By Dr. T. J. Tomasi, Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research The hip is a ball-and-socket joint where the femur, the large bone in your upper leg, plugs into the pelvic girdle. Your hip joint is activated when load (weight) is placed in the joint. Your goal, if you want…
By Dr. T. J. Tomasi, Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research Your muscles are like lazy houseguests who just lie around and do nothing until you force them to get moving. And nowhere is this propensity to be lazy more prevalent than when you lift the club to the top…
By Dr. T. J. Tomasi, Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research Even the best players in the world get it up and down from a greenside bunker only about 50 percent of the time. To help you pull off this difficult shot, here are some general prescriptions to guide your…
By Dr. T. J. Tomasi, Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research The game of golf is the ultimate persistence test because each shot requires sequential problem-solving. Research shows that unless properly trained, your brain’s ability to resolve sequential problems ebbs when it comes to performing a series of related tasks…
By Dr. T. J. Tomasi, Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research An infant’s brain wires itself in response to novel stimuli. For a while, everything in the child’s world is novel, and learning is easy, but for a sport like golf, adult learners often have to see the relevance of…
By Dr. T. J. Tomasi, Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research When circumstances, such as a low hanging branch, force you to keep the ball low, there’s a special technique that produces what I call “soft distance.” Even though the trajectory of the shot is that of a hard-to-stop long…
By Dr. T. J. Tomasi, Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research A good way to ruin your swing is to stiffen your back leg during the backswing. When the back leg locks and straightens at the knee, it freezes the back hip, causing the body to tilt rather than turn;…
By Dr. T. J. Tomasi, Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research The so-called shot routine is actually a ritual involving the exact repetition of a sequence — a repetition that creates an aura of control and power, even when things are going poorly. Here it is in its simplest form:…
By Dr. T. J. Tomasi, Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research I teach a professional player who hates to practice his short game. He’s a very long hitter who is much taken with the concept of distance –– he always checks out how far he hits it in relation to…
By Dr. T. J. Tomasi, Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research Golf is a stress-filled game, and to be a good player, you need to understand how to deal with yourself when stress levels rise. Talking trash to yourself will only make things worse because as the stress takes control,…
