Make your course strategy decisions based on science, not hope
The voice in my left ear is calling me Aunt Edna and screaming at me to go for the pin. “We didn’t come here to lay up”, it says. “Just go for it!”
Performance
Our golf culture is preventing us from getting better … and having fun
If we fall into the trap of thinking we have to do this or that, we have to swing this way, I just don’t see how that’s a recipe for freedom or good golf.
Overcoming disaster and putting it behind you
Tiger Woods made a quad on the 12th hole in the final round of the 2020 Masters. Then he birdied five out of the next six holes. How did he do that?
Evidence suggests golf can provide significant health benefits to older participants
The R&A backed research study has found that muscle strength and balance exercises form an important part of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommended guidelines to tackle physical inactivity in older people.
The Mental Side of your Golf Swing
High levels of arousal, which primarily result in performance anxiety, can prove to be a negative and evidently a destructive state if left neglected and uncontrolled.
Psychologically speaking, here’s the reason we’re drawn to this frustrating, exhilarating sport
In its simplest translation, the reinforcement pattern that blooms into addiction must entail high levels of reward and amusement without the predictability factors which can trigger boredom.
How to hit more fairways; 4 experts demonstrate their secrets to consisitency
Hitting more fairways is one of the first steps in executing a plan to lower your score. When you miss the fairway, that puts you in recovery mode, which means added strokes. Not to mention the frustration that comes with chipping out of the trees or losing a ball. We asked four expert coaches what […]
The Rules of Golf limit you to a maximum of 14 clubs. But why?
In the four centuries golf has been played, the limit on the number of clubs you can carry is relatively recent. Prior to 1938, golfers often carried two dozen or more.
Can your equipment do more to help your golf game?
Fairways spoke to Cameron Jacobs from TaylorMade’s Performance Lab to find out what custom fitting and new R&D can do for us today.
