The PGA of America is the largest working sports organization in the world, comprised of more than 28,000 dedicated men and women promoting the game of golf to everyone, everywhere. http://www.pga.com?eref=/instruction/features/a_lesson_learned en-us Copyright 2008, PGA.com Tue, 13 May 2008 10:04:10 EDT 30 /.element/img/1.0/logo.jpg http://www.pga.com/ 380 70 The Players Championship was easily one of the most exciting tournaments of the year, especially given the absence of Tiger Woods. A great field, an extremely difficult Pete Dye course design, and brutally windy playing conditions made for the ultimate test of golf. The lesson learned, without a doubt, is the importance of driving. Sergio Garcia's incredibly impressive driving performance, and until Sunday, his typically sketchy putting display, disproved one of golf's most popular adages, "drive for show and putt for dough." http://www.pga.com/2008/instruction/features/05/11/players_gliwski/index.html http://www.pga.com/2008/instruction/features/05/11/players_gliwski/index.html instruction Tue, 13 May 2008 09:36:29 EDT Congratulations to Anthony Kim for winning the 2008 Wachovia Championship. This was such an impressive win for Kim in many ways, not the least being that it is his first -- a month shy of his 23rd birthday! He is the youngest player to win on Tour in six years and he did it in record fashion. Saturday he carded six birdies for a 6-under round of 66. On Sunday, Kim had eight one-putts and a chip-in to finish with a 69 and win the tournament by five strokes. It was a dominating performance in so many ways. But what part of Anthony Kim's arsenal was most critical in him cruising to victory? It was his short game! As spectacular as his full swing was all week, it was his ability to get up and down or make critical putts that won Anthony Kim his first PGA Tour tournament. http://www.pga.com/2008/instruction/features/05/04/wachovia_brankel/index.html http://www.pga.com/2008/instruction/features/05/04/wachovia_brankel/index.html instruction Sun, 04 May 2008 22:20:12 EDT Adam Scott won the EDS Byron Nelson Championship in very spectacular fashion yesterday by making a long, winding birdie putt on the third playoff hole. While it was an exciting event, let's look a little deeper into the event and see if we cannot link up some history with what we saw today. History as Byron Nelson wrote it. http://www.pga.com/2008/instruction/features/04/27/edsbyronnelson_conwell/index.html http://www.pga.com/2008/instruction/features/04/27/edsbyronnelson_conwell/index.html instruction Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:21:48 EDT Boo Weekley wins the 2008 Verizon Heritage Classic to add to his 2007 victory. http://www.pga.com/2008/instruction/features/04/21/verizon_weaver/index.html http://www.pga.com/2008/instruction/features/04/21/verizon_weaver/index.html instruction Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:28:59 EDT As I said earlier in the week in my Local Knowledge interview, Augusta National is never an "easy" course. But bring up the wind, bring down the temperatures, and add the pressure of a final round at the Masters, and you have the ingredients to see a whole bunch of high numbers. And that's what we saw on Sunday. http://www.pga.com/2008/instruction/features/04/13/masters_breed/index.html http://www.pga.com/2008/instruction/features/04/13/masters_breed/index.html instruction Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:48:22 EDT First off, I want to congratulate Johnson Wagner on his first PGA Tour victory in his home state of Texas and to wish him the best of luck next week since he has now qualified for his first Masters. For those who watched the tournament, it was no fluke that Mr. Wagner took home the trophy. He led wire to wire, tied his own course record in the first round, and made all the clutch putts he needed to keep himself at the top of the leaderboard. It was both impressive and educational. http://www.pga.com/2008/instruction/features/04/06/shellhouston_graves/index.html http://www.pga.com/2008/instruction/features/04/06/shellhouston_graves/index.html instruction Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:40:45 EDT The Zurich classic got underway at the TPC of Louisiana, with many of the PGA Tour players hoping for one of the final qualifying positions for the Masters which is quickly approaching in two weeks. Next week's Shell Houston Open will be the final event to precede the Masters. http://www.pga.com/2008/instruction/features/03/31/zurich_perkins/index.html http://www.pga.com/2008/instruction/features/03/31/zurich_perkins/index.html instruction Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:08:24 EDT For the avid golf fan the Doral Golf Resort & Spa and its fabled Blue Course, regularly called the "Blue Monster", is well known due to the forty-seven occasions which it has been the site of a PGA Tour stop. Doral has produced some famous champions including thirteen with major championships on their resumes including Tiger Woods, the champion for the past three years. Doral is best known for its demanding closing hole, the par four eighteenth, which offers water down the entire left side of the hole including skirting the left side of the green. Recent quotes concerning the eighteenth include one from Jim Furyk, who said "There is no bailout whatsoever" and another from Steve Stricker "That drive is probably one of the toughest drives we face all year". For the second consecutive year Doral is the site of a World Golf Championship, in this case the CA Championship. http://www.pga.com/2008/instruction/features/03/24/cachamp_gale/index.html http://www.pga.com/2008/instruction/features/03/24/cachamp_gale/index.html instruction Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:24:33 EDT Leading into every Arnold Palmer Invitational the talk is almost always about the golf course. The Bay Hill course is in my opinion one of the greatest and most importantly the fairest tests of golf on the PGA Tour. It allows the likes of Sean O'Hair to move up the leaderboard with a spectacular round of 63 on Saturday but will punish someone like Vijay Singh who made a double bogey 7 on the 6th hole Saturday that eventually lead to a front nine 40 and put the likes of Tiger Woods in serious contention. http://www.pga.com/2008/instruction/features/03/16/arnoldpalmerinvit_buytenhus/index.html http://www.pga.com/2008/instruction/features/03/16/arnoldpalmerinvit_buytenhus/index.html instruction Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:50:17 EDT The PODS Company needs to reconsider withdrawing their title sponsorship of this past week's PGA tournament, as well as change their acronym to "Pressure On Demand Situations." What an incredible tournament and what a lesson in patience and perserverance by eventual champion Sean O'Hair! The lethal combination of a uniquely challenging golf course with extreme daily weather conditions/changes made for entertaining golf as well as a lesson on how to survive some of the most difficult playing conditions you could face. http://www.pga.com/2008/instruction/features/03/09/PODS_Hughes/index.html http://www.pga.com/2008/instruction/features/03/09/PODS_Hughes/index.html instruction Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:52:13 EDT