Book Review: The Anatomy of Greatness

Book Review: The Anatomy of Greatness

The Anatomy of Greatness offers the subtitle, Lessons from the best golf swings in history. Off the start, one suspects that the author cannot possibly assess and corroborate every great swing that the game of golf has known over its history. The task of the...
Tom’s Featured Tip: Toe-Up Putter and Emotions

Tom’s Featured Tip: Toe-Up Putter and Emotions

Tom Tucker is a teaching professional at Plum Creek driving range in Batavia. He provides instruction for BuffaloGolfer.Com twice a month. For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Got My Toe Up Putter For those...
2016 Interview Series: Tom Coyne

2016 Interview Series: Tom Coyne

Tom Coyne set out in 2007 to walk around the entire island of Ireland. To play golf. And he did. And wrote A Course Called Ireland. Just prior, he took a separate journey, to find out how good he could get a golf. And he did. And he wrote Paper Tiger. In 2015, he...
Porter Cup Preview: Porter Cup Media Day

Porter Cup Preview: Porter Cup Media Day

Get the word out. The 2016 Porter Cup represents a bit of a change from competitions of the recent past. Some of the changes were anticipated, while others are dependent on the current climate that no forecaster can predict with accuracy. The tournament itself, slated...
2016 Interview Series: Kevin Sylvester

2016 Interview Series: Kevin Sylvester

Kevin Sylvester offers a voice that every Buffalo-Niagara sports fan knows.  1. Give us a little background on who you are, where you grew and where you did your schooling. I was born in Dunkirk, NY, lived there as an infant, lived in West Seneca until I was 2, and...
A Look at Peek’N Peak’s Upper Course: Back Nine

A Look at Peek’N Peak’s Upper Course: Back Nine

A Look At Peek’N Peak’s Upper Course The Back Nine The back nine at Peek’N Peak’s Upper Course is home to the more dramatic holes on the course. This is not to say that the outward half is lacking in interest. The opening nine holes typically...
A Look At Peek’N Peak’s Upper Course

A Look At Peek’N Peak’s Upper Course

A Look At Peek’N Peak’s Upper Course The Front Nine The front nine at Peek’N Peak’s Upper Course has undergone a number of changes in the year’s since the Web.Com Tour first visited in the 2000s. To begin, the front used to be the back!...
A Chat with the Hat

A Chat with the Hat

It’s an undeniable fact that a bird’s eye view of my head seems to shine quite radiantly these days. Most of what was once a beautiful head of hair has gone drainside prompting my DermaDoc to demand that I cover up when playing golf. For years, I’ve had many occasions...
Tom’s Featured Tip: Necking The Driver

Tom’s Featured Tip: Necking The Driver

Tom Tucker is a teaching professional at Plum Creek driving range in Batavia. He provides instruction for BuffaloGolfer.Com twice a month. For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. I recently had a driver swing...
2016 Interview Series: The Walking Golfers Society

2016 Interview Series: The Walking Golfers Society

The Walking Golfers Society has a mantra posted on its website: The Walking Golfers Society is dedicated to providing information about the many benefits of walking when you golf, which is how the game was intended to be played. If you are a passionate walking golfer...
International Junior Masters Day 3 Report

International Junior Masters Day 3 Report

David Hanes has controlled the 18th hole this week, so when Ben Reichert came to the last with a one-hole deficit against the qualifying medalist, his chances for a half and extra holes weren’t good. True to form, Hanes won the 18th and took the match between...
International Junior Masters Day 3 Report

International Junior Masters Day 3 Midday Report

The scene (2:12 pm) at the practice green. Boys waiting for their PM matches. @ijmgolf @buffalogolfer pic.twitter.com/OY3X4z0Lub— Nate Leary (@OPGolfCoach) June 30, 2016   Thanks to Coach Leary (@OPGolfCoach) the brains and the brawn behind ECIC and Section...
International Junior Masters 2016 Day Two Report

International Junior Masters 2016 Day Two Report

The #2016IJM moved into day two of competition. The morning 18 holes completed the stroke play qualifying and recent St. Francis grad David Hanes, soon to be a Canisius College student and golfer, holed a pitch shot from the front of the 18th green to secure the Gary...
Press Release: SeeMore Putter Saves Els

Press Release: SeeMore Putter Saves Els

Since Switch, Ernie Els is the Tours’ best putter En route to this weekend’s fifth-place finish at the Quicken Loans National, Ernie Els gained 1.99 strokes on the field thanks to his work on Congressional’s greens. Of course, it wasn’t long ago that Els...
International Junior Masters Day 3 Report

International Junior Masters Qualifying Round One Report

Three Buffalo-Niagara golfers and four more Rochester golfers found themselves in position to advance to the championship round of match play of the 2016 International Junior Masters. David Hanes (Elma-71), Mike Wells (Getzville-74) and Jacob Mertz (Williamsville-74)...

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