My topic this week is “Judgement” as in he usually uses good judgement in making decisions. I always thought that I had a pretty good eye for talent when it came to assessing a young person’s golf abilities. In the early 80’s I was an assistant golf professional at Yuma Country Club and at the same time I coached the Arizona Western College golf team. I had some pretty good players, one of whom was Art Sellinger. Art was consumed with trying to hit the ball farther and really at that time he was not much longer than the average junior college player. At the end of his junior college career Art asked me for some direction as to his future in golf. I remember the words verbatim. I said, “Art, work on your short game because the long ball won’t get you anywhere.” By the late 80’s Art had won the National Long Drive Championship twice ($100,000 first prize) and had tracked me down in Las Vegas where I was managing the Las Vegas Hilton CC. Art approached me about putting together a Long Drive Pro-Am with the folks at the Hilton with the promise that the next year “he would have a major sponsor, the event would be televised and we was going to do it at night under the lights”. I helped him with the event but thought to myself there was no way this kid from my junior college golf team could put together a major televised event. Of course the next year Art came through with RE/MAX as a sponsor, hosted the event at night under the lights and it was televised on Christmas Day. Art is now the owner of Long Drivers of America, and producer of the RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship/ESPN, Art of Long Driving, Inc. and Sellinger's Power Golf. He's a contributing editor to Golf Tips Magazine, is recognized as the "Authority on Power Golf" by the Golf Channel, has graced the cover of numerous industry magazines, and has appeared in more than ten national television commercials. I learned three lessons. 1. If you follow a dream with hard work and a plan anything is possible. 2. Drive for show, putt for dough is not right. 3. My judgement is not that good. 


This is a first in a series of blogs about the remarkable people I have been privileged to meet through golf. All of these experiences pointed me in the right direction to be able to create the ChipInABLE. This inexpensive golf teaching aid will help the world of golfers learn the proper motion to have a successful short game. www.chipinable.com