2015 Valero Open Results (Winner: Jimmy Walker)

Jimmy Walker took his local advantage with some awesome play to win the 2015 Valero Open

2015 Arnold Palmer Invitational Results Winner: Matt Every

Matt Every wins back to back in 2014 and 2015.

Matt struck the ball all week like a champion and he really feels comfortable on this golf course. It shows us just how hard it really is to win on the PGA Tour as Henrick looked like he had this one...

Congrats!!! to Matt Every

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2015 Valspar Championship Results (Winner: Jordan Speith)

Jordan putted his way on the final round to make the playoff, but more importantly he putted his way to victory...

His ball striking was very good as well, but it left him many times throughout the week and when it did his short game was there to manage the damage.

I've met Jordan a couple of times as he played with a student of mine that was a former PGA Tour Winner and now is a member of the Champions Tour and I can say that Jordan is as nice and cool as advertised. He is easy to root for and he's one of the great new leaders of the game.

What do I like best about Jordan's swing?

He has great posture every week which is hard to have through fatigue both mentally and physically. The main thing about his actual swing though is that his body and club seem to always be in sync.

The one thing that hurts his swing sometimes is that he sometimes will pull up and out through the shot which causes his lead arm to break out away from his body which can cause a push and pull.

Putting:
The thing about his putting that makes him so great is that he hits his putts more solid than any other player on the Tour IMO. His stroke puts a tremendous amount of pressure into the ball with very little effort. His forward roll of the ball seems to be much faster than the rest of the players.

Pitching:
Jordan  uses a good blend of arms and wrists in his pitching. He hits these shots so solid as well and is IMO very underrated with his incredible wedge play around the greens and also distance wedges

Jordan lacks some of the big power that the elite long hitters have, but he still has good power and has a great all around game and he gets better in a tournament when the time is right

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2015 Valspar Championship Weekend Predictions

My Predictions Over The Weekend:

Front Runners: Jordan Speith and Henrik Stenson

Mid Pack: Ian Poulter and Kevin Streelman

Long Shots: Lee Westwood and Luke Donald

We shall soon see I love this course and it may get very tough over the weekend if the wind picks up... Ball control and 4-10 ft putting will be the most important factors to winning this weekend. Also watch for the snake holes 16, 17 and 18 as many things can and will change when players arrive there

2015 Valspar Championship Early Predictions

Power Vs Accuracy On The PGA Tour

Fans of the PGA Tour are learning that Power wins on the PGA Tour over accuracy on a week to week basis. The reason is the Power hitters can do everything that an accuracy player can do, but the accuracy player can't do all the things a Power player can do...

Don' t think that a Dustin Johnson, JB Holmes and Bubba Watson ect  are not accurate first and foremost. These guys are deadly accurate and repeatable, but they understand that Power has a big accuracy component attached to it and that is a shorter club into the green on every hole on the course. This means they have a 72 hole advantage over the short hitters of the game.

These players have ball speeds up and over 177 mph and their misses relative to their speeds is what makes them so dangerous. The stats don't tell the whole truth about power hitters as it will show they only hit 55% of the fairways in general. This is a stat that misleads the amateur golfer the reason being is that they are carrying the ball 310 yards plus and when they miss the fairways it's usually by a very small amount. If this player wants to hit a higher percentage all they would have to do is hit a driving iron or fairway wood and they would lead the accuracy stats.

I could go on and on about why Power beats Accuracy, but I don't need to just watch the PGA Tour every week and see for yourself. Power that has big misses is not what I'm talking about, I'm talking about the elite of the elite which are the guys who bomb the ball and really control their ball.

The best ball strikers on tour not relative to stats are IMO:

1. Dustin Johnson
2. Rory Mcilroy
3. JB Holmes
4. Bubba Watson
5. Daniel Berger

2015 World Golf Championship At Doral (Results) elitegolfperformance.net

Winner: Dustin Johnson

Runner-up JB Holmes

3rd place Bubba Watson


I believe DJ has the best ball flight on the PGA Tour right now. He has the four essentials of ball flight down to an art

1. Compression
2. Initial Start Line
3. Trajectory
4. Ball Control/Rotation

If DJ starts putting better he will be a top 3 player in the world very soon. He won this tournament with poor putting so I think this shows just how good he really is from tee to green. The shot of the year IMO is him taking on the water at the Blue Monster and flying it over the water and leaving himself a simple short iron left into the green on 18 to win the golf tournament.

All three of these players use a move that is really kinda of our secret sauce at elitegolfperformance.net

Watch the video below to see what that secret is and I believe you will see it in all 3 of these great ball strikers