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Your Backswing Is Too Long. Here’s the 3/4-Swing Fix for More Distance After 55
Stop reaching for a turn your body no longer wants to make. This simple range test finds the shortest swing that still gives you speed, balance and center contact. The ball does not care how impressive your backswing looks. It cares how fast the clubhead is moving, where the face meets the ball and whether you can repeat the motion…
Pickleball Is the Best Thing That Happened to Your Social Life. It Is Also Sending People Your Age to the ER.
The fastest-growing sport in America is fueled by players over 55 — and so is its injury list. Emergency-room data tells a consistent story, and almost all of it comes down to one bad instinct: backing up. Let us start with the good news, because there is a lot of it. Pickleball is the best social technology invented for people over 55…
You Did Not Lose 30 Yards. You Lost 3 Degrees of Loft and a Shaft That Fits.
Swinging harder at 60 is how you find the trees. The distance you think age stole is mostly sitting in your equipment, your tee box, and one hip that stopped turning — and all three are fixable this month. Here is the conversation happening on first tees all over Central Jersey every Saturday morning. "I used to carry that bunker." Then…
Your Pickleball Starter Kit: How to Actually Enjoy It
The gear, the etiquette, the shots — and the injuries — nobody warns you about before your first day on the court. A friend of mine took up pickleball at 62. Two weeks in, he pulled his Achilles reaching for a lob and spent the next four months in a boot. His first words back at the courts: "I wish somebody had told me." This piece is…
Still Getting Beat by the Course? 3 Golf Hacks for Golfers 55+
You don't need more gym time or a $500 driver. You need smarter setup, more loft, and a putting system that actually works. Let's get one thing straight: the golf ball does not care how old you are. It only cares about contact, launch, and spin. So if your drives are getting shorter and your putts are running past the hole like they owe…
The five Jersey Shore courses actually worth your Saturday.
A ranking that will make some clubhouse regulars very upset. You have a Saturday. You have four buddies. You have gas money. Here's how you spend it. One. Hollywood Golf Club, Deal. If the money is right, you play Hollywood. Wind off the ocean, greens that reward patience, and a clubhouse that still knows what a proper club sandwich…
The Ryder Cup format is broken. Here's the fix.
Three changes that would take it from great event to unmissable one. The Ryder Cup is the best three days in golf. It's also increasingly predictable, and predictability is the enemy of great sport. Three changes fix it. One. No captain's picks. All twelve based on standings. This kills the endless debate cycle and rewards the guys who…