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Perhaps you saw the news that shortly after I ranted about how hot it was in Texas it started raining and hasn’t let up for three days. So, with my Internet and email underwater, I have been forced to use parts of my brain that have been on vacation for several years. If I ramble a bit, please forgive me because everything I own is wet, including my golf clubs.  

Smack in the middle of the FedEx Cup I started thinking about what a strange year it has been. Tiger’s non-golfing escapades occupied far more space here than it should have, as did his average play on the golf course, but I’m not alone. How many players get TV coverage when they’re ten strokes out of contention? Tiger does. I guess we can’t help ourselves; we have to slow down when we drive by the car wreck to…

TourStage X-Drive 705 Drivers Are you guy's getting tired of the many TourStage releases we have been posting? Well sit down for a bit more as I force feed the last and in my opinion most exciting release of the new 705 series to you. The new X-Drive 705 will be available November 5th in [...]...(read more)

Recently there has been a lot of talk regarding the ability for many of the pros to produce so much club head speed that their drives are farther than they have ever been.  Is there a secret?    Athletic abilities of the pros are incredible, but not necessarily out of reach for the average golfer.  When watching the swings on TV using the BizHub Swing Vision slow motion cameras, the wind up and un-winding of the body is evident.  There are numerous methodologies and swing thoughts on whether the hips “start” the downswing or if the arms “power down” or “pull through”.  But the common denominator of the entire swing is the ability to rotate using the explosive power of the core muscles such as the obliques and lats against a very stable and centered lower body.  Here is a move I use with…