Here’s my Orlando Golf Lesson for the week. 🙂 So, I’ve been having some issues with hitting consistent iron shots. The world famous Brendon Elliott who is the head golf pro out at Winter Park Country Club has made great strides in helping me resolve these issues. We’ve totally changed up my stance and I’m…
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12th Annual PGA Free Lesson Month begins in May 2009
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The 12th annual PGA Free Lesson Month is right around the corner! Starting May 1st, 2009, PGA/LPGA Professionals nationwide are going to be giving a free 10-minute lesson to any and all who are interested! Regardless of your age or skill level, you’ll have the opportunity to learn the basics or improve upon existing skills…
Hitting a Sand Shot
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Here’s some videos I found on hitting bunker shots. I found four videos of different instructors describing their technique. Notice some of the recurring themes in each method. I tried to find four different videos showing four different types of bunker shots. Here’s Joe Beck, this video (if you can get past the cheeseball music)…
Orlando Golf Lessons Week 3 & 4 – Pitching
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Continuing on from last weeks post Orlando Golf Lessons – Chipping, this weeks post is all about that glorious art form, pitching. A super quick recap, Brendon Elliott is a local golf pro and he’s been giving me short game lessons. So far we’ve covered putting and chipping and those posts can be viewed below.…
Orlando Golf Lessons Weeks 3 & 4 – Chipping
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I’m a little late on posting these and I apologize for that.. As a quick refresher, I’ve been taking golf lessons from a local golf pro named Brendon Elliott. If you haven’t been following along, you can catch up by clicking on the posts below. Orlando Golf Lessons Week 1 Orlando Golf Lessons Week 2…
Eyeline Golf
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I’m sure you’ve all heard about these guys and if not, get out from underneath the rock you’ve been living under! 🙂 Eyeline Golf makes products to help us hackers improve our putting game. Well, not only us hackers, last year 245 touring pros picked up EyeLine Golf equipment. As you know, one of my…
Little Linksters – Weeks Three & Four
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I know you’ve all been waiting with bated breath for the next redition and I have to apoligize for missing a week. For those that have no clue what I’m talking about, please refer to Little Linksters. As a quick recap, Brendon Elliott is a local golf pro who runs a junior golf program called…
Orlando Golf Lessons Week 2
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Last Saturday, I had my second short game lesson from Brendon Elliott. If you missed the first weeks lesson you can find it here – Orlando Golf Lessons. For a quick recap, the first week was a putting evaluation, complete with video, pictures, dixx putter stats and a review of my last 10 golf scores.…
Golf Is Hard TV
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Check out this video blog entry from Marc and Coach Dave over at the Golf Is Hard blog. Seems like a lot of golf bloggers are breaking the trail into vlogging. Buried within this video are a couple nuggets of golf wisdom, but I think there’s a little too much filler. I especially like the…
Orlando Golf Lessons
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As many of you might know, I’m not exactly a scratch golfer, mostly, not even a good golfer. 🙂 So in the pursuit of a better golf game, I’ve signed on to take golf lessons from Brendon Elliott. He is a short game master and will be helping me improve those aspects of my game.…
Little Linksters – Week 2
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Two Saturdays ago, OGB Junior had his second golf lesson out at Brendon Elliott‘s Little Linkster’s Junior Golf Acacemy. I know, I know, I’m a little late in posting.. I’m going to have to ask you to cut me some slack as it was a busy week last week with the PGA Merchandise Show and…
Little Linksters – Week One
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Last Saturday, my son had his first lesson of the Little Linksters Golf Program. If you recall, I posted an earlier post discussing the specifics of the program which can be found here Little Linksters junior golf comes to Lake Mary Prep. Brendon Elliott and his wife Melisa started this program to serve a usually…
“Little Linksters” junior golf comes to Lake Mary Prep
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Hey Everyone! Belated Merry Christmas! Hope you had a wonderful one and got everything you wanted! 🙂 I know I did! Check out the article below! If you live in the Orlando area and you have some kids, consider checking this out. My three year old son Aiden will be in attendance. 🙂 -Dave “Little…
Fortune Shines Upon Me!
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A couple days ago I wrote a post about the awesome swag I received from OOBGolf.com’s mystery bags. In one of the bags I received three Eidolon V-sole wedges that I can’t use because they are wrong-handed. Well good news my friends! I sent them an email detailing my plight and much to my elation,…
First Impressions of Bikram Yoga
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A couple days ago, I mentioned that this week I was starting a crusade to lose weight and improve my game by picking up Yoga. Here’s the original post. Yoga & Golf Well, I had my first class Tuesday night and my first impression was this, “Dave, you’ve got to be the dumbest SOB I’ve…
Chipping with a 3-Wood
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Found this video clip on the golf channel. This shot was made famous by the Honorable Tiger Woods himself 🙂 This guy makes it look sooooo easy… I think it’s more accurate to call it putting with a 3-wood because that’s what your actually doing. Check it out, I’m gonna head to the range today…
Golf could quite possibly be a PERFECT Sport
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and that phrase came from a woman! Not just any woman, a woman who’s husband is an AVID golfer! Woohoo!! There’s hope for them yet. 🙂 Check out this article written Cynthia Haines over at HealthCentral.com Golf: The Perfect Sport In this article she discusses, how golf can be a wonderful exercise routine if done…
The Ultimate Rough Recovery Guide
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One of my fellow golf bloggers from across the pond wrote a pretty good article on playing shots from the rough. The Ultimate Rough Recovery Guide I think it’s a relatively new blog, I found out about him via digg. I haven’t been reading for too long, but so far, he’s been writing some pretty…
Orlando Magic Charity Golf Tournament
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The Orlando Magic Championship for Charity Golf Tournament takes place on Friday, September 19th with a shotgun start at 9am. This years event is hosted by the Orlando Magic Youth Foundation and it takes place at the Ginn Reunion Resort on Arnold Palmer Legacy & Tom Watson Independent Course (which is also home to the…
Cool Tool from Stracka.com – Mobile Scoring
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If you own a smart phone (Treo, Iphone, Instinct, Blackberry, Blueberry, Greenberry….), you should check this out. Mobile Scoring on Stracka.com It’s a cool tool Stracka has provided that lets you track your score while playing the round. You can track your strokes, putts, fairways in regulation and greens in regulation. It uploads the data…