It’s been said that golf is 90% mental and only 10% physical. Bobby Jones once famous remarked, “Golf is a game that’s played on a five-inch course – the distance between your ears.” At one time or another, we’ve all attempted shots we look back on and shake our heads. But it doesn’t have to …
Until today, the one piece of golf technology that we really hadn’t been exposed to at the Golf Academy is the motion-capture system known as K-Vest. Since 2002, the New Hampshire-based company has dominated the world of swing capture, range of motion, and biofeedback to the point that it’s become an industry leader in human motion learning. There are three learning …
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I think if you were to take an informal survey, you’d be hard-pressed to find a single golfer who likes or even prefers to putt on Poa annua greens. And no, it’s not Poana. It’s Poa annua. For my money, the best greens in the world are bentgrass greens. Augusta National agrees. All of their greens are …
Dr. Michael Hurdzan’s book entitled Golf Course Architecture: Evolutions in Design, Construction, and Restoration Technology is often referred to as the Bible of golf course architecture. According to amazon.com, “It takes readers inside the designer’s mind through each step of designing a golf green, golf hole, and a golf course.” In the text, Hurdzan outlines …
A: A team event in which one of the four balls the team members are playing is orange. The player with the orange ball plays that ball and records his own score while the other three member of the team play a traditional scramble. The orange ball rotates among the team members, changing after each …