Getting the ball up and down with Chipping

Ted Sheftic

The Bridges PGA Director of Instruction

Eastern Golf  TV Top 50 Instructor

Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor

Learn the correct way to chip the golf ball.  This simple fool proof technique not only takes the guess work out of your short game troubles.

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Learn to fix your slice

Ted Sheftic

The Bridges PGA Director of Instruction

Eastern Golf  TV Top 50 Instructor

Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor

Tired of slicing the golf ball?  80% of golfers curve the ball with a slicing ball flight, find out why and how to fix the dreaded slice.

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Hitting the Ball Farther

Ted Sheftic

The Bridges PGA Director of Instruction
Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor

Ted gives us great insight on how to hit the ball farther yet staying out of the gym.

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Long Bunker Shots Made Easy

Sean Taylor

PGA Director of Golf
Eastern Golf TV

Long Bunker Shots a nightmare for most… Let Eastern Golf TV PGA Director of Instruction give you some excellent ideas to escape the long bunker shot.

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Trouble Shots – Curving the Ball on Demand

Sean Taylor

PGA Director of Golf
Eastern Golf TV

Let Eastern Golf TV PGA Director of Instruction walk you thru curving the ball on demand to get out of trouble.

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Get on the right track with Tour Sticks

April 1st, 2010

Practice at the range can be boring if you are simply pounding balls like a zombie. Proper range time needs to productive range time. I have talked about this in the past and came across a great product that can be a huge tool for you.

You ever look at the range at a PGA Tour Event and see the simple things players use to stay on track. Many pro’s use the Tour Sticks product in many ways.

The product is a simple fiberglass shaft like stick about 50″ long. Two sticks come in a set and it comes in a magnitude of colors. There is  one color you can’t get and that’s Masters Green because those are reserved for Augusta National (gotta get me a set of those). They retail for $14.95 and have been flying off the shelves.

I hit the range today and used then for alignment in a railroad track pattern. One along my toe line and one out side the ball. So many times you try to visualize this or use a club (too short) and it truly did help.

I also stuck one in the ground on my swing path angle and used it to make sure I wasn’t coming too far inside. This gave me instant feedback as I was hitting balls and I was able to transfer that feel into my swing when I took it down.

One other drill that I did was to stick it in the ground pointing straight up and positioned myself with my hip touching it. If I were to slide in my swing I could feel it right away.

So here’s the deal. An inexpensive product that has many applications is a winner for me. I also love the fact that it stays in may bag all the time and makes a great towel rack!

Get out of the office and work on your game….That’s an order from the Rocket!

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Would you like greater distance

Get More Distance

When a golf ball is launched from a club, it follows a trajectory dictated by its speed, launch angle and spin rate. While this is true for all clubs, the discussion properly centers around the driver: With most other clubs, we’re concerned about distance control, while with the driver we usually just want to get as much distance as we can. (The three-wood is also a distance club, but when the ball is on the ground we don’t have the same options as when we can place it on a tee.) So the question every golfer wants answered is; ‘How can I get the maximum distance — overall distance, not just carry – out of my tee shots?’To begin with, consider the ball. In the 19 th century, golfers noticed that their solid gutta-percha golf balls went further after they’d been used for a while and acquired some nicks and scrapes. This observation is the reason golf balls have dimples today. Those dimples create a roughened surface, which has significant effects on a ball in flight. Where a dimpled ball will travel 260 yards the smooth ball will only go about 130 yards.

First, dimples reduce the “drag” or resistance on the ball when it’s traveling through the air. This is not intuitive because generally, smooth things travel through air and water better than rough things. This would be true even for a golf ball, if it were traveling at speeds less than about 50 mph. But in any normal trajectory off a driver, the ball is traveling considerably faster than 50 mph. before it hits the ground. The reason for this reduced drag is complex, but conceptually it is similar to going through a force barrier. The barrier is broken at a specific speed because the size of the turbulent air tail is reduced in size, and the resistance is cut almost in half.

In addition to reducing drag, dimples create a turbulent layer around the ball so that when it spins – and every golf shot hit in the air has backspin – it drags the air over the ball, creating lower air pressure on the top of the ball than on the bottom producing a lift force greater than the weight of the ball. This allows the ball to glide, rather than to take on the trajectory of a bullet, in the same way that an aircraft wing provides a lift force to get and keep the plane airborne.
So now that we know that dimples and spin are key factors in determining distance along with ball speed and launch angle, how can we optimize these factors to get maximum distance?

After 400 years of trial-and-error experimentation, along came computer analysis of trajectories using aerodynamic properties of spinning balls to help answer the question. It has now been shown that to get maximum distance out of all the club head speed that most of us can muster – around 90 mph without having to tighten our shoe laces – we need to launch the ball higher than we originally thought. The optimal launch angle for that swing speed is between 13 and 14 degrees. Our three wood will often do this better than the driver, and as a result we sometimes find that we actually hit the ball farther with our 3-wood than with the less-lofted driver, which doesn’t make sense.Unfortunately, because the length of the three wood shaft is less than the driver and its loft is higher, that club does not project the ball with as much speed AND will cause a higher spin rate. How can we take advantage of the driver’s additional length and lower loft to maximize our distance with what should be our longest club?

Our goal with the driver should be to increase its loft to launch the ball at 13 to 14 degrees, while also lowering the spin rate to about 3,000 rpm. We can accomplish this with the aid of the latest generation of big titanium drivers. Most all of them are good clubs and have the trampoline effect which lowers the spin rate so the choice of brand name is almost entirely a matter of personal preference.

Since the driver is the one club in which we are actually swinging up at the ball at impact, we don’t have to create all of that 13-to-14 degrees of launch angle with the club face. The loft of the club should be about 10.5 or 11 degrees, or possibly more as your swing speed goes down. To help create the optimal spin rate of about 3,000 rpm we should:

In other words:
Hit it high and let it fly

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Are Bigger Drivers Better?

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