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1-2-3 Here We Go at Golf’s President’s Cup 2009…

October 6th, 2009

Hi Guys:

Get ready for an intense spirited competition between the greatest golfers in the world as they compete here in San Francisco for the 2009 PRESIDENT’S CUP tournament.

It’s the US team and captain Freddie Couples up against the International team captained by Greg Norman in a “mano to mano” team competition of  players along with single matches much like the Ryder Cup event.

Look for a possible rematch between Tiger Woods and Y.E. Yang in a single match affair would be great for TV viewing on Sunday!

Our best players and the hottest are Tiger Woods, Phil Michelson, Steve Stricker and Kenny Perry.

The International  team looks pretty tough with Retief Goosen, Ernie Els, Vj Singh and Geoff Oglivy leading the charge for their side.

Harding Park GC in San Francisco area here in the States is the venue and should prove to be a great match-up between both squads.

In case of a tie, if I had it my way, I would like to see a sudden death play-off between Couples for the US and Norman for the Internationals to settle it with Freddie winning a close one!

What’s your take?

Talk soon,

Bob Cisco - Golf Doctor

www.allaboutgolf.us

Mickelson Wins Tour Championship But Woods Takes All the Loot..!

September 29th, 2009

Wow.  Great finish to the Tour Championship at East Lake there in Atlanta.

So kudos to Phil playing at his best and putting lights out to win the Tour Championship over the weekend. He closed super over the weekend with rounds of 66-65 to win.

Mickelson said in the interview afterwards he shot 65 to Tiger’s 70 to win yet Tiger gets $10 million for winning the Fed Ex Cup in total points. He checked himself at this point and changed the subject to the merits of the Fed Ex Cup and how well he’s been playing as of lately.

Credit a putting tip from Dave Stockton former PGA winner himself for getting Phil back to putting like he did as a kid. Stockton is a feel putter and teacher and likes to help his friends do better.

As a feel teacher myself and sport game specialist it’s hard to see a feel player like Phil  become more of a mechanical putter and “go against his nature” and I think that’s what he has done with Dave Pelz and his approach to putting.  Phil is driving the ball super as well and I would say is a real threat to Tiger’s quest for several majors in 2010.

Good going  Phil!

If you’re having putting troubles you can see my Ultimate Putting book which has a great section on feel in putting and a mention of Dave Stockton as well. www.allaboutgolf.us/books or www.lulu.com.bobcisco.

Talk soon,  Bob Cisco

What Wins Golf Tournaments and Your Equipment

September 22nd, 2009
Hi Golfers:
Ever wonder what equipment the pros are using to win their golf tournaments?
Let’s take a look at the winners on a couple of the major tours here over this past weekend.
IN THE WINNER’S BAG OVER THE WEEKND –
Rafael Cabrera-Bello
European Tour: Austrian Open
Driver: Callaway FT-9 Tour Authentic
Fairway Wood: Titleist 906F2 3-wood
Irons: Titlest ZM
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design and Vokey Spin Milled
Putter: Titleist Scotty Cameron Studio Select T-10 Newport 2
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
Footwear: FootJoy (Champ spikes)
Glove: FootJoy SciFlex
Na Yeon Choi
LPGA: Samsung World Championship
Driver: TaylorMade R9 (9.5 degrees; Mitsubishi Diamana White Board 63S shaft)
Fairway Wood: Callaway Big Bertha 3-wood (Mitsubishi Bassara Standard 63S shaft)
Hybrid: TaylorMade Rescue TP FCT (19 degrees; Graphite Design YS-6 shaft)
Irons (4-5): Callaway X-Forged
Irons (6-PW): Callaway X-22
Wedges: Callaway X-Forged Vintage (48, 52 and 58 degrees)
Putter: Odyssey White Hot XG 330 Mallet
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
Spikes: Champ Stinger
Jay Haas
Champions Tour: Greater Hickory Classic
Driver: Titleist 905R (9.5 degrees; ZCom Six shaft)
Fairway Wood: Titleist 909F2 3-wood (13.5 degrees; Fujikura Speeder 757 shaft) and 5-wood (18.5 degrees; Fujikura Speeder 757 shaft)
Hybrid: Titleist 909H (21 degrees; Aldila NV 105 shaft)
Irons (4-PW): Titleist AP2 (True Temper Dynamic Gold shafts)
Wedges: Titleist Design (53 degrees) and Vokey Spin Milled (59 degrees)
Putter: Titleist Scotty Cameron Studio Design
Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Footwear: FootJoy Icon (Softspikes Pulsar cleats)
Glove: FootJoy SciFlex
Fran Quinn
Nationwide Tour: Albertsons Boise Open
Driver: TaylorMade R9 460 (9.5 degrees; Aldila VooDoo XVS7 shaft)
Fairway Wood: TaylorMade Burner 3-wood (14.5 degrees; Aldila NV Proto 75g shaft)
Hybrids: Adams Idea Pro (18 and 23 degrees; Aldila NV shafts)
Irons (4-9): TaylorMade rac Forged
Wedges: TaylorMade rac (48, 54 and 58 degrees)
Putter: Titleist Scotty Cameron P330
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
Footwear: FootJoy Synr-G (Softspikes Pulsar cleats).   Equipment info courtesy of the Tour Van post Sept 21, 2009.

Bob Cisco Comments:

As you can see they have their favorites and motley collections of stand-by and even old faithful clubs that work for them and have found over the years in their travels and experimenting with what works to score their best.

Notice how even the Men on the PGA tour are playing with a four iron in the long iron department and the lady pros are starting their iron sets with a five or six iron as the trend moves further away from the traditional  low irons. The two iron is almost extinct in the lineup even with the majority of Men players these days and the one iron disappeared a few years back.
Pros use more specialized wedges and use  a hybrid rescue club to round out their fourteen club  lineup.
Besides your putter what’s your favorite club in your bag and your part of your game?
Are you using more of the hybrid clubs and wedges as well. What about a chipping utility club around the green? What about a 13 degree three wood like Jay Haas uses in his bag. You can use it off the tee and the long par fives and get more yardage.
It’s good to be always looking for the best line-up of clubs that work best for you. And in that sense that is a personal subjective thing that varies from player to player.
You may also want to use a different line-up of clubs for certain courses you play where you need to hit higher shots into the greens on your approach shot or over long par threes and water.
And then again there’s that special fifteen club in the bag which is my favorite called confidence. We’ll talk more on that at another time. That’s the one I am alsways looking to make better in the line-up. How about you?
All for now, Bob Cisco
IN THE WINNER’S BAG
Rafael Cabrera-Bello
European Tour: Austrian Open
Driver: Callaway FT-9 Tour Authentic
Fairway Wood: Titleist 906F2 3-wood
Irons: Titlest ZM
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design and Vokey Spin Milled
Putter: Titleist Scotty Cameron Studio Select T-10 Newport 2
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
Footwear: FootJoy (Champ spikes)
Glove: FootJoy SciFlex
Na Yeon Choi
LPGA: Samsung World Championship
Driver: TaylorMade R9 (9.5 degrees; Mitsubishi Diamana White Board 63S shaft)
Fairway Wood: Callaway Big Bertha 3-wood (Mitsubishi Bassara Standard 63S shaft)
Hybrid: TaylorMade Rescue TP FCT (19 degrees; Graphite Design YS-6 shaft)
Irons (4-5): Callaway X-Forged
Irons (6-PW): Callaway X-22
Wedges: Callaway X-Forged Vintage (48, 52 and 58 degrees)
Putter: Odyssey White Hot XG 330 Mallet
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
Spikes: Champ Stinger
Jay Haas
Champions Tour: Greater Hickory Classic
Driver: Titleist 905R (9.5 degrees; ZCom Six shaft)
Fairway Wood: Titleist 909F2 3-wood (13.5 degrees; Fujikura Speeder 757 shaft) and 5-wood (18.5 degrees; Fujikura Speeder 757 shaft)
Hybrid: Titleist 909H (21 degrees; Aldila NV 105 shaft)
Irons (4-PW): Titleist AP2 (True Temper Dynamic Gold shafts)
Wedges: Titleist Design (53 degrees) and Vokey Spin Milled (59 degrees)
Putter: Titleist Scotty Cameron Studio Design
Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Footwear: FootJoy Icon (Softspikes Pulsar cleats)
Glove: FootJoy SciFlex
Fran Quinn
Nationwide Tour: Albertsons Boise Open
Driver: TaylorMade R9 460 (9.5 degrees; Aldila VooDoo XVS7 shaft)
Fairway Wood: TaylorMade Burner 3-wood (14.5 degrees; Aldila NV Proto 75g shaft)
Hybrids: Adams Idea Pro (18 and 23 degrees; Aldila NV shafts)
Irons (4-9): TaylorMade rac Forged
Wedges: TaylorMade rac (48, 54 and 58 degrees)
Putter: Titleist Scotty Cameron P330
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
Footwear: FootJoy Synr-G (Softspikes Pulsar cleats)

Stricker Beats the Best Pro Golfers in Boston…

September 9th, 2009

Hi Guys:

Steve Stricker has become one heck of a player on the PGA tour the last two years.

He gets better and better and with being a great putter he is having his finest season on the PGA tour and leads in the Fed-Ex point’s standings now. And on top of that is No. 2 in the world of golf now. He’s been close to a major the last 1-2 yrs. Not bad for guy from Wisconsin. Next years spot for the PGA Championship not far from where he hails. So look out.

Great putter of the game and one of the best over the last 10 years on tour.

Goes to show you that when you have are a real good putter you can make things happen like knowing you need to birdie the last two holes to win.

I tell many of my students that the key importance to scoring is the short game from 60-70 yards and in and the ability to make key putts!  Oh what a feeling when you feel confident with the flat-stick.

I have a RULE about practice that it should be 70% short game at all times — if you want to master SCORING like the pros do.

I help golfers with various parts of their game and specialize in short game work. You can see some of this at my www.allaboutgolf.us. Go to the golf tips page for some good short game tips.

Let me know how it goes and scoring better!

Talk soon,  Bob Cisco

Tiger Misses and Slocum Connects at the Barclay’s Golf…

September 1st, 2009
Tiger Misses and Slocum Connects!
 
Exciting finish to the Barclays Fed Ex Cup Tournament this
weekend!

 

You expected Tiger to make that six footer after that great
approach shot from the fairway. He missed it and a play-off!
In most situations, it’s a done deal for Tiger and another victory.

 

Yet there was Heath Slocum with the smooth, relaxed swing from

 the fairway shot and swinging the putter back and thru with rhythm

with the pressure on and down it went and his biggest tournament

check ever!

 

It certainly has a lot to do with the putter. Isn’t that the truth man.

 

You get up and down from around the green, from an errant fairway
shot and still you have that ONE chance to make your putt. In match
play it can quickly be all even again. And you go to the next hole
a winner.

 

So if you are having problems with your putting, three putting too

much and missing those short putts six feet and in putts then here’s
a solution for you that will give you the knowledge and restore the

that confident feeling in your putting stroke.

 

To find out more and to get my secret confidential report on

ultimate putting, send an e mail to bobcisco@allaboutgolf.us and

I’ll send you the special report.

 

Talk soon, Bob Cisco

Golf Putting Specialist

www.allaboutgolf.us

 

 

A real turning point for Michelle Wie’s golf career at the Solheim Cup…

August 24th, 2009

Did you see the Solheim Cup finals? Wow!

I really got that this was a real turning point in Michelle Wie’s career as a true upcoming LPGA touring star. You see her determination as a  individual player in the singles matches and her new found strength  as a group team member. You see them both working as one for the American effort.

What a thrill to play for your country?

Winning three points in her first Solheim Cup appearance was impressive indeed. And helped the team defeat the Euros here on American turf in Illinois.

I think the golf camaraderie and sense of bonding with other key US players for Michelle, who has been labeled a bit of an isolationist and into her own thing as a player, will redefine her career and direction. And not only make her a better player but send her in the right orbit to higher heights.

Look for Michelle to go and win her first LPGA event this Fall. Like autumn, you can feel it in the golf air from where I am these days.

This is exciting!

That’s how I see it for the time being.

Talk soon, Bob Cisco

The Golf Doctor, 

www.allaboutgolf.us

 

How YE Yang Defeated Golf’s Best Player Tiger Woods

August 17th, 2009

Wow. What a great finish to the PGA Championship here this Sunday!

I practically jumped off the couch when YE pitched in on the par four for eagle. And then went toe to toe with Tiger.

This had to be the best Sund major finish in many years and brought the word “excitement” back into the majors on Sunday.

YE looks like a miniture Tiger Woods in many ways. He’s got a great golf swing and has a mental game based on two key ingredients: courage and believe in self.

I am so glad to see a player step up to the plate and say: I can do this why not. Just play golf and play my own game. Tiger’s great but so am I.

This did more for the game of golf here –especially internationally golf –with Yang becoming the first male Asian golfer to win a major here in America.  Just like “Tiger mania” in 1997 with Woods winning the Masters, now Yang is the “mania” for many Asian young players to follow, play more golf and play professionally. 

Way to go YE Yang and thanks for a great Sunday showing of golf’s best major of the 2009 season and year!

Perhaps we”ll see Tiger and Yang go mano to mano at the President’s Cup next month in San Francisco here in the President’s Cup. That would be a great rematch wouldn’t it.

For all you golfers out there, YE Yang’s SECRET has to do with his great sense of balance and ability to rotate his trunk and the swinging club head in superb timing. A lot like Tiger hey.

Talk soon!  Bob Cisco,

the golf doctor

www.allaboutgolf.us

Tiger Woods and Y.E. Yang Go Head to Head..!

August 16th, 2009

Tiger makes birdie at 11 and looks like he’s ready to close it with most of the major players out of it but don’t can’t out Y.E. Yang. who swings great and could be Korea’s best upcoming player.

Let’s see what happens. Yang looking comfortable and hanging with Tiger!

Could Yang pull off the biggest underdog victory of golf’s four majors?

Y. E. takes the lead with a pitch in at 14 th. Tiger responds by making his  putt!

So exciting here!

More later.

Bob Cisco -

Golf Doctor

Want Effortless Power in Your Golf Swing..?

July 20th, 2009
Hi Guys:
 
I’ve been meaning to ask you this question.
 
Can you recall a time when you hit a beautiful drive right
down the middle of the fairway long and straight?
 
I bet you felt pretty good about that drive and where you
hit it. Sometimes that feeling of a great drive lingers and
stays with you for awhile and then it goes.
 
But where does the feeling go and how do you reconnect
or find it again?  These are some things I think about .
 
That drive by the way is the one you most likely talk
about a lot at the 19 th hole, on the way home in the car 
talking to your golf friends, or over dinner at home
that night.
 
Well the good new is that you still hit even more of
these great drives long and straight. You sure can. I am
sure of that. You see, there is a formula for how to hit
such powerful consistent long drives.
 
Effortless  drives really have one really key
ingredient: your timing is great and everything blends
together seamlessly, but there is one chief characteristic
to them that gets overlooked a lot: they all stem from
having great balance throughout the swing. Having a
good pivoting action helps a lot too.
 
Besides being recognized for his great mental game,
what Tiger does best is his impeccable balance, swinging
at 131 mph in one second. He’s in “perfect balance
and he hits consistently good shots off the clubface,
rotating the club and body in a blend of perfect
balance and harmony.
 
Each of us have the ability to hit good drives when we
follow the key formula for effortless power.
 
Would you like to know what it is and how to generate
it consistently in your drives and shots?
 
Back by popular demand –
 
Mark August 8 th, Saturday from 12 to 3 PM on your
calendar for a very special event that’s designed just for
you!   Not only is this our only summer Effortless Power
and Balance Workshop, but I have a very SPECIAL 
ANNOUNCEMENT to make here –
 
Do you remember that the survey we did a month or
two ago on balance and I said I was working on
something for you. Well its on its way here.
 
News Flash!
After months of intensive research on the problem
golfers have with INCONSISTENCY with their swings ,
we have a special anouncement of some importance:
a new golf instructional training device that FOR THE
FIRST TIME EVER – teaches the feeling of balance
in  the golf swing motion like never before.
 
The feeling of balance has been captured in a new
swing trainer designed and invented,  personally by
myself, and from what the test results we have seen
already, looks very promising and  will help you be
more consistent in your swing, play and score better
in your golf.
 
I have some doing some cool case studies recently
that are very promising indeed  that I would like to share
with you  shortly here with my swing balance system and
our new balance trainer, Balance-Right.  You’re going to
like the Balance-Right swing trainer. It’s like nothing
you’ve ever seen and there is nothing like it on the market
and it works great!
You can be one of the first golfers to experience
how it works and get you swing FEELING in total
BALANCE at our Effortless Power Workshop, adding
distance and accuracy and hitting GREAT DRIVES on
a more consistent basis.
 
2 Time long drive champion John Marshall has just
signed to assist me, on KEY power tips for effortless
drives! You got to see this great effortless swing of John’s.
 
What: Special Effortless Power Workshop 
 
When: August 8 th, Saturday from 12 to 3 Pm
 
Where: Los Amigos GC Learning Center
 
Call for special price which includes special bonus
3 Day/2 Night Free Getaway Vacation package, valued
at over $200.00. Special price is $197.00, which is
$100.00 off the normal price.
 
Call 323-255-3935 and speak with one of my staff or
myself and get signed up. You can also register online
at our web site at www.allaboutgolf.us
 
This will be the best workshop you attend all year so
don’t miss out on it!
 
Best, Bob Cisco 

Do you have this problem in your game..?

July 8th, 2009
Do you have this problem in your game?
 
One of your chief offensive weapons in your golf
game is the abiltiy to drive well off the tee with power
and good accuracy. Power by itself is not enough.
it has to have accuracy with it.
 
You don’t have to be long off the tee but long enough
and it needs to be in the fairway.
 
The key is the ability to be in the fairway so you have
a good lie and angle for the next shot to the green or
fairway.
 
If your having any particular trouble with your drives
here are some key tips to review:
 
1).  set up with good balance in your stance
2).  swing within yourself. Cisco 80% rule
3).  use your three wood or hybrid more
4).  don’t try to over-hit or over power the shot
5)   swing down and thru with lower body to impact
5).  finish your swing in “perfect balace”
 
If you have problems with getting off the tee then there’s
help on the way. You can find out more of the key
components to power and accuracy in my latest book
project: Perfect Balance“: Your Key to Consistency
and Shot-making on Golf. Now available at Amazon.com
(perfect balance by Bob Cisco and you are there) or
come out to our only Summer Effortless Power Golf
Workshop on August 8 th, Saturday.
In my next post, I will go more in depth to what
power is in the golf swing and how to harness it.
Talk soon,  Bob Cisco