The Old Fart Golfer “Play Better Newsletter” will usually arrive on Mondays with a review of pro tour results, a preview of the week’s upcoming events and our weekly Play Better mental golf, swing tips and your short game improvement will be featured.

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Do your eyes ever play tricks on you? Mine do. That’s the prime reason aligning yourself for your shot is so difficult to get consistently right.
First, make sure of your target. Have as clear a picture of your target as possible. From the tee it consists of an area and a line from the center […]

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TOFG couldn’t help but follow up my last two posts when I saw this quote on my Gmail inbox this morning>
Quote of the Day - Bern Williams - “Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.”

Boy does that apply to golfers. This game tests the human spirit and demands resilience like no […]

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Val Spangler, TOFG, was introduced to caddying at the age of ten. He caddied for 7 years culminating in a “loop” around the Inverness CC in the 1957 US Open. His experience at the Tecumseh CC was valuable in many, many ways. He earned (and saved) enough income in the summers to provide spending money […]

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Mental golf: LETTING GO and REFOCUSING! The key in golf as in the rest of one’s life when faced with mistakes or shortcomings is how fast can you recover and get your focus back as quickly as possible so as to not let the mistake affect future performance.

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Paula Creamer shows remarkable mental toughness and determination in winning her 6th LPGA title at the SemGroup Championship - 4 “bounce-backs” in one day - WOW!

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The better known one iron story is the one told by Lee Trevino. Lee and others had taken refuge from lightning during a storm by lying on the ground in a shallow depression when lightning struck a nearby tree. The electicity from the strike traveled down the tree and across the wet ground and gave […]

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Hi Golfers! Finally getting organized and feeling good about it. What will my viewers want to see and read about? What do you think? - Here is the first list of my categories for this site/blog:
1. Personal Golf Journal - The day to day efforts of TOFG to improve his golf game, his fitness and […]

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