Plugged
Getting the right things done. Sounds really simple, doesn’t it? But at a very early age, most of us were already experts at rationalizing not doing the right things. I brushed my teeth yesterday! Why can’t I do my homework after the movie? I promise I’ll clean my room this weekend! Well, the experts have grown up and turned pro. I’ll turn in my status report tomorrow! Do I really need to visit that customer this month? I’m too busy to do... [Read More...]
The Caddie Who Played With Hickory
Before there were titanium woods and graphite shafts, golf clubs were made from the wood of hickory trees and had intriguing names like cleek, mashie and jigger. Golf was a game played not with high–tech equipment but with skill, finesse and creativity. And the greatest hickory player of all time was Walter Hagen—until the day he met a teenage caddie at a country club outside Chicago. America’s first touring golf professional, Hagen made (and... [Read More...]
Journey To Excellence
The Young Golfer’s Complete Guide to Achievement and Personal Growth is designed to help aspiring young golfers maximize their potential, on and off the course. Based on the insights of one of the world’s hottest up-and-coming golf instructors Henry Brunton– Canada’s National Men’s Team coach, the first Canadian recognized by GOLF Magazine as one of the game’s Top 100 Teachers and a widely-acknowledged expert in developing elite players–Journey... [Read More...]
The Art of Perfect Practice
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of Journey To Excellence THE ART OF PERFECT PRACTICE If someone were to design the ideal golfer they would include a number of traits held by nearly all the top players. First would be the ability to hit the ball long and straight. Many things go into playing good golf, but being able to bang the ball a long way down the fairway means you are playing offense instead of defense. Next would come putting. A... [Read More...]
Marcus Golfing Adventures
Conor O’Shea, a Core Golf C.P.G.A. Teaching Professional, not only teaches the fundamentals of the game to players of all ages, he also writes about it in light, cheerful, poetic form aimed at youngsters between the ages of 5 and twelve. “I’ve always enjoyed literature and golf so I thought I’d try my hand at putting words together that might help young players gain an appreciation for the game and maybe even try to play,”... [Read More...]
A Different Shade of Green
Robert Thompson, a well-known Toronto-based journalist and golf writer has recently completed a hard-cover golf book called Going For The Green in which he chronicles a round of golf with some of Canada’s top businesspeople, writing about their stray tee shots, their missed putts and of course their thoughts on business in Canada as well as throughout the world. Each chapter is a mini-story from the first tee to the eighteenth green with lots of... [Read More...]
