Just when the greens on your home course start getting fast and rolling smooth, it seems like the golf course superintendent purposely messes them up by punching and sanding them. Golf course maintenance can be frustrating for golfers. The other day, I played my home course with some friends and we had to endure bumpy, shaggy and sandy greens because they had just been aerated. Our greens, it seemed, had only just recovered from the spring aerification and now they were doing it again. Core aeration (also know as aerification, aerating or aerifying) is a maintenance practice that promotes ...

I have taught golf for more than 14 years now and it is funny to me, but according to some of my students, their most memorable lessons weren’t the ones where I spent hours pouring over video of their swings, trying to come up with the perfect swing analysis or practice program, but the ones where I gave them a simple swing image. I usually resort to corny swing images or clichés when I realize the person just doesn’t the gist of my instruction. “Pour the water of out the shaft,” I will say to help people understand how to ...