Copying a Player's Tempo (Video)

This is a very simple idea that you may never have considered. Although Mike Malaska talks about doing it in front of a computer monitor, you can also do it in front of a tablet while in your backyard or out on the range. A very simple way to internalize the tempo of a player whose swing you like.

A Simple Sequencing Drill (Video)

Sick of trying to get the proper feel of your hips starting the downswing? Alex has a really neat little step drill that will help you learn how the move REALLY feels, not just spin your hips as you start down. Note the narrow stance he uses in the drill; this will help you keep yourself more centered over the shot while not tilting backward so much.

An Iron Designed to Hit HIGH DRAWS? (Video)

This is such an unusual piece of equipment that I had to post this. The new TaylorMade Stealth HD is actually designed to make high draws easy to hit. Is this something you want for your game? The video may help you decide. It's certainly an unusual approach to shaping iron shots.

The LPGA Heads West...

...from Arizona to California, where they'll play the DIO Implant LA Open.

Okay, this might get a bit complicated. Officially, Nasa Hataoka is the defending champion.  However, this event is moving from the Wilshire Country Club which hosted the event since 2018 (no event in 2020) to the Palos Verdes Golf Club. Likewise, last year's Palos Verdes Championship (now the JM Eagle LA Championship) is moving from the Palos Verdes Golf Club to the Wilshire Country Club.

As a result Marina Alex, who won at Palos Verdes last year, is defending the victory she won on this course. That means we have two defending champions this week and we'll also have two defending champions at Wilshire in about three weeks when Hataoka defends her victory on the Wilshire course.

Confused? So am I. But this week's purse is doubled from last year, likewise the other tournament's purse. I think the girls can get used to a little confusion!

Plus we'll be watching a pretty strong field. This is the second full field event of the LPGA season and it will have the Top4 players in the Rolex Rankings as well as 24 of the LPGA's 31 rookies. Fun stuff!

GC's live coverage begins at Thursday at 7:70pm ET. (Remember, California = prime time golf.)

Twofer Tuesday: Valero Texas Open

Twofer Tuesday scoots down the 80 highway miles to San Antonio from Austin for the Valero Texas Open.

After as many as seven tough rounds at the WGC—Dell Match Play, the Top16 in the OWGR are skipping the Valero Texas Open... but that's just fine with most of the players in the field. The Valero has a history of giving guys their breakthrough win, just as it did with defending champion J.J. Spaun last year. He's back to defend, along with some other past winners and a whole host of up-and-comers looking for their chance.

But a number of other players from the WGC last week are in the field, as this is their last chance to get an invite to the Masters. That alone should give us an exciting tournament.

Ironically, I hadn't looked at the PGA Tour's Power Rankings for this week before I made my Twofer Tuesday picks, but I quickly learned that my picks are #1 and #2 on that list when I did. I don't know if that's a good thing or not, but I'm going with my gut here.

• Rickie Fowler
• Chris Kirk

GC's live coverage begins Thursday at 4pm ET, with PGA TOUR LIVE's streaming coverage beginning at 8:30am ET (schedule for the streams at this link). Roughly half the winners over the last decade have been first-timers, so we might see another new pro hitting the links at Augusta next week. Stay tuned!

The Limerick Summary: 2023 WGC—Dell Match Play

Winner: Sam Burns

Around the wider world of golf: Matt Wallace won the Corales Puntacana Championship, the PGA Tour's alternate field event; Celine Boutier won the LPGA Drive On Championship on the LPGA; Nick Bachem won the Jonsson Workwear Open on the DP World Tour; David Toms won the Galleri Classic on the Champions Tour; David Skinns won the Club Car Championship on the Korn Ferry Tour; Miranda Wang won the IOA Championship on the Epson Tour; Chandler Blanchet won the Roberto de Vicenzo Memorial 100 Years on the PGA Tour Latinoamerica; and Taichi Kho won the World City Championship on the Asian Tour.

My Twofer Tuesday picks met the same fate as the favorites in the March Madness basketball tournament. I had Jon Rahm, Jordan Spieth, Tommy Fleetwood and Min Woo Lee. In match play I don't give myself any points if they don't even make it out of pool play, so my stats don't improve this week.

• Top10s: 9 for 26 (8 Top5s, 1 Top10)
• Winners: 2 for 12 events
• Top20s: 11 for 26

It was the last WGC—Dell Match Play. As far as we know right now, the last Match Play tournament, period. So it was hoped that this would be a killer event.

Ironically, it went the way of the March Madness tournament. The Final Four has no seed higher than a 4 in it. The tournament has showcased upset after upset ever since the initial 64 teams showed up. And it's been an exciting run of up-and-comers getting down early but racing back to win and move on.

Same thing in Austin. The top seeds—Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy—fell to the lower seeds, Sam Burns and Cam Young. And the lower seeds duked it out for the Walter Hagen trophy.

For the last time, so far as we know. (Hopefully that state of affairs doesn't last long.)

And in that final round, Sam Burns crushed Cam Young. Nothing to be ashamed of, simply because it's hard to get your first PGA Tour win at a match play event, let along a WGC. He'll get his first win soon enough if he keeps playing this way.

But Sam picked up his fifth Limerick Summary. He's got a long way to go to catch up to Tiger, but this is a good start.

He wasn’t the favorite to win
But the March Madness fates struck again!
Scottie couldn’t beat Sam—
But then, neither could Cam—
So Burns took the Cup home in the end.

The photo came from this page at pgatour.com.

Adjusting for Uneven Lies (Video)

Here's a step-by-step explanation of how to set up for sidehill and downhill shots. This can help you save some shots during a round because... well, you're going to have some of these every round, aren't you?