Golfers: Score Like Never Before with the Dave Pelz Scoring Game Tour
AUSTIN, TX - Golfers serious about shooting lower scores have help on the way. The Dave Pelz Scoring Game Tour is coming to Tatum Ranch Golf Club in Cave Creek for a series of one-day clinics designed by the game's leading expert on the short game.
Tatum Ranch will be hosting these one-day clinics Nov. 13 - 20.
For more than two decades, Dave Pelz's professional and amateur students alike have discovered the fastest way to lower their scores is by improving their skills on and around the greens. Now Pelz's staff brings his patented and proven instruction to area golfers, teaching them skills and practice habits they can use for a lifetime of improved scoring.
"In golf," says Pelz, "How you play inside of 100 yards is the prime determinant of how you score. About 80 percent of the shots golfers lose to par occur in that distance range. My putting and wedge clinics are designed, and constantly refined by research, to improve your execution of these shots and build on your improvement with proper practice."
By popular demand, the 2001 edition of Pelz's putting and wedge clinic features newly-developed green-reading sessions and a variety of just-revealed data and techniques from the Pelz Golf Institute (the research wing of Pelz's golf company).
Each six-hour clinic, taught by instructors from the renowned Dave Pelz Scoring Game School, contains a three-hour putting session and a three-hour wedge session. Clinics begin with indoor theory presentations, then move quickly outdoors so students can practice under the staff's supervision. Students learn proper set-up positions and techniques to make repeatable swings for wedges, chips and bunker shots. The putting session is de-signed to improve green reading, putter path and face angle, set-up and sweet-spot impact.
The student-to-teacher ratio at each clinic is 6 to 1, with a maximum class size of 18. The fee is $350 per student.
Former NASA scientist turned golf researcher and teacher, Pelz has taught top professionals and amateurs alike for more than 25 years. Pelz founded his namesake short game school in 1985 and has worked with a PGA Tour professionals, including Colin Montgomerie, Phil Mickelson, Vijay Singh, Steve Elkington, Tom Kite, and Grace Park. George Peper, editor-in-chief of GOLF Magazine, says "Pelz has probably added more irrefutable knowledge to the body of golf instruction than any man alive..."
Pelz serves as Scoring Game and Technical Consultant for GOLF Magazine where he has published more than 90 articles, including 13 cover stories. The author of the best-selling "Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible" and "Putt Like the Pros", Pelz recently released "Dave Pelz's Putting Bible," thought of by many as the definitive guide to putting mechanics, set up, aim and green reading. He has produced two putting videos and serves as a Senior Advisor to The Golf Channel which currently airs his fourth season of 30-minute instructional shows. Pelz is also the creator of the Dave Pelz World Putting Championship.
Scoring Game Tour clinics are designed by Pelz and staffed with instructors from the Dave Pelz Scoring Game Schools, with headquarters at the Boca Raton Resort & Club in Florida, The Ranch at PGA WEST in La Quinta, California, Pinehurst in Village of Pinehurst, NC and at The Club at Cordillera in Colorado's Vail Valley. Centennial Golf Club in Carmel, NY hosts one-day Pelz clinics in the spring, summer and fall.
Other stops on the 39-city Dave Pelz Scoring Game Tour include Lost Canyons Golf Club in Los Angeles, Cog Hill Golf Club in Chicago, Las Vegas National Golf Club in Nevada and Naples Grande Golf Club in Florida.