October 27, 2007 by admin.

Pleae log onto http://www.pga.com/improve/features/alessonlearned/frys_102207.cfm
to read Jeff’s featured article on the Fry’s Electronic’s Open for PGA.com.

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February 28, 2007 by sneaky short.

I am a HIGH single digit handicapper and have the ability to get into some pros wallets when I play.  I am playing on dormant hardpan and continue to skull shots pitch shots into neighbors yards, over the green, and no one will even stand within sight when i am hitting a pitch shot for fear of their lives. Maybe I should change my login to Vin Skully. 

I have some fundamentals that I am falling back on and maybe I am missing something.

Fundamentals I am trying:

narrow stance, weight favoring front leg, head behind the ball, cock wrists, keep lower body quiet, ball in middle of stance (for hardpan), hands ahead of ball at impact, and all the while, trying to remember this is a sport and be atheletic.

 Any ideas?  Please help…

By the way, I love the site.

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January 23, 2007 by pinskip.

Dear GWJ,

Nice site you have here…what’s in store for the future?? 

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December 12, 2006 by The Lefty.

I do think people would watch #1 play by himself, as we have seen by his show where he hit different golf shots and talks about the game through his eyes. I also find this to be more interesting to watch in a lot of cases than to watch the rest of the field try to do what he does, and hope to beat him…I love the game of golf! and Tiger has made the game “cool” (ie:  it’s now cool to be a golfer in school, unlike when I was in school!).  If people want to blame the media for making this a one man game to watch maybe they should blame the rest of the field for not bringing the same heart and intensity as he does.  As far as what will be left after he is gone, other than all new records, and millions of new fans, and a new game for a new age…it will still be one man, hitting one ball, with one club …one shot at a time!  The way this game was started before there were any greats.  As I said, “I love this game.”   I can only thank Tiger, and the media for bringing the game back to the forefront where it belongs, however, it is making the people tune in. The enthusiast, and all of our new era of after Tiger golfers, and all of our purist, all have one thing in common…our love for the game no matter how different we think we are!

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December 11, 2006 by aab180.

Have you ever played a Saturday morning twosome with your buddy and quietly watched in amazement as he or she would hit the ball in the trees time after time and end up in the fairway? Hit a ball so thin that when it rolled in the fairway bunker that it managed to run back out of it into a perfect position? Well I have! And its something I’ve been thinking about recently. 

When I started playing golf my Dad told me a quote that he heard Gary Player say which has stuck with me… “The more you practice, the luckier you get.” However I think that a golfers luck has more to do with how they use the luck and their attitude towards it. 

Some of us may feel that we simply aren’t ‘lucky’ golfers. “I always get bad breaks” which may happen to us every once in a while, but I think that the ‘lucky’ golfers are those who decide to choose an attitude that says “I do get good breaks and I take advantage of them.” 

This morning I watched the South African golfer Charl Schwartzel trying to catch a player in the lead of the Alfred Dunhill Championship with 4 holes to play. On the 15th his drive hooked left. It bounced out of bounds, hopped up on to a small stone wall about a foot tall, bounced two or three times and came back in bounds. Was this lucky? You bet it was! But what impressed me was how he went on to birdie this hole. With this momentum he then birdie the next. Had he not hit his approach shot to the par 5 18th hole in the water, a third birdie would have put him in a playoff. But I think in choosing to believe that he gets good breaks and using them, he had prepared himself for such an occasion and was ready for it when it came. 

Can you and I have that same ‘luck’? Its up to you. Make a choice.

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November 29, 2006 by Cahow.

Not being the best and most focused golfer, I often have other twosomes attached with my group.  I don’t always get the best shot off and start my round off on the wrong foot.  Unfortunately, this annoys those golfing with me and puts even more stress on my pitiful 120+ round!  I usually try to find humor in my golf shortcomings, but when those with you shake their head and feel you are the reason they are shanking their shots, its not so easy to enjoy yourself out on the course.  I always thought that being out on the course was supposed to be enjoyable.  Any ideas on how to resolve this upfront or deal with those people who don’t remember that they had to start someplace too?

Cahow

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