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Dr. Robin Farran teaches Advanced Rules at the Golf Academy and is widely regarded as one of the top USGA Rules Officials in the country. He helps write and revise the book! Each week, he sends out new and different Rules incidents, but this week’s offering has to be my favorite so far. It has to do […]

Anchor points are how we use the ground during the golf swing. You have to push off at a certain point to create force. If your feet were off the ground even by just a couple of inches, you couldn’t swing the club. Anchor points are how you use ground force, and they determine how much speed you can

Today in Capstone Management Study of Golf Operations with PGA Professional Warren Pitman, we were talking about ClubCorp and specifically, CEO Eric Affeldt. For the second year in-a-row, Affeldt finds his name atop Golf Inc.’s “Most Powerful People in Golf” list, which ranks individuals’ influence and their organizations’ ability to positively impact the golf industry. The

For homework this week in Advanced Teaching, we were asked to write down our personal teaching (swing) philosophy. Again, for those of us who are leaning toward pursing a career in golf instruction, this is a really important step. It can be an awkward and uncomfortable task to ask yourself the question, “What do I

Welcoming guests is what Sea Island (GA) is all about. I left Greenville at around 5:30a for the four-and-a-half-hour drive down to Hilton Head. When I arrived, I played 27 holes at Hilton Head Country Club as a ClubCorp member, but while the South Carolina Lowcountry weather in late October was almost perfect, I was ready for