FREE Putting Clinic – New York City – New York Golf Center

Pat O'Brien Putting Clinic Pat O'Brien, Director of Instruction at Lakewood CC in Dallas, TX, putting instructor to Zach Johnson, Vaughn Taylor and Ted Purdy among many others will be at the New York Golf Center giving a FREE putting clinic at the New York Golf Center – Manhattan – September 3rd – 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm. Learn how to putt like a Major Champion Hide the Red Dot and improve your stroke Thursday – September 3rd – 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm New York Golf Center (Manhattan) directions 131 W. 35th Street (between Broadway & 7th Ave.) New York, NY 10001 212-564-2255

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2015 U.S. Open host Chambers Bay, Gary Wiren on fixing golf, and BadGolfer.com’s rankings surprise

Click here to hear this latest episode of TravelGolf.com This Week. In this week’s podcast, host Dave Berner talks to WorldGolf.com’s Brandon Tucker about 2015 U.S. Open host Chambers Bay golf course near Seattle. “They’re going to be able to pack the spectators in on this course,” Tucker says. The event “could probably get a record attendance here.” PGA Hall of Fame member Gary Wiren – director of instruction for Donald Trump Golf Properties and founder of Golf Around the World – offers insight on what golf needs to do to grow. “Make it less hard,” Wiren says. “How do you do that? The first way is that when you’re introducing the game, you introduce it at a level where it’s easy to accomplish.” Plus, BadGolfer.com’s William K. Wolfrum offers a surprise from his most recent Golfer Supremacy Rankings . “We did have one surprise this week,” Wolfrum says. “We found one Dave Berner, host of the TravelGolf.com This Week podcast, on the list. You are the number four supreme golfer of the week, Dave.” This podcast is supported by Florida Golf and Travel and ArizonaGolf.com .

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Heath Slocum’s Barclays Championship Winning Clubs

Here is a complete list of the clubs that Heath Slocum used to win the 2009 Barclays Championship at Liberty National: DRIVER: Ping G15 (9 ) with Aldila RIP 70X shaft FAIRWAY WOOD: Adams 9032 (14.5 ) with Aldila VS Proto 70X shaft HYBRID: Adams Idea Pro (18 ) with Aldila Proto Hybrid 95X shaft IRONS: Ping i15 (3-PW) with Ping zz65 shafts WEDGES: Ping Tour W (54 ), Cleveland CG14 (60 ) with True Temper Dynamic Gold wedge shafts PUTTER: Ping Redwood Anser BALL: Titleist Pro V1x Take a look inside more PGA Tour winners' bags Following David Dusek on Twitter (Photo by Mel Evans/SP Photos)

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Fist pumping at the mailbox

For the last several years, at least five, I’ve been religiously sending in my application for Masters practice round tickets. For years I’ve waited for that envelope from golf Mecca, Augusta National, to arrive. This year I missed the deadline. I realized a day or two late, that I’d forgotten to send in my information to

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Practice with a purpose today

I’m playing golf at the nicest course in town today, 2:15pm. I’ll be with my dad, his cousin and another Greek guy who is really cool. The picture below is looking back up the fairway from #1 green at Hidden Valley CC… Lovely. My game has been bad this year, but has shown some signs of

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I need to classify cameras as consumables

I’ve broken yet another camera. I was taking a picture of a golf polo when a gust of wind blew it off the back of the golf cart. The camera hit the ground lens first of course. Now the lens is frozen in one position, tweaked about 17.2 degrees counter clockwise. I’m not only not

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Yang Switches to TaylorMade’s 5-Piece Penta Ball

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — At the 2009 PGA Championship, Sergio Garcia and Retief Goosen tried out the yet-to-be-released, five-piece TaylorMade Penta golf ball. Last week at the Wyndham Championship in Charlotte, Matt Bettencourt, James Driscoll, Justin Rose, Jay Williamson and Casey Wittenberg also started using the ball. Now, according to TaylorMade representatives, Y.E. Yang , the man who walked away with the Wanamaker Trophy at Hazeltine , has put the Penta into play at the Barclays Championship. Yang had previously been using the TaylorMade TP Red LDP . As we reported in early August, the Penta has been designed to optimize its performance in five key areas: with the driver, long-irons, middle irons, short irons and partial wedge shots. The ball will be available to the public starting December 1. Follow David Dusek on Twitter. (Photo by David Dusek)

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Vijay Singh Turning to Training Aids to Improve Putting

JERSEY CITY, N.J. When Vijay Singh was paired in the final group with Tiger Woods Saturday at Hazeltine, his putting, specifically his short putting, proved to be his downfall. The Fijian missed several critical putts and fell from contention. On Wednesday at Liberty National, Singh, using his traditional-length Never Compromise Milled Series 1 putter, hit several putts along a metal yardstick. He was not aiming at a hole, but instead trying to make the ball smoothly roll down the 1-inch wide, 3-foot-long stick. When he was successful, Singh knew that his putter's face was square at impact. (Click on the top image for a better look.) A short time before, Sean O'Hair had shown Singh a training aid, a Putting Stick , that is designed to help players practice the same drill. O'Hair's caddie, Paul Tesori (who used to be on Singh's bag), told me that O'Hair had recently started using the devise because he'd had good results with it as a junior and in college. (Honestly, it's a 46-inch piece of 3/8-inch thick Plexiglas.) Chad Reynolds, Singh's caddie, borrowed the devise after Singh had putted on the yardstick for about 10 minutes. The winner of last season's Barclay's Championship seemed to like it. (Click on the lower images for a better look.) If Singh is going to successfully defend his Barclays crown, as well as his FedEx Cup title, he may need to log some serious hours with these training aides. Follow David Dusek on Twitter (Photos by David Dusek)

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"The Best Way To Practice Your Golf Swing"

If youre looking to improve your golf game and understand how a Player practices (as opposed to how a struggling Golfer practices) – read the below paragraphs and fill in the blanks as they pertain to your golf game. Then below that section – well explain how you can use your answers to improve your golf game, golf scores and golf swing.

The worst part of my game is _______. If I wanted to improve this part of my game, I should _______.

In the next week, Im going to devote ___ hours to working on the worst part of my game that I listed above. Im going to go to _______ (name of golf course/driving range) to practice improving that part of my game. First Ill get warmed up by _______ . Then Ill get into trying to improve this part of my game by working on _______ (what part of that swing should you work on first).

I will then practice doing this for about ___ minutes. Then Ill move on to ________ (another part of that swing). And Ill practice that for ___ minutes or until I feel satisfied with my progress.

Once you feel that you made improvements (a couple of days or weeks later), you must ask yourself the same questions again and work on the next part of your game thats holding you back from consistency.

Then the next time you go out on the golf course, you must determine if you improved the worst part of your game. Now whats improvement? Well, if you say that your Driver is the worst part of your game because you lose 4 golf balls each round and after practicing using the system above – you only lose 2 golf balls the next time on the golf course – thats improvement. Anyone that doesnt think that thats improvement – will never allow themselves to improve.

Youre looking for improvement – not perfection!

Has anyone ever used a sheet of paper to write down the above practice PLAN or something similar? Or do you do what the typical Monkey does? Which is to just go to the practice range when you get the urge, buy a bucket of golf balls, start with your wedge and move to your 7 iron and then to your 5 iron and then to your Driver (for at least half the bucket of balls).

Or do you wait till the last 30 or 45 minutes before your round to practice hitting golf balls before going to the 1st tee?

Most successful Athletes/Golfers have a PLAN to improve. They know what they need to work on. And they set aside time to do it. For example – do you think that Lance Armstrong just got on his bicycle and started pedaling when he went out to practice? Or did he sit down and figure out what his practice schedule should be for each day of the week?

How about Roger Federer the tennis player? Do you think he just goes to the court to practice a few serves, then volley with another tennis player and then maybe play a set or two? Or does he look back on what he needed to improve on from his last match and then worked exclusively on that until he felt good about it.

And of course Tiger. Do you think he has a PLAN? Well, maybe you could blame Tigers early exit from the British Open on his wayward Driver. I guess Tiger did, because when he came back for 3 events in a row (two 1st place finishes and a 2nd place) his Driver was much improved. Do you think he came up with a practice PLAN to improve his Driver for those 3 events?

And now that he felt that his putter let him down at his 2nd place finish (the PGA Championship), does anyone want to bet against Tigers putting in his next event? Why are we probably going to see improvement in his putting? Because he probably has a practice PLAN all set-up to make sure his stroke is better in his next tournament.

Maybe Tiger doesnt say exactly word for word what I wrote above (where you fill in the blanks about your game), but Im sure its pretty darn close. How do I know? Because Tiger has a practice PLAN. And thats how you set one up.

We could get into any sport with just about any of the great ones that have succeeded in that sport and youll probably find a common link amongst their practice routines. Meaning:

The setting up a practice PLAN based on improving their weaknesses
How they stay focused on that one thing they most need to work without skipping around to other tasks
That they continue to practice that task until theyre satisfied with their improvement and then determine their next weakness to improve

The concept the majority of Golfers use to improve – Oh, Im just going to go hit some golf balls.

If you set-up a practice PLAN: Do you think that that you would improve more than if you didnt set up a practice PLAN? If your answer is that you would accomplish more – then why arent you doing it?

I do know why many Golfers dont practice. And Id love to say it, but I having a feeling many Golfers would be offended if I do. So Im going to watch my tongue. Yet, if youre the kind of Golfer that doesnt want to use the Oh, I never practice excuse to brush off your bad shots – then I suggest that you set-up a practice PLAN.

Now before were bombarded with emails saying – Well, how do I set-up a practice PLAN? I suggest that you go back to the very top of this article. Highlight the 2nd through 5th paragraph, hit Control (Ctrl button) and the letter c to copy (or right click your mouse and select copy). Then open Microsoft Word and hit Control and the the letter v to paste (or right click your mouse and select paste).

Type your answers in the blanks. Print the document. And then put it in your wallet or purse so that it bugs you every day you dont practice what you typed in. The first step in a practice PLAN is to determine what you need to work on. The second step is to get your butt out there and do it. 8 out of every 8 Golfers want to improve – however, unfortunately 7 out of every 8 Golfers reading this wont do whats suggested. Theyll read this, think that its too simple to do – and they wont do it.

Well, it may be simple, but it works. The old phrase states – A long journey starts with the first step. And the old New Jersey lottery used to advertise – You gotta be in it to win it! Well, regardless of whichever scripture you follow – the message clearly states that you need to somehow start the process. And thats what those paragraphs at the top are doing for you. Its helping you start the process.

The Monkey either goes to the range and hits too many balls without a defined purpose or they just dont go to the range

The Player has their practice all mapped out for them before they get to the range – thats why we call it a practice PLAN

Go ahead, Be A Player!

Regards,

Marc Solomon – Your Instructor For Life

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Ping’s New Tour Van Arrives at Liberty National

Jersey City, N.J. After helping players prepare for the Arnold Palmer Invitational in late March, Ping’s tour van was on the road to the next event when it was hit from behind in a rainstorm. No one was hurt when a truck carrying timber hit the van, but just days before the Masters, Ping’s van was totaled. Ping, like many other manufacturers, depends on its tour van to act as a model warehouse and club building facility for PGA Tour pros. Vans typically carry scores of shafts, grips and dozens of driver, iron and wedge heads. While competition in the marketplace is fierce, the people who work in tour vans are often good friends. There is a certain comradeship that develops on the road, and in the weeks that followed, several other manufacturers allowed Ping reps to do basic work in their vans. Five months later, the company has unveiled it’s new truck and parked it alongside the driving range at Liberty National. Click on the top image for a better look. It’s just four feet longer than it’s predecessor, but slightly taller. An expandable side section opens to create a larger work area. For players like Bubba Watson, Hunter Mahan, Angel Cabrera and Chris DiMarco, the van’s sofa’s and satellite TVs can provide a respite from the heat of the practice area. Follow David Dusek on Twitter. (Photos by David Dusek)

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