Need more than just a ”blog” to fix your game? How about visiting Cindy live.  See and feel the difference.

 ”Improving your game from the Inside Out”.

           Friday, Saturday, Sunday. April 3, 4, 5, 2009

Come as a commuter or stay in the beautiful brand new Salvatore’s Grand Hotel. Transportation available to/from Buffalo International Airport and also to/ from The Wehrle Golf Dome where Saturday and Sunday sessions will take place.                       

Take this opportunity to invest in yourself. You will make profound changes in your golf game. This starts by learning what you see when you look in the mirror, becoming aware of your vitals during challenging situations, how to hit the golf ball straight on purpose, improve your chipping and pitching, learn how you perceive theorder of things to make more putts, and lower your score through better course  management.                                                                                                         

Pricing includes dinner Friday night, breakfast both Saturday and Sunday, and lunch Saturday. All range balls, gift bags, and instruction booklets are included as well.  Lodging is optional.

Friday, April 3, 2009                                                          

Russell’s

6:00 PM  Cocktails

6:30 - 7:30 PM Dinner

7:30-9:30  The Mirror

Saturday, April 4, 2009

The Wehrle Golf Dome

8:00-9:00 AM  Breakfast                             

8:00-10:30 AM  Vital Awareness of Me

10:30-10:45 AM Break

10:45-12:00  Straight on Purpose

12:00-1:00 PM Lunch

1:00-2:30 PM   Long Game

2:30-2:45 PM Break

2:45-3:30 PM Short Game

3:30-5:00 PM Under 100 yards

Dinner on your own

Sunday, April 5, 2009

The Wehrle Golf Dome

8:00-9:00 AM Breakfast

9:00-10:30 AM In the Cup

10:30-12:00 Score

About Cindy

Cindy Miller is a graduate of the University of Miami where she started as a walk on and gained All American status her senior year. She served as her Team Captain and helped her team win the NCAA National Championships in 1977 and 1978.

Cindy won the New York State Amateur in 1978. In 1979 she won The Lake Chabot Women’s Open on the Women’s Professional Golf Tour for her first professional victory and qualified to compete on LPGA Tour that same year. She is a veteran of 5 Women’s US Opens.

After competing on the LPGA Tour for three years, Cindy married then full time PGA Tour Player Allen Miller. They now live in Western New York where they are raising their three children and have been teaching people to hit the golf ball straight in purpose for the past 22 years.

Cindy is a Class A LPGA Teaching and Club Professional Division Member. She has served as Vice President of the Northeast Section, and won both the LPGA Northeast and Southeast Section Championships.

Most recently, Cindy won the 2004 Golf for Women Magazine LPGA Teaching & Club Professional Championship in Daytona Beach, Florida. She finished in the top ten of this same event in both 2001, 2003, and 2005.

Cindy has qualified to play on The Legends Tourf Tour for the past 5 years. She finished 2nd on their 2005 money list and sits at 28th on their career money list. She has three top 10 finishes to her credit. Cindy has also qualified to play on the Futures Golf Tour for the past 5 years.

Cindy was named to the 2001, 2006, 2007, and 2008 Top 50 Teachers in the country by Golf For Women Magazine and twice voted by her peers as the LPGA Teacher of the Year for the Northeast. She won LPGA Player f the Year honors in 2005. Cindy was also listed in the 2004 and 2005 Golf Magazine as a Top Teacher by Region and has been nominated to their prestigious Top 100 Teacher in America list. In 2008 Cindy was voted by the LPGA as a Top 50 Teacher in the country.

In 2004 Cindy became certified to teach “The Personalities”. Invite Cindy to your next golf outing and/or into your organization to teach you and your employees about not only their own personality patterns, but she will help them identify and understand others strengths and weaknesses so they may better communicate with others and help their relationships blossom. She has become known as a Mental Golf Coach along with her ability to improve someone’s golf swing. She will help your whole game. Allow Cindy to help you find the “why behind the what”.

CINDY MILLER GOLF
30 Main Street
Silver Creek
New York 14136
Phone (716) 934-7374
Fax (716) 934-8149
E-mail: cindy@cindymillergolf.com
Website: www.cindymillergolf.com

Lately, I have received many requests for 2 things.

1. Advice on how to hit backspin (always a common request).
2. Advice on the short game in general.

Honestly, the first thing that you need to realize about creating backspin is that it’s a very tough shot to accomplish, let alone control. The second thing that you should realize is that there are very few situations where this shot is actually needed.  In my opinion, the best shot to master is an approach shot that bounces once, and then stops on a dime. This shot is not easy to accomplish either, but is more realistic and much more effective in the vast majority of cases.  So I’ll get in to the basics of this shot now, but please realize that an entire book could be written on this subject, and it would still be very hard to incorporateinto a recreational game.  Here are the basic conditions that must be met before the shot even occurs. If these factors are not in place, don’t try to create backspin.

1. Conditions must be completely dry - (the club face, and the ball included)
2. You must be on the fairway - (grass can’t get in between the club and the ball)
3. Green’s have to be very nicely kept - (very short)

Now, let me clarify. Those are the conditions that must be met before the shot even occurs. So hopefully, you are beginning to see just how difficult this shot is and why it doesn’t come highly recommended from someone who focuses on making golf simple. I was thinking of ways to describe the action necessary to create backspin, and I came to the conclusion that the best analogy is one of placing spin on the cue ball in billiards.  Side Note: They say that good pool players are also good putters. So if you want to sharpen your putting skills, I would advise learning billiards as well. It will help you to develop steady hands, “learn to see the line”, and it will also teach you alot about spin. In pool, to create backspin you have to hit downward on the cue ball with a significant amount of force. Notice that players chalk up before hitting a shot requiring a lot of spin (dry). They also go at the ball with a very steep angle. And they hit the lower portion of the ball.  All of this is necessary in golf as well. The ultimate goal is to “pinch” the ball between your club and the fairway. You must take a downward blow at the ball, you must add a fair amount of velocity to your swing speed, and you must make clean contact with the lower portion of the ball. It is all of these factors combined that make this shot so tough to complete with any accuracy.  It’s also essential to have a new ball (preferably a high spin/soft-cover ball), and a newer (clean) club that has some of the grip left on the face. As the ball compresses into the grooves on the face of the club, backspin is created. Thanks,  Bobby Eldridge - Head Professional, PurePoint Golf & Scottsdale Country Club
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