Columnist: Golf Playing Tips
Erika Larkin Unlocks Your True Swing
By Jim Grosjean One might well wonder how a young girl from Queens, New York, who had very little access to any green grass golf courses, grew up to become one of Golf Digest’s 50 Best Teachers in America for 2024-2025. Her parents weren’t golfers. Her father was a Russian immigrant from Venezuela who […]
Golf Tip: Do You Really Need to Hit a 300-Yard Drive?
By Fred Altvater If you watch golf equipment commercials on television, you would think everyone should be able to hit it 300 yards. The OPEN Championship contested last month at Royal Liverpool in England proved that long drives aren’t always the key to winning and posting low scores. While Rory, Jon Rahm and Scottie Scheffler […]
Golf Training Aids Has Everything to Improve Your Golf Game
By Fred Altvater During the COVID Pandemic lockdown individuals found that one of the few outlets available was to be involved with golf. The question then was what about the casual golfer, or former golfers that needed products to improve their game while golf lessons and structured training were off the table due to mandatory […]
Get Fit and Lower Your Scores with GolfForever Swing Trainer
GolfForever has created a Swing Trainer, that provides a quick and easy way to increase your flexibility and lower your scores, as well. We have seen the commercials on television with Justin Leonard extolling the virtues of warming up and working out at home to lower your scores. Scottie Scheffler uses the GolfForever Swing Trainer […]
Golf Travel Packing Tips
By Ed Schmidt, The Golf Travel Guru Your airline tickets are purchased, tee times are made and you are set to embark on your DREAM Golf Trip! Don’t forget to pack your “A” game! Plus, a few other important items that will help prevent annoyances and hassles that will quickly turn your “A’ game […]
Please Replace Your Divots: For the Health of Golf
By Mike May As a golf writer who gets a chance to play a wide variety of courses around the country, I have come to the conclusion that golf courses are true national treasures, which should be cherished and preserved. To that end, one of my goals, when I play golf, is to make sure […]
Tips to Get the Most From Your Practice Session
By Fred Altvater Are you one of those golfers that never goes to the range? And when you do simply reach in the bag for the ‘Big Dog’ and starts slicing, hooking and topping mishit drivers? Here are a few tips for getting more benefit from your time spent on the practice range. […]
Golf Tip Just for the Ladies
By Fred Altvater Statistic prove that more women are beginning to play the game than ever before. They decide to take up golf for a variety of reasons. They want to be able to play golf with their husbands, or friends. Maybe they are nearing retirement and are looking for an outdoor activity. They may […]
Take a Tip From The Pros, Work On Your Short Game
By: Fred Altvater Once you have striped a drive down the fairway with your Weapon of Mass Destruction, do you routinely find the green, or are you forced to make a miraculous recovery from the fringe, rough or bunker, to avoid making a bogey, or worse? Everyone knows the old saying, “Drive for […]
Let’s Talk Putting
By Fred Altvater Before you beat yourself up the next time you miss that six-foot putt to lose a couple of bucks to your golfing buddy, consider this. The average of putts made inside eight feet for all PGA Tour Pros is only 67%. If tour professionals miss three, or four putts for every ten putts longer than five feet, we should feel […]