Thursday, July 03, 2008
Shivas Irons Society

Trust Your Swing

My coach calmly said to me, "Trust your swing." "Trust it to do what?" I thought.  The way I'm playing lately, I have little faith that my swing will take care of itself.  After all, I need to be in control, right?

 

Mid-Winter Golf Daydreams

There are times, when the snow piles high for days and the sun plays a never-ending game of hide and seek behind the clouds and mountains of my insulated little world here in Northwest Colorado, that I think of Bumthang…

Embracing Failure

I play a fair amount of tournament golf, and I hear a lot of invocations on the first tee. Usually they’re no more than mutterings of personal swing thoughts – “low and slow”, “finish it’ and that sort of thing – but I heard a great one recently at an event in Monterey…


Someone to Be Remembered...

This column first appeared on the Society website six years ago. It was inspired by the first European Tour win of Indian-born golfer Arjun Atwal at the 2002 Caltex Singapore Masters. With Atwal's latest victory on March 9, 2008 at the Malaysian Open it seems like the perfect time to visit this article again…

Interviews

Michael Murphy

A Conversation

 

 


Fred Shoemaker

A Top Teacher Talks


  

Sandy Tatum

Recollections of Alistair Cooke

Korba's Korner
The Authentic Golfer
A Golfer's Journal
Shaerf's Turf

A New Beginning
March 2007

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