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Times • June 17, 2011
Pacific Grove
Sports
First week of summer
When you’re a kid, you don’t let a little fog get in the way of your good time. Youngsters enrolled in the City’s various programs celebrated the first week of summer. Above, the annual Basketball Shooting Camp, contracted out with PGHS Coach, Dan Powers; Top right, Kristy Sebok – Sebok Art Camp with avid young artists; Bottom right, the SZ Tennis Camp; Below, Adventure Campers at Lovers Point Beach.
Photos: Don Mothershead
Ben Alexander
Golf Tips Learn from your scorecard
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Many golfers struggle to play better golf but few lack the direction to get started on the road to better scores. One of the first things I do with my students is ask them what their handicap is. If they say "28," for example, I then ask them, "Well, where do you think you are losing 28 shots per round?" Far too often their answer is, "I don't know." If more players knew how to use their scorecard to their advantage, they would know where most of their strokes are lost. A great learning tool, I tell my students, is to use your scorecard during your next four rounds as a record of every shot you hit. Along with the score for each hole, mark down on your card how many fairways you hit, how many greens in regulation you hit, how many putts per green you use, and how many times you did or didn't get up and down. Ideally, I'd like to see you do this type of record-keeping for at least four rounds on four different courses. That way it will give you truer average of your strengths and weaknesses. Once you do this, you and your PGA Professional can go over the results on the lesson tee and really see where you are having the most trouble scoring. Then it's simply a matter of working on the areas of your golf game that need the most help.
Ben Alexander PGA PGA Teaching Professional, Pacific Grove Golf Links, Poppy Hills Golf Course PGA Teacher Of The Year, No Cal PGA 831-277-9001 www.benalexandergolf.com
We welcome Ben Alexander, the teaching pro at Pacific Grove Golf Links as well as Poppy Hills Golf Course, to our Sports page. He will present short tips for golfers searching to improve their game. If you have a question for him, please see his website at www.benalexandergolf.com.