Archive for the The New Four Magic Moves Category


PGA Tour 2010 Kicks Off In Familiar Fashion

It may be a new year, but so far 2010 looks exactly the same as 2009. Australia’s Geoff Ogilvy fired a stellar final-round -6, 67 to hold off a hard-charging Rory Sabbatini and successfully defend the SBS Championship in Hawaii, Sunday. Although it was not in the same dominating fashion as last season when Ogilvy […]

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Smash Through Your Comfort Zone in 2010

When I discuss playing in pressure-packed situations with my professional students, I’ll always try and remind them that… all great things are accomplished outside their comfort zones. Or, I might say to them — rarely does anything exceptional happen if you’re afraid to get a little uncomfortable. And then, we actually prepare for that uncomfort […]

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A Decade Of Memories In The Majors.

The 00’s have officially passed us by and with it goes one of the most memorable decades in major championship golf history. The dominance of Tiger Woods was a hallmark of the past ten years and while the great man did produce some of the most impressive golf in major history there were other players […]

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Year-End Awards Highlight Stars On All Tours.

The Hollywood Foreign Press announced their nominations for the Golden Globe Awards this week and the Academy of Arts and Sciences will be doing the same in a month or so. And while December is a hot month for movies, it is a decidedly slow one for golf. That being said it’s a great opportunity […]

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Great Gift Ideas For The Golfers

Happy holidays my fellow golf aficionados! Seeing as how Christmas is poking it’s head around the corner I thought I might do something a little different and provide you last-minute shoppers out there with a a few ideas for the golfer on their list. The main rule I would recommend if you are buying for […]

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The Most Important 48 Shots in Golf…

Okay — so you want to be a scratch golfer. I for one believe you can reach that goal — if of course, you have the requisite time and talent. And if you have access to the correct information through instruction or books/DVDs. And if…and this is a big IF…you learn that great play, which […]

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2009 Walker Cup Sides Taking Shape

The historic Merion Golf Club will host the best amateur golfers from the United States and Great Britain and Ireland when the 41st staging of the Walker Cup kicks off from September 12-13. This past Sunday the United States Golf Association selected eight of their ten players to compete against Great Britain and Ireland in […]

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Golf: Going For Gold In 2016

Tiger Woods has just about done it all in the game of golf: 14 major championships, 69 career wins on tour, a record stay at world number one, NCAA, U.S Amateur and Junior titles, Fed-Ex, Ryder, and Presidents Cups. There’s not much else to conquer really. Over the weekend at the Buick Open Sir Nick […]

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Ahead Of The Class

Phil Mickelson did it on the PGA Tour. So did Scott Verplank. In recent years Pablo Martin and Danny Lee have done it in Europe. I’m taking, of course, about winning a professional tournament while still an amateur, something Oklahoma State’s Rickie Fowler came oh so close to doing Sunday at the Nationwide Tour’s Children’s Hospital […]

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Red-Hot Kaymer Chases Three In A Row At Turnberry

When discussion arises about the next European golfer to win a major, the names that surface are usually pretty predictable. Garcia, Stenson, Westwood, Casey- so the list usually goes. And while most pundits are proclaiming Rory McIlroy the next superstar of European golf (and rightly so), another youngster has quietly been going about his business, […]

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LPGA Players Call For Commissioner To Step Down

Mutinies are historically associated with pirates and sea-faring ships. They are not, usually, associated with putters and professional sports. However, that’s exactly what has transpired this week as a number of LPGA players have called for, and possibly received, the resignation of LPGA commissioner Carolyn Bivens. In the same week as the biggest event event […]

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Great White Shark Back in Troubled Waters

Most of the endearing images we have from the Masters are victorious ones: Jack Nicklaus raising that huge, black putter head in the air as he birdied 17 on the way to an improbable victory in 1986. Nick Faldo putting his hands above his head in disbelief as he knocked over Scott Hoch in the […]

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Mickelson overcomes health scare for Doral victory

Phil Mickelson reminded everyone that there is more to a World Golf Championship tournament than a Tiger Woods comeback story. After being treated for exhaustion and dehydration overnight, Lefty returned to the Doral Resort course for the fourth round in a battling mood and ruggedly went about ensuring his first CA Championship and maiden WGC […]

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Million-dollar Japanese teen headed for Augusta

Within one week, 17-year-old Japanese golf sensation Ryo Ishikawa was given a million-dollar golf club and a fulfilled wish that could be worth millions more. The schoolboy, who at 15 years old became the youngest winner of a professional tournament, has been given a driver which cost US$1 million to develop by Japanese sports giant […]

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Tearful Sorenstams ends career with birdie

Even for an ice-cool Swede, the significance of a birdie-putt was too much and the emotion poured forth. Annika Sorenstam has made thousands of birdies in her life, some to win major championships. But this one was different because this was the final birdie of her professional career. Sorenstam birdied the 18th in her final […]

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