The Grateful Golfer
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I'm Jim. As The Grateful Golfer grows, I strive to freely share tips, drills, and positive views about this fantastic sport. Fortunately, I love playing, talking, watching, and reading about golf; so follow along and feel free to share your thoughts!
The Grateful Golfer
20h ago
A few years back, I was introduced to playing golf with hickory shafted clubs. Thanks to Lorne Emery, President of the Golf Historical Society of Canada, I am hooked on playing these vintage beauties. I enjoy hitting them and having to use different course management strategies in order to shoot well. When I first started ..read more
The Grateful Golfer
20h ago
The start of my 2024 golf season has seen the resurgence of a swing challenge: making solid ball contact. This is challenge is not unique to this year’s start, but on I face each year. It takes weeks for me to find my swing, train my body to play golf, and to feel comfortable with ..read more
The Grateful Golfer
4d ago
Every golfer experiences days when we could not hit the broad side of a barn from 5 yards. Our swing feels like complete trash and we cannot seem to fix our woes. Sometimes we need a reset of our swing in order to banish our error riddled process. The challenge for most is finding a ..read more
The Grateful Golfer
6d ago
Yesterday, I golfed for the first time in 2024. It was our annual pilgrimage to the first home course to open in the area (we were a few days late this year) and play our first round. I was lucky to hit the links with Rick, Steve and Dillon. Rick is one of my usual ..read more
The Grateful Golfer
1w ago
Teaching someone how to play golf can be a difficult task. Depending on their physical and mental abilities, explaining golf concepts is a challenge. The one thing I notice over the years is that we seem to teach young juniors different than an adult learning how to play golf. Of course, keeping it fun for ..read more
The Grateful Golfer
1w ago
The golf swing is made up of a 1000 minor movements to create poetry in motion. It can be challenging at the basic level, but certain movements help easy the pressure of creating the perfect golf swing. One of the basic movements is the takeaway. Moving the club head away from the ball in such ..read more
The Grateful Golfer
1w ago
As we age, golf can become challenging than expected…..or does it? As I enter the back nine of my golfing career I often wonder what my game will be like in a few years. I have enjoyed a great deal of success over the years and my ego thinks that I should be able to ..read more
The Grateful Golfer
1w ago
The golf swing is a fluid movement producing tremendous power. Of course the results vary depending on the player, but the intent is usually the same. Although the golf swing is intended to be one motion, it can be broken down into many subsets. These internal motions can be dissected further in order to understand ..read more
The Grateful Golfer
2w ago
The day has finally arrived! The 2024 golf season starts at my local courses. After months of lamenting, hoping and wishing, the local golf courses are opening. It is exactly 11 days longer than I had hoped, but that is the nature of Mother Nature! So, now what? What do I do next? These and ..read more
The Grateful Golfer
2w ago
The ability to sink short putts (inside four feet) is a challenge for all amateur golfers. Many times we dread these knee knockers because we do not have an establish process for success. For years I thought that banging the ball at the hole was the road to success, however this approach is fine as ..read more