We just came back from the Solheim Cup in Chicago and what a tournament that was!  U.S.A. beat Europe 16-12 in match play competition.  We have never lost on home soil and this tournament proved that we were strong as a team. 

It was great to see Michelle Wie play up to her potential.  She had the best record of anyone on Team U.S.A. (3 wins, 0 losses, 1 tie)...

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There are a lot of things that blow me away and so does this statistic:  Tiger Woods in his last tournament made 98% of his putts from 10 feet and in.  That is huge.  We teach based upon statistics and know the average tour player makes only 47% of their putts from 6 feet.We worked our juniors hard this past week on getting their percentage up from 6 feet and in.  They were amazed at their low percentage from 6 feet.  The best was 80% which was great.  The...

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Wow!  That is the one word I said immediately following Y.E. Yang's win over Tiger Woods this past weekend at the PGA Championship.  I said all along it would come down to putting and so it did.
 
Tiger is the best putter on the tour and he has raised the percentages of putts made from six feet and in. The average on tour from six feet is 50% but the statistics show that Tiger has made 60 out of 61 putts from 10 feet and in.  That is staggering especially...

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I wrote recently about distractions and what they can do to your golf game.  We just witnessed at a professional level how a distraction can and did affect the outcome of a tournament on the PGA Tour.

Tiger Woods and Padrig Harrington were the last group on the golf course standing on #16 when a rules official told them they were out of position and needed to speed up.

Padrig is known to be slow, but they were the last group and the rest of the field was no where near...

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