A Lesson Learned: The 2008 Sony Open
This week's Sony Open In Hawaii is one of those tournaments that just ooze pageantry, history, and celebration. As the first full-field event of the year, it's a great way to start each season.

A Lesson Learned: Sony Open
Over the many years of writing instruction articles for PGA Magazine and other publications, my main focus has been to provide a tip or two to help readers play a little better, but to also stress that they remember to have fun. Having fun was a major theme of this past week's PGA TOUR event.

Learn from your scorecard
Many golfers struggle to play better golf but few lack the direction to get started on the road to better scores. One of the first things I do with my students is ask them what their handicap is. If they say "28," for example, I then ask them, "Well, where do you think you are losing 28 shots per round?" Far too often their answer is, "I don't know."

Avoid the wrong shot in your short game
As we all know, the short game is where we score or try to score that low number. But for many high handicappers, this is where their problems really start.

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