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Winter practice – beating the winter blues

February 22, 2011 - 12:22 pm

Finally it looked like winter was going away, but my hometown just got dumped with a few more inches of snow. Luckily I hear an early spring is in the works. With all this snow, I couldn’t really get out to practice much. I hit the driving range on a few warm days, just to [...]

Lessons from Riviera

February 22, 2011 - 12:04 pm

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Watching the coverage on both Golfchannel and CBS, I was surprised to see how short the ball was flying at Riviera. Considering it was in the best shape that the announcing team has ever seen it, it must have been a combination of the low temperatures, sea level and kikuya grass, that shortened the distances [...]

Like Celebrity Pro-Ams, then read The Match by Mark Frost

January 19, 2011 - 2:48 pm

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The history of golf is fascinating and this book by Mark Frost is a classic. I had read a brief excerpt in Golf Digest when the book was first released and with my full intention to buy the book and read, I promptly forgot about it. It wasn’t until a trip to a Dick’s Sporting [...]

How to make swing changes stick

January 12, 2011 - 1:06 pm

Tags: Practice, Swing Theory
Posted in Fundamentals, Getting better, Lesson, Practice | 2 comments

Recent experience has taught me that you need two things to make swing changes stick. Practice and time. Now while these may seem self evident there is more going on behind the scenes in the subconscious mind than meets the eye. We’ve all heard the phrases “Practice makes perfect” and “Perfect practice makes perfect”. We [...]

Twelve Days at the Academy (Golf Channel)

December 7, 2010 - 9:28 am

Tags: Course Management, Practice, Swing Theory
Posted in Swing Theory | 2 comments

Since this blog is focused on getting better, let’s take a look at the Golf Channel’s 12 Days at the Academy. What I have been doing is recording the shows onto my DVR and then watching them for the most solid information. Since we all are all working on different parts of the game and [...]

Never give up

December 6, 2010 - 7:16 pm

Tags: Course Management, Mental Game, Tiger Woods
Posted in Course Management, Life Lessons, Mental Game | No comments

GMac’s victory at the Chevron this weekend over Tiger Woods is a wonderful example of not giving up. He continued fighting even as things seemed to be breaking down around him. His miraculous bogey on 17 kept him in it. Tiger then hit it tight on 18 giving McDowell a must make putt with a [...]

A long term approach to golf

November 12, 2010 - 5:27 pm

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It is a game I plan on playing for the rest of my life. A game that will teach me many lessons to come, introduce me to people who will become good friends, and open doors and opportunities. It has already done some of this, but I believe it will do more. They say golf [...]

Practice Games

November 4, 2010 - 2:33 pm

Posted in Fundamentals, Getting better, Practice | 1 comment

Now that it’s getting colder in the North East, I find that when I go to the practice area at my golf course that there is no one there. The place is deserted. Still, I want to keep getting better so I’m spending a lot of time. I’m using a couple of practice games that [...]

Lynn Blake, Rhythm, and the TALY MIND Set

November 4, 2010 - 2:09 pm

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Lynn Blake and Taly Williams (the inventor of the Taly Mind Set) have produced a new video that I think is worth watching. Although it is a promotion piece for the Taly Mind Set it also contains some very good information about what ails the average golfer, and begins to address ways to fix it. [...]

A year of “Journey to Scratch” and ZenChili.com

October 29, 2010 - 7:25 am

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Well it’s Fall again, the leaves are changing all around new England. It’s also been about a year since ZenChili.com was started and this blog was born. It’s been quite an amazing year and I wanted to thank all of you who have come to read the blog, comment and inspire me. Highlights of the [...]