Fundamentals

PGA teaching professional Eric Hogge shows you how to generate a good full shoulder turn in your swing and what that turn should feel and look like when done properly.

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Proper Weight Transfer During Swing
PGA Professional Eric Hogge helps your create the proper weight transfer during your swing
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Role of Your Lower Body in Your Golf Swing
PGA Professional Eric Hogge offers a quick lesson to help you better understand the role of your lower body in your golf swing.
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Better Equipment, Better Game: Lie Angles
Eric Hogge, the Head Golf Professional at the Center for Golf Learning and Performance and the Director of Club Fitting for PGA of America, gives an in-depth analysis on lie angle; the angle between the bottom of the golf club and the shaft.
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Perfect Alignment
Ron Miller, Dir. Of Instruction at The Hill Country Club, offers a drill that uses sticks and a towel to help you better align your body before your swing
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Vizualize Your Target
Kevin Weeks, Director of Instruction at Cog Hill, helps you visualize the target in front of you and properly align your body to help hit the ball more accurately.
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Quick Stretching Routine
Adam Smith, PGA Director of Instruction at Salisbury Country Club, demonstrates some easy stretching exercises to do before teeing off: torso rotations, leg kicks and jumping jacks.
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Top Technology Improves Your Swing
TNT's Craig Sager went through one of the top golf schools in the country, the PGA Golf School in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Watch how his swing is analyzed and improved using the latest in techology, part of the learning process at the PGA Center for Golf Learning and Performance.
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Better Equipment, Better Game: Golf Fitness
David Donatucci, Director of Fitness and Performance for the PGA of America, demonstrates an exercise that will assist you in gaining stability, flexibility, strength and power; all things that will benefit your performance on the golf course.
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What Happens at a Golf School?
TNT's Craig Sager put his game through a complete overhaul at the PGA Golf School in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Find out what he went through - and what you could expect - at one of the nation's top golf academies.
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Swing Speed and Backswing
PGA Professional Kammy Maxfeldt offers some tips for improving your swing speed, and positioning the club on your backswing.
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Releasing the Club
Martin Hall, PGA Director of Instruction at Ibis Golf and Country Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., defines release as the gradual turning of the club from hip height on your downswing through your swing to hip height on the far side of impact.
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Correcting Your Grip
PGA Professional Roger Lundy, Academy Director at Indiana Junior Golf Academy, offers a fun way to help ensure you are gripping the golf club correctly.
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Taking a Divot
PGA Professional Gary Bates, an instructor at the PGA Learning Center in Port St. Lucie, Fla., demonstrates the proper way to take a divot with your iron.
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Grip and Club Movement
John Borrell, Lead Instructor at the PGA Learning Center in Port St. Lucie, Fla., discusses the grip and the movement of the club from the start of the swing. He shows both the incorrect and correct positions to hold the club at the start of the swing.
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Improve Your Club Grip
Jim Remy, PGA Professional at Okemo Valley Golf Club, gives advice about gripping the club. He says to make sure that when you grip the club, you grip it in your fingers, with your thumb pointed straight down the shaft. Remy goes on to demonstrate how you will get a much stronger grip on the club.
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Improving the Backswing
Chris Czaja, PGA Teaching Professional at Boca West CC and 2010 South Florida PGA section Teacher of the Year, offers thoughts for improving the backswing and shows a drill that can correct problems.
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Grip, Posture, and Ball Position
Mike Davis, Director of Instruction at Royal Links Golf Club, discusses some important specifics of your grip and stance when hitting different shots.
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Pre-Round Warm Up
David Donatucci, Director of Fitness for the PGA of America, offers some great stretches to help you warm up before your round.
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Proper Grip and Club Fitting
Steve Long, Dir. of Instruction at Brookstone Golf and C.C., shows how to grip the club correctly and addresses some of the common problems that arise from poor gripping of the club.
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Golf Ball Position and Pre-Shot Routine
PGA Professional Steve Long, Director of Instruction at Brookstone G&CC, demonstrates the proper way to set up to the ball before your swing to ensure correct balance and improve your consistency.
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