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Golf Course Design with PGA Professional Ed Ekis is currently an elective at the Golf Academy, but if you ask me, it should probably be a requirement for anyone considering a career in the golf industry. Whether you’re going into management, sales, or maintenance, it never hurts to know what an architect was thinking when he was designing and […]

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