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Sand Shots
One of the short game shots you need to know how to hit with some skill is an explosion shot from a green side bunker. This is an easy shot because there is a margin of error that does not exist with shots from ground. You will need to hit the sand...
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Right Leg & Knee
This article discusses the fifth Concept Golf swing principle. The five swing principles define the golf swing and help you to understand the swing. They are not five more things you are to do. They are not five more things to add to your list of s...
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Ready, Set, Go!
“Get Ready, Get Set, Go!”
I remember hearing these words somewhere in my youth. Have you ever heard these words? I don’t remember exactly where or why I have heard them but today they are going to apply to your golf game. It seems like a “golf” se...
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Reading A Green
Reading a green or more accurately reading your putt.
Putting is the smallest and the biggest part of golf. How can that be? A one inch putt counts the same as a 300 yard drive. On the other hand, if you hit all the greens in regulation and two ...
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Putting
You all want to hit the ball farther. You can all imagine those 300+ yard drives that will not only lower your scores but make you the envy of all who are so fortunate enough to watch you hit those drives. Most of distance is an ego thing.
Drives n...
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Principles versus Mechanics
How can you play your best golf? With mechanics or principal based instruction?
For about the last 50 years, people have been taught the golf swing through mechanics; infinite mechanics, highly specific mechanics. People have been taught to put t...
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The Principle of Alignment
The next step to helping you become a great shot-maker! The Alignment.
Concept Golf is the simplest and most complete approach to the golf swing and the entire game. There are only five swing principles. They are principles in that they are the ca...
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Practice For Improvement
I would like to focus on the concept of practice. I will tell you what real practice is and how you can practice constructively. You will learn how to practice correctly to lower your scores. These two newsletter will show you the practice that wil...
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Playing The Game
Today we begin focusing on playing the game we love called golf. It is a game and it supposed to be fun! It is as, all sports are, first a game and second a sport. The Concept Golf approach is to simplify your learning the game through a few princ...
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Plan, Aim, Swing
In my many years as a golf professional, I have found only a few golfers who know how to play the game. Even some of the good golfers play by accident rather than by design. When the football or basketball coach says he has a game plan, he has a b...
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Perception is KEY!
The thoughts the teacher, golf or otherwise, is holding as true affect the student directly. We’ve heard the stories about the school teachers who thought the student IQs were very high but those numbers were actually their locker numbers. The stud...
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Thinking & Planning on a Par 3
Today we play a Par 3.
Par 3s can be more of a challenge than 4s or 5s. On Par 4s you may have a half of a shot to play with. That means you can miss a shot and as long as it stays on the course you can still make par. Par 5s can be the most forgiv...
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More on Putting
We have often heard that practice makes perfect. That statement is truer when it is said that perfect practice makes perfect. Who likes to practice putting? The guys on the Tour did it but it was not their favorite thing to do. They would rather pl...
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More on Practice
If you insist on going to the range to practice, then really practice golf. Golf is not 50 shots with a 7-iron at a single target -- nor is that good practice.
Jack Nicklaus knows how to practice. I watched him at the Canadian Open in 1975 after hi...
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Learn To Play The Game
“What did you shoot?” is a common question among golfers. It’s a courtesy but it does tell the importance of the score. There are times when you hit the ball well but for whatever reason you score higher than normal. At other times you may not hit ...
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Know Where Your Target Is
There are two important aspects to every golf shot: direction and distance. Which one is most important? Both. Both if score is important. The golfer who lines up the putt correctly but hits the ball 30 feet past the hole is not going to score low....
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Be a Good Driver... Go Beyond Mechanics!
Can you imagine standing on the first tee and not worrying about your swing? That would be a good thing, although you may not believe that right now. Most golfers are so mechanics aware that have no idea what they would think about if not about the...
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Focus on Pars & Birdies
The PGA Tour was in Philadelphia playing the IVB Classic at the White Marsh CC. It was a fun course and not terribly hard. It was the third round. I had made the cut and was ready to make a move. I don’t remember exactly where I stood but I was loo...
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Equipment Does Matter
I played Wilson equipment while I was on the Tour. In fact I still have the irons I used. I can’t seem to quite bend the shafts these days. They are dynamic S and tipped. Actually I can bend them but the club has to be positioned between two chairs...
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Concept Golf Principles and Baseball
The five Concept Golf swing principles have proven themselves to be the truth many, many times with the permanent improvement of countless golfers of all levels. But a couple months ago the principles were given confirmation of a different kind.
Wh...
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A Lesson with John
Concept Golf is golf instruction. It is golf instruction that is based on principles not mechanics. It is an opportunity for the golfer to develop his very own unique swing. With the golfer developing his own swing, he has nothing to remember, noth...
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A Bruce Crampton Golf Story
I was paired with Bruce Crampton in the third round of the Phoenix Open. I had never played with Bruce. He was portrayed as a “grump” by the press so I was a bit reserved as we teed off on #10 at 8:00 am. All three of us hit the green and Bruce was...
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A Billy Casper Golf Story
I was playing in an exhibition with Billy Casper in 1969 at a course in Kenosha, WI. Billy was at the top of his game and I was invited to play because I had won the Wisconsin State Open. He was amazing. He had never seen the course before and had ...
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3 Dynamic Concept Golf Swing Principles
Concept Golf's five swing principles have been proven effective by countless golfers at all levels. The principles are not just theory -- they are what works and what the best players have always done. These five fundamentals cause all of the posit...
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Five Simple Steps to Enjoying Golf
About five years ago I decided to take up the game of golf. I needed something to do to relieve a little of the stress caused by a hectic work schedule and other things going on in my life at the time. It was actually my wife’s idea. She bought me ...
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