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If you ever watch the Golf Channel, no doubt by now you’ve seen the infomercial for the xE1 Sand Wedge. It’s the one where former PGA Tour player Arron Oberholser (beware of an Aaron who spells his name with two R’s) touts the genius of the wedge for “practically eliminating” fat pitches or chips. Here it is: Says Oberholser, “The […]

Three times each year for the past five years, Leisure World in Mesa has been gracious enough to allow Advanced Teaching classes at the Golf Academy to come out and offer instruction to its membership. It’s a great relationship – the members get free lessons, and students get an opportunity to teach over a period of three consecutive weeks. Leisure

In Sport Psychology with Dr. Teri Aguiar, we were discussing the 6th and final weapon we can use to improve our golf games: imagery, also known as visualization. Visualization is defined as creating or re-creating an experience in the mind, and there’s plenty of scientific research in the psych world that suggests visualization enhances athletes’ thoughts and emotions because

A little more than a week after we got wind of the National Golf Foundation’s (NGF) annual golf participation report, we got word of The Wall Street Journal’s preemptive report detailing not only the NGF report but how the number of people trying golf for the first time has gone up while overall participation continues to

Just about every semester for the past six years or so, Henry-Griffitts Director of Account Management and Master Coach/Clubfitter Bill Boltz has visited the Golf Academy in Phoenix to conduct club fitting training seminars. The seminars are usually held in conjunction with PGA Professional Gary Balliet’s 3rd Semester Club Fitting class, but because of my