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Zen Golf Newsletter - January 2005
Happy New Year
Zen Golf Goes International
January Events
Zen Golf Lesson: Make that 4-footer a Tap-in
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Happy New Year
Wishing you the very best for 2005! We will strive to maintain the highest standards of communication with all of you. Please don’t hesitate to share your interests and concerns. We will do our best to offer you everything we can to help you realize your visions for your golf, business and life. To that end, we intend to initiate a Zen Golf bulletin board so that you can share your questions and experiences with each other. Dr. Parent will tune in regularly and add his comments on issues under discussion.
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January Events
Less than two weeks until the first Zen Golf program of the New Year.
There are still a few openings for participants,
including two scholarship spaces.
Please call 888-874-9928 or email info@ZenGolf.com for registration, including scholarship requests.
Saturday and Sunday January 15 and 16
A two-day program at
Desert Springs Marriott Resort & Spa
Palm Desert, California
(scroll down to the end of the newsletter for the program flyer with details)
Cost is $995 per person,
10% off the second registration for couples (or family members, or regular golf partners)
Discounted room rates at the resort are available.
Important Note: The Alumni Program Jan 31-Feb 1
(at the Desert Springs Resort, following the Bob Hope PGA Tournament)
is open to any golfer who has taken a lesson with Dr. Parent:
individual lesson, golf school, or corporate program.
The full schedule through March is posted online by clicking on “CALENDAR” on the website or by entering into your browser: www.zengolf.com/events.htm
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Zen Golf Goes International
Our company is now officially named Zen Golf International to reflect the world-wide impact of Dr. Parent’s writing and teaching in helping people work with their mind in golf, business and life.
Zen Golf has now been published in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the Netherlands, and Germany in addition to the US edition that is also sold in Canada. The next edition will be published this spring in the United Kingdom and distributed in over fifty countries throughout the Commonwealth.
There have been requests for Dr. Parent to teach programs in Europe, Japan, and Australia. Making these type of events happen will depend on corporate or private sponsorship. Please contact us if you or your company is interested in helping to bring Zen Golf to more people around the world.
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Zen Golf Lesson: Make that 4-footer a Tap-in
Most people don’t worry too much about an 8-inch tap-in putt. Although in weekend play it’s usually a “gimme,” when you have to finish it out in a tournament you just step up, square your putter face, and make a simple small stroke. Watching these, I noticed how there was rarely any guiding or hesitation on those tap-ins. The putterface stayed square to the path, followed right through nearly to the hole, the ball dove into the middle of the cup at a good pace.
I wondered how far the ball would roll with the same stroke if the hole weren’t there. For most golfers, on average greens, the ball rolls about five feet with their same tap-in stroke.
Check your own stroke by setting two balls on the green, one eight inches from the hole, the other the same distance from the hole but next to it. Play your tap-in into the hole, then set up to the other ball and make the identical stroke rolling it next to and by the hole. However far the ball rolls past the hole, that’s your tap-in distance.
If you have a good stroke for your tap-ins, there’s no reason why you can’t make the same stroke on a level, straight putt up to your tap-in distance (usually about four feet). Set your putter square to the path to the hole, get settled, and make the same stroke you would if the hole were eight inches away. The key is to follow through a few inches past the ball, just as you would on your tap-in to the hole.
Practice this for a while to get a feeling for making your same tap-in stroke for those putts. You’ll see how simple it is. It’s a great feeling of confidence when your opponent describes their putt as a knee-knocker and you think of yours as a tap-in.
© 2005 Dr. Joseph Parent
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Wishing you a New Year with lots of fairways, greens, and one-putts.
Please don’t hesitate to let us know if there are other topics you’d like to see addressed in our Zen Golf Newsletters, or any other feedback that will help us serve you better.
Yours in Clarity, Commitment, and Composure,
Lee Woodard
President, Zen Golf International
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