Maria Palozola's St. Louis Golf Blog

The Lou’s Lefty Langley had an incredible start to his professional career with a 3rd place finish at the Sony Open this past weekend.  After leading for 3 days Scott fell away a bit on Sunday while Russell Henley charged ahead for the victory.  Some might think Scott’s final round of even par was pretty [...]

What are you doing for your game this winter?  Most likely not a whole lot.  What the cold weather is so useful for though, is creating your game plan.  When the weather doesn’t cooperate, fight back by letting the course know it’s not going to get the best of you this year.  This year you [...]

I’ve stressed many times that the “off-season” is the best time to work on your game.  The reason being is that you aren’t playing much at all and therefore, the pressure and expectations aren’t there.  Instead, the focus can be on changing your technique as opposed to where the ball is going. But coming out [...]

Just when things are getting cooler outside, the Big Bend Golf Center is warming up for winter.  Mr. Kim has made improvements to the covered tee line that will surely keep you warmer this winter during  practice.  He has built new walls and fully enclosed both ends of the covered tee to keep the cool [...]

Last week when Brandt Snedeker was interviewed on t.v. he said something I thought was oh, so important.  I’m not sure anyone else really noticed it though.  It was the night before he won the Tour Championship and the Fed Ex Cup.  The newscaster made a comment about  Brandt’s outstanding putting.  He asked Brandt “what [...]

Whether you’re a fan or not, you have to admit things seem a bit more interesting when you see Tiger’s name up on the leader board.  The post season has been extra exciting this year in my opinion because of all the top names including Tiger.  Having names like Rory McIroy, Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, [...]

That’s right.  Fall is the preferred playing season for most St. Louis golfers.  In fact, I always have a large number of students that don’t even play golf until fall.  They want to avoid the heat and the crowds.  Something about fall and getting kids back in school makes most think of football and soccer [...]

How do your shoulders affect your swing plane?  The answer is A Lot!   Having two students today at the Big Bend Golf Center who were struggling with coming over the top of the swing plane on the down swing made me wonder.  I wondered how often golfers think about what it is that is [...]

As the heat keeps a lot of golfers indoors, improvements are moving right along at the Big Bend Golf Center.  Jose and Mr. Kim have been systematically sanding and painting the old rusty handrails.  It is a big job as there are a lot of them!  The next plan is to paint all the steps [...]

In case you hadn’t heard, the Big Bend Golf Center has new owners.  Mr. Choe decided to sell the golf range after a number of years (I think around 14) to put all his energy into his new sports bar.  The new owners Mr. and Mrs. Kim could not be nicer or more enthusiastic about [...]