Jack Riesen - Golf Realist

The Wrong Golf Clubs, the Right Decisions

There’s a video worth knowing about if you spend any time on golf YouTube: Sidekick a right-handed golfer, a genuinely […]

Frank stands over a 6-foot putt for par, and you can see the hesitation arrive a half-second before he even

Frank arrives at the golf course eleven minutes before his tee time, which he considers punctual. He’s irritated that the

Frank stands over a 40-foot putt with the same intensity he’d bring to a 4-footer for the match. He reads

Frank has discovered the golf simulator. All winter he’s been going to the indoor golf place near his office —

There’s a YouTube channel run by a former tour player, now a teaching pro, with a following so small it

Frank has started visualizing. He read about it, the way Jack Nicklaus supposedly never hit a shot without seeing it

A couple of weeks ago, I watched a minor traffic incident on a narrow street — a city bus clipped

Frank has a routine on the golf driving range that he’s proud of. Seven-iron, same target, twenty golf balls in

Walk onto any golf club on a Saturday morning and you’ll see it instantly. The driving range is packed —