Charlie King is running for President of Golf Instruction What Is This About? I know there’s no such thing as a President of Golf Instruction (I’m not that delusional… yet). I’m using this “Presidential Campaign” to get my message out about A better way to learn golf! …how golf should be taught and learned as
The Happy Caddy game (or Unhappy Caddy if your partner doesn’t hit his pitches well) was first published in Golf’s Red Zone Challenge 4 years ago, which been released as a second edition a month ago (available at http://www.amazon.com/). In this game you have a partner and one ball. You need to find a field
Chapter 4 Mental Toughness THE NEW RULES GET TO THE “CORE” OF MENTAL TOUGHNESS, NOT SURFACE, QUICK FIXES. With Dr. Rick Jensen I’m not formally educated as a sports psychologist and don’t have a Ph.D., but my experiences as a coach and teacher and the extensive study I have put into this topic have made
Some sports psychologists preach that you should aim for the smallest possible target. My experience tells me that this is not always the best idea. On golfers’ approach shots, they tend to aim at a very small target, which leads to steering the ball and trying to do things their skills don’t allow them to
Wedges are many times bought off the rack instead of custom fit. A couple of factors make it very important to have your wedges custom fit. One is lie angle and the other is bounce. If the lie angle is not right for your swing, the shot will go off line more dramatically. The bounce and sole
In this video, Charlie King gives us 3 drills for distance control or lag putting. We will get the ball close enough to tap in by changing the way we develop our putting feel. Watch this video to become an athletic putter.
The engine of the golf swing is the body. It first and foremost provides stability and a base of operations for the arms, hands, wrists and club to swing from. The “Big Muscle” theory that the big muscles control the so-called small muscles is misleading at best. “Turn, Turn” is another over-simplification that is not
The Holy Grail in golf is that feeling we get at the moment of contact – it’s what got us addicted to golf and we wish we could feel it more often. Great players can hit it farther than most of us, but we can learn to hit the ball as PURE as them. Hogan,
Well, it all depends. I believe it is a sliding scale based on your current skill level. On my scale, I feel like golf is 50% mental for 18 handicap golfers, 60% mental for 12 handicap golfers, etc. For scratch golfers it is 90% mental and for Tour players it is 95% mental. As we
by Charlie King, New Rules Golf School at Reynolds Golf Academy Take your 58-degree wedge, your 52-degree wedge and a pitching wedge and hit enough shots to get a good working knowledge of how far the ball’s going to go with a half swing. Don’t try to perfect a bunch of different lengths of
