April, 2010 | Wayne DeFrancesco

Golf is NOT a Game of Confidence

You might be wondering, after reading the title of this article, whether or not there was a typo in the wording. “Doesn’t he mean the opposite?” you might suppose. Isn’t it an accepted fact that confidence is everything to a golfer, and that without it you are destined to fail? It would certainly be against the grain to suggest that confidence is not a good thing, but that is not what I am going to postulate here.

Are We Having Fun Yet?

By Wayne | Articles: The Mental Game

Fun: 1a) lively, joyous play or playfulness; amusement, sport, recreation, etc. b) enjoyment or pleasure 2. a source or cause of amusement or merriment, as an amusing person or thing. –adj. intended for, or giving, pleasure or amusement.

The Truth About Top Teacher Lists

By Wayne | Articles: Technology, Equipment and Teaching

Annika Trys Teaching

By Wayne | Articles: Technology, Equipment and Teaching

How many people do you know who truly love their job? I’m sure you could think of one or even a few, but out of all the people you know it probably wouldn’t be a very large percentage. Well, you can count me among those who do.

Goodbye Ben Hogan

By Wayne | Articles: Tour Players

Ben Hogan died on a hot day in June. All over the world, golf balls were in flight at the moment he passed from this earth. Every shot, whether struck poorly or precisely, bore the mark of Hogan. No single person has influenced the game like the man from Texas. If you speak of technique, you speak of Hogan. If you speak of the mental game, you speak of Hogan.

IRELAND: A Terrible Beauty

By Wayne | Articles: General Golf

“You know why they call it “love grass”, asked John Whelan, our Irish tour guide? None of the 24 American golfers (6 Middle Atlantic club professionals, including myself, and 3 amateurs we each invited to come along as a team) knew the answer.

A Wee Bit of Scotland

By Wayne | Articles: General Golf

You may be wondering (at least those of you with a bent for literature) why I would choose a passage from an English poet when writing about my experience in Scotland. There may be no answer good enough for a Scotsman (who dislike the English to the extreme), but suffice it to say that Wordsworth’s thoughts truly represent the way I feel about my visit there.

Technology and the Future of the Game

By Wayne | Articles: Technology, Equipment and Teaching

It is a rare day that I don’t hear the question “So, what do you think about the new technology and how it’s affecting the game?” followed by “Do you think the ball is going too far”?

Gaining Perspective

By Wayne | Articles: Tour Players

“Death is our eternal companion,” don Juan said with a most serious air. “It is always to our left, at an arm’s length. It has always been watching you. It always will until the day it taps you.” “How can anyone feel so important when we know that death is stalking us?” he asked.

There are NO Shortcuts

By Wayne | Articles: Technology, Equipment and Teaching

It’s almost impossible, lying under the covers at night, drifting in and out of sleep, to keep your thoughts from wandering to that one nagging question; “Just how am I going to get better this season?”

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