In my last blog, I cited a few quotes from the great Bobby Jones. I want to expand on one of those. Jones once said, “The real way to play golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of the strokes.”Let that sink in. Of course, we all want to […]
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The weather lately has not exactly been conducive to playing Golf here in northern Alabama! I have seen a few brave souls making their way around the course. I admire them! I lived in Scotland for four years. During that time, I played in conditions far worse than what we’ve been having here recently. Then
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It had to happen. Even here in the deep south, winter sometimes interrupts our golf. As I type this, the current weather conditions are 39 degrees and cloudy. Today’s high is forecast to be 40, the low 29. Burrr! That’s just a little too cold for me to bundle up and head out to the
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In virtually all other sports we practice where we play and we play where we practice. In basketball we practice on the court. In baseball and football we practice on the field. It might be a “practice field” but it is just like where we play the game. This isn’t so with golf. With golf,
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Do you know who the “Little Professor” is? That’s what I call the voice in your head yapping away while you’re trying to make a golf swing. He/she is trying to help by saying things like, “Keep your left arm straight, head down, take it back inside the line (or was it outside the line?),
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We’ve all heard it more times than we can count: “practice makes perfect.” Well, in my opinion, that is absolutely false. I would agree that practice makes permanent, with a caveat. If you are practicing the wrong moves, or sequencing, or stance, or grip – the list goes on and on – then perfection is out
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