Bobby Lee Golf

is coming soon! I was hoping this would have been available by now, yet Murphy’s Law has given us a few challenges. My host for this blog has been upgrading and moving and I really did not want to have a sales page for a few weeks and then have to move back. Also, a dear friend of mine passed away and I went to his funeral. During all this, I have been in negotiation for a new job which was just concluded yesterday. I will be the golf pro at Adams Municipal Golf Course, in Bartlesville Oklahoma starting the first of the month. So anyone in OK, or traveling through there this summer look me up!

This weekend I plan to add some audio and maybe some video to get the e-book, The Effortless Power Golf Swing completed. I see no one took me up on my offer in my last post!? LOL  We have some plans to do some fun contests for those that care to participate. The rewards will be some gratis ebooks and maybe some lessons. We have always planned to offer video and phone lessons, and are investigating the most efficient way to do that.  That will be later in the year as well as downloadable videos of the key drills I use with my students. However, the first priority is to finish up the tech stuff for my basic golf instruction e-guide. My host is hoping we should be fully operational by next week. I definately want to get this up before my move in  3 weeks!

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My last post was kind of spur of the moment. I had just watched Justin Leonard lose a tournament that was his to win…….and had the idea to start some discussion on this blog. If you have not visited here before I am in the midst of finalizing an e-guide (aka e-book) on the basics of the golf swing. At least my philosophy of it.

So I thought about offering a free copy to who could answer the question I asked in last week’s post. Again it was a bit spur of the moment. Frankly, it was not well thought out. If you did not actually watch the coverage (the 18th tee shot at the Bob Hope Classic by Justin Leonard) you would have no idea what I was talking about as I could not supply a video of the actual shot in question!

Therefore, I think it would be fun, and hopefully instructional to cover various aspects of the golf game. I would like to generate some discussion, give some free tips and lessons and hopefully award some free copies of my upcoming golf swing instructional e-guide, The Effortless Power Golf Swing. 

How about Tiger.  The greatest?  I would have to say yes.  (and I’m a big Jack Nicklaus fan) but what makes him the best is he has all the shots.  His short game is as good as anyone that has ever played the game.  Most golfers get way too caught up in how far they hit the ball, instead of trying to get it in the hole. Take a lesson from Tiger this week, work on the short game.  If you spent 70% of your practice time on chipping and putting,  I would bet that most of you could drop your handicaps by 2 to 5 shots easily.  My question this week for one of my ebooks if answered correctly is “how do you control distance in the short game.”  Hint: how far you take the club back is not the answer.   Good luck!

- Bobby

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If you got to watch the Bob Hope Classic this past weekend, it should have made you stop and think how can a wily veteran (Justin Leonard) lose to a rookie (D.J. Trahan) coming down the stretch, especially when they were in the same group eye to eye. Just goes to show you how fragile the golf swing is. Now there is a reason why Justin Leonard (who was leading going into the final round) sliced it into the water on 18. If you can give me the right answer, I’ll send you my ebook, The Effortless Power Golf Swing, at no charge. I will give you a hint: Looking up, coming over the top or not staying behind it are not the correct answers. they don’t mean anything unless you know why these things happen. They are just cliches that people use to describe what they think they see happening in the swing. There is a reason for everything. Good Luck!

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How about K.J. Choi winning in Hawaii? He is the epitome of effortless power. If you do not know, he has stated that he learned to play golf by reading Jack Nicklaus’ old comic drawing lessons that were in magazines back in the day. He emulated Big Jack’s swing when he decided to play golf. Not a bad golf swing to copy! Choi is also a former weight and power lifter, so understanding leverage was not something new to him.

I can not recall the guy’s name at the moment, but I had a former weight lifter come through one of my schools at Mission Hills, CA. He was a world champion weight lifter. It was remarkable to see his golf swing change from violent to effortless once he understood you throw the arms to a weightless position. Remember golf is just like any other sport, the more relaxed the body is, the more strength you have. Then it only becomes a matter of timing. You have the timing in you, it is only a matter of proper instruction and correct practice.

The golf swing I teach is exactly the method that KJ Choi uses, and it is based on the same proven principles and physics. The Effortless Power Golf Swing will be available soon. I had a brainstorm to make the Instructional Guide, a bit better and easier to understand

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It seems the gremlins have run amok the last couple of days with one of my host’s servers and this site was affected a bit. This blog is fine, but I am having troubles with my front page and loading images etc. So my upcoming Effortless Power Golf Swing eGuide will be delayed a bit. However, I received an email today from one of my former students that I wanted to share with you. I posted about Andrew Jensen previously, and had asked him along with various friends and former students to review the outline for what I had in mind to offer online. I was just hoping for some constructive criticism and suggestions etc. to the outline of my golf swing and basic golf instruction guide. Andrew sent the following testimony and I have to admit it was totally unexpected.

“I first met Bobby when I was 17. Our working relationship lasted close to 3 years, until distance and scholastic constraints limited our ability to maintain a teacher/student relationship. Luckily, that did not put constraints on our friendship. To this day; some 6 and a half years later, we still stay in touch and it is great.
With regards to my golfing career, Bobby was directly responsible for building a solid foundation in me as a player. He took me when I was an immature kid with no understanding for what it would take to succeed as a touring professional, and imparted major changes in my work ethic
Working with Bobby was great in more ways than just my swing getting better and more consistent. He taught me so much more on what it would take to one day reach the goals I had in place.
I can confidently say that Bobby’s personality, character, and teaching method is second to none. Bobby is a dynamic swing coach because he is focused on the person not just the swing and scores. I would certainly not be where I am today; on the brink of chasing down my PGA Tour card, if it were not for Bobby’s influence in my life.”

- Andrew Jensen, Canadian Tour rookie 2008

I was humbled and flattered obviously to read these words. One of the rewarding aspects of being a teacher is not just seeing a person make improvement, but the relationships I have made over the years. I know this sounds like a mutual love fest here, lol, but Andrew is a class act, a very hard worker and I am immensely proud of him. If you missed my prior post, he qualified last year to be on the Canadian tour this season. If you care to follow his career via his blog I have the link in my blog roll to the right.

This online stuff is new to me and I know you don’t know who I am (unless you are already a friend reading this) so I will try and get more testimonies up on the “testimonies” page as soon as my server is all situated and hope to have more info on the eGuide soon.

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Happy New Year to everyone! Hard to believe it is 2008, but it is here. Obviously, last few days are a time of reflection and goal setting for alot of folks. I would be interested in hearing any of your resolutions that pertain to your golf game. My eGuide should be finished within the next week or so. It was delayed a bit by holidays and traveling.  In the mean time I would like to hear from any of you reading this what your golf goals are for the new year.

I have a lot of goals for this site this year. Stay tuned for tips, podcast, interviews etc. In addition, I would like to take on some students via video and phone and show how you can learn to generate that effortless power golf swing even if we can not meet in person! I am looking into a few software platforms to host the videos and do “online clinics”, etc.

Meanwhile, for the next 2 weeks I would like to entertain your questions on what you think you need to work on. Post your questions in the comment section below and I will answer here publicly, ASAP. Basically, I will give some free lessons to those that take me up on it. 

So post your questions and comments and lets make 2008 the year you meet your golfing goals.

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I wanted to congratulate Andrew Jensen for qualifying for the Canadian Tour for the 2008 season. Andrew was one of my junior students when I was teaching at the Ottawa Hunt & Golf Club in Ottawa, Canada in 2001. If you are ever traveling in the area, I highly recommend this beautiful course. It is a great layout with even better people. I wish I could say I was the one who was totally responsible for Andrew’s accomplishments, but alot of his success has to go to his father Al, who is a CPGA golf professional and very talented player. I was very honored that his father allowed him to come work with me when I was teaching at Mission Hills in Rancho Mirage. Andrew is very dedicated to his golf and with his strong morals, I know he will be successful in his endeavors. I wish him the best of luck. If you want to follow his new golfing adventure on the Canadian PGA, go to his website andrewjensen.ca.

I have added him to my blog roll as I will be following the diary of his experiences of chasing the dream. To say I am very proud of him, and honored to be called a friend would be an understatement!

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I thought I should bring to attention the facility I am teaching out of now. It is mentioned in my “About” page, but I was just informed not all of you are going to read there! I am based out of Conway, Arkansas at present and teaching locally at the Central Arkansas Golf Academy. They opened 2 years ago and is one of the nicest practice facilities you will find outside of a major city. It offers a spacious driving range and a 2 hole short game practice area complete with bunkers. It is also utilized by The University of Central Arkansas golf team as their practice facility. If you are in Arkansas, or plan to travel here, check out their web site and set up a time to meet!

As is mentioned in my “About” page where I give a brief bio, I will and do travel to students who are not local to me. I will get a testimony page up soon of some of my students across the US and Canada. If you have the time and resources, this is the best way to advance your game. It is not only more fun to play an instructional round then to hit on the range, it really accelerates the learning process.

In addition if you are traveling to Hot Springs, Arkansas my brother David Lee (the inventor of Gravity Golf) owns and manages a beautiful training facility there, complete with 3 practice holes.

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As I mentioned in the last post and on my welcome page, I just returned last Friday from 10 days in Palm Springs. One of my students flew me out there for some instruction and we played at the beautiful Terra Lago Golf Course. The hard core golf fan will know it used to be called The Landmark and was the site of several Skins Games. If you ever get a chance to play it, do it! For the most part the weather was great as the rest of the country was going through cold and rain and snow. I had a chance to work with some old students (as I used to live out there) and meet some new ones and overall had a great 10 days of golf.

I also got to shoot footage for my upcoming DVD that will cover my overall philosophy of the body friendly golf swing and various drills to help your body learn the proper techniques to generate that effortless power. For a preview of chapter one of my coming e-Instructional Guide on the various power sources and how to generate effortless power, sign up here.

A really neat situation occurred as I came off the golf course one evening. I ran into Al Geiberger, “Mr. 59″ himself! He lives in Desert Springs and is the pro emeritus at Stone Eagle Golf Club. In case you do not know, Al Geiberger was the first player to shoot a 59 in a PGA event in the Danny Thomas Memphis Classic in 1977.  The 30th anniversary of this amazing achievement was noted in most golf media this past spring. This mythical achievement has overshadowed the facts of his very successful 47 year PGA career; 21 PGA tour and Champions victories including the 1966 PGA title. There are more then a few who claim he had the sweetest swing ever.

I introduced myself when I saw him as Bobby Lee, David’s brother. He immediately smiled and said “Gravity Golf” I have the tapes! David was the one that came up with the system I teach. It was quite enjoyable visiting with Mr. Geiberger, and hearing that he owned the original tapes done by my brother back when. He was very complimentary of our teaching methods and agreed that how we teach a relaxed swing is key. As a matter of fact, he told the gentleman he was with “you could use some of this”! When I related this story to my webmaster he was upset I did not get a photo or an autograph, lol.

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Well, I have finally arrived at the doorstep of the blogosphere! Kicking and screaming no less, lol. Several of my students have urged me for a while now that I need to “be online”. I was dubious at first, but in the last few months after consulting with various friends and students, I firmly believe that I can help people with their golf game long distance. One of my golf students in particular has brought me up to speed on all the new technology that is available, and that it is more cost effective then I realized.

So here we are, my first blog post! I have a LOT of plans for teaching golf online and I’m excited to take on the challenge to prove I can help golfers even if we can not meet in person. As a matter of fact, I just got back from teaching in Palm Springs and shooting a DVD I will release next year. If you saw the front of this site, you know I am in the process of completing an e-Instructional Golf Guide, that is a synopsis of my philosophy of the golf swing and the most efficient way to teach it and learn it. I need to add some photos and images, and do some editing and hope to have that ready in January 2008 as well.

In the mean time feel free to sign up for my Golf Newsletter (have not come up with a catchy title yet :P) where I will go over different tips or drills or the occasional rant and/or rave that has happened that week. I look forward to meeting my fellow golfers that are prowling the internet, seeking some common sense golf instruction and advice.

I look forward to your comments and questions. Stay tuned, my webmaster and I are planning some pretty cool contests, that should prove a lot of fun and informative as well.

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