Aaron Baddeley

I've always felt that his pre Leadbetter/pre Stack and Tilt swing was one of the most efficient-compact motions ever.
Baddeley seems like he has been around forever, but keep one thing in mind, "He has yet to turn 30".
So let's sit back, listen and watch Dan's perspective on Baddeley's swing over the years.




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Sean Foley Teaching Sean Ohair

Here's some Footage from our friend Kelvin Miyahira featuring Sean Foley teaching Sean Ohair at the Accenture MatchPlay.













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Jennifer Song..........Got Lag????

Jennifer Song (born December 20, 1989) is a professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour. In 2009 she won both the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links and the U.S. Women's Amateur Golf Championship. She was only the fourth player in history to win both championships and the second player to win both in the same year.
She made an impressive pro debut, winning the Futures Tour's Tate & Lyle Players Championship by six shots, capped by a 61 in the final round.

Song is a dual citizen of Korea and the United States.

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Slicefixer Webinar Part V

Here's Part 5



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Harnessing the Physical Forces

Here's Gregg McHatton with a couple of tips on how to harness the physical forces in the golf swing. He includes the 4 finger drill, which is great for those trying to feel what "maximum lag" is like.



Here's our friend Patrick McHugh demonstrating his rendition of the drill.



If you're still not satisfied HERE'S a reprint of a post we did last year on the concepts of Harnessing the forces.

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Slicefixer Webinar Part IV

Okay Here's Part 4

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Alvaro Quiros Swing Analysis

Today we're going to have Dan analyze the Swing of Alvaro Quiros. Alvaro has just posted his 5th. win in as many years. He is probably in the top 3 longest hitters on the World circuit (obviously not including long drive competitors) and has a unique charisma that makes him an International fan favorite.



Dan can be reached at: danwhittaker@btconnect.com

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Jackson Bradley: 1921-2010

In my opinion, Mr. Bradley was a "GothamGolfBlog" type of guy.


Jackson Bradley was a 57-year member of the PGA.He was an accomplished player on the PGA Tour from the 1940’s to the 1960’s, qualifying for and playing in 26 U.S. Opens and PGA’s. He also played in 2 U.S. Senior Opens; the last one in 1987 at the age of 65.

• He taught golf for 60 years, and was one of the most knowledgeable, accomplished instructors in the United States. He was an innovator in communications skills, being one of the first instructors in the early 60’s to use movie, sequence, and Polaroid cameras; then video cameras in more recent years.

• He starred in a LIVE TV show originating in Chicago for 3 years, from 1950 to 1953.

• He was one of the first writers for Golf Digest, from 1950 to 1961.

• He served on the National Tournament Committee of the PGA for 7 years, from 1953 to 1962, and also served on the Rules and Teaching Committees.

• He worked with others on the layout, design, and construction of 9 golf courses in the Houston area.

• He designed and held patents in one of the first metal woods in the early 1960’s.

• He was elected to the Texas Golf Hall of Fame in 1993 for a lifetime of accomplishments and outstanding contributions to the game of golf.

Here's a reprint of an interview Mr. Bradley did for Austin Golf Magazine (reprint courtesy of Carlton Wade)

Jackson David Bradley
Born in Tipton, Indiana, October 26th, 1921

I lived in Indiana until I was seven. I had a uncle who was a doctor. He was the one who introduced me to golf, and I broke all the windows on the street where he lived, because I thought I could just go out in the yard and practice hitting golf shots. My aunt was a very small woman, so the clubs she had were perfect for me as modified junior clubs.

I moved to Long Beach, California in 1929 and lived there until I went to serve my country in the Navy in 1941. I was on an attack transport that was involved in landings at places such as Okinawa and Iwojima. I wanted to go into the Marines, because I thought I was a pretty tough guy. But my dad told me, “You don’t want to go into the Marines. They’re the ones who do all the fighting and all the dying.” And he was right.

Golf probably kept me out of jail. I had an inclination to get into things and situations where I didn’t belong. A wealthy local businessman named Will Reed offered the ten best junior players in the area the opportunity to join Virginia Country Club (now called Recreation Park and owned by the City of Long Beach), which was a very nice course. It cost us $7.70 a month. The seventy cents was the tax.

I turned pro in Long Beach when I was 19 at the Lakewood Golf Club. I’d been there for about a year and a half when the war broke out Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. We had a golf tournament going on, and every golfer on the course was Japanese. I had to go out on the course and tell them what had happened. They all marched in with their heads down and quit their round.

I’ve lived longer than I thought I would. My dad died when he was 54. My grandfather Bradley died when he was about 60. He and I had gone out to paint the barn, and he got his arms up over his head and had a heart attack. I don’t think you want to paint over your head unless you’ve been checked out.

I think the Lord gives you what you can handle. I have five daughters, and I think maybe if I’d had a son, I might have been too hard on him to excel where I didn’t. It’s probably a natural inclination.

I guess everyone in golf is a specialist now. Short game specialists, fitness specialists, mental game specialists. When I started out, we did everything. Cleaned the floors, waxed the cabinets, jumped on a tractor. There are too many things to be done before you open the door. There was no such thing as being a specialist.

I gave Brent Buckman a lesson one time when I was at The Academy of Golf. All I did was straighten out his posture, and he played lights out. It doesn’t take much to get him to play well. He’s a good player and a very nice man.

I played in fifteen consecutive PGA Championships, from 1947 to 1961. I played in ten US Opens. I played in the first US Senior Open, which was at Winged Foot. That was the same year they passed the “Arnold Palmer rule”, where you had to be 50 to play in a senior event.

Nicklaus wasn’t on the team when the Ryder Cup was at Champions in 1967. The reason was that he wasn’t yet a PGA Member. He didn’t turn pro until 1962. Back then, you had to be a PGA Member to play in the Ryder Cup. That was before the players took over.

In the 1961 US Open at Cherry Hills, Nicklaus was still an amateur and almost won. That was the year Arnold Palmer shot 65 in the final round to win. I finished tied for 17th with Sam Snead, Gary Player and Bob Goalby. If I’d have shot 73 in the final round instead of 74, I would’ve played in the Masters the following year.

I had it going in the third round there. I was five under par on the 13th hole, tied with Hogan, and I took the gas. I bombed a drive on 14 and had about 200 yards left. I was way up on a hill hitting down to the green and tried to hit it pin high with a seven iron. I wasn’t thinking. It landed up on the green, but spun all the way back down. The next hole, I knew I was still in the thick of things and got a little excited. It was about a 200-yard par three, and I half shanked it. I went from five under to three under in just a few minutes, and then I did the most remarkable thing that has ever happened to me in golf. I hit my second shot to the 16th hole, and it went into the cup. But it had so much backspin that it spun around in there and hopped back up out. That ball was down in the hole and came out. Coming around to 18, I was four-under, and I drove it into a little inlet off the fairway. I had to play the shot with one foot in the water, and I half-shanked it into a greenside bunker. I hit a terrible bunker shot just on the green and promptly three-putted for a 69. That took me out of business. I played right behind Palmer that year and watched him drive it on the first green. I could hit it as far as him, so I stepped up there and tried to do the same thing, but I hit it in the creek and started out with a six. That wasn’t the way I wanted to start.

I won the first pro tournament I entered, the Santa Anita Open. It was a WPA (Work Progress Administration) course, par 70, about 7,000 yards long. I shot the course record and beat some very good players. The entire purse was $1000. First prize was $300. I felt like a rich man. In 1948, I won the Montebello Open, where Pete Jacobs (Tommy and John Jacobs’ dad) was the manager/owner. I beat Teddy Rhodes by a shot. Teddy was the best black golfer back then.

In the LA Open, about a 1000 people qualified. I might have been about 20 then. In the qualifying round, I was paired with Howard Wheeler, a cross-handed black golfer who was a good player and a very nice man. Anyway, they teed us off about an hour and a half earlier than everyone else. At the time, I couldn’t figure out why, but I later learned that they didn’t like blacks or Jews playing their course.

Johnny Revolta and I starred in the first live television show about golf. It was called Pars, Birdies and Eagles. It was in primetime, and the whole thing was improvised. We had a higher rating than Milton Berle. I had to join the Screen Actor’s Guild, which was good for me, because I think actors were getting about $165/hour back then. Joe Jemsek was one of our sponsors.

Jemsek owned Cog Hill and St. Andrews (west of Chicago). Joe was a Russian, and a brilliant guy. He worked as a caddie and car parker at Cog Hill and ended up owning it. He told me one year that his golf operation netted him $265,000 after taxes, which was a small fortune in the late forties. He contacted every corporation he could think of, and he’d host their outings. He was a wizard at everything he did.

In 1944 at Medinah, I was paired with Bob Hamilton, who was a PGA Champion, and Tony Penna. I’d shot 69-71 on Saturday, and Hamilton shot in the high eighties and withdrew. I think he was all huffed up because here was this nobody Bradley kid who was chipping in and doing all sorts of good things on a very tough course. In the afternoon, Penna lasted seven holes and quit. I had to sit on a bench somewhere on the front nine with my scorecard and wait on the group behind to come up, so I’d have someone to play in with.

I came around when golf was in the dark ages, and I think golf may have progressed to the dark ages again. There’s an opinion on everything. Biomechanics, for example. I don’t know if I’ve met anyone smart enough to do all the things that are being taught today. Golf has also really gotten commercial.

In 1953 in the PGA at Birmingham CC in Michigan, I found myself matched against Ellsworth Vines in the first round. He’d beaten me the year before at Oakland Hills, and he was somewhat demeaning to me in his victory. The good Lord was very kind in giving me a chance for revenge. I dusted him off. Not by much, maybe 3 & 2, and I enjoyed every minute of it. But then I had bigger problems. I had to play the winner of the Sam Snead/Tommy Bolt match.

Bolt did a terrible thing to Snead. He had Snead’s bags packed and delivered to him in the locker room along with his airline reservations back to Virginia. When Snead got to the locker room and saw his packed bags and airline tickets, Bolt told him, “You won’t be around here very long. I just wanted to save you some money.” Everyone died of hysterics. In the afternoon, I was playing Bolt.

Early into that round, Bolt wasn’t paying much attention, and I birdied the first couple of holes. We were playing stymies, and they still had the old “60 foot” rule, where you couldn’t touch your ball until you were within 60 feet of the hole. Bolt walked up on the third hole and started to mark his ball, and I stopped him and said, “Tommy, don’t mark your ball, or you’ll lose the hole.” He didn’t like that. The reporters were all over us, and I told him, “Tommy, I know you haven’t been in many big time tournaments, but ol’ Jackson will get you through this.” I think I beat him one-up. It’s interesting how you could apply the needle. I lost my third round match to Dave Douglas on the 37th hole, which kept me out of the Masters.

We played match play until 1958. In the last match play event, Dow Finsterwald was a finalist. Lionel Hebert beat him, and the next year at the Larnyx Club in Philadelphia, we went to medal play. They were nice enough to have us back for the 40th reunion of that event. Finsterwald won this time.

It seemed like it was tough to run a business and play competitive golf.

I was on the PGA Rules Committee. I served seven years, and after five years, I told them I didn’t want to do it again, and they had a terrible experience with my replacement, so they had a special election and elected me back again.

My best friend in golf was Jay Hebert.

In The 1958 US Open at Southern Hills in Tulsa, I had a pretty fair round going, and I was a cinch to make it to the weekend. On the 13th hole, a converted par 5, I played out of the rough, then short of the pond, then up on the green. They’d syringed the greens, and my ball was covered in mud. I four-putted from six feet below the hole. I was furious. I walked over into the rough to where John Winters and Joe Dye, who was the Executive Secretary of the USGA, were standing. I took the muddy ball and ground it into Joe Dye’s palm and used very bad language on him. In so many words, I expressed my interest in changing the rule.

I was on the PGA Rules Committee, and we met with the USGA in Augusta at the Masters the next year. At that time, you could have 16 clubs in your bag, so we made a deal. If we could mark and clean the ball on the green, we’d give up two clubs. They agreed, and that happened in 1959. I can’t say that I changed the rule, but remember, the USGA must work in accord with the Royal & Ancient. They had to get the R&A to agree on any major rule changes. In my presentation for the rules change, I said that in Scotland, you could drop a ball from 10,000 feet and it wouldn’t make a dent on the green, much less pick up mud.

The last time I played with Nicklaus, he and I played a practice round with Ben Hogan before the first round of the 1961 US Open at Oakland Hills, where Gene Littler won.

Ben Hogan had a date with King Leopold III of Belgium and his wife Lilianne. Hogan called me and said, “I want you to block off a week and send me a bill. We’re going to entertain Leopold and Lilianne.” I said, “Wonderful. And don’t worry about the money.” It was a bitter cold day at River Oaks, and after nine holes we had lunch. Hogan said, “Jackson, you keep going with them. I’m going to bow out.” This was after his car accident, and his circulation just wasn’t good enough to keep him out there in the cold.

I made the cut in 90% of the events I played. I think if I played today, I could’ve made a nice living as a tour player. The money they play for today is really incredible. In the early fifties, the combined total purses from events all over the world were less than $500,000.

I wish someone would put together information on how purses have changed. Nicklaus never won any money.

Arnold Palmer gave golf a different look. He was a real charging player. He was a very good driver and an excellent putter. He kept George Low, who was the Dave Pelz of my era, on his payroll. George kept Arnold down and steady on the green, and taught him to knock his knees in like he did. I think Arnold had the greatest effect on golf because he was a showman. He was a swashbuckler. He made no bones about trying to win every tournament he entered.

Tiger Woods’ game is simple to fix. He doesn’t seem to understand that if the club is swinging, the ball will go where the club wants it to. He says the club gets stuck behind him? That’s bull. He’s just pulling the club. There’s no pulling in the golf swing, only centrifugal force. Tiger has had such an outstanding career. He has a very intelligent mother and father, who could see what his potential was. I think he worked at it hard for the first ten years he was on Tour, and now it seems like maybe he has quit working so hard. I think a great musician once said, I need to practice every day. When I don’t practice every day, other expert musicians can tell. When I don’t practice for a week, everyone on Earth can tell.

The first time I played with Byron Nelson was in 1942 at the New Orleans Open. That was where I won my first check. Twenty-five dollars. When Byron changed from hickory to steel shafts, he learned to point the club to the sky in his backswing and swing square to square. Everyone used to swing like Bobby Jones. Buggywhippers.

I became a PGA member in 1946 and played in 15 consecutive PGA’s. At the time, I didn’t think anything of it. I just thought it was something I should do. I was pretty good at qualifying.

In Akron, Ohio in the 1955 Firestone Open, I tied for first with Jack Burke, Henry Ransom and Doug Ford. Ransom sunk a fifty-footer to get into the playoff and then sunk a forty-footer on the first playoff hole to win.

The reason I came to Texas was because of Jack Burke. From Long Beach, I went to Edgewater Golf Club in Chicago in 1953. Edgewater was the home of Chick Evans, who won the US Amateur and the US Open in the same year (1916). When I was there, the club manager stole all the money and disappeared. If I understand scripture, and I think I do, you don’t get away with anything. The club couldn’t honor my contract because of the theft, and as luck would have it, Jack Burke and Jimmy Demaret called me and said that River Oaks needed a new pro. They’d recommended me, which was tantamount to getting the job unless you had a record as a child molester. I was interviewed by Fisher Reynolds, and it was the most thorough interview I’d ever been through. I really appreciated his concern in getting the right guy for the job.



A golf pro in the development business is a good example of what Dr. Peters wrote about as the Peter Principle, where you finally elevate to a level of total incompetence. I was at River Oaks for 14 years, until I went into business with some of the members. We developed a golf community in Conroe. I ended up in Huntsville at Elkins Lake. I think if the homeowners had the opportunity, they’d have a Jackson Bradley parade. I deeded the entire development into price of the lots, so the property owners own the entire development.

After Burke won the Masters and the PGA in 1956, he went over to Japan. I was at River Oaks at the time. While he was over there, he volunteered that I would take a Japanese player as an assistant, and he’d take one at Champions. The only thing was, the guy I got was an excellent player, but couldn’t speak a word of English. The only thing I could do with him was stick him out on the golf course and have him play with the members. They loved it. He averaged about 67 around the old Donald Ross course at River Oaks.

I had a caddie named Homero Blancas while I was at River Oaks. Homero had a world of skill, but he also liked beer. He was interviewed one time in Houston, and he said that he’d never had one golf lesson in his whole life. I’d given him a thousand lessons, and my assistants had given him plenty. So, Robbie Williams, the pro at Memorial Park called me and said, “Jackson, did you see what Homero said in the paper?” I hadn’t, and he told me what Homero had said, and we had a good laugh about how many lessons we’d all given him. Homero and I were inducted into the Texas Golf Hall of Fame at the same time. At my speech, I said that the difference in lessons and non-lessons must be what you pay for, because Homero never paid for a single lesson.

Homero shot 55 at a little course in Longview, which I think is still the lowest recorded round in golf history. He had the world by the tail. I set him up with sponsors at River Oaks, where he could play golf and subsist on expenses, and in a few years, he’d be a multi-millionaire. But he ran into a guy on the Tour who told him he should manage his own money. Against my advice, this guy convinced him to quit his sponsors. In three years, he was out of money.

I held a patent on the first metal wood. In Houston from day to day, it’s constantly humid and dry, humid and dry, and the old woods would crack and chip, so I got tired of going to the post office and returning clubs to Chicago, Cincinnati and Chicopee, Massachusetts. I taught a kid named Ralph Foltz. His dad was a dentist, and I told him that there’s got to be a better way to make a club. Drawing from my experiences as an errand boy for Dr. Hans Bush, who did technical work for dentists, I came up with an idea to make a filling and mold the clubhead around the filling. Sort of a reverse process for filling a tooth. Dr. Foltz liked the idea and agreed to back it. He later died, and I let the patents lapse, like an idiot.

I tried to qualify for the British Open in 1966. When I flew over to Scotland, George Fazio and I went out to Muirfield for a practice round. When we got out there, it was raining and the wind was blowing so hard you couldn’t even get it over the rough on the first hole. He hit three balls, and they all stayed in the rough. I hit one and barely got it over. George decided not to play, but I pressed on and played a round. When I got in, the Scots were very interested in the crazy American out on the course. They invited me in the clubhouse, which was unheard of. The Secretary of the club came out to greet me on the last hole and told me that if anyone would play on such an awful day, they had to get to know who it was.

I used video before anyone. I used it to promote my development in Conroe. I bought an outfit from Til Thompson in Ruidoso, New Mexico. He developed the “photo finish” equipment used to determine horserace winners. He did a custom-made job for me that cost about $6000. It lasted about six months. That was when I was making a little money and didn’t have any sense.

I didn’t know better at the time, but as I look back, you’ve got to get that first ball in play. I tried to hit it hard off the tee. Think about a tennis player. He can be the best player ever, but if he doesn’t get that first serve in, he won’t beat anyone.

My best year was in 1953. I made the cut in every event I played, and cashed a check in almost all of them.

Bobby Leadbetter and Johnny Myers from Monroe, Louisiana were both assistant pros of mine at River Oaks in Houston. So was Bob Rosburg.

Ernest Jones contended that there are no positions in golf other than posture at address and how you hold the club. He said that the golf swing can only be conceived as one continuous motion. That blows everyone out of the water. I guess I’m one of the few people left that still teaches that way.

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Slicefixer Webinar Part III

Okay, the moment you've all been waiting for:
"Part 3"



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Too Much Lag????

Today we're going to have Gregg McHatton explain why you can't have too much lag. He'll be using Peter Ellebye, Sergio Garcia and Lee Trevino in this post as examples.
Before we go into the post here's an email I recently recieved:

Ralph- Reptilian...huh??? I have been using Gregg's model as a basis for my own motion since June or July, and am now comfortable with "swinging left", to the extent that I am using this CP motion in competition. My last 2 events here in the Dixie PGA I finished tied for first and tied for fourth...all I want to say is thank you for posting his swing. It is a great benchmark for me.-Dave




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Slicefixer Webinar Part II

Okay, Gotham Guys and Gals here's Part 2



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Rory McIlroy an analysis by Dan Whittaker

Today Dan Whittaker is going to give us an analysis of Rory McIlroy's golf swing.




Dan can be reached at: danwhittaker@btconnect.com

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Slicefixer Webinar I

I recently spoke to our friend Geoff Jones aka Slicefixer and asked him if he could put together a little something for our blog. The result of our conversation was the webinar which we will start today. Unlike a lot of Golf Instructors out there today, Geoff has "been there and done it" and he has the scars to prove it. So sit back and enjoy as Geoff disseminates his information for us. Here's part 1:



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Why Golf TV

Here are the next episodes of Why Golf TV.





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John Graham and Aimpoint technologies

We're going to return to our coverage of the 2011 PGA Show. In this post we will feature our friend John Graham. John is going to first discuss basic green reading based on the concepts developed by Aimpoint technologies and then he will talk about stimp determination.

John has also written several reviews on some of the products featured at the show including what I consider an outstanding review of the Flightscope X2 launch monitor. He has also written a comparison of Flightscope and Trackman. These reviews can be found on John's website www.johngrahamgolf.com.


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Justin's Progress

Today we're going to take a look at Justin's progress with Dan Whittaker.

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Tour Edge Exotics 2011

Today we're going to air our PGA Show session with our good friend Andy Silis of Tour Edge Golf. Andy is going to take us through Tour Edge's Exotics line, discussing it's features and design. I own the CB3 driver and will be doing an in depth review on CB4 shortly. This video is also in Hi Def

To learn more about Tour Edge Golf, please visit: www.touredge.com

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Martin Kaymer 2011 an analysis

Today we're going to have a look at the swing of 2010 PGA Champion and current World Number 2, Martin Kaymer. We will do this through the eyes of our very own Dan Whittaker.



Dan can be reached at: danwhittaker@btconnect.com

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Mike Hebron

Here's a snippet of Mike's presentation during the 1991 PGA Teaching and Coaching Summit. There are some points which I tried to make on the forum, which I think Mike clarifies in this video.

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Flightscope X2 2011

Now that we have been briefed on Trackman and it's capabilities, let's take a look at it's leading competitor Flightscope. I was fortunate enough to be afforded the opportunity to have Mr. David Nell walk me through Flightscope and it's features.
Here's the video:

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Some Local Anouncements

The Westchester Golf Show is in it's 7th. year.

Among the features are:

• Tons of Free Instruction
• All Major Manufacturers will be demonstrating their products at the Driving Range
• Huge Pro Shop with plenty of Close Out Items
• Bridgestone Ball Fitting
• Hourly Prizes
• Exhibitors from Ranges, Courses and Resorts
• Golftec simulators
• Special Ladies Area

For more information please contact John Zanzarella at (914) 945-0480

Tournament in Puerto Rico

MUJI’S GOLF PUERTO RICO VACATION

DATE: MARCH 1ST THRU MARCH 7TH, 2011

$639.00

GOLF VACATION INCLUDES:

AIRFARE VIA JET BLUE NEW YORK (JFK) TO PONCE, PUERTO RICO
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RETURN: PONCE (JFK) MONDAY MARCH 7TH, 2011

HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS (5 NIGHTS)
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NOTE:
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We will play Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sunday leisure
Green fees will be advice not included.

FOR INFORMATION AND RESERVATIONS CALL
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***Airfare subject to change
Transfers to hotel not included (Car rental is recommended) ask Muji.

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Why Golf Tv

Here are the first 3 episodes

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Why Golf TV--Interview with Connor Oshea

Our friend Connor Oshea has launched project called "Why Golf TV". Here's a brief Bio:

NAME : Conor O'Shea

CPGA DESIGNATION : A member? :)

LOCATION : Piper's Heath Academy / Core Golf Academy, Milton, On

EXPERIENCE : 8 Years in coaching, spent time with some of the best teachers / coaches / thinkers in the world. Along with experts in other fields to form my opinions.

PHILOSOPHY : ? ?Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler?.

BACKGROUND :

Grad of Charleston Southern University NCAA Division 1
Worked at the Clublink Academy at Glen Abbey
Mentored by Sean Foley
Currently working with many highly ranked amateurs as well as Mini Tour Pros
FUTURE : To work with the best players in the world.

ULTIMATE FOURSOME : Tiger, Dave Chappelle, Jesus

MOST MEMORABLE ROUND OF GOLF : The next one I play.

ADVICE YOU'VE RECEIVED : Listen, be passionate , have a plan,. question everything, give of yourself.

ADVICE YOU'D GIVE : WHERE to Start ? Without sounding like a high school yearbook.

THE GOLF SWING IS ? (ART AND SCIENCE)

OPEN CHAT :

Golf is happiness.
It's intoxication without the hangover,
It's stimulation without the pills,
Its price is high yet its rewards are richer,
Some say it's a boy's pastime yet it builds men,
It cleanses the mind & rejuvenates the body,
It's these things & many more for those of us who know & love it.
Golf is truly happiness.

-MOE NORMAN-

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Sergio Garcia an Analysis by Motion Golf

Today we're going to have Mitchel Spearman from Motion Golf analyze Sergio Garcia's swing. I took the liberty of adding some youtube clips from Lake1926 and Inchmarlodc. According to their website:

Motion Golf is the Industry Leader in Game Improvement Using Full Body 3-D Motion Capture

Motion Golf is the best source of golf swing analysis, instruction and fitness training for everyone from beginners to tour professionals available today. But don't take our word for it. Download our 3-D Swing Analyzer and see for yourself how motion capture has won the technology war over old 2-D video systems.

FOR GOLFERS Motion Golf is proven to be the fastest route to game improvement. Swing analysis, instruction and golf-specific fitness are available throughout the US and in South Africa. CLICK HERE to find a location near you! FOR TEACHING PROS & FITNESS PROFESSIONALS The Motion Sports Institute is led by Dr Troy Van Beizen, our Director of Health & Fitness, and Buck Mayers, our Director of Instruction. Based in our Dallas, Texas location, the Institute offers courses such as how to use technology in swing instruction, golf biomechanics and fitness. CLICK HERE to find our workshop and course listings. FOR GOLF FACILITY OWNERS If you own a Golf Academy, golf center or country club, learn how you can bring a Motion Golf system to your facility. Motion Golf offers one of the most innovative partnership programs in the industry. CLICK HERE to learn how you can add revenue to your business with Motion Golf.

Here's the analysis:

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Opti Shot Golf Simulator

Today we're going to take a look at Opti Shot. Opti Shot is an indoor golf simulator which can be used as a swing analysis tool and as a replacement to actual golf rounds for those of us in the Northeast that are suffering from "Cabin Fever".

For more information please visit: www.dancindogg.com

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The Ball Flight Laws

Today we're going to have Dan Whittaker describe in Laymen's terms the Ball flight Laws. These laws were defined by Theodore Jorgensen in his treatise, "The Physics of Golf". Dan will take you through the "Basic Concepts". If you're interested in a more in depth analysis I suggest you purchase and read Jorgensen's Book and/or the Trackman Newsletter.

Dan can be reached at: danwhittaker@btconnect.com

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Rickie Fowler--Swing Analysis by Gregg Mchatton

Today we're going to have Gregg Mchatton analyze Rickie Fowler's swing.



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