The (dis)Comfort Zone
First tee jitters can hit you whether its a U-S Open, a Member-Guest, or just a friendly match with your golf buddies.
How do you handle the pressure when you work instead of play for a living?
That's the question some 312 club pros from across the country will also face later this month... when they leave the golf shop or lesson tee and go to Hershey to compete in the PGA Professional National Championship. Bent Creek's Terry Hertzog will be among them. Hertzog has been there before... in the National Club Pro and even bigger events ... so I wanted to pick his brain and get some tips on how the rest of us might better handle the pressure when we step out of our golf "comfort zone."
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Congrats go out to Wildwood CC's John Appleget, winner of this week's Philadelphia PGA Variety Tournament of Champions with rounds of 67 and 68 at Whitemarsh Valley. Here's the story and full leaderboard.
The stage is set for tomorrow's Philadelphia Amateur Championship 36-hole final. It'll be Michael Hyland of Little Mill CC against Stephen Hudacek III of Glenmaura National. Here's the story at the Golf Association of Philadelphia website.
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Ed Abrams anchors mornings on KYW Newsradio, and you can hear his Golf Reports there on Fridays and Saturdays. He has also created a new website at www.DealTrackerGolf.com, a resource for golfers seeking the best bargains on clubs, apparel and everything golf.
