Wayward Shots — To Anchor or Not to Anchor

For those of you who follow the PGA and PGA Tour Champions regularly, you’ve no doubt heard chatter over the last few years about the anchoring ban. Rule 14-1b states, in simplistic terms, that the putter cannot be directly anchored to the torso, or indirectly anchored by a forearm when making a stroke. Recently most […]

Instruction — Pivoting the Backswing

Every motion in the golf swing has theory behind it, but how that theory is translated sometimes differs based on flexibility. No motion stands out to me more in this scenario than the backswing pivot. In theory, the backswing pivot should have the lower body resisting as the upper body turns against the lower body […]

Goal-Setting on the PGA Tour

The summer months afford many exciting opportunities for a golf scientist to meet with PGA TOUR players while they visit North Texas for two consecutive legs of the Tour. After discovering, during the AT&T Byron Nelson, that the best golfers in the world sometimes have seemingly insouciant attitudes towards their games (see July column), the […]

The Texas Stay-Cation

While there will always be extensive and expensive vacations to tourism hotspots nationally and internationally, one concept taking hold for the summer of 2017 is the North Texas family staycation. The idea of fun, food, family golf, sights and resort pools all within a tank of North Texas gas is a Texas-sized, economically friendly idea making […]

Squaw Valley Golf Course — Hometown Greatness in 36 Holes

Some of golf’s finest courses are often found in remote locales. The serenity of a rural community can be refreshing, as you leave the bonds of the concrete jungle to relax and take in some fresh country air. If you head 60 miles southwest of Fort Worth, that’s exactly what you will find at Squaw […]

Luxury Essentials

Bugatti Chiron ▪ $2.5 Million Ultra-modern, incredibly fast, agile and powerful with a stylistically demanding design and the highest possible levels of comfort. This supercar has a 16-cylinder, 4-turbocharger engine that produces a face-peeling 1,500 horsepower and goes 0-60 in 2.4 seconds. However, it is electronically “limited” to a top speed of 261 mph. Available […]

Golf Course Living: The Good, the Bad and the Painful

If you are an avid golfer, you have surely had this fantasy – waking up on a Saturday morning and sitting out on your deck or patio with a nice warm cup of coffee, staring out over your backyard, and beyond the fence is a beautifully manicured fairway, dotted with trees and rough, and a […]