2010 PGA TOUR Schedule
Date Tournament Location Jan. 4-10 SBS Championship Kapalua, Hawaii Jan. 11-17 Sony Open in Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii Jan. 18-24 Bob Hope Classic La Quinta, Calif. Jan. 25-31 Century Club of San Diego Invitational La Jolla, Calif. Feb. 1-7 Northern Trust Open Pacific Palisades, Calif. Feb. 8-14 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Pebble Beach, Calif. Feb. 15-21 World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Champ. Mayakoba Golf Classic at Riviera Maya-Cancun Marana, Ariz. Playa del Carmen, Mexico Feb. 22-28 FBR Open Scottsdale, Ariz. March 1-7 The Honda Classic Palm
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2010 PGA TOUR Schedule
Phil Mickelson extends relationship with Callaway Golf
April 8, 2009 by Editor
Filed under Golf Equipment
On Tuesday, Callaway Golf announced in a media release that the company has extended its relationship with Phil Mickelson . Terms of the agreement were not available. “Phil has been an integral member of the Callaway Golf family for several years and together we've achieved great success,” said George Fellows, President and CEO, Callaway Golf. “He's clearly one of the most talented golfers ever to play the game and we're proud to have our equipment in his hands as he continues towards the World Golf Hall of Fame.” On eve of the 2009 Masters, Mickelson is currently ranked No. 2 in the world and has won this season's Northern Trust Open at Riviera and the WGC-CA Championship at Doral . “I can't imagine playing this game without Callaway management's support behind me and Callaway's equipment in my bag,” said Phil Mickelson. “Both have contributed to my success and I'm planning on their support throughout the rest of my professional career.” Mickelson is currently carrying the following clubs in his bag: Driver:
The Tiger Woods media frenzy is about to begin
The Northern Trust has ended and Phil Mickelson is the winner. That’s golf news for about 42 seconds. Get ready for more TIger Woods than you can imagine. The Golf Channel (TGC, Tiger Golf Channel, Tiger is God Channel…) and all other golf media outlets are surely about to go into complete Tiger Woods
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Fred Couples putting stroke, Northern Trust
I’m trying to watch the finish of the Northern Trust Open on my DVR without finding out who won… Phil Mickelson, Steve Stricker, Rory Sabbatini and Fred Couples are battling it out. Stricker is looking good (especially since he’s on my fantasy team). I’ve never realized how bad Freddy’s putting can be on short
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See Straight – by James Achenbach – www.golfweek.com
image by Getty Images James Achenbach - GolfWeek PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. – Other than the fact that I uncovered the Orator of the Year on the PGA Tour and learned how to sink 10-foot putts like some kind of putting fool, it was an uneventful day at Hollywood-friendly Riviera Country Club. Movie stars used to frolic here at Riviera, which opened in 1926. Now, 83 years later, the Northern Trust Open, starring Phil Mickelson as the boy who lost his golf game, begins with a Thursday matinee. But, what the heck, I was too busy pursuing my practice day adventures to think about the actual start of competition. Orator of the Year, I said to myself, should be a title bestowed on some worthy golfer. Continue with Story
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Eye Dominance As It Relates to Aim
Eye dominance can play a role in putting, but only if you allow it. I do not want to downplay peoples’ concerns about it,rather I want to relate my years of experience in how to neutralize it. I also want to warn you about how you can avoid it, which will get into what kind of putter I believe you should use.
Let me start with eye dominance in my own putting. I am right eye dominant and consequently, I am predisposed to aiming to the right with my putter. I then swivel my head and look across my body at my target, effectively throwing my left eye out of the way so that my right eye can take over. This is something that I will have to be aware of for as long as I play golf. The left eye dominant people that I work with usually have the opposite problem. They aim left of their target and then use their left eye to focus on it as they look away from their bodies. Please understand that these are general statements. I have seen left eye dominant people aim right and vice versa. But to be honest, I have never paid much attention to any of this, even though it makes for interesting conversation. I am more concerned with how to aim properly.
There are putter fitters out there who believe that you may aim a certain shape better than another, or that a certain amount of offset or the kind of neck on the putter can help. I am sure that this is all true and that they are wonderful fitting systems. If you do not have access to these, or if you do not want to spend the money, I think I can get you to aim better by following some principles. Again, I am talking about having success with the hundreds of students that have come to me over the years, so it is not theory I am discussing.
It is no surprise to most that I advocate a SeeMore putter and their system. I make no apologies for this, but I also havesome students who do not use a SeeMore. It does not matter to me what they use, as long as they know where they are aiming. A SeeMore putter in its simplest form has what is called Rifle Scope Technology, which is a straight in shaft with two white lines and a red dot under the shaft on the heel of the putter. Trap the shaft between the two white lines, cover thered dot and you are square to your target. Much like aiming a gun, the sightlines are clean and undistorted. I do not think I could aim a gun very well if the scope was offset from the barrel! As I do not want to turn this into an outright pitch for SeeMore, please feel free to research the company on your own.
All of this bears a point: if the shaft is straight in, and the aiming line is on top of the putter and not behind the shaft, then you are more likely to get your nose down the shaft and keep it there. As I wrote in my “Importance of a Level Spine”post, if your shaft is vertical and your nose is down the shaft, then your eyes are parallel to your aiming line. Very simple. It has been my experience that people who use offset putters, where the aiming line is behind the shaft, tend to aim right because their eyes tend to gravitate to the aiming line. This places the nose behind the shaft, so the eyes are cocked to the right. Payne Stewart was this way when he putted withan offset blade. I have some good players who get this way, and I am always correcting their eyelines. (Maybe they should switch too!)
Now that your eyes are parallel, it is time to learn how to look at the target correctly. The one drill that Zach and Vaughn and now Ted do weekly is to get on a chalk line, usually on Tuesday of a tournament week. Using that, or even a line on your floor at home, will teach you how to look down your line. The advantage of the chalk line, if your Superintendent will allow it, is that you always line up square and you see eight foot putts go in repeatedly. Good for confidence! When you are on the line, trace your eyes down it. They will triangulate to a point that is still on that line. They are now working in concert, therefore neither eye is dominant. You now know how to aim. You can alsopractice onthis line by closing your dominant eye. This will give you a clearer indication of how your head needs to swivel, and it may even strengthen the other eye.
To summarize, when your spine is level,your hands are centered to your body,your shaft is vertical and your nose is down the shaft, your eyes are parallel to the aiming line on the putter. When you look down your target line correctly, you have now effectively neutralized any eye dominance. If you insist on using an offset putter, with the shaft angling backwards, then you are feeding the beast, so to speak. I am not saying you cannot aim properly in this scenario, I just happen to believe it is that much harder. Speaking from experience, of course. Putt great!
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Eye Dominance As It Relates to Aim
