Golf Speak!
Showing The Direction
IMPROVE YOUR GOLF VOCABULARY To become a true golfer it’s important that you learn the language veteran golfers converse in on the golf course, so this is the first of…
Congratulations Shane!
Congratulations Shane! As a golf writer who has enjoyed, immensely, Ireland’s Lahinch, Portmarnock, and Ballybunion golf courses, as a member of a team of ten amateurs playing against amateur golf…
Don’t Waive the Rules
Don’t Waive the Rules If you’re a Millennial or Post-Millennial golfer, new to the game, and your goal is to become a true golfer, rather than a casual player, you…
Ticked Off
Compliments of British Open News Of Day One
TICKED OFF - Brandel “know it all” Chamblee, author of a golf instruction book no-one can read all the way through - - I read four pages it is so…
Wrong Move Jordan
Jordan testing new Titleist T100 irons at Scioto.
SCOTTIEWARMAN
WRONG MOVE JORDAN Just learned that Jordan Spieth is now playing with a new set of Titleist T-100 irons, as if that is going to turn his shot-making game around.…
Hey, What about Dick Harmon?
Magazine Cover Of Huston Links Tribute To Dick Harmon
Hey, What about Dick Harmon? Those of you have been around the game of golf for the last twenty-five years will have, definitely, heard of Claude “Butch” Harmon, who I…
Lingo Of The Links
Dreaming Of A Hole In One? Think Twice!
LINGO OF THE LINKS Should you be new to the game, like so many Millennials and Post-Millennials, let me first educate you on the word Ace then on proper 19th-hole…
Love…Jack!
LOVE…JACK! Glad to see Jack Nicklaus at Wimbledon, in blue blazer, blue shirt, blue tie, and dark sunglasses, with loyal and loving wife, Barbara. The Nicklaus’s had great seats for…
Low Tee, High-Flying Drive
Try A Drive With A Lower Tee!
LOW TEE, HIGH-FLYING DRIVE Here’s a key to hitting a high-flying drive and taking advantage of a strong wind at your back. John Daly taught me this simple way to…
What’s Happening?
A Real John Deere Classic??
WHO? Today, I turned on the television to watch the Scottish Open, knowing that during the past decade, more and more Americans had been entering this tournament to warm up…
The “Strong” Have Hold On Bunker-Play
Bunker-Play The Whole Way
THE “STRONG” HAVE A HOLD ON BUNKER-PLAY In Golf and Golf Digest magazines, books written exclusively on the short game, or, as well, in books on the total tee-to-green game…
A Lot to Learn
lonely tennis ball and racket on clay court.
A Lot to Learn I’m going to slip away from writing my blog, today, directly about golf. Instead, I am going to write about tennis, about a new star, and…
Bare-Handed Sucess
All About The Techniques of Fred Couples
BARE-HANDED SUCCESS Fred Couples, when playing the PGA Tour full-time, was one of its most popular players. This is why his major championship win, the 1992 Masters Tournament, pleased so…
Mind Games
Another Mental Master Of The Game
MIND GAMES In winning The Open Championship (British Open) in 1985, Sandy Lyle hit several creative tee-to-green shots. However, I never realized how much he depended on his imagination when…
Get A Grip
Hogan's Secret Putting Grip
Hogan's Secret Putting Grip! What golfers have been brainwashed into believing is that Ben Hogan was a terrible putter. Even the recent Golf Channel’s documentary on Hogan spoke favorably and,…
Glove Me Tender!
Glove On The Hand Placing Ball on Tee
If The Glove Fits, You Should Wear It! When first hired by Golf Magazine, in 1982, having been recruited from Golf Illustrated, the world’s oldest golf publication, a weekly based…
No Shorts Allowed
What's Wrong With Shorts
SHORT CHANGED During my long stint at GOLF Magazine, as senior editor of instruction, I have visited the homes of such great players as Greg Norman, in Jupiter, Florida and…
I Be Back!
The Michelle Wie Way by John Andrisani
Don’t Count Out Michelle Wie Just Yet As sure as The Terminator “will be back”, Michelle Wie, who said goodbye to golf, temporarily, after shooting 84-82 in the PGA, having…
For Those Who Like Grass
Golf ball in grass
FOR THOSE WHO LIKE GRASS These days, when so many states are celebrating medical marijuana, with even former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson even getting into the pot-game, growing weed in…
Watching TV Relaxing?
Just Simply Relaxing With Television ReRuns
What’s your Hobby? As a native New Yorker, growing up on Long Island, New York and working as a longtime senior editor of instruction at GOLF Magazine, our offices first…
Tee? Anyone?
Golf ball on another novel tee
A Golfing Fact to Chew On Did you know that a dentist invented the wooden golf tee in 1899? George Franklin Grant, first African-American professor of Harvard, and a dentist,…
Presidential Golf Lesson
To: President, Donald John Trump From: John Andrisani, former golf instructor, longtime senior instruction editor of GOLF Magazine, author/co-author of 30 instruction books, in my own name or in collaboration…
Open, But Not For Much Longer
Golf Course for sale
OPEN FOR BUSINESS, BUT NOT FOR MUCH LONGER Just as I watched the cigar-business price itself out of business, around 2006 (after a great run between say, 1995 and 2005),…
Rory to Roar at Portrush
Aerial View of Royal Portrush Golf Course
I Look for Rory to Roar at Portrush Prediction: Rory McIlroy will do an impression of the great horse Secretariat, lapping the field in the 2019 British Open by a…
Dustin’s Decision – Good or Bad?
On The Green Facing A Long Birdie Putt
Dustin’s Decision – Good or Bad? Dustin Johnson, one of the new breed of Super-Golfer, has left Claude Harmon, III, and is now taking lessons from Allen Terrell, director of…
The Worst Kind of Water Hazards
More than a Water Hazard ??
The Worst Kind of WATER HAZARDS and the most severe Penalties at Risk I use to worry about hitting the ball in a water hazard fronting a green, like the…
Keep Your Head Down
Golfer practicing and concentrating before and after shot during a nice sunny day
This golf tip goes way back to the beginning of time, so far that we’ve lost sight of who said it first. The same thing goes with “Keep your eye…
No Fat, And Happy!
Athletic Stretching Healthy Workout Sport Concept
Watching the U.S. Open, I recalled the days of Billy Casper, a pro who went on a diet of buffalo meat to lose weight, young Jack Nicklaus who had a…
White Pants Everywhere !
Golfer on the putting green, preparing to put
There are house painters I know who would not even have the guts to wear white pants on the golf course for a casual round. So what in the heck…
