Tag Archive for Golf for Women

What Does A Golf Handicap REALLY Mean?

If you play a lot of golf, then you probably have a handicap index calculated by the GHIN system (Golf Handicap and Information Network). It’s a complicated calculation that is determined by course rating/slope and your score and the math is best left to the computers. But what does the handicap number really represent for…

Staying Fit For Golf: Exercises for Balance Training

Your golf clubs in the garage for the off season? Don’t let your body hibernate as well. There’s a lot of golf to play in the months ahead. Get ready now! The Key to a Great Golf Swing: Keep Your Balance – Improve Your Golf Score! Guest Author: Kathleen Ekdahl, ACE CPT, CSCS Winter is just…

GHIN News – How To Post Golf Scores in Winter

Here in the northeast most of the golf courses are closed for the season. A few on Cape Cod remain open during winter but the ground is frozen, ponds and streams are iced over and golf balls perform in very unexpected ways. For this reason scores kept for handicap purposes cannot be posted during the…

Winter Golf? – I’ll Wait For The Thaw

I just put my clubs away for a while. Not for the season, though. I hope to play sometime during the inevitable January thaw, — those magical days that come in the middle of a Cape Cod winter and last for about a week, when the temperature creeps up to the lo-50s and the snowbanks…

Golf Gifts: What Will Improve Your Game?

Golf Gifts for the Holidays. What to give? What to wish for? If you’re a golfer, and you probably are because you are reading this blog, or you know golfers, and of course you do, the big question this holiday season is to find the perfect gift to give to that special someone, or if…

One Secret to the Easy Golf Swing

Recently I played a round of golf with an 85 year old woman and she beat me. Easily! I drive the ball a fair distance, at least 30 yards further than my companion, but for accuracy she had me beat. I watched her as she played the round. Long game, short game, it didn’t matter.…