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The last couple of shots we’re learning in Advanced Elements of the Short Game this semester are the flop shot and the lob. These are specialty, low-percentage shots that today’s players like to use and abuse. You can understand why. They’re fun. But you should use these shots as a last resort – only when […]

The Open Championship returns to St Andrews for the first time since 2010 Thursday. But has The Old Course really changed that much since Louis Oosthuizen last raised the Claret Jug there? Tiger Woods think so. In his first look since playing it five years ago, Woods was surprised to see green grass and slow fairways. Woods

Here comes that Jordan Spieth guy… again! Spieth birdied four of his final six holes and then beat Tom Gillis in a playoff to win the John Deere Classic Sunday. It’s the same venue where Spieth earned his first career PGA Tour victory as a 19-year-old in 2013. That year he needed three playoff holes. Yesterday, he

For the first time this semester, Golf Performance Enhancement met outside – at Bear Creek in Chandler because Western Skies’ putting and chipping greens are being re-seeded. When we got there, the greens at Bear Creek were being aerated, so we had to improvise by moving the entire class out onto the driving range. In

Todd Sones week continues on danbubanygolf.com. Todd is featured in this month’s issue of Golf Magazine. Todd has been a Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor every year since 1995, currently serves on the Golf Academy’s National Advisory Board, and is a Golf Channel Academy Lead Instructor. Here’s the article:       Your new way