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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

Completing the Backswing: An Essential to Solid Contact

November 9, 2020 by Stephen Altschuler Leave a Comment

As I continue to experiment with the mechanics of the golf swing, I begin to realize more and more the importance of completing the backswing. There’s no cookie cutter formula for this, but there are some general guidelines. In addition to a one piece takeaway, which I’ve written about before, the hands and the club […]

Filed Under: backswing, Downswing, Famous Golfers, Golf courses, Masters, Owning your swing, pace, Rhythm, The drive, The Majors, The Masters, Women's golf Tagged With: Bernhard Langer, Dustin Johnson, Justin Thomas, Tim Rosaforte

The Weight Shift Conundrum

September 8, 2020 by Stephen Altschuler 7 Comments

What complicates it is the timing and sequence of the shift, something that takes intensive practice after skilled instruction to get it right and keep it right over time. Most get it right on the relatively leisurely backswing, although, even there, the weight can drift to the outside of the right foot, causing the problem of swaying on the backswing. But at the transition, when things really get moving, is when problems increase.

Filed Under: backswing, Balance, Confidence in golf, Downswing, Fundamentals, Golf Equipment, Meditation and Golf, Mindful golf, pace, Phil Mickelson, Practice, Swing tips, U.S.Open Tagged With: Dustin Johnson

The Basic Chip

August 31, 2020 by Stephen Altschuler Leave a Comment

I don’t know about you, but the simple chip right off the green can drive me nuts at times. It’s either a great effort for a tap in par or a flub that challenges my commitment to mindful golf.

Filed Under: backswing, Confidence in golf, Downswing, Famous Golfers, Fundamentals, golf and the mind, mental game, Mindful golf, pace, Practice, Putting, Rhythm, short game, Swing tips, Tiger Woods Tagged With: chipping, Dustin Johnson, FedEx Cup, John Daly, Jon Rahm, Tiger, Tour Championship

Goldilocks Golf: Not Too Fast, Nor Too Slow, But Just Right

August 24, 2020 by Stephen Altschuler 2 Comments

With Buddhist practice, we aim for the Middle Way–something between the extremes the Buddha discovered by trial and error. The golf swing should be approached in like fashion.

Filed Under: backswing, British Open, Confidence in golf, Downswing, Enlightened Golf, Famous Golfers, Fundamentals, golf and the mind, Golf courses, Golf Improvement, inspiration in golf, links golf, Owning your swing, pace, Patience, Rhythm, Swing tips, The Majors, Women's golf Tagged With: Dustin Johnson, Els, Justin Thomas, Nicklaus, Palmer, Rahm, Sophia Popov, Trevino, waggle, Women's British Open

The Shot Heard Round the (Golf) World

August 17, 2020 by Stephen Altschuler 13 Comments

Golf, as with other sports, sometimes rises to the level of art, of beauty, of perfection, of talent, skill, determination, mindfulness,

Filed Under: British Open, Confidence in golf, Famous Golfers, golf and the mind, Golf courses, The drive, The Majors, The PGA, Women's golf Tagged With: Arnold Palmer, Billy Horschel, Bryson DeChambeau, Cameron Champ, Collin Morikawa, Danielle Kang, Dustin Johnson, Harding Park, Jim Herman, Lydia Ko, Paul Casey, Stacy Lewis

Putting Basics

July 6, 2020 by Stephen Altschuler 11 Comments

Inbee Park hit five buckets of range balls when she was first introduced to golf, but it wasn’t until she got to the practice green that she was hooked on the sport. She just liked the way the ball fell into the cup and the sound that made. The rest was history as Inbee went […]

Filed Under: Famous Golfers, Fundamentals, Golf Equipment, Practice, Putting, slow play, Suggestions for golf, Swing tips Tagged With: Brandt Snedeker, Brooke Henderson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson, Inbee Park, Matthew Wolff, Webb Simpson

Back to Live Golf!

May 18, 2020 by Stephen Altschuler 4 Comments

It was a good, skins game, back-to-live golf match up. The underdogs, Rickie Fowler and Matt Wolff, almost pulled off an upset, on a very interesting golf course, the Donald Ross-design Seminole Golf Club in Florida. The winners, World Number one Rory McIlroy and his partner Dustin Johnson, squeaked out a win at the end. […]

Filed Under: Downswing, Famous Golfers, Fundamentals, Golf rules, golf values, Owning your swing, pace, The Downswing, The drive Tagged With: Brandel Chamblee, coronavirus, Covid-19, Donald Ross, Donald Trump, Dustin Johnson, Golf Channel, Mathew Wolff, NBC, Rickie Fowler, Rory McIlroy, Seminole, Vice President Biden

Remembering to Forget

March 24, 2019 by Stephen Altschuler 8 Comments

World #1 Dustin Johnson has skills that are impressive but stands out in one particular area of the game: the ability to remember to forget his last shot and even his last round. Amateurs would have difficulty emulating his swing but could learn a lot from DJ’s mental approach to the game. You can see […]

Filed Under: mental game, Mindful golf, Patience, Practice, Suggestions for golf, The Key Move Tagged With: Dustin Johnson, Ernie Els, Jack Canfield, Louis Oosthuizen, Paul Casey, Rory McIlroy, Sergio Garcia

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