TOM PATRI

Well, that was it! Last Sunday was my last day teaching in paradise for this season. First and foremost, thanks to all who read this column. Special thanks even to those who send me those strongly worded emails after I ...

Every year when the last putt drops at the Masters and the green jacket presentation ends, Jim Nantz says goodbye I get a bit sad. This event — more than any other in my golf life — always has pulled ...

I was driving down Immokalee Road last week headed west, and as I looked to my right I noticed a massive land clearing going on. It was easy to see that a huge undertaking with many pieces of heavy equipment ...

Each year about this time I about jump out of my skin daily as that magic week in April approaches.

I totally understand how injury or pain can affect performance. I have had two wrist surgeries myself, and the recovery and trying to play leading up to the surgery was a nightmare.

Well, here we go again. Tiger wins going away, Phil lights it up,and Rory changes equipment for a zillion dollars and misses a cut looking like a 7 handicap. And Augusta is still two months away.

Golf is a games of constant adjustments. It requires even the very best players to take every bad bounce, ugly hop, every spike mark in their putting line, and plain and simple, deal with those breaks the game sends their ...

I thought a long time about my column topic this week. The clear choice would have been the opening event on the PGA Tour and the upcoming season. However, my heart led me back to two dear friends. One is ...

I hope that all of our golf fans have a wonderful Christmas and Santa brings each and everyone of you:

Boy, for a mid-sized town tucked away in the lower southwest corner of Florida, we have some really fun sports events that we can get up close and personal with.

It's that time of year: winter season is upon us. For some of us its prime time, for others it's the offseason.

Well, as we head into the final turn of the PGA 500, where would you put Tiger Woods on the home stretch? Is he Tiger Woods anymore? Will he break Jack's record? Fifty years from now, how will golf's history ...

Well, that might have been one of the all-time great meltdowns in recent golf history by the U.S. Team at the Ryder Cup on Sunday. We had Jean Van de Velde at Carnoustie and Greg Norman at Augusta, but this ...

Well my season is coming to an end up here on Eastern Long Island soon. After a bit of R & R in the Keys I'll be back, recharged and ready to rock 'n roll at The Quarry on Dec. ...

The holiday weekend is past us and summer has slipped away. Fall is here and our winter golf season is around the corner. For some of you, winter is "prime time," for others it's the "offseason.

The more I watch this game at all levels — be it the club championship or the U.S. Open — the more fragile it seems it is to me. At the highest level, the difference between a year that defines ...

Well, Jason Dufner didn't hang on Sunday, but Zach Johnson did on a day at Colonial that produced some tough scoring conditions.

We often wonder about our own games. One day we play like Jack Nicklaus, and the next like Jack "the wack"!

Well, the Masters is here. I'm going to save my Masters babble for post-tournament discussion. However, I will say this now: I think this event has a pre-tournament feeling like something big is going to happen.

This column this week is about being resilient in both sport and in life.

I received a huge response to my last article about the belly putter. The responses ranged from "can I come take lessons?" to outrage that I would endorse a club that one reader felt violated the integrity of the game. ...

I'm not sure five years ago I could have ever pictured myself writing the following article. I have always been extremely traditional in my beliefs when it comes to the great game of golf. Especially in the area of putting.

This is the perfect time to plant the seed of motivation for each of us to think about some goals or resolutions for 2012.

In a time in American golf when we really want a good guy to pull for, check out homegrown Matt Kuchar. This kid has very quietly — and may I say with a very humble manner — played some awesome ...

With our winter season gearing up, and all you folks hoping to play some great golf these next few months, let's discuss an area dear to my coaching heart: The putting stroke.

It's certainly great to be back in Southwest Florida. The last couple of weeks up north teaching, I sampled that cold Northeast air and some cold rain. It is sure nice to feel that warm Gulf breeze again.

I was looking down the top-10 finishes at the Barclays — Matt Goggin, Martin Laird, Kevin Streelman — not exactly media standouts. Where are Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk, all world-class players?

Well folks, hate to bore you with the occasional teach/coach column, but really want to share this one with you. The more I watch great players, the more I see one very common trait of truly consistent players: Routine, routine, ...

Is it my imagination or are foreign-born players kicking our butts at every event we watch on every tour? I’m not just talking winning the event, but carefully examine the top 10, top 15, top 20 on each tour each ...

Tiger Woods is about to light it up. Make no mistake, I expect a huge second half of this tour season. He will not lay down after the U.S. Open performance. All we saw there was the human side. He ...

We are just a day away from our nation's national championship, the U.S. Open! The Winged Foot Golf Club is in this country's golf lore, "hallowed grounds." I remember the first time I played there. I was already a professional, ...

This past weekend another one of those 40-something guys, one Jeffrey Maggert, won the St. Jude Classic in Memphis. He did so after missing three straight cuts. First, there is a lesson there in itself. I always tell my young ...

Michelle Wie gets through the first stage of U.S. Open qualifying. Now what? Canoe Brook in northern New Jersey, a long, tree-lined golf course.

Last week Stuart Appleby won a golf tournament. Big deal you might say. Great players win golf tournaments. Well folks, for those of you who don't know in the last several years Stuart has won at more than golf.

The Masters, golf’s rite of spring. It never fails, something a little crazy or dramatic happens coming down the stretch. Two weeks ago, we had Tiger Woods wanting to win “extra badly” for his father back in California. It wasn’t ...

Is golf not the most bizarre game in sport? Several weeks ago, Tiger Woods rips Stephen Ames apart at the match play, never letting him up for air. Mr. Ames is now The Players champion. He was supposed to suffer ...

The more I teach and coach, the more I feel the modern handicap system is a bit, well, shall we say, bogus. It really has very little to do with golf.

Well, they did it again. The LPGA Tour last week was sitting on possibly their most potentially positive media week ever and they managed to make it possibly their worst. Seems impossible, not for them.

Well, I have got to tell you I'm really looking forward to this weekend in woman's golf. No, it's not the Open, the LPGA Championship, or any real event of historical significance — or is it?

Does this Tiger guy amaze you as much as he amazes me? I watched Nicklaus as a kid, and was always astonished how he, simply said, always seemed to get it down. However, that being said, Tiger seems to take ...

How about David Duval and his closing 63 in Hawaii? It would be a great story to see this guy pull himself out of the golf cellar. We have seen this slide into golf's abyss before.

Naples is slowly getting after its development of juniors (too slow for me). There, however, have been a few select folks out there who have gone way “above and beyond” in their efforts to both provide instruction as well as ...

Well, folks, this one comes to you from hurricane central. I went to the East Coast to escape the wrath of Wilma and the house — P.J. (my 5-year-old), a friend and I were hiding out. The back doors of ...

It seems like every year I have a really unique experience in golf as some individual comes along and defies the odds. Last year, it was an 81-year-old lady from Summit, N.J. She was a wonderful human being with great ...

I watched The Grand Slam last week on TNT. Tiger never ceases to amaze. That prompted me to bury myself in some old video. In my studio at The Health Club of Naples, I have over 500 tour swings (PGA, ...

Well, folks, this one comes to you from hurricane central. I went to the East Coast to escape the wrath of Wilma and the house — P.J. (my 5-year-old), a friend and I were hiding out.