Dr. Robin Farran is one of the top USGA Rules Officials in the country and currently teaches Advanced Rules at the Golf Academy of America in Phoenix. The man never seems to take a day off! In this week’s Diary of a USGA Rules Official, Dr. Farran shares some of the more interesting conversations between players […]
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The other day, one of my co-workers and I were discussing the greatest instructional golf books ever written, the must-reads. After we went back-and-forth naming several of the usual suspects such as Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book, Dr. Bob Rotella’s Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect, and Tiger Woods’ How I Play Golf, he
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Once you gain access to the Qualifying Level of the PGA Professional Golf Management (PGM) Program, there’s a lot of reading to do. Lesson 1 is a Brief History of the PGA of America followed by a reading assignment online at pgamagazine.com. The following article was first published in April of 2006, the month of the
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My teaching career as an Assistant Golf Professional at La Paloma Country Club in Tucson is still very much in its infancy, but one of the most common questions I’ve received in my short time there is “How do you read greens?” Great question! At the Golf Academy, we learned that when it comes to
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A nun walked into the Mother Superior’s office and plopped down into a chair. She let out a sigh, heavy with frustration. “What troubles you, Sister Theadore Linda?” asked the Mother Superior. “I thought this was the day you spent with your family.” “It was,” sighed the Sister. “And I went to play golf with my
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