I’ve always been into visual communication, though I’m not much of an artist. So I was pleased to find Jessica Hagy’s site where she “makes fun of some things and sense of others” through simple charts that you might normally come across in a marketing meeting. She uses simple Venn diagrams, faux line graphs, and other illustrations to reveal the humor or provide some insight on day-to-day topics.
What does this have to do with golf? Nothing, of course. But I liked the idea of using such basic illustrations to explicate difficult subjects so much that I had to apply it to my favorite sport. Thus, what follows are my attempts to do what Hagy does very well… take something complex and break it down into something simple. And maybe to make someone chuckle a little bit, too.
I’ve been playing golf more than a decade now, and I’ve always been a huge fan of the fairway wood. Unfortunately, that’s because I’ve never been real consistent with my driver, so the fairway wood has been my go-to club off the tee on many occasions. Even though I recently started to hit my driver better, I’ll still pull my fairway wood multiple times per round.
The season’s final major begins today, and it’s time for more predictions from The Sand Trap staff. After an exciting WGC-Bridgestone Invitational last weekend, names like Phil Mickelson, Vijay Singh, and Lee Westwood have popped up as favorites this week. Mickelson and Singh have three major victories apiece, while Westwood is still looking for his first.
The PGA is coming, and Vijay Singh is warming up… kind of. Michelle Wie misses another cut, the USGA moves forward with groove regulations, the PGA is exciting, Colin Montgomerie is whining, a whole lot more in this episode of Golf Talk.
Flying commercial today can be about as much fun as a root canal. Between all the security measures, smaller flying capacity from the airlines left that aren’t bankrupt, and the lack of service as well as being nickel-and-dimed to death from all the “fees,” it truly has lost its luster from just a few years ago (remember hot meals, anyone?).
Hello and good day to you, Hittin the Links is here again to bring you the week’s best in golf. Wow, there were quite a few stories from the golf world this week. I can’t remember the last time there were four different tournaments of any consequence going at the same time. This week we had the LPGA playing the British Open, the PGA Tour in both Ohio and Nevada, and the Champions Tour in Colorado at the U.S. Senior Open. It made for a good weekend of watching golf.
In this Swing Check we look at the golf swings of Troy Worden. As is the case with most golfers, many of the positions we’ll see throughout the swing are a result of the address position. Troy can make huge strides in swing consistency, power, and accuracy by working on the address position.
