Category Archives: Essays and Philosophy

The Palm Beach Par-3 course supports my argument that most golfers should be on par-3 courses

February 15, 2020- by Steven E. Greer I played the Palm Beach Par-3 course today because I wanted to try out my experimental swing.

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Why 9-hole Par-3 courses are being added to resort destination courses

June 5, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD The Golf Channel

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Negative feedback drills are essential to eradicate bad habits

February 17, 2020- by Steven E. Greer I have said many times that I believe the key teaching method used by Jack Grout on the young

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Any Colour You Like

February 27, 2020- by Steven E. Greer

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How to Harvest Coconut with a 6-iron

October 23, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD

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The pilgrimage to Harmon Floridian

March 17, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD As I have written about previously, I have zoomed in on the most important part of the swing for a

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I don’t like green eggs and ham or alternative putting grips

January 18, 2020- by Steven E. Greer Please follow us on Instagram Putting is a mental exercise. Jack Nicklaus, perhaps the best putter of all time, said recently that

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The New Faces of Golf

Update September 23, 2019- Sebastián Muñoz (Colombia) won this week, defeating Sungjae Im

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The swing of Maxwell Moldovan

November 26, 2019- by Steven E. Greer Maxwell Moldovan was the AJGA best golfer of the year award last night as Nicklaus handed out

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Tiger’s son Charlie swings like dad

January 12, 2020- by Steven E. Greer I think I have supernatural powers to foresee the future. The Ohio State golf coach, Jay Moseley,

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A New Paradigm for TV Golf is Needed

December 17, 2019- by Steven E. Greer I was honestly going to write an essay about the need for a new paradigm of golf coverage before I saw these developments.

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How to get the most out of a teaching session

January 15, 2020- by Steve E. Greer After making a lot of progress, I realized that I still have a terrible problem of tilting the spine to the right at impact.

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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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Working on posting low numbers in 2020

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

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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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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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How to create new neural pathways for complex swing changes

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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That concludes Phase 1 of The Golf Project

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

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A real eagle scores a golf eagle (no joke)

March 13, 2019

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Beware the “Golf Scientist” quack

January 20, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD Along with the advent of modern golf analysis technology is the downside of data overload. What do we

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