I picked up a copy of Putting Out of Your Mind by Bob Rotella a few days ago and I’m enjoying it.
The mental side of the game is one of the main appeals for me. I’ve learned so much about composure and self-control over the years. Taking up golf a couple of years ago meant [...]

(Crossposted at my other blog.)
Last fall, around the time it got too cold to golf anymore, I was feeling pretty discouraged about the game.
It seemed to me that after a year & a half of playing I should have been getting better. Ha. I was as close to breaking 100 at the end of 2006 [...]

I have taken three lessons now with Darlene Sommer at Play Better Golf. First she changed my grip. Then she changed my address.
Yesterday she took me on the next step — my backswing.
Turns out I wasn’t rotating my shoulders at the top of my swing — they were too flat. This caused my club head [...]

Golfgirl linked to an article by a Scotsman who believes women don’t work as much on their shorts games as much as men do.
Unfortunately, he takes a rather unkind tone — he describes women’s short games with words like “inadequate” and “inferior” — hello, somebody else needs to be expressing a bit of [...]

“They say” that when you take lessons, your game will initially get a little worse. That’s been true for me — despite having a few great holes, I’ve been watching my already-high-handicap creep up the last few weeks, instead of going the other way.
But I may have turned a corner within the last few days [...]

When I went to the Rochester LPGA in June, they were offering free 10 minute lessons. Fortunately they were booked solid that day, so instead I got option B: take a lesson with golf pro Darlene Sommer at Play Better Golf.
So a few weeks later I set up an appointment and went in.
It blew [...]

I’d just hit a nice iron onto the green.
Then the garbage truck roared on the street out front. Woke me up.
And I’m so sure I was going to par that hole . . .

Posted this on the forum over at The Golf Space, my new favorite online hangout
1. Get a handicap. Time to grow up, LOL. I mean, it won’t be THAT embarrassing, will it???
2. Learn to do a better job getting my head out of the way so my body can just PLAY.
3. Cure my [...]