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The Stretch for Added Distance

March 23, 2022 by Stephen Altschuler 6 Comments

I must admit, I get lazy with my golf swing and can easily fall into a kind of default when it comes to the top of the backswing. For that is the point when my body needs to stretch to its maximum capacity. And those last few words are most important because what you don’t […]

Filed Under: backswing, Downswing, Golf Improvement, pace, Practice, Rhythm, Swing tips Tagged With: Cam Smith

Shaft Lean and Lag: More important pieces of the compression puzzle

March 11, 2022 by Stephen Altschuler Leave a Comment

Shaft lean is a sacred cow to tour pros, but is not well known or practiced by handicappers. And when done correctly, it is the main avenue to properly compressing the golf ball off the face of the club. But many handicappers are flippers, a term Lee Trevino uses to describe golfers who flip their […]

Filed Under: backswing, Downswing, Famous Golfers, Fundamentals, Golf, Mindful golf, Owning your swing, pace, Practice, Rhythm, Swing tips, The Downswing, Women's golf Tagged With: Dustin Johnson, Inbee Park, Jin Young Ko, Lee Trevino, Lydia Ko

What we can learn from…

February 20, 2022 by Stephen Altschuler Leave a Comment

Sahith Theegala had a great amateur career, won twice on the Korn Ferry Tour, but has never won on the PGA Tour, though he’s been in contention a couple times in this his rookie season. He drives to each tournament. His parents are immigrants from India. Sahith was born in Orange County, California. On Sunday […]

Filed Under: backswing, Confidence in golf, Course management, Downswing, Enlightened Golf, Famous Golfers, Fundamentals, Golf, golf and the mind, Golf Improvement, Golf professional, inspiration in golf, mental game, Mindful golf, Owning your swing, pace, Putting, short game, Suggestions for golf, The drive Tagged With: Bernhard Langer, Patrick Cantley, Sahith Theegala

Compression Obsession

January 15, 2022 by Stephen Altschuler 4 Comments

It’s one of golf’s not-so-dirty little secrets. The pros all do it but few show you how. So at the expense of vilification from my betters, I will attempt to explain this technique that I’m sure goes back to Tom Morris and son in the bonny town of St. Andrews. The key to compression lies […]

Filed Under: backswing, Downswing, Famous Golfers, Fundamentals, Golf, Golf Improvement, Owning your swing, Practice, St. Andrews, The Downswing, The drive, Women's golf Tagged With: divots, iron play, Jack Nicklaus, sweet spot

My Left Wrist: A key to consistent and powerful golf

January 7, 2022 by Stephen Altschuler Leave a Comment

The left wrist (right for lefties) is perhaps the most fragile and vulnerable of all of our bones. Though delicate, much is required of it–sometimes too much, and it breaks or sprains rather easily putting most of us out of commission for a good long period of recuperation. We golfers often take the left wrist […]

Filed Under: backswing, Confidence in golf, Downswing, Famous Golfers, Fundamentals, Golf, Golf Improvement, Owning your swing, Practice, Swing tips, Tiger Woods, Women's golf Tagged With: Daniel Berger, Jon Rahm

A Game for all Seasons…almost

November 6, 2021 by Stephen Altschuler Leave a Comment

Now I’m not suggesting you play golf as I did at 17 in Philly with temperatures hovering at 32 degrees, the ground frozen solid with patches of snow and ice on and around the creeks and ponds, and me wearing three sweatshirts, wool cap pulled down over my ears, and longjohns with heavy pants, with […]

Filed Under: backswing, Downswing, Fundamentals, Golf, Golf courses, GPS, inspiration in golf, Meditation and Golf, mental game, Putting, St. Andrews, The drive

A Recently Discovered Secret to Solid Contact

September 19, 2021 by Stephen Altschuler Leave a Comment

The other day I attended a LPGA event south of Portland and I paused to watch one of the participants warming up at the range. Actually I was about to leave when her swing and its results caught my eye and my ear. The solid sound her irons made was captivating. I stopped and watched […]

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Pace: Find your Model

June 15, 2021 by Stephen Altschuler Leave a Comment

When I was a kid, one of the pros I admired was Gene Littler who won the U.S. Amateur, scored 29 victories on the PGA Tour, including the U.S. Open in 1961. Gene the Machine, they used to call him, for his smooth, easy, repeating swing. For a time, he was my model for how […]

Filed Under: backswing, Downswing, Famous Golfers, Fundamentals, golf and the mind, Golf courses, Golf Improvement, mental game, Mindful golf, Owning your swing, pace, Phil Mickelson, Practice, Putting, short game, slow play, Slowing down, Swing tips, The drive, The Majors, Tiger Woods, U.S.Open, Women's golf

Learning from Lexi’s Letdown

June 8, 2021 by Stephen Altschuler Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: backswing, Downswing, Famous Golfers, Fundamentals, golf and the mind, Golf Equipment, Golf Improvement, inspiration in golf Tagged With: chipping, delofting, Lexi Thompson, Phil Mickelson, pitching

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