RYDER CUP RAFFLE

RYDER CUP RAFFLE

BENEFITING YOUTH CHALLENGE

THE GOLF EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME – INCLUDING A PRIVATE JET!

Get your tickets today – only 250 will be sold!

 

2021 Ryder Cup Deluxe Weekend Experience (Friday – Monday) for two,

including hotel stay and transportation to and from the course.

Access to the grounds for the Ryder Cup Saturday and Sunday rounds,

9/25/21-9/26/21, at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin.

Private jet takes you to and from the experience. Fly in style with your host, Scott Mawaka.

Jet departs from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.

DRAWING ON DECEMBER 18

Winner will be contacted same day.

Questions? Contact Carolyn Palmer at 440.892.1001 x 13 or cpalmer@youthchallengesports.com

GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY

The post RYDER CUP RAFFLE appeared first on Ellsworth Meadows.

Sign up for the Turkey Trot!

Sign up for the Turkey Trot!

We have just a few spots left!

Sign Up Online

The post Sign up for the Turkey Trot! appeared first on Ellsworth Meadows.

2020 Club Championship

Club Championship

Compete in this year’s Club Championship at Ellsworth Meadows!

October 17 & 18

First tee time each day is 9am.

$100 per player

Includes: two rounds of golf, cart, range, lunch and steak dinner after the first round

This event will be handicapped, and flighted based on handicap. Golfers must have a valid handicap to enter.

To sign up, call the pro shop at 330.655.2267, or fill out the form below

Sign Up Now!

The post 2020 Club Championship appeared first on Ellsworth Meadows.

Labor Day Weekend is quickly approaching!

Take some time to relax and tee it up on your long weekend!

Click below to secure your tee time!

BOOK NOW!

The post Labor Day Weekend is quickly approaching! appeared first on Ellsworth Meadows.

Join Our Callaway Junior Camp!

Professional Instruction on all areas of the golf swing.

AUG 24-27 | 8 AM-12 PM

Includes lunch each day, a registration gift & a cookout party on the last day!

– $300 per child

– $250 for addtl sibling

The 2020 Callaway Junior Camp is for ages 7-16.

Contact: Warren Brocklehurst – wbrocklehurst@hudson.oh.us

The post Join Our Callaway Junior Camp! appeared first on Ellsworth Meadows.

AVOID THESE AND MAYBE YOU’LL START FINDING MORE CIRCLES ON YOUR SCORECARD.

11 ways you ruin your golf round before it even starts

It’s a tough realization. You just three-putted the 18th to close your round, and your scorecard suggests maybe you should have just stayed home and mowed the lawn.

And while you spend most of the 19th hole explaining to your buddies where and how your round went so terribly wrong, the truth is it didn’t happen with your three OB drives, two shanks or dreaded four-putt. Your round likely went south before you even teed off on the opening hole.

Here are 11 ways you can ruin your round before it even starts. Avoid these and maybe you’ll start finding more circles on your scorecard.

You show up too late

This is the biggest no-no. When you are late, everything is rushed — check in, driving range, putting practice (if you even have time for that). The round starts well before you hit your first tee shot. So don’t be late!

You didn’t get enough sleep

Late night working or watching Netflix? Arriving to the course groggy will make your game sluggish, too. Speaking of not getting enough sleep…

You are hungover

It happens to the best of ’em, but aching after a bachelor party or night out on the town isn’t going to improve your contact. It also might make the day pretty miserable overall.

You don’t warm up the right way

Think of your time at the course prior to your tee time as an extension of your round. You think Tiger and Brooks and Dustin and the fellas just show up and practice without a plan? Know how long you want to hit range balls for (and which clubs), and give yourself the time you need to stretch or putt or get your bag and gear ready. Give yourself minimums for each so you can check them all off, but leave some extra time to play with in case something like, say, your putting stroke, needs a few extra reps.

You have too many swing thoughts

By all means, head to GOLF.com and steal a swing thought or work on that tip your local pro has helped you with, but don’t overthink it. Too many thoughts are not good for the average golfer. Keep it simple, focus on one key element and go from there.

You hit only drivers on the range

Wow, that’s awesome watching you scare the range netting with your 14th straight blast with the Big Dog, but you’re still only hitting that club maybe 15 times, max, when you get to the course. Mix in a couple of wedges, will ya? You might need them.

You don’t practice lag putts

You never want to three-putt, and one of the best ways to avoid this is improve your lag putting. This doesn’t mean launching a dozen 90-footers aimlessly across the putting green, but you could benefit from rolling two or three 30-footers, just to get a nice feel for the speed of the greens. More often than not they’ll roll at a similar speed once you get on the course.

You don’t practice the important putts

Lag putting is key, but so is canning the putts that will make or break your round. Those putts are the ones right outside gimme range but inside about 8 feet. It’s the distance where you stand over a putt and aren’t intimidated by the look, and it’s close enough where if you miss you’d be annoyed. Putts from 4-8 feet are crucial, but not that easy to make. Ian Poulter leads the PGA Tour in conversation rate from 4-8 feet at 86 percent, but only 14 players on Tour make 3/4s of those putts. The worst player in that category, Paul Casey, makes 1/2 from the range. So focus on that tricky distance. Once you see one drop the hole will start to look bigger, and a strong putting day from that range — like making 7 of 12 instead of 2 of 12 — can shave five strokes in a heartbeat.

You didn’t eat or hydrate

Plan ahead! Grab a bottle of water. Eat at home, on the go or make sure you have enough time when you get to the course. But don’t jeopardize a promising round due to a lack of food fuel. (Here are some ideas for what to pack in your bag.)

You don’t know anything about the course

You may think you did everything right to get ready for a course you’ve never seen — hit balls, roll putts, etc. — but did you know the first four holes have tight fairways and doglegs and your best bet might be hitting a hybrid? Now you probably wish you would have striped that 17-degree more than twice on the range, huh?

You are too focused on other things

Stop worrying so much about your foursome’s betting game, what tees you are playing or that epic playlist you’ve been cooking up since the car ride over. Put the phone away and check out Twitter later or respond to that work email when you get home. None of it’s going anywhere. And plus, making sure your game is ready for a par-birdie-par start is way more important.

SOURCE:  golf.com

The post AVOID THESE AND MAYBE YOU’LL START FINDING MORE CIRCLES ON YOUR SCORECARD. appeared first on Ellsworth Meadows.

Your golf grip and your technique

The most intriguing grips in pro golf

 

A substantial subsection of the golf canon is devoted to romanticizing Ben Hogan and his technique. And that includes his grip, which is shown in the photograph shown above for Life Magazine in 1947—before he weakened it to stop hooking and went on to dominate golf through the mid-1950s.

Even with all of the changes in equipment, clothing, agronomy and, most of all, the ball, how the best players hold the club has stayed mostly within a familiar set of parameters. “There has always been debate about grips—should you be weak, strong or in the middle,” says top Arizona teacher Terry Rowles, who coaches Aaron Baddeley and Martin Trainer on the PGA Tour.

“But the span of grips has always been the same. Henry Cotton looks like Tiger Woods. The action item is how players match their grip with the way they release the club.”

A stroll back through history reveals Arnold Palmer (“The Grip,” Rowles calls him) with his weak right hand turned toward from the target, Johnny Miller with both of his hands set weak and Lee Trevino and David Duval (below), who both believed you couldn’t grip it strong enough, or turned away from the target.

READ FULL ARTICLE

The post Your golf grip and your technique appeared first on Ellsworth Meadows.