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An in home work out regiment from Golf Digest

I played Waverly Woods Golf Course with my friend last week. It’s an open course with long rolling fairways that tend to slope in either direction. This provides an interesting challenge because a player wants to be technical with their shots, hitting to sections to provide the ride bounce and roll to carry long distances. [...]

I will admit, it is difficult to keep the left arm straight in the back swing. About half way through the bucket I realized that I started bending my left arm. The bend was not as prominent as it was initially before I started keeping my left arm straight. I had to get used to [...]

A major component to beginners golf that I never realized is that you must keep your left arm straight. This was pointed out to me by my friend who was watching my back swing. Look at the pros, the left arm in the back swing is straight. If you take your left arm, point it [...]

I played at the Cacapon Golf Resort on Saturday with my father and to be honest, I played like shit. It didn’t help that the gnats were so thick that the second you stood still they would try to fly in your ears. Also the sun came out after a nice humid morning and created [...]

There are three general styles that people hold a golf club. There is the Baseball Grip, Vardon Grip, and the Interlocking Grip. I seem many people default to the baseball grip. This grip can tend to lead to fat shots and poor form because one feels they should swing the club like a baseball bat. [...]

One the things that I overlooked when I first took up golf years ago as a kid was club selection. I had a set of hand me down clubs that were a hodge-podge of different sets. This included a Driver that was the length that I should be using and a series of irons that [...]

Today I start documenting my attempt at learning Golf through using the resources that I was brought up with, the Internet. I have never taken a lesson and adopted every imperfection that a golfer can suffer from. So, at the start of this summer I bought a new set of clubs and resigned myself to [...]

I’ve never been much in to sports myself. My father had his favorites but he was never a real fan. I didn’t have lots of friends in the beginning that were big sports fans either. Then again, I also grew up a bit in Ohio where there really weren’t any teams to be proud of. [...]