From The Inside Out Golf Academy

Did you know: the highest golf course in the world is the Tactu Golf Club in Morococha, Peru. 14335 feet above sea level at its lowest point

Did you know: the longest golf hole in the world is the 7th hole of the Sano Course at the Satsuki Golf Club in Japan, measuring 909 yards

Comparable stats: driver swing speed of an average lady golfer is 62mph; 84mph for an average male; 130mph for Tiger Woods

Did you know: the largest green is 695 yards? the 5th hole at International Golf Club in Massachusetts, an area exceeding 28000 square feet

Encouraging stat: don't feel bad about your high handicap. 80% of all golfers will never achieve a handicap of less than 18

Did you know: the term birdie comes from an American named Ab Smith? While playing in 1899 he played what he described as a "bird of a shot"

Here's a great exercise to help get in golf-shape. This exercise helps strengthen shoulders, abs, and chest: http://t.co/aUnDpXAoBJ

Here's a great exercise to help get in golf-shape. This particular exercise helps strengthen shoulders, abs, and chest:

HIGH CABLE ROTATION PRESS:
Stand with your left side next to a high-cable machine with a single handle attached. Grasp handle with left hand, arm outstretched, palm facing forward. Place left foot in front of right, feet hip-width apart, right hand on right hip. Contract abs, lift chest and relax your shoulders, drawing shoulder blades down.

While keeping a soft bend in your left elbow and wrist straight, pull left arm across chest and rotate at waist toward toward right, pushing left arm to the right as you rotate.

Do 15 reps with each arm, increasing weight as you gain strength.

Did you know: the youngest golfer to shoot a hole-in-one was Coby Orr, who was 5 at the time. It happened in Littleton, Colorado in 1975

Before taking private golf lessons, try one of our Summer Saturday Clinics at 12noon at Los Lagos Golf Course for $40!

We hope you enjoy this excerpt from "Mentored by the King" by Brad Brewer as you contemplate your own thoughts: http://t.co/BmB5pXhpEk

We hope you enjoy this excerpt from "Mentored by the King" by Brad Brewer, as you contemplate your own thoughts ...

A plaque with these words has hung on Arnold Palmer's office wall for years . . . and the words have been quoted by greats such as insurance magnate Napoleon Hill and automaker Henry Ford.

THE MAN WHO THINKS HE CAN
If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but you think you can't,
It's almost certain you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you've lost;
For out in the world you'll find
Success begins with a fellow's will;
It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are;
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the man who things he can.