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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 –

For a minute there, it looked like Dustin Johnson was going to win the 115th U.S. Open. At worst, he would be going to an 18-hole playoff against Jordan Spieth Monday at Chambers Bay. And then, Johnson missed the putt… from three feet away. It was another stunning loss for Johnson, who also lost the

The U.S. Open is topic du jour at the Golf Academy this week. In Rules of Golf this morning, we discussed some of the different rulings that we saw play out in Round 1 at Chambers Bay. Two specific incidents caught our attention. They illustrate that these Tour players, even though they’re the best in