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Our final six Advanced Teaching classes of the semester are all off-campus. Now, the classroom setting shifts from inside to outdoors, where we’ll be interacting with students and giving actual golf lessons. Over the last 14 and-a-half months or so, we’ve learned a lot about how to teach the golf swing, but there’s no substitute […]

World No. 1 Jordan Spieth says he has a Rules question no one can seem to answer. In an article posted recently on golfchannel.com, Spieth explained that when greens get “shiny,” his Scotty Cameron putter has a tendency to slip on the ground. So when he practices, Spieth says he wets the bottom of the putter for

To earn your PGA Class A Certification, at some point you have to pass your Playing Ability Test (PAT) through the PGA of America. It’s offered about once a quarter in Arizona, and take it from me, it’s not easy. By design, the test is as much mental as it is physical. It’s 36 holes in

Let me start by saying I’ve never lived in a state or a climate cold enough where not playing golf was my reality. I grew up in Arizona and moved to Louisiana, then South Carolina, and back to Arizona. I’ve only ever shoveled snow twice, so I don’t know what it’s like to look outside

Todd Sones is a Golf Digest Top 50 and Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor. He also serves on the Golf Academy of America’s National Advisory Board and says to make a change, often a player has to feel something exaggerated in order to make that change – no matter what part of his game he’s