Category Archives: Golf Instruction
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 [...]
Finish, Part 2
Yesterday I discussed my first lesson with Larry, his setup and swing and his physical issues of a stiff neck and shoulders, with quite a limited degree of rotation that hurt him and medical help had not cured. As a refresher course, Larry had been taking lessons for a few years and has been changed [...]
Finish Defines the Swing
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I met Larry for his first lesson with me. He called me because his best golfing friend recommended me as I had helped him regain his swing and more after double knee transplants and a hip replacement. During my “State of Larry’s Swing,” game and physical [...]
It’s All in the “Bump.”
I was on the lesson tee with Frank, an IC member from Chicago. A rotational swinger, he played to a 5 handicap until his back gave out and he just about gave up golf. I should mention that Frank is 39.
He “discovered” the Peak Performance Golf Swing on line while searching for, as he said, [...]
The Hands…Major Players in the Swing
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I have written many times and it has become my mantra or even battle cry that the hands are active players in the golf swing. I believe that the grip must be relatively firm, not light, like holding the club as if it was a [...]
Keeping Stats…Your Choice
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Keeping Stats is a personal matter in that you decide what data you want to know about every shot of every round. Cyrus asks the simple question of what stats we need to keep or record as he calls it. Bill asks for some hints [...]
Practice Regimen
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We finally got a good day in over a week and I went to the golf club late yesterday afternoon to walk a quick nine. I went into the shop to check in and the Head Pro, Cory, asked me for some advice. He said [...]
Distance or Accuracy…Accuracy or Distance?
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Doug, in his question and comments below threw me a curve. As I was reading his words, especially referencing Joe’s question about losing distance, I thought I was being led to answer how one can maintain or regain lost distance with the driver. With his [...]
Great Grip…Thumb Positions and Pressure
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DM was here in the US straight over from Australia on business. Being a student of the PPGS, he booked a day’s lesson with me. DM is a scratch player and he was hitting the ball fairly well but there was too much inconsistency in his [...]
The Divot Tells All!
This past weekend was filled with a wonderful private session with a student who came in from Australia. Ah, the stories. More about that next week. But one thing popped up that I wanted to cover since, it seems, so many have had it on their mind. Divots.
Divots are like the clues they come up [...]
Working the Ball: Part 2
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Working the ball is the term for intentionally curving the ball the way you want to or need to, at will. As I mentioned in the first article, there are basically two degrees of working the ball as I describe it. The first and easiest [...]
Working the Ball
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I have written in articles and answered questions many times how to work the ball. The Junior Golf Camp instruction series has a complete and detailed section and video on working the ball where I even do a show and tell. Since it is important [...]
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