Let’s say you’re on the road, staying at a smallish hotel room. You want to practice your golf game to keep your chops up, but you’re worried you might break something. What do you do? In reality, there are ways around obstacles like limited space, that make it possible for you to keep your game …
In a recent post, we brought back a bit of advice we’ve given on occasion to golfers everywhere: watching your swing on video. But what if you’re not so tech savvy? Or if you just don’t have the time to set up and take down video equipment every time you swing? Good news: there’s a …
What happens on the golf courses after dark? At the course near my house, night time brings a whole different clientele to the course. People walking dogs, throwing Frisbees, or jogging have been known to enter the course at night. But other golf courses don’t shut down at night. Instead, golfers take to the course …
It seems like there’s never enough time to practice golf. Every time you duff a shot, come up short on a chip, or end up in the drink instead of safely on the green, it’s so easy to get frustrated about your golf game, and blame the fact that you haven’t had time to practice. …
The back 9 can be a challenge for golfers. After nine holes of duking it out, you can often find that you need an extra boost to keep up your momentum. And while stopping by the snack shop for a beer or a big sloppy hot dog might seem tempting, trust us: it doesn’t work. …
As the saying goes, old habits die hard. But if those old habits are wrong, you have to make the effort to change them. And the same goes for the golf swing. In general, it takes 30 days to stop making an old, ineffective golf swing and start a new one. This is one of …
Golf is filled with paradoxes. To make the ball go up, you need to hit down with your irons. To get out of the trap, you have to hit the sand, not the ball. And once you take into account the mental aspects of golf, there are almost too many counterintuitive parts of the game …
At Pause-N-Throw, we’ve spent a lot of amount of time talking about the mental game of golf. And one important mental component of the game is avoiding intimidation. When you see a water hazard or sand trap in front of you, it psyches you out. Hazards are scary, it’s true, but there’s an easy way …
I like to play golf with my sons from time to time. One of them once told me, “Whenever I hit the ball, I always hit it about 3 degrees left. So, whenever I aim, I just aim 3 degrees right of wherever I want the ball to go and – voila! Accurate golf.” I …
If you look at a video of your swing- and it’s easy to do with cell phones these days – I guarantee you will see at least one thing that will improve your swing. For me, I saw two problems: I was closed to my target line and I was picking up the club rather …