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Find an adventure
One of the challenges of coaching and playing college golf is that you travel to really cool places and have no time to explore. These days there is such a rush to do everything that finding moments to slow down and take it all in are few and far between. When I played back…
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What’s the best way to finish a practice session?…….
With a drill or activity that is both challenging and rewarding! One of my favorites is to pick a short game shot (whether from the bunker, a downhill lie chip, deep rough, basically anything goes) and practice is not over until you make it. This is a great way to test your patience and focus,…
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Aloha from Maui!
It’s been a long day of travel that required an enormous amount of patience and deep breathes. But we made it to paradise and get to spend the next 5 days here playing in University of Hawaii’s Tournament at the Kapalua Bay Course! In honor of my return to the Hawaiian Islands for the second…
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Some thoughts on this Thursday….
This morning I woke up and just wanted to play golf. I honestly can’t remember the last time I really felt that way. But yesterday I had the first real conversation I have ever had with someone about what’s going on with my game. And that conversation and the work we did on my…
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Warm Up Wednesday: The Uneven Farmer Carry
Sometimes preparing the body for activity is not always about mobility. Yes, leg swings and arm circles are great, but what about stoking the stability fire??? Today I bring you an exercise that most of us do in our daily life without even realizing it. The purpose, to engage and challenge those stabilizers! The Farmer…
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If you want to accelerate, you better be able to put on the brakes!
Today’s post is all about developing the ability to create power, and control it! An essential part of the golf swing is the transfer of energy. You have to create speed and through a process of one part of the body slowing down, it transfers the speed to another part of your body. That means…
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Monday Rehab: How to Fix Tiger Woods
Yes, I know how to fix Tiger and get him back to playing his best golf ever!………well, not really, but I figured I would jump on the bandwagon today since everyone else seems to know what he needs to do! Tiger has been the subject of much talk today on Golf Channel, Good Morning America…
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A little Sunday warm up
One of my favorite ways to get my body ready to move in a hurry is this little number! Lunge Reach and Pushup Step back in to an awesome reverse lunge focusing on hip/knee alignment, keeping the pelvis in a posterior tilt to actively stretch the hip flexors and keeping your chest tall Reach for…
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Read this!
The Titleist Performance Institute did a great article this past week sharing some of the behind the scenes work being done with now PGA Tour winner Adam Hadwin. I have been fortunate enough to spend time learning from everyone included in the article and to have even observed them working with Adam. They each…