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About Jay

Weekend golfer whose goal is to always break 80.

Lowville Golf Club

#2 at Lowville

#2 at Lowville

Lowville Golf Club is a great little course just outside of Burlington Ontario.  The course goes up and down the Niagara Escarpment, making for some great views and also a good walk.

The par 5s are all uphill holes. None of them are overly long as far as actual yardage, but they all play a decent length.

#9 at Lowville

#9 at Lowville

Conversely, some of the par 4s play downhill, so they play shorter than their yardage, but you get to feel good about yourself because your drives seem to go forever down the escarpment. Continue reading

Rory McIlroy Wins the Open Championship

Rory McIlroy won the 2014 British Open at Royal Liverpool.  He built a big lead over the first three days, and then held off final-round charges by Sergio Garcia and Rickie Fowler to win by a couple of shots.

Here is a boring video montage put out by “The Open Championship”.

And here is actually something that might be interesting. ESPN’s Sport Science takes a look at how Rory can hit his driver so far despite being a little lacking in, ummm…stature.

Rory’s swing is pretty much exactly as Ben Hogan described the golf swing in his famous book “Five Lessons: the Modern Fundamentals of Golf“.

Larry David’s Stages of Golf

A few weeks ago my friend Henry wrote a great Facebook Status about the Stages of Golf to which I think every golfer can relate.

The other day I was trying to find a good tip or something funny online and stumbled upon a somewhat similar article written for the New Yorker by Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm creator Larry David. I think if you ever watch Curb you can visualize Larry acting out every one of his stages with his pseudo-grin on his face as he yells and curses. This article could be a great episode of Curb.

You can find the article here.

 

 

Maintaining Posture in the Golf Swing

One of the most important things you can do in your golf swing is maintain your posture.  It doesn’t matter how good your set up is or your timing, if you come out of your posture during your swing it is near impossible to strike the ball consistently well.