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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

Sadly, Tiger Woods is at it again. With a ten-over-par 80 in the opening round of the U.S. Open Thursday at Chambers Bay, Woods carded his 4th worst round as a professional. Three of those four rounds have come in the last five months. Woods got off to another terrible start with back-to-back bogeys and

The 115th U.S. Open tees off in just a couple of hours, and the criticism is building. Golf Digest’s Geoff Shackelford has already typed my favorite line – “wait for it, the first to say they ruined a good gravel pit.” Chambers Bay is different, that’s for sure. Get ready for some links golf boys