Tag Archives: North Carolina

Impact And Follow Through

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This average golfer may just get out for a round of golf here in the Northeast today! It has been difficult not playing after a full winter season of golf in beautiful Pinehurst, North Carolina. Today will be a day to remove some of the rust after not playing for two weeks. I recently heard a golf instructor mentioning that one of the most common faults of amateur golfers is the follow through. I know that over the years, this has been one of my biggest faults…lack of follow through. My body wants to stop after impact and as most golfers know, that just doesn’t work very well. Here’s a nice lesson from the Golf Academy to help with the all important follow through that you can practice. Happy golfing from this average golfer!

http://www.golfchannel.com/media/night-school-impact-and-beyond/?cid=twitter-gca-v-impact-follow-through-040315

Sound Golf Links Hertford, North Carolina

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This average golfer is in beautiful Hertford, North Carolina at the Albemarle Plantation resort. While here I will be playing the Sound Golf Links. My bonus coming here was that I learned that Hertford is the home of former New York Yankees great, Jim “Catfish” Hunter! The course looks like fun, but it’s good that I have a large supply of balls after taking a look around the course last evening. Should be interesting. Before every round, I try to do something new to improve my game. So, here are two nice links. The first is a run down of the Sound Golf Links course and the second is a nice little drill from the Golf Academy on relaxing your arms called the Gravity Drop Drill. Happy golfing from this average golfer!

http://www.soundgolflinks.com/mobile/page.html?page=course

http://www.golfchannel.com/media/night-school-gravity-arm-drop/?cid=twitter-gca-v-night-school-gravity-arm-drop-032715

 

 

Start Your Round On A Positive Note

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The spring weather has really come upon us here in Pinehurst, North Carolina! This average golfer will be taking to the links again tomorrow playing the Whispering Pines River course. It seems as though when you hit the ball off the first tee, if you don’t have a good hole it sets a precedent for a mental defeat for the rest of the round. Sometimes you just have to think positive before you start your round and here’s a great video was some advice from a teaching pro at Pinehurst Country Club. Happy golfing from this average golfer!

http://www.pinehurst.com/news/video-get-round-started-positive-way/

The PGA’s 8 Inch Cup

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This past Thursday, I had a chance to be part of a test the PGA is doing on the possibility of changing the cup size from the now 4 inch to possibly 8 inches! We were playing at the Sanford Golf Club in Sanford, North Carolina. To run the test, they had two flags on each hole, one 4 inch and one 8 inch. It was really a weird experience. When you hit to the green, you had the choice to play to either cup. The 8 inch cup seems huge, and it is….double the current size. My conclusion is that it will really dumb down the game to be frank. I believe that it will basically eliminate the skill associated with putting and it just seems way out of line with the game of golf. It is only appealing when you are having a bad day putting and putting to the cup looks like putting to a bucket! Time will tell, but right now, this average golfer hopes the PGA will stick to the traditional cup and make the bad putters get better at what they do.