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A couple of the shots Todd Sones and his staff teach at his Scoring Zone School outside Chicago are the Bump & Run and the Bump & Spin. It all depends on how you want the ball to react once it hits the green, but if you watched the Open Championship at St Andrews, you […]

One of the hardest things to do in golf is to take your game from the driving range or the practice tee to the golf course. In recent weeks, PGA Professional Gary Balliet has given us different drills to help us do just that. That’s what Golf Performance Enhancement is all about. This morning, class met

In Verbal Communication Skills, we have to give four different speeches this semester: persuasive, informative, demonstrative, and inspirational. For my persuasive speech, I laid out the argument that Tiger Woods will never catch Jack Nicklaus, much less win another major. So far, I look like a genius. For my informative speech, I talked about the Pulmonary Fibrosis

PGA Professional Fred Barr took Golf Operations class out for a field trip to Leisure World in Mesa. Fred’s a brave man. This was no ordinary road trip. There are 30 of us in the class right now, and talking is never an issue. We always have lots of questions, but our class is different in a good

This morning, Advanced Elements of the Short Game met back at Ken McDonald Golf Course in Tempe for another outdoor Skills Development – this time on flops & lobs. The two shots are very different. The flop is a more V-shaped swing, while the lob is more of a U-shaped swing. The lob is the