializes in woods, with a super offer to all PGA professionals. They broke into the club business on Tour building 3 woods, and they really built a super 3 wood. I have had one in my bag for I believe around [...]
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