From: GolfWeek The U.S. Golf Association announced Monday the 16 American players who will attend the Walker Cup practice session Dec. 14-18 at The Los Angeles Country Club, where the 46th Walker Cup will be contested Sept. 9-10, 2017. Leading the list is the world’s top-ranked amateur Maverick McNealy, a senior at Stanford and the 2015 Haskins Award...
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From Golfweek: Lexi Thompson is the only woman in the Franklin Templeton Shootout field this week, and she’ll play the same tees as the men. Shock! Awe! Gasp! Right? No, not really. Let’s not make a bigger deal out of this than we need to. Touting this event as some kind of tricked-up Battle of the Sexes would be insulting not only to...
Read MoreSpirit Player Hughes Wins
From Golfweek: ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. – Sea Island Golf Club is a sleepy, sweet-tea kind of setting that doesn’t encounter a lot of rowdy fist-pumping, especially shortly after 8 a.m. on a quiet and brisk Monday. But rookie Mackenzie Hughes of Canada stood on the back of the green on the 17th hole at Seaside, the third hole of a playoff at the RSM...
Read MoreThe Y Connection
By Chris Rowe… The Y connection can be the missing link to consistent ball striking! In the first frame you notice my arms and the club create the letter Y. Maintain this Y connection from the 8:00position to the 4:00 position and you can go as hard as you want. The grip of the club always needs to point at your stomach through 8:00 to 4:00 while...
Read MoreStuck, Chris Rowe
We’ve all heard the term STUCK. Here is what STUCK looks like in frame 2. If you start your down swing and hit the bench you are STUCK. Good players have the tendency to get the club behind them and have to flip their hands through the impact zone to square the face. Frame 3 shows what staying on top of the ball would look like with a proper down...
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