I thought we came up with a pretty good list of the world’s best bunker players in Advanced Elements of the Short Game: Tiger Woods (he’s not good at much of anything now), Jordan Spieth, Gary Player, Seve Ballesteros (who credited growing up along the beach in Spain for his amazing sand game), Tom Kite, Chi-Chi …
Todd Sones is one of Golf Digest’s 50 Best Teachers in America and has been a Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor every year since 1995. He also serves on the Golf Academy of America’s National Advisory Board and runs a golf school outside Chicago. This is a note from Todd’s most recent mailer that I thought I …
This morning, several of my Golf Academy classmates and I volunteered at the Junior Golf Association of Arizona’s Mesa City Junior Championship at Dobson Ranch. This is the same course where I used to go to practice when I took Introduction to Golf at Arizona State in the late 1990s. For whatever reason, we never had …
I’ve said several times since I started blogging in January of this year that my wife, Zoë, is the main reason why I’m able to attend the Golf Academy of America and pursue my dream. Today in Verbal Communication Skills, I delivered the second of four types of speeches I have to give throughout the semester, an informative speech about …
My favorite thing about the Golf Academy so far has been the outdoor Skills Development sessions we’ve had with PGA Professional Jay Friedman. This morning, my Advanced Elements of the Short Game class met at Ken McDonald Golf Course in Tempe for a hands-on discussion of the pitch shots we recently covered in Scoring With Pitching – …