PGA Championship Potential Golf Giveaway

4 Tickets to this years PGA Championship practice rounds will be given away on August 1st.  PGA CHAMPIONSHIP POTENTIAL GOLF GIVEAWAY. 4 tickets to your choice of the practice round days will be given away on August 1st. Each person will have 5 ways to put their name in the hat and 1 name will be drawn to win the passes. Here are the ways to enter:

1) Go to www.potentialgolf.com and fill out a contact form.
2) Go to www.facebook.com/potentialgolf and like my fan page
3) (Share) this contest on facebook
4) Go to www.twitter.com and (follow) me
5) (Retweet) this contest on twitter

If you don't have a facebook or twitter account, the time is now!
The practice round dates are August 6th, 7th, or 8th.

Good Luck

GET RID OF THOSE OLD CLUBS

Are you tired of playing with those same old clubs you have had for years?  Do you see everyone else going out and getting the latest and greatest equipment?  Don't be the guy or girl who is playing with clubs from the 80's.  It's embarrassing.  If you would like to hit the new TaylorMade stuff I have plenty of demos that you can try out free of charge.  If you want to get fitted for a new club I can do that too.  But most importantly if you purchase any new TaylorMade equipment from me I will take your old clubs in as a trade in!!!!  It will take some of the sting out of the price for sure.  I will take almost any name brand equipment in for trade ins.  You don't want that old stuff just sitting in your garage do you?  Let me take it off your hands.  Even if you don't need new equipment, and you have some old clubs that you don't use lying around, I will buy them from you if they are decent.  Make an upgrade today!  The new TaylorMade metalwoods have 52% of the world market share right now.  This stuff is good.  Come check it out.

Rocketballz

The new TaylorMade Rocketballz fairway woods and hybrids are unreal!  Everyone that gets one in their hands simply loves them.  The look is great, the feel is great, and the performance is awesome.  The fairway wood especially gives each player extra distance they normally could not produce with their own fairway wood.  TaylorMade has advertised 17 extra yards.  Believe me, it's true.  I have picked up about 25 yards with my 3 wood compared to last years R11 fairway wood.  I have demos for all the hybrids and fairway woods.  Come by and get fit today.

Hula hoop

Your golf swing is a circle.  The clubhead moves on a circle around your body.  If you can imagine a large hulahoop around your body this will give you a visual of where the clubhead is traveling throughout your swing.  It is evident in my research that as the club moves toward the ground it is moving down and out, bottoms out, then moves in and up.  So what?  Well, if your hulahoop is aimed in the wrong direction you will have a hard time hitting a straight golf shot.  All you have to do is aim your hula hoop in the correct direction and couple that with a clubface that matches it and voila.  A straight golf shot.  Sounds easy right?

Flightscope

Good News!  The Flightscope has arrived.  I will be using this radar launch monitor in my teaching and club fitting.  This is the top of the line when it comes to launch monitors.  Because it uses radar, the machine measures what the ball is doing in the air and until it stops.  No guesswork!  Other launch monitors you see at places like PGA Superstore use monitors that make a calculated guess on what the ball will do after you hit it into the net.  Not accurate at all.  Just a calculation.  The Flightscope however, is the most accurate launch monitor on the market along with the Trackman.  Sometimes video cameras can be misleading when looking at a students swing.  But with the Flightscope and the use of high speed video it will make my job easier and more fun.  Come by and check it out.  It is really cool!

starting my own business

It has been a tough decision to go out on my own and start my own instructional business.  I thought it was going to be easy and quick.  It has not been quick at all.  There were several hoops I had to jump through in order to get to where I am now.  Business plans, shopping for equipment, setting up a website, developing a name, designing a logo, and oh yea a place to teach!  It has always been a goal of mine to do my own thing and in just a week or two it will all come to a reality.  Thank goodness for my marketing degree, colleagues, website designer, friends, and family.  I could definitely not have done all of the legwork on my own.  My website is done.  Now I am hitting the pavement trying to meet new clients and let everyone know what I offer.  Check out the website please!
http://www.potentialgolf.com/

What??

It's incredible when you get into a bad putter's head and ask them what they are thinking about.  I hear things like, "i feel like i have to hit it to a foot to make a birdie", "if i don't make this 8 footer for birdie im an idiot", "i should make this", "if i dont make this birdie putt it's ok, ill still make par", "i'm just trying to get it close from 25 feet".  Most of these people don't like putting, make excuses about the greens, dread walking onto a green or practicing putting for that matter, try to score better by hitting it better, don't percieve putting as fun, think their technique is flawed, switch equipment alot, and change grips frequently.  These students are barking up the wrong tree.  If you percieve putting as a chore that you hate you will never make anything.  If you are trying to miss or hoping to get it close, you will never make anything.  It's all about attitude and having a short memory.  If you miss a putt just make the next one.  A 4 foot birdie putt counts the same as a 40 foot double bogey putt.  1 stroke.  Shouldn't we be trying to make every putt no matter the distance or for what score it is for.  I know I do.  Get rid of all the have to's, shoulds, and if's.  Just putt to make and have that mindset of an 8 year old playing putt putt.  If you think about it too much or are afraid to miss you might end up looking like this guy!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wQq9YWZ568