Nr. 01/2005

To All on The Path to Better Golf,

return to The Dunes Golf Links as of August 29th, 2005 to deliver Schools, Clinics, Individual Lessons, and Clubfitting and plan to be home in Australia, barring a few short trips away, well into 2006.

My time overseas has included schools in the USA, Europe, and SE Asia. It was a good chance to introduce our CGS to more golfers plus to update teachers of Croker Golf System (CGS) from Seaside, Oregon (Wedgy Winchester) to Salem G. C. (Mark Wanser & Charlie Poole) NY State and in Europe with Theirry Rombaldi, Chris Beckett, Steve Cottingham, Herman Eggar, Achim Steinfurth, and Andy Riss. In SE Asia it was great to deliver a school in Chiang Mai with Kitti Sornkaew and catching up with Spike Collier there was a bonus.

 

INTERNET TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM

Many Croker Golf System Teachers and friends were not able to attend on these school dates and to help them and future CGS students, we have decided to introduce our new interactive "Teach the Teacher" Program on www.crokergolf.com . High Speed Internet allows us to present our answers to forum questions via video to give more precise detail to those questions asked by the serious students of golf.

By use of a comprehensive forum and checksheet program, a step by step "Teach the Teacher" Section can raise both teaching and playing abilities.
Anyone wishing to improve their skills in teaching and playing golf (and all of us need to become the best teacher we can be, as we need to teach ourselves first before we can effectively help others) can sign up to do at least the Introductory Level.

 

US PGA CHAMPIONSHIP 2005 and Golf Tip #6

The US PGA Championship has just concluded and it is great to see Steve Elkington return to the top of the Leaderboard. It seems only a few years back (1985) when I had the good fortune to play the last round of the Tasmanian Open with Steve Elkington at Royal Hobart Golf Club. His game then held the promise of great things to come. Unfortunately a spate of health problems has lessened his playing record, but it seems he is back stronger than ever. He certainly has one of the best swings in Pro Golf - pure poetry in motion. Let us wish him many more years on the Pro Tour to show us how easy good golf can be.

Fred Ost has been our man on the ground at The USA PGA Championship and he has paid close attention to Vijay Singh and as great as he is, he still has a few swing problems. Fred says Vijay's "Forward Press" is causing him some problems and his control over his long game is suffering. Even Vijay Singh can do with some fine tuning. In the attachments we have both definitions of the "Tap,Tap,Tap" and the "Forward Press." These two important fundamentals help us start the "Backswing" smoothly and on the right path and in alignment with the proper "Body Pivot."

for additional information please click:

Tap,Tap,Tap or Forward Press

 

PATH to MASTERY by George Leonard

I would thoroughly recommend to all wishing to play better golf that this small paperback is well worht reading. You can buy this from www.Amazon.com

 

CLUB FITTING

I attended a Clubfitting Seminar with Henry Griffitts Company on August 3rd with Jim Hoffmeister (USA Company President), Barry Miles, and Bryan Ferguson at Southport Golf Club on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia and I was thoroughly impressed with their continued commitment to help golfers reach their true potential and remove the barrier of ill fitted equipment. Following is an extract from an article by one of their Founders:

- The importance of properly fitted golf clubs in helping you build your own best golf swing.

 

 

"Years ago, as a club professional, I began to suspect that golfers taking lessons from me were better athletes than they showed. I wondered if their equipment wasn't somehow warping their swings.

In the years that followed, as I left club work and devoted my career solely to teaching and clubfitting, I realised my theory was valid.

I now believe in the theory so fully, I put it at the top of my short list of clubfitting principles, which are:

  • People are better athletes than their golf instructors suspect, and better than their equipment, in most cases, allows them to be.

  • Ability to play well is attributable 50 percent to talent/skill and 50 percent to equipment.

  • Golfers will manufacture a swing that is most quickly and directly rewarded by the ball flight. The swing they produce is often a reaction to ill-fitting equipment.

  • A clubfitter who relies on preconceived ideas about body types and equipment specs is doomed. Likewise, clubfitting charts are insufficient for the task. (The proof: I can show you many pairs of golfers whose dimensions, golf experience and handicaps are the same, but whose equipment needs differ markedly.)

  • Virtually every brand and model of quality pro-line clubs, shafts, heads, etc. are well-designed and quite playable. They are potentially useless, however, without a competent clubfitter to help the golfer choose what to purchase.

  • PGA pros who are dedicated golf teachers tend to make competent clubfitters, and those who love to teach and observe golfers on the range are the finest clubfitters you could work with.

Ross Henry

 

 

Please write back to us with any questions on your own game and any suggestions on ways that we can help you play and enjoy the "Hit" more.

See you on the Leaderboard,

Peter Croker

61 (0) 415 292 549

PS: For more precise understanding, you can purchase the Module Two DVD from www.crokergolf.com - Pro Shop Section

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