Elevate Your Game with Dave's Insights

Golf is a challenging sport that demands both mental discipline and physical fitness. In 2025, golfers have become premier athletes who exemplify greatness in mind, body, and strength. I have met some incredibly strong individuals in golf, and I believe the sport can...

Finding the right PGA instructor to meet your needs involves more than just a quick internet search. While you can start by visiting PGA.com and using the "find a golf instructor near me" feature, this is just the beginning of a more comprehensive search. To ensure...

Why should you take golf lessons? By Coach David C. Smith Jr.  Golf lessons are essential for improvement, as talent alone is not enough. Great players like Crenshaw, Kite, Tiger Woods, Nicklaus, and Faldo all benefited from coaching to refine their skills. Golfers...

Here is a fundamentally sound way to approach assessment for players of different skill levels. This is a progressive model and moves from a relaxed standard for the beginner to a more stringent criterion as the player’s handicap lowers.  Beginner Players (Hcp...

 Swing aggressively Make a full finish HIT THE SAND HIT THE SAND HIT THE SAND Set Up Ball position in the center of feet Feet shoulder width Square body line (parallel to target) Weight on forward leg 70% Ball position forward goes high trajectory o Middle...

By: PGA Professional David C. Smith Jr. When playing golf a player must not only have a repeating swing, the player must be able to thinkhow to use that swing to get the ball in the hole with the least amount of strokes. This is a very gray area formost players. It...

To make ball position and width of stance easy to remember divide the set ofclubs into thirds. This would consist of short irons (SW, PW, 9, 8), mid-irons (5-6-7), long irons and woods (2-3-4, Driver, Three Wood, FiveWood).In creating proper width of stance and ball...