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Balata Golf Balls
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I read a question and comment on the blog the other day by someone who was asking about what happened top balata golf balls. He said they used to be so much softer and you could spin them a lot more when you wanted to [...]
Proper Posture and Correct Distance from the Ball
Yesterday I discussed that the best way to get into proper posture and be the correct distance from the ball was that when you step into the ball and get into your routine and bend from the waist, your arms must drop down straight from the shoulders, so that your hands, if you draw a [...]
The Proper Distance to Stand from the Ball at Address
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During a recent lesson I was asked by a student, with a combination statement and question, that he had read or been told you can never stand too close to the ball. And he asked, in fact, if that was correct. Well, I immediately answered, [...]
Power: Arms or Body?
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Today, we’ll talk about swinging the body versus swinging the arms.
As we know, with the rotational swing today, you get your power by swinging your body faster as compared to the Peak Performance Golf Swing which says we move the body less and swing the [...]
Find Top of Backswing and Ring the Bell!
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Yesterday’s article about weight shift, sit or sink over and onto your back leg, brought out a lot of good comments and questions. One extremely good one was from Bill Kerney. Bill asked, “I see now why the hips should have a limited turn. Is [...]
Weight Shift…Sit or Sink Over and Onto Your Back Leg
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Today I’m going to discuss weight shirt or weight transfer in the backswing. In a blog the other day, John OB asked this of me. “Hi, Don. Regarding loading or weight transfer. First, at what point should it happen in the backswing? And second, there [...]
Top of Backswing…Back Arm = Right Angle
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I see a lot of questions and comments in the blogs about turning the shoulders too much in the backswing and getting deep behind the toe line and over swinging. I also see many comments about hitting both chunks and thin shots. These problems can [...]
Long and Short Game Similarities
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When I teach golf schools, during which we teach the long game and all aspects of the short game, I always get a reawakening to the reality of the similarities that exist for both. The reality is that for most golfers, their short game setup [...]
Golf School Day Two: Importance of the Short Game
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Reporting on Day 2 of the Peak Performance Golf School at the PGA Golf Learning Center in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Unfortunately, today we didn’t have the school the way we wanted to in that there was torrential rain, coming down as hard as in [...]
Touch and the Short Game
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I’m here at Port St. Lucie, Florida at the PGA Gol Learning Center and we finished day one of our Peak Performance Golf School. It was a very good day, despite getting rained on two or three times. One time was a [...]
Noodley Arms and Getting That Feeling Back
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I’m here at the Peak Performance Golf School in Port St. Lucie, Florida. This morning, before we started the school, one of our students from a previous school, who lives in South Florida, arranged to have a two hour lesson with me.
Larry showed up and [...]
Now Where Does That Ball Go?
For our friends and members in different hemispheres and warmer climates, please forgive my provincial (my egghead partner supplied the word) outlook on the weather. Yesterday, when we started our trip to Port St. Lucie, Florida, for another PPGS golf school, the weatherman said it would get to 70 degrees F (that’s about 21 C, [...]
Honda and Toshiba Classic Winners’ Swings
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This past weekend was a good one for seeing some great golf. Camilo Villegas won the Honda Classic by 5 shots, shooting 13 unde,r which is the tournament record score since the Honda moved to PGA National Golf Club. Camilo shot a final round 2 [...]
Where Will Your Distance Come From?
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This is a great question and one that is asked of me many times in this form or other variations such as how can I hit it farther or longer. Length is certainly an important part of playing golf even if one only plays par [...]
Lay up or Go For It…Who Decides That Question?
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That answer is simple. Only the player makes the decision to lay up or let it rip and go for the green on those water fronted par 5’s that are just egging you on to “man up,” be macho, to go for it. “Man up” [...]
Swinging Good? Time to Video.
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I read a message from a PPGS Inner Circle Member that said he has been working on the vertical swing for a few months now and things were really falling into place. He said that he was playing well, his scores were dropping and his [...]
Is There a Certified PPGS Instructor in the House?
Here’s one of the most frequent questions I get from you. “Surge, is there someone in (pick a city, pick a country) who I can go to for the Peak Performance Golf Swing?” As a teacher, one of my greatest dreams has been to be able to say, “Sure, go see Joe or Joan (at [...]
Golf Can Be Dangerous: Part 3
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It was really interesting reading all the stories about golfers taking out their frustrations on their clubs and some of the very sad ones were there was injury and death. This is the last article in the Golf Can Be Dangerous series, and I planned [...]
Golf Can Be Dangerous: Part 2
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We saw yesterday that one of my students, softly tossing his club toward his golf bag on the cart, busted his nose when the club bounced off the cart, sprang back and hit him. Carrying on with this topic of clubs causing injury, let’s look [...]
Golf Can be Dangerous. We Need to be Careful!
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I promise you this is a true story and I tell it as it is important to all golfers’ safety on the golf course. I got a call from one of my regular local student’s who was calling to tell me he had been injured [...]
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