Posted by Charlie King on Fri, Sep 11, 2009 @ 10:20 AM
Sign up for a 3-Day Golf School at the Reynolds Golf Academy and receive a driver (if you attend an Essentials School) or a wedge & putter (if you attend a Red Zone School) custom-fit and built for you at the TaylorMade Kingdom. The driver or the wedge and putter are a $475 value including the fitting fee. This service is usually only available to TaylorMade Tour Pros and TaylorMade VIP's - now the doors are open to you as a VIP guest of the Reynolds Golf Academy, but only for these select fall weekends.
Choose either our Essentials of Golf School or our Red Zone Short Game School on one of the following weekends: Sept. 25-27 (Essentials), Oct. 2-4 (Red Zone), Oct. 9-11 (Essentials), Nov. 6-8 (Essentials), Nov. 20-22 (Essentials).
The Reynolds Golf Academy is located just an hour and 15 minutes from the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport at Reynolds Plantation, named "Best of the Best" Golf Community by Robb Report.
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Call 866.443.6742 to sign up. Use the promotional code: US GOLF SCHOOL
We look forward to having you join us at the Reynolds Golf Academy and at the Kingdom at Reynolds Plantation!
Offer expires November 22, 2009.
Posted by Charlie King on Thu, Sep 10, 2009 @ 07:38 AM
TURN YOUR GOLF SCHOOL INTO A LUXURY VACATION! 2 NIGHTS AT THE RITZ-CARLTON ON US!
Sign up for a 3-Day Golf School at the Reynolds Golf Academy and receive 2 nights at the award-winning Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation, FREE!
Choose either our Essentials of Golf School or our Red Zone Short Game School on one of the following 4 weekends: October 16-18 (Red Zone), October 23-25 (Essentials), October 30-November 1 (Red Zone) or November 13-15 (Red Zone)
The Reynolds Golf Academy is located just an hour and 15 minutes from the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport at Reynolds Plantation, named "Best of the Best" Golf Community by Robb Report.
The free accommodations are valued at up to $798.
Call 866.443.6742 to sign up. Use the promotional code: GOLF SCHOOL RITZ
We look forward to having you join us at the Reynolds Golf Academy and the Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation!
Posted by Charlie King on Mon, Oct 20, 2008 @ 11:09 AM
Dear Golfers:
The last two weeks of September were an exciting time for golf. The Ryder Cup was held in Kentucky and then the top pros were in Atlanta for the Tour Championship. I am still smiling. I love it!
Throughout the year, many of you watch the PGA, LPGA, Champions Tour and the Nationwide Tour on the weekends. We sit in amazement admiring how good these players are on the golf course. Yes, these players are great. I believe watching a tour event or even playing with a lower handicap player can help your game. As many of you know, the American team was very much the underdog at the Ryder Cup. Without the number one player in the world on our team, how were we going to beat the Europeans? The American Capitan Paul Azinger was awesome. He told the guys to go out there and have fun and play "your" game. He told them they all played hard all year to get on the team so now show the Europeans what you can do. The words "have fun" really stick out in my mind. Now I know having fun is hard to do when you are not playing well. When watching a tournament observe how a tour player will never hit a shot without a pre-shot routine, they take practice swings, they focus in on alignment, they check the wind, and they look at the break of the putts. Having a clear mind, a positive attitude, realistic expectations, enjoying yourself, and not working on your swing on the golf course can lead to great things. Kind of like being the underdogs and winning big!
If you didn't make it down to Atlanta for the PGA Tour Championship you really missed out. It's a great tournament and an up close and personal way to see the Top 30 pros in the country. I went to the tournament for two days with another pro from California. We watched the pros warm up on the range, practice putting and bunker shots, and then we watched them take it to the course. Most of their warm up time was spent on the short game area. There is a saying in golf, "You drive for show and you putt for dough." The Ryder Cup team and Camilo Villegas, The Tour Championship winner, both won by making those putts. And Anthony Kim lost the tournament because of a poor short game. They are human just like you and me. Anthony Kim "chunked" a chip on the 14th hole and left one really short on the 15th hole for birdie. No, he didn't make the putt. He lost the tournament by 1 stroke. Ouch!
So as you can see, on any single day even the best players in the world can falter. But one thing they take out of it is what they need to improve on. I guarantee Anthony Kim was working on his chipping over the next day or so. We all want to hit the ball farther and straighter, but yet we forget the fact that our putter accounts for the most strokes of any club in the bag. We use it on 18 holes unless we get that one chip or pitch to fall. What I want each of you to take out of this is, to see that golf is not a game you can be perfect in. The players who win however, are the players who miss it better. Ben Hogan said, "I learn something new about the game almost every time I step onto the course." Golf is one thing that I will always continue to keep learning and loving. How about you?
Karen Nicoletti, Reynolds Golf Academy
Lead Staff Instructor
knicoletti@reynoldsplantation.com
Posted by Charlie King on Wed, Oct 15, 2008 @ 07:03 AM
My book with Rob Akins, Golf's Red Zone Challenge, debuts as a reality TV show today and runs at various times in select Comcast regions. I will find out soon where it will be streaming on-line so everybody can watch it. This is the beginning of using competition to improve golf games. I've added the press release below to give you more details.
GREENSBORO, Ga. (Oct. 9, 2008) - Reynolds Plantation's popular Red Zone Challenge Short Game School makes its debut as a reality television show next week in select regions of the East and Midwest.
Pairing teams of golf professionals and amateurs, the show focuses on the players and their personalities as they take on the challenges of various golf skills, based on drills that are part of the Red Zone Challenge.
Developed by Charlie King, author of "Golf's Red Zone Challenge" (Athlon Sports, 2005) and director of the Reynolds Golf Academy, the new series aims to present golf instruction in a more understandable format. Joining King on the broadcast team are co-hosts Ken Adelberger, of Inside Golf, and Traci Buch, of host site Reynolds Plantation.
Produced and filmed by CCI Communications, Inc., the Red Zone Challenge is scheduled to air first on Comcast Sports Net Philadelphia starting Oct. 14 (9 p.m. Eastern). Other regional debuts include Oct. 16 on CSN New England (Noon Eastern) and Oct. 19 on CSN Chicago (2 p.m. Central). CSN also has scheduled the show for Friday nights in California, with times and dates to be determined.
"We think that golfers who watch this show will see other golfers facing the same obstacles as they do on the golf course," King said, "and see that there is a way to learn skills that will make them better golfers. That will make them want to play more and enjoy the game more, which is the ultimate goal."
- - Market / Air Date(s) / Time(s):
- o CSN Philadelphia
- § Tuesday, 14 October - 9:00 PM ET
- § Thursday, 16 October - 11 AM
- § Saturday, 18 October - 7 PM
- § Monday, 20 October - 3 PM
- § Sunday, 2 November - 4 AM
- § Sunday, 9 November - 1 PM
- o CSN Chicago
- § Sunday, 19 October - 2 PM CT
- § Sunday, 26 October - 1 PM
- o CSN Mid-Atlantic
- § Wednesday, 15 October - 8 PM ET
- o CSN New England
- § Thursday, 16 October - 12 PM ET
- § Wednesday, 22 October - 3 PM
- o CSN California
- § Friday(s), "tbd" October - 9:00 PM PT