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Get the belt out

December 1, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD The Greer Belt Drill really works great. Using your readily available belt, put it around your right upper

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A great age in which to be alive

January 4, 2020- by Steven E. Greer (President Trump is also the most influential golfer in the world. Therefore, I am including here this essay I wrote for my other news-oriented site. I apologize for the political commentary. ) After … Continue reading

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What I did in 2020

December 21, 2020- by Steven E. Greer

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Check your center of gravity

December 23, 2019- by Steven E. Greer Fascinating: I knew there was something drastically different between my swing and any good golfer.

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Working on posting low numbers in 2020

January 1, 2020- by Steven E. Greer From my work last year,

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Course Review: Carmel Valley Ranch

August 16, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD This is my second trip in 2018 to Carmel Valley Ranch, which is about 10-miles

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Review: The Stitch Golf Bag

February 20, 2019-

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Product Review: Ecco Golf Shoes

January 18, 2019- by Steven E. Greer I saw someone wearing Ecco golf shoes and they seemed to be what I was looking for. So, I bought a pair.

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Film your putter face at impact

August 7, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD This is a good Brad Faxon tip. For unknown reasons, I have not filmed my putter face like this. I

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Warren Bottke explains key hand movements of Brooks Koepka

July 1, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD I have tried numerous different experiments to get the hands ahead of the ball at impact the way that elite

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Working on the perfect swing for 2019

December 31, 2019- Well, with 8-hours left in 2019, I finally found the swing that was my

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What is early hand release (i.e. flipping) and what causes it?

December 30, 2019- by Steven E. Greer I have made a lot of progress with my swing this year, but something was still off. I was hitting

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Finding the feel for altering spine tilt

Incorporating Jim Furyk’s extreme swing moves to rid me of the deadly tilted spine Update December 27, 2019- I finally did it. I incorporated Jim Furyk’s extreme moves in order to rid me of that deadly

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Visualize the sternum turning on an arc to maintain balance through impact

December 21. 2019- by Steve E. Greer

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The Players Championship should replace the PGA Championship as a major

Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, and others created the PGA Tour in 1968, splitting off from the PGA of America (Please post on your Facebook pages!) Update September 3, 2019- Jack Nicklaus agrees with my essay, below. He was telling the … Continue reading

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Stop, Drop, and Roll

Update December 9, 2019- by Steven E. Greer Hitting nothing but driver for weeks got me out of kilter with irons.

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How to create new neural pathways for complex swing changes

July 4, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD

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A great drill to learn how to push off of the ground

October 16, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD I recently wrote about my improved club speed caused by better form. However, I am still not dipping

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A good drill to give you elite pro body turn and the Reverse-K

October 17, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD

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The Bottke Arm Piston Drill

July 23, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD I have made a lot of progress in my transition and understanding of the movement that happens

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No. The golf swing is not like a baseball swing.

October 12, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD Over the last three-years of this Golf Project, I have spotted the obvious similarities between

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Awesome swings from the 2019 Masters

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How a prescription of “walk the golf course” could save President Trump

January 15, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD Making the mainstream news headlines is how President Trump fed the visiting Clemson football

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Study your right upper arm movement in the transition

November 26, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD I think I am on to something. It is the initial transition move that is controlled by the right humerus,

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The Rock and Roll drill

November 16, 2019- by Steven E. Greer To help get the feel of properly transferring weight between the left and right foot, and your knees and

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That concludes Phase 2 of The Golf Project

September 13, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD It is so interesting how this always happens. The worst days at the range lead to me figuring

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Soothing sounds of golf

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Slow motion swings are a great way to warm up

August 2, 2019- by Steven E. Greer

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It is time to replace the PGA of America with the PGA Tour

August 26, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD This weekend was another success for the PGA Tour. The FedEx championship was fair and

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An elite golf throw has the same hip/hand sequence as a football throw

March 28, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD

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Should your driving privileges be revoked?

September 1, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD The worst things that a bad golfer can do are the following:

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Try the right-arm-only drill to get superb control of the clubface

March 30, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD I have mentioned before how the golf throw shares the same body sequence as that of the baseball or football throw.

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Mastering the 50-yard wedge

Update February 8 and May 11, 2019 – by Steven E. Greer, MD Above is the video from my Phoenix trip in January, 2019 with recent footage added from May, 2019.

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The Golf Project: Visualize throwing your clubs, not hitting at the ball

December 16, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD Over the last few months of indoor swinging and thinking, I have started to view the entire swing as a

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The old Jack Nicklaus putts like the young Jack Nicklaus

December 16, 2018- The 78-year-old Jack Nicklaus putts as well as the young Jack. It is absolutely phenomenal.

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How this photo of Nicklaus, Tiger, and Trump represents the ideals of golf

February 2, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD President Trump played a round of golf today with the the two best golfers to ever play the game:

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True Wealth Cannot be Bought

February 12, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD On a recent trip to Monterey, I noticed that a PGA player I follow, fellow Ohio State University alumnus Ryan Armour,

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The Golf Project: Two-Years In and Getting Close

October 5, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD I am a little more than two-years into The Golf Project. I finally shot par on nine-holes, for the first time

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The Golf Project: 12-months in

July 23, 2017- by Steven E. Greer, MD I moved to Ohio on July 8, 2016 after living in New York City for 20-years. I moved to New York in 1996 to

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The modern player’s finesse chip

May 16, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD In March, when I met with Ryan Crysler at the Harmon teaching center in Port Saint Lucie,

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The standard short-range bunker shot

July 27, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD The Golf Channel’s series with Scott McCarron is paying dividends again. After finding the tips on

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