< Previous lvpgolfing.com The Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort invites you to play our legendary course. Site of the 1938 PGA Championship, this original design by A.W. Tillinghast, offers top-notch golf and spectacular views, as 24 of the 27 holes rest on an island in the beautiful Delaware River. Completely surrounded by Mother Nature's finest blessings - the pristine river, the remarkable trees, the high mountain range and the magnificent flora of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Take advantage of discounted rates at Shawnee. Offering reduced rates for both locals and seniors. Local residents receive rates that start at just $47 a round midweek. Seniors, age 60 and older, can enjoy $39 rounds Monday through Thursday. Includes 18 holes on our historic course and a cart rental. To book your tee time call 800-SHAWNEE (800-742-9633) or Visit us at: ShawneeInn.com Let our staff tailor your needs with a stay and play package, golf lesson, or group package. Improve your game while utilizing our 300-yd driving range, 6-hole chip-n-putt or our short game area. Roll off the course and into ShawneeCraft Brewery for an ice-cold beer or grab a bite to eat at The Gem and Keystone Tavern. The Shawnee Inn & Golf Resortlvpgolfing.com Page 11 lvpgolfing.com Page 12 ediuG gnifloG laiciffO ehT nI tI waS uoY noitneM esaelP The Shot Every Golfer Needs – How to Hit the Low Hook A critical shot that I believe every golfer should have in their pocket is the low hook. It can get you out of trou- ble and save you tons of strokes. Executing this shot with confidence is all about a functional address position and a lot of practice. We will be discussing the key steps to make sure you know how to hit a low hook. Club selection When choosing a club to hit the low hook from trouble, you want to make sure you choose a high enough loft to get the ball out of the rough, but low enough to make it easier to curve the golf ball. We believe the sweet spot for most golfers is a 6-iron/hybrid. Technique First off, stay calm – you don’t have to make any swing changes to hit this shot well. Execution of the low hook is mostly about the address position. The beginning of the ball’s flight will start very close to where the clubface is aimed at impact, so aim the face where you’d like to start the golf ball. Build your stance after you’ve aimed the clubface. Make sure to give yourself a little margin for error when you’re trying to hook it around some trees. The last thing you want to worry about is a temporary Titleist tattoo in your forehead a second after impact. Now that you have aimed the face where you would like the ball to start, build your stance with your body aimed significantly to the right of where you’ve aimed the face. Make your body alignment feel foolishly offline. This is a shot best learned by exaggerating a bit at first, and perhaps over curving it. As for ball position, let’s keep it simple and play the ball where you’d normally play it for your club of choice. If you need to change trajectory I suggest you change clubs. Messing around with different ball positions to change the ball’s trajectory only complicates things. The Feel You need clubhead speed to really get that ball curving, but it’s not uncommon for obstacles to be in the way. Trees, branches, roots and fences are all things that can make this swing feel a little claustrophobic. The direc- tion the club travels should feel normal to you. You took care of the ball flight at address. The feel of the swing is about creating power and insuring you catch the ball first in a potentially restricted space. A familiar feeling would be one of a buried bunker shot. The emphasis there is about making sure you’ve cre- ated enough speed to get the ball out of that wet sand that swallowed your new Pro V1. Your swing had a short follow-through because the earth absorbed the blow after impact. Your swing also had a shorter than stock backswing because you were in the sand, and we didn’t want to lose our footing and compromise our impact. But with that shorter backswing and muted follow through, boy did that swing have speed. How to Practice the Low Hook If you’re right handed, move yourself to the far end of the left side of the range (of course opposite for lefties). Go through your normal warm up. Now place your hook practice balls in some shallow divots you created in your warm up. Aim your clubface down the middle of the range. Aim your body far right. Far enough right so that if the ball flew there, no range picker would ever find it. Now make your aggressive buried bunker shot swing. Enjoy watching the ball start where you aimed that face and turn hard away from where you’ve aimed your body. Massage the address position as you see fit based on your results. Remember to have fun and really explore the boundaries of how far offline you can aim your body until you find it difficult to make contact. On Course Expectations When executed well the ball will be flying low and moving fast. If you’re hitting this shot into a green, get a yardage to the front of the green because it’s not going to stop quickly. If you have room to run it up, use it. Again, this ball will be coming in hot. You should have practiced this shot enough on the range to know it’s going to curve the desired direction on the course. I’ll remind you again to give yourself plenty of space between your start line and the tree. It’s better to have it curving the desired direction and advancing it a long way than biting off more than you can chew. Page 12lvpgolfing.com Page 13 Golf Course Savings & More! Mount Airy Golf Club For Every round played at Mount Airy Golf Club, you will receive FREE SLOT PLAY as well. 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Exp 11/21 poconohillsgolfcourse.com 800.335.1113 lvpgolfing.com Page 14 Find more Golf savings at WWW.LVPGOLFING.COM 5 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULDN’T GIVE UP ON YOUR ROUND OF GOLF Being resilient is one of the most important skills any golfer can have. Here are five reasons you should never give up on your round of golf, no matter how difficult things get out there. It becomes a habit If you start giving up early in your round, a very bad habit could develop, and you will rob your- self of one of the greatest tools necessary to improve as a golfer… Resilience 18 holes is a long time, and at some point you’re going to go through a bad stretch of holes (some days it can be most of them!). The last thing you want to do is get into the habit of giving up before things have a chance to turn around. Your Future Self Will Thank You Almost every golfer who plays wishes they had a time machine. When you finish a round you want to go back to your past self on the earlier holes, tap them on the shoulder, and tell them not to give up. When things start to go wrong during your round your thoughts tend to speed up, and you lose perspective. When you’ve had time to sit down and think about what happened after the round you can’t believe the mistakes you made because you mentally checked out after a couple of bad shots. This kind of regret stings very badly. You’ll feel much better about yourself after your day is over, knowing that you didn’t give up and kept fighting until the last putt dropped. You’ll Never Learn Anything Being in a live round of golf is the best way to learn about your game, and develop the experi- ence necessary to take things to the next level. You can’t become a better golfer until you are comfortable being on a golf course. When you pack it in for the day, and go through the rest of your round in “golf zombie mode,” that learning cannot happen. There is always something you can take away from each round. Even if you didn’t shoot what you consider to be a great score, there is a tremendous value to looking back on your day and evaluating what went wrong with your bad shots, and reinforcing the positive memories of your good ones. No one ever got bet- ter at golf without dealing with their failures, analyzing what went wrong, and trying to work on a solution. It’s Not Fun You’ve paid your greens fees, and committed a large chunk of your day to being out on the course. Giving up and going through the motions for the rest of your round isn’t much fun. If you’ve really hit rock bottom, and you have become so upset about your score for the day…tear up the scorecard. It’s OK, the golfing authorities are not going to hunt you down for your mis- deed. Golf should be fun first and foremost. If that element is missing then you should do every- thing necessary to correct it. Just try and salvage the rest of your round, see if you can hit a few good shots. Enjoy the walk. You Never Know What Can Happen Golf is a funny game. Things can go wrong really quickly, and then go right even faster. There will be quite a few times where you will either start out badly or you will witness another player start out disastrously, only to see a remarkable turnaround 4-5 holes later. There’s nothing more rewarding than going through the depths of golfing hell, and then emerg- ing victorious at the end of your round. It gives you a tremendous boost of confidence that you can bring forward to your future rounds because you dealt with the adversity, and didn’t let it destroy your whole day. When you give up, there’s absolutely no way this can happen. 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