GolfScene Summer 2010

Volume 11 | Issue 2 | Summer 2010 INSIDE: Cover Story: SPINAL THOUGHTS : Astute advice on how to save your back PROSpectives : Is The Long Iron Obsolete? – our expert panel chimes in GOLF IS A HIGHWAY : Playing the 400 Series NOTEBOOK : A Tale of Two Courses – Otter Creek & Turnberry GIMMEES; GOLFScenery; CANADIAN LEADERBOARD CPGA PROfile : It Runs in the Family CONTEST : MyJoys – Customize Away Columnists : Sean Foley; Ian... [Read More...]

Reader Question 3

Based on your feedback, and in co-operation with the Ontario PGA, we have assembled some of the top Canadian PGA Professionals and Apprentices in Ontario to form an expert panel in an effort to provide GolfScene readers with a cross-section of views and a wealth of game improvement knowledge. Question: Is the Long Iron Obsolete? from Carl PANEL ANSWERS Liam Mucklow The long iron has been all but replaced from the bags of most amateur golfers. There... [Read More...]

Summer Magazine: Back to Front

The Summer magazine is getting ink, staples, and stuff. Inside you’ll find a feature story on the correlation between the forces of the golf swing and the, subsequent, strain on the lower back. We’ve got the perspectives of CPGA Pro Conor O’Shea and Dr Ian MacIntyre who both provide their invaluable insight / expertise on 3 different swing thoughts / functions that will both make us a better ball striker while  lessening the strain... [Read More...]

Quinn Essentials Volume 2

Having just finished mowing his front lawn for the third time in 10 days, the neighbour wandered across the street to rest a bit, and briefly discuss the downside of fertilizer. We then proceeded to talk about the weather and other things we can do nothing about, like our golf swings. A recent cover story in a very high profile and glossy publication had caught his eye and he was eager to get to our mutual neighbour’s backyard hitting net to try... [Read More...]

CPGA PRO[FILE] : Ron Webb

Ron Webb with son Brennan at the PGA Tour's Zurich Classic in New Orleans It Runs in the Family Ron Webb has been in the golf business for over 45 years. In 1974 he helped open the South Muskoka Golf Club in Bracebridge, Ontario while working out of the trunk of a Mustang. “In those days you had to do what was necessary to help golfers meet their tee time and enjoy a pleasurable round of golf,” says Webb. Webb started his professional... [Read More...]

The Mind is a Powerful Thing

I spent the week with my players at Pebble Beach this year and half of the field could have changed their Sunday flight to Friday night after they had missed the cut. I sat in player dining on Tuesday and listened to players self-sabotage with discussions on how bad the greens were, how hard the course was playing, and many other negative after-thoughts. The fact is the greens were not good (Graeme McDowell might disagree), the course was difficult,... [Read More...]

Enough with HYPE-ocrisy

Story by Ian Hutchinson The late spring heat in June wasn’t so intense that it could be used as an excuse for the pages and pages of media attention given to the naming of Dion Phaneuf as captain of the lowly Toronto Maple Leafs. Call me old school if you will, but I grew up a Maple Leafs fan, not a member of Leafs Nation, that catchy little moniker that is, in reality, a corporate tool used to sell merchandise, such as a modified jersey that was... [Read More...]