January 14, 2018 - Face Angle Awareness
March 11, 2017 - Balance Finish Position (The one move that can truly create consistency)
March 14, 2017 - Pitch Shot Tips
March 25, 2017 - How Does Your Lie Affect Your Launch Direction?
January 13, 2016 - Sheftic Pressure Board
January 8, 2016 - Your Bank of Confidence
Confidence is like a bank. Deposits and withdrawals happen automatically depending on makes or misses. Many many makes over time can make you rich with confidence. In regards to those shorter putts we sometimes call a gimme, if you give the putt it's full attention and make it, a deposit of confidence will be made. If you don't try (eg. swipe with one hand) but still make the putt there is no deposit. Nothing happens. But if you don't try and miss, there is still a withdrawal of confidence. The moral of this story is, not trying on any putt puts you into a lose lose situation. There is no such thing as a gimme in the Rules of Golf but if you play with friends that give you a putt, you have two choices. Just pick it up, or mark it, read it, and knock it in for another deposit into your Bank of Confidence.
January 8, 2016 - To Chip or to Putt? That Is The Question
Answer: Putt.
I was going to leave it just like that, but let me elaborate. There are two big factors that allow your putter to work better than any other club when getting your ball on the green from from fringe or fairway. Firstly, your putter doesn't (or shouldn't) touch the ground through impact of the ball. That point alone makes contact WAY easier. The putter practically eliminates and chunk shot that might occur with an iron. The second factor is the lack of loft on the putter makes it easier to control the distance regarding miss hits. When you choose an iron with loft there becomes more shearing at impact, or your Smash Factor goes down, or in other words the club has to swing faster to make it go the same distance as a club with less loft. Which means if a thin or topped miss hit occurs the ball gets propelled way farther past the hole that a putter would have. The moral of the story is, putt, because it eliminates big misses.
January 8, 2016 - To Chip or to Putt? PGA Tour
The PGA Tour player makes 9% of their putts from 21-30 feet from on the green. Let's just say for argument sake that they might make less from the fringe with their putter, say 8% from 21-30 feet. Now if they were to chip the ball to increase their odds of a hole out, and let's say for argument sake they increase their hole out percentage back up to 9% from 21-30 feet. I'd still like to wager quite heavily that the total amount of strokes taken to get the ball in the hole will always be more if their first shot was with a wedge vs. a putter because of miss hit shots from the wedge. There are times to chip (eg. grain, bumps, thick fringe, thick collar on fringe) but please choose the putter more. The SW should be the last choice, not the first.