GOLF QUESTIONS WANTED FOR RADIO/INTERNET SHOW

The myNEGM Lesson Tee Show wants to hear from you!

If you are having problems with any part of your golf swing, email us at: steve@wnri.com and our host, veteran teaching professional of over 30 years, Steve Riggs will answer your questions LIVE during the myNEGM LESSON TEE Radio/Internet Show.

"It is not golf, (swing), my way but rather the way the student understands it", is Steve's motto.

Listen to the show each and every Wednesday from 10:05-11:00am Eastern Time Zone, (GMT) and join those around the U.S., Canada, UK and elsewhere who get practical wisdom about the golf swing.

This is not a 'technical show' but a 'practical show' as every golfer perceives his or her golf swing in a different way.  Steve's mission has always been to help people develop the feel to better understand the golf swing their way.

Again, email your questions to steve@wnri.com OR call the show at 800-949-9674.  The phone lines open each Wednesday at 10:30am.

Enjoy the show, enjoy the interviews, enjoy the wisdom of the myNEGM LESSON TEE Radio/Internet Show Wednesdays 10:05-11:00 am Eastern Time Zone, (GMT).

Lesson Tee Show begins 4th year on air/on line!

Wednesday 1, February is the date, 10:05 ET is the time. 

Lesson Tee Internet/Radio Show begins 4th year on air and on line.  Click link below to hear the commercial spot for the show. 

Wednesdays from 10:05-11am Eastern Time Zone for The Lesson Tee Show.  Link for Show: www.wnri.com or www.mynegm.com and click the 'myNEGM Lesson Tee' tab for link to show.

Email address for Show if you have a question you'd like answered: steve@wnri.com

 


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RE: A BRIEF UPDATE. Check it out, you may be glad you did!

To those of you who have checked in on my blog, I thank you. Also to those of you who communicated your golf swing questions to me over the past several weeks. Great to hear from golfers around the world.

If you do check in from time to time, keep coming back as I have some VERY exciting news I hope to be able to share with all of you in the next few weeks. 

This is no joke. I have been approached to help get a revolutionary product to market with a formal unveiling at the 2012 PGA MERCHANDISE SHOW in January '12.  Again, if you've read some of  my posts you will know what the product is.

The information you see here in the coming weeks will put you ahead of your golfing partners and may even improve YOUR GAME so stay tuned.

For an old retired teaching professional, I gotta tell you.....THIS is about as excited as I have been in over a decade and anyone who knows me knows I just don't get too excited over new products in the golf industry very often........

Keep checking in and when I begin posting about this, you WILL be glad you did.

Cheers!

PGA Teacher of the Year John Shelden talks swing issues....

John Shelden, PGA Teacher of the Year in  the California Desert Section, former head pro at    PGA WEST's private club, talks with me about his opinion regarding simple swing problems from the driver to the sand shot and putting.

John is the 2009-2010 PGA Teacher of the Year  

His tenure as HP at PGA WEST and Tamarisk in the Palm Springs area, while great jobs lasting, in total for over 12 years, didn't give him time to show his real talent:  Teaching.

John and I have had marathon chats about different aspects of the golf swing and teaching and I was so glad when I heard he'd taken the head teaching job at Mountain View CC in LaQuinta, CA. 

John Shelden is perhaps one of the most down to earth and straight forward 'golf communicators' I have been lucky enough to meet through the years. 

Enjoy this insightful interview at:   http://lessontee.podomatic.com/entry/2011-05-23T17_29_26-07_00

Cheers!

TOUR Coach on LESSON TEE SHOW TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY

Do not miss this opportunity to hear the putting coach to over 30 of the world's TOP players tomorrow from 10:05-11am ET ONLY on THE LESSON TEE Internet/Radio Show.

Players like: Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, YE Yang, Trevor Immelman, Stuart Appleby and Mark O'Meara are some of the players Filmalter works with.

THE LESSON TEE Show streams LIVE and is followed around the world on wnri.com and mynegm.com around the world.

THE LESSON TEE Show Wednesday 10:05am ET.

A change to golf tees has taken 122 years! Do not miss this show!

‎122 yrs with no significant improvement of the golf tee, until now! Mark Chantal, inventor of the revolutionary new MIRROR TEE, international teacher and former Hank Haney Dir. of Instruction, Peter Murphy and top club fitter and diagnostician Ken Collins talk with us about this astounding breakthrough. RANKMARK, the top golf rating company, has given it's unsolicited endorsement to the MIRROR TEE.

If you are a golfer looking to get better ball flight and distance off the tee box, listen to what promises to be an excellent interview Wednesday May 4 from 10:05-11am ET.

You can listen online at either: wnri.com or mynegm.com anywhere in the world.

Be among the FIRST to learn of this new tool!  Wednesday May 4, 2011 , 10:05-11am ET.
DO NOT MISS THIS! 

Also, stay up to date on show guests at the Mynegm Lesson TEE internet/radio show on our Face Book page. Comments welcome and encouraged.

Marius Filmalter, top putting coach to TOUR Players on Lesson Tee Show

Top putting coach to the TOUR Players in Marius Filmalter joins me on my radio/internet show.

Filmalter was recently named TOUR PUTTING COACH by GOLF MAGAZINE, joins us on the show Wednesday May 11th. Don't miss it!

Marius Filmalter may not be a household name when it comes to golf instruction, UNLESS you are a TOUR PLAYER.

While not exactly a name on the tip of most golfer's tongues, Filmalter has worked with over 50 TOUR Players from around the world. A few of Filmalter's past and present students include Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, Vijay Singh, Anthony Kim, Hunter Mahan, Ryan Palmer, Chad Campbell, Y.E. Yang, and Brad Faxon.

Faxon said of Filmalter: "The world's best putters trust Marius."

In addition to being the authority on putting, having catalogued over 50,000 putting strokes, Filmalter is the inventor of the famed TOMI putting machine that measures the critical parameters of putting, among other important diagnostic putting tools. Filmalter also is, what he and Hank Haney have called the YIPS EXPERT.

Most recently Marius co authored one of the most through and easily digested putting books I have ever read ; The Best PUTTING BOOK EVER! along with 9 of other renown putting coaches, each talking about different aspects of putting.

May 11th from 10:05-11am ET only on WNRI 1380 AM News Talk Radio. Or, online at wnri.com and mynegm.com

And don't forget to stay updated on future guests on the show's Face Book page; Mynegm Lesson Tee internet/radio show

Interview with 4X World 1 Club Champ/Guinness Record holder Pro Thad Daber

Holder of lowest round of golf EVER using only a #6 iron and 4X World One Club Champ, Pro Thad Daber, talks about course management. A must listen for golfers EVERYWHERE!
Link: http://lessontee.podomatic.com/entry/2011-02-18T06_22_34-08_00

The specifics of effective use of the mirror to improve your golf swing

It is time to get ready for the 2011 golf season and if you live in cold areas of the world, well, that is no excuse. The time to start is now, so, get off the couch and get a head start on a better swing and game. You only need a 5, 6 or 7 iron, a full length mirror and a little patience.
Actually, this infatuation I have with the mirror all started in 1983 when I set about rebuilding my own golf swing after being away from the golf profession for over 7 years.

My rebuilding efforts, hitting over 140,000 range balls in roughly a year and a half were, in large part, successful due to the time spent in front the mirror.

The mirror is a way to re-enforce proper basics which may have gotten out of whack over time. The basics are the place to start if you want to improve your golf swing. Oh, and that business golf you expect to use in 2011? By starting in front of a mirror to improve that swing, you are sure to help snag those ‘golf course deals’.

When using the mirror, don’t look into the mirror until you have completed the specific task you want to check, like your grip. The visual feedback gleaned will tell you if your grip, posture, weight distribution, arm positioning and alignment have changed from what it should be.

Now, taking that 5, 6 or 7 iron, grip the club and take your stance in the set up position. Do not look in the mirror.

With regards the grip: Once set up, take a look at your hands and how they are positioned on the club. Now look at your grip in the mirror. Check to be sure your grip is correct. Both ‘Vs’ generated between the thumb and index fingers are pointed at or towards the right or TRAIL ear, or mid way between that TRAIL ear and shoulder, (right shoulder for right hand golfers and left for left hand players). If adjustment is needed, relax your hands on the grip of the club and move your hands into the proper position. Look back down at your hands as you make adjustments, then look in the mirror to let your system ‘take it in’.

There is a good chance any correction you have to make is going to feel uncomfortable. When you look in the mirror, you are going to see that what you corrected does not look nearly as bad as it might initially feel! This is the feedback your system needs to confirm your brain is tricking you.

You need to see any changes you make externally. Otherwise, you may unintentionally go back to the old position, ‘overcook’, or exaggerate a position change you have made, making matters worse. This too can happen when you stop using the mirror for re-enforcement of your ‘set up mechanics’

Now, it is time to check your arm and shoulder positions. This requires two mirror views. Head on, facing the mirror and off the left or LEAD side.

Look into the mirror at how your shoulders are positioned. You might notice they are parallel to the ground. If so, relax your right or TRAIL shoulder as well as your neck muscles. This will cause the TRAIL shoulder to relax and wind up lower to the ground than the LEAD shoulder. In other words, you want your shoulders to be ‘tilted’ in relationship to the ground and parallel to each other and the target line.

You can also achieve this by feeling as if your TRAIL arm is literally ‘hanging’ from your neck muscles and shoulder socket. This may cause you to feel as if the grip of the club is simply ‘resting’ in the fingers of the right or TRAIL hand. GREAT, that is what we want!

Before you set up to the mirror off of your LEAD side, it helps if you first create a couple of lines on the floor to check your alignment to the target line. Two strips of tape or two golf shafts work well. Heck, a couple of yard sticks will work. Anyway, one line should represent the target or ball line, and the other your feet line. Both need to be parallel to each other and running perpendicular into the mirror.

Now, set up in the address position so your LEAD side only is pointing, looking or facing the mirror.

At this point you first need to see the relationship between your LEAD arm and the TRAIL arm. Do this by turning or cocking your head and looking into the mirror.

You should see that your LEAD arm is ‘above’ or ‘higher’ than your TRAIL arm which should appear in the mirror to be ‘under’ your LEAD arm. Again, looking in the mirror, your TRAIL FOREARM should be visible UNDER the LEAD arm. If not, try to further relax the shoulder, elbow and wrist of the TRAIL arm. Again, this will feel as if the TRAIL arm is literally hanging from the neck while the grip of the club will feel as if it is resting in the middle two fingers of the TRAIL hand.

Now, checking your shoulders, you should not be able to see any part of your TRAIL shoulder as you look in the mirror off the LEAD side. If you do, keep working the TRAIL shoulder and neck muscles until you are able to make it disappear from view WITHOUT turning or twisting your upper torso. If you do ‘turn’ your body, so you can’t see your TRAIL shoulder you may wind up with your shoulder plane literally across or closed to the target line. Oh, and being able to see the TRAIL shoulder in the mirror off the LEAD side means your shoulders are actually open to the target line.

In the next article I’m going to finish up with Alignment and move into How to Check and Correct Posture which can seem like a daunting task. Also we will talk about checking your Weight Distribution.

In closing, you are probably going to spend 2-4 minutes the first couple trips to the mirror. That is the bad news. The good news is that after a few repetitions the time frame will dramatically decrease to somewhere around 15-20 seconds for the ENTIRE SET UP ROUNTINE! I will explain in the next article.

Women’s Breasts Impact On Their Golf Swing

This is a reprint of an article I wrote for a woman's online magazine. Useful information for men too.
A high quality website for women (http://www.parexcellence.com/).  Their golf section is but a fraction of the entire site.  Enjoy the article.

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For over thirty years, I have dedicated my life to helping golfers of all skill levels gain a better understanding of the golf swing in general and their swing in particular. To that end, the topic covered in this article, while sensitive, is one that I have discussed with countless ladies over the years. I have yet to have a single woman express being offended by the information I have covered with them.· I only hope you will read this piece with an open mind and consider its relevance to your golf swing and game.


My goal as a teaching professional has always been to help my clients better understand and improve their swing. To do this effectively, I have always felt it my responsibility to sometimes touch upon some delicate topics. In particular, a common discussion point I bring up with some of my female students relates to their chest, and how it might actually be getting in the way of their golf swing. While most of my peers agree the topic is germane, most simply will not talk about it with women students. Further, some female students simply are not comfortable discussing this issue unless with an LPGA or woman teaching professional.

I by no means encourage this discussion with every female student, as this topic does not always apply. If I think it would help the client, I will bring the subject to light. There is often a sense of relief that someone is actually willing to talk with them about this issue.

When it comes to beginners and average players, many women will often state they have problems getting comfortable over the ball. Terms used by students have included “jammed up” or “crowded” across the chest. The student generally doesn’t offer input until an honest discussion is engaged about why they seem to have continuing problems getting comfortable with the set up and the swing motion.

One of the biggest reasons the average woman golfer has problems with distance is tied directly to the issue of being tense and uncomfortable across the chest which then negatively impacts the swing motion. As any teaching professional will tell you, tension radiates and actually diminishes club head speed. Loss of momentum, resulting from this issue also leads to a loss of distance.

A characteristic of this dilemma can be observed when a woman consistently takes the golf club into the backswing on a path that is outside the target line. Much of the time she is literally swinging around her chest. Also, you will occasionally see a woman start the club away from the ball by first cocking their wrists then lifting the club the rest of the way into the backswing with the arms.· If you watch closely, you will see they tend to take the club away on an outside swing path.

The fix is to get the upper arms on top of the outside of your chest allowing for more freedom and comfort during the set up. Also, this position allows the arms to move freely into the back swing as well as though impact and follow through.

In the privacy of your bedroom or bathroom in front of a full length mirror, before getting fully dressed, take a 5, 6 or 7 iron and get into the set up position. Look at the situation in the mirror to see if, in fact, you are jammed up or crowded. Seeing this is half the battle of correcting the situation. You may notice your upper arms are situated on the side of your breasts, crunching everything between your shoulders which is what tends to make the set up uncomfortable for women golfers.

View the situation from three angles; head on, facing the mirror, off your left or lead side, (the side of the body that is closest to the target, the left side for right hand golfers, or the right side for left hand players), and off the trail side, (the side of the body furthest from the target.) You need to literally see the situation from all sides. Once you have done this, you can set about remedying the situation.

Next, back far enough away from the mirror to literally raise and extend your arms and the club in front of you and slightly above your chest. As you return the club to the set up position, watch what happens. You will see how the upper arms come down on top of the breasts.

As you finish lowering the club into the set up position, use your legs and knees to adjust for what you have just accomplished. This will keep your spine straight.

Note: Do not use your back to accommodate for the change in arm position. Should your upper back become curved or rounded, spend a little time getting the spine back into a straight position. This is accomplished by pulling your shoulder blades toward one another which can only be done by relaxing the shoulders as well as any tension in your hands and arms. If you are using your back to achieve this new arm position, you are simply trading one problem for another.

I suggest you practice this new set up, every other day, for a week or so to ingrain this new position. With repetition, the entire process should take no longer than 30 seconds per day. You will see this seemingly new arm position, in fact, is not as strange as it initially feels when you see the results in a mirror. Hence, your comfort level will improve. In the event you are having problems relaxing the shoulders or upper spine, check with your teaching professional. If you don’t have one, it would be worth 30 minutes of your time and money to have a teaching pro help you get the upper body to relax.

Another benefit of mirror work is you will become comfortable with a routine that allows you to clear your chest, getting your arms on top of the breasts. Another thing that will help is to watch better lady players as they go through their pre shot routines. Like Fred Couples adjusting his arms in those seemingly oversized golf shirts, better women players do similar things with their arms as they are getting set up. They are positioning the arms to allow for a comfortable set up and free swing motion.

In closing, note that I am not talking about swing theory, ONLY about getting comfortable and lessening that feeling of being all jammed up or crowded between your shoulders. You can still stay and feel connected but with much more comfort and freedom, not to mention now being on the road to generating more power in your golf swing, which will go a long way to your creating distance between clubs, not to mention better ball striking.