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The people
who write the how-to's in golf magazines are the same people who
tell you how to put together your gas grill. They got their
start in kids toys. Probably bikes and trains. To achieve what
they ask, you have to be Stephen Hawking and Tiger Woods. I
could do one of two things after reading this stuff:
1. Go to the
driving range, mumbling, "Stride like a panther, don't bruise
the peach. Stride like a panther, don't bruise the peach,'' or
2. Call Curran. Curran the Golf God makes his living by making
golf easier than the collected works of Marcel Proust. He's a
retired guy who gives 25 lessons a week to the golf-lorn: People
who rarely break 100, who play a few times a month, who want to
play in an outing without providing the laugh track. "I'm their
last hope,'' he says.
Curran makes
golf simple. He wrote a 120-page book about it, which he
promptly reduced to a 12-page pamphlet, which he streamlined
into a one-page document free of references to peach-whacking.
Because I
love you, dear readers, I will tell you what Curran preaches.
Don't try it in a crowded bus:
Hit the
little ball (golf) before the big one (earth). Don't try to lift
the ball. That's the club's job. Think of the clubhead as the
flipper on a pinball machine: Swing too early, club face is
closed, ball goes left. Swing too late, club face is open, ball
goes right. Club face square, ball goes straight.
Around the
green, the length of the backswing determines the distance of
the shot. That applies for pitches and chips, too, not just
putts. It doesn't matter what your swing looks like. All that
counts is the impact. If the face of the club is square to the
target, if you hit the ball first, then the ground, the ball
should go in the intended direction.
If it
doesn't, growl like a panther. Or give Curran a call. You can
reach him at (513) 607-5842.
E-mail
pdaugherty@enquirer.com
In an article
written some 10 years earlier, Paul wrote, “Curran makes golf so
simple he has turned chess into checkers, and the Dead Sea
Scrolled into my Weekly Reader.”
Ron
Curran is the most talked about, written about and listened to
golf instructor in the Tri-State area. He is the author of
Instant Golf, one of only two golf instruction books
to have ever made the Cincinnati Enquirer’s Best Seller
List. Both Channel 5 (Ken Broo) and
Channel 12 (Walt Meyer) have done feature stories on his
unique teaching methods. He has written articles for Get
Sports Info Magazine as well as Hometown Golf
Magazine. He has been featured in The Cincinnati
Enquirer, Hometown Golf, and The
Business Couriers. He has been the lead golf instructor
at the Cincinnati Golf Show. He is a frequent
guest on sports talk radio, both in Cincinnati and Dayton and as
far away as KABC in Los Angles. Paul Daugherty, of
the Cincinnati Enquirer wrote, “Curran makes golf
so simple he has turned chess into checkers.” He currently
teaches his Instant Golf (3 one-hour sessions for
beginners. Over half his beginning students are women) and his
Instant Bogey Golf (2 one-hour sessions for
experienced golfers), and his one hour course to fix any
problem (such as a slice or needing extra distance off
the tee) at Etter’s Custom Golf in Evendale or at The Practice
Center in Franklin. He guarantees instant improvement or you
don’t pay.
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Give Ron a call at 513-881-6655, or email him at
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