Comments on: Indoor Practice Facilities

By: Off-Season Fitness | The Sand Trap

Off-Season Fitness | The Sand Trap — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:16:31 +0000

[...] I continue through my off-season plan (which you can read here and here), one aspect that I have tried to work on is a more golf specific fitness plan. Not the "I [...]

By: Training Aids | The Sand Trap

Training Aids | The Sand Trap — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:38:43 +0000

[...] I continue with building my off-season plan, I have been looking at various training aids that I can use during the winter months to help me [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:48:03 +0000

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Mike

By: Rick Hart

Rick Hart — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:53:38 +0000

I live in Florida so I don't really have this problem but I used to live in Mass so I sure can relate.

One problem about playing golf year round is your bad habits never have a chance to lose their grip... I kinda miss that break where you can rethink your game and maybe review the fundamentals and kinda "start over." I remember sitting watching golf on TV up north and holding my pitching wedge working on my grip. I also did a lot of chipping around the living room. Ya sure I broke a few things around the house but there're kind of nice memories.

If I was up north these days I'd me heading to my nearest launch monitor to work on things like angle of attack, swing plane, and seeing how changing things effected by club head speed.

I'd probably be setting up a practice area in my garage or someplace and spending way too much money on new fangled electronic stuff. Instead I'm down here in beautiful Tampa playing golf and paying 3 times what I do in the summer. Oh well...it's a tough job but someones got to do it.

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:35:23 +0000

Pat said on January 12, 2007:

Is that the Eagle Quest Golf Dome in Rhode Island?

It is the Metro Golf Dome in Ontario, Canada (click on The Farley Group link in the photo credits to see more pictures of this dome).

By: Marty Strumpf

Marty Strumpf — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:21:29 +0000

A great way to stay "golf fresh" is to make a Â½ club. Take an old 5 or 6 iron, cut it in half and regrip it (you may have to put some extra grip tape on the shaft to make it feel normal because the diameter of the shaft is smaller).
This Â½ club can be used indoors even in low basement type ceilings.
You can go through your full swing motion or just check basic positions including your grip. I especially like it to make sure my clubface is square Â½way back, at the top, and Â½way down. You can even try to mimic a player's swing while watching the golf broadcast.
If your ceilings are really low, make the club out of a 9I or PW.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:26:06 +0000

Is that the Eagle Quest Golf Dome in Rhode Island?

By: Jack Waddell

Jack Waddell — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:55:36 +0000

Great piece, Alan. May even motivate me to get off my duff and outside (or inside) practicing somewhere.

Still I'm torn. I kind of like an off season to lick my wounds from the season before, forget all the horrible shots, and dream of an upcoming season in which I finally master the game and ravage the competition.

Of course, waiting until March to start means I won't have any game until July and I'll be so out of shape it will disappear by September, like always.

Excuse me while I go look for my shag bag.