Shane’s Manifest Destiny

Colorado-based golf professional Shane Bertsch

For 23 years, Colorado-based professional golfer Shane Bertsch has toggled between the PGA and Web.com tours. But age and shoulder surgery have lately limited the Parker resident’s competitive starts. Of course, one of those starts came in last year’s CoBank Colorado Open, where the event’s 1998 champion showed he could still go low, finishing T3 … Read more

Garrett Froggatte Second Colorado Instructor Added to Golf Channel Academy

Garrett Froggatte instructing a young child

Garrett Froggatte, an accomplished player and coach who played alongside 2016 PGA champion Jimmy Walker at Baylor University, is the most recent addition to Golf Channel Academy (GCA), a dedicated network of teaching facilities operating with the active support of Golf Channel, the game’s leading global multimedia and golf entertainment source. Golf Channel Academy is … Read more

GOLFTEC: Play a Low-Trajectory, High-Spin Pitch Shot

Hit the low spinner like the pros.

Hit the low spinner like the pros.

We’ve all seen the PGA Tour players hit that low-trajectory, high-spin 50 yard pitch and stop shot that everyone drools over, but very few amateurs can do (at least on purpose). It’s not as hard as you think and with a little bit of understanding as to what actually makes the ball have enough backspin to hop once and stop on a dime, you can hit that shot too.

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