Shawn Humphries' Golf Performance

This past week several SHGP kids competed at the Southwest Junior Championship– The Retreat Golf Club. Colony, TX. Ben Baxter came in 3rd place in the 14-15 year old division. In the 12-13 year old division Sam Burns came storming back with a final round 68 in the 103 July heat to take home the 2nd place honors. In the girls 14-15 year old division Taylor Icenberger took home first place honors in a decisive 16 shot victory topped off with a 77 in the final round.

SHGP is putting its mark all over the country, Philip Barbaree competed at the Callaway Junior World Championship at The Country Club of Rancho Bernado, CA. Barabaree fired 71, 73, 75 to finish 14th in the 11-12 year old division.

We also had a representative in the Chesapeake Energy Texas State Open at The Cascades Golf Club, Tyler, TX. As an amateur, Jeremy LeGuen shot 71-69-70-71 (+1) Total 281 to finish T-43. There were a total of 4 amateurs who made the cut on the weekend. Jeremy is a graduating Sr at Marcus High school and will be a freshman at Midwestern State University this fall.

We look forward to posting more tournament finishes as the summer moves on and the victories start to pile up.

Hump Day Video Tip – Lowering Your Ball Flight

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:23:17 +0000

Check out our weekly Hump Day video tips each Wednesday to help get you through the week!

This week: Lowering Your Ball Flight

Click HERE to view this week’s tip.

Here are links to previous Hump Day tips:

Plane Your Clubface

Hitting The High Cut

Hitting From Fairway Bunkers

The Need For Speed

Ball Sitting Down In Rough

Importance of Feet In Chipping

Play Smart Golf

Plane Your Takeaway

Putter Grip

Downhill Lies

Closer Is Better

Got Width?

Reading Putts

Coming Over The Top

Hump Day Video Tip – Plane The Clubface

admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:24:23 +0000

Check out our weekly Hump Day video tips each Wednesday to help get you through the week!

This week: Plane The Clubface

Click HERE to view this week’s tip.

Here are links to previous Hump Day tips:

Hitting The High Cut

Hitting From Fairway Bunkers

The Need For Speed

Ball Sitting Down In Rough

Importance of Feet In Chipping

Play Smart Golf

Plane Your Takeaway

Putter Grip

Downhill Lies

Closer Is Better

Got Width?

Reading Putts

Coming Over The Top

Hump Day Video Tips – Hitting The High Cut

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:22:16 +0000

Check out our weekly Hump Day video tips each Wednesday to help get you through the week!

This week: Hitting The High Cut

Click HERE to view this week’s tip.

Hump Day video tip

Here are links to previous Hump Day tips:

Hitting From Fairway Bunkers

The Need For Speed

Ball Sitting Down In Rough

Importance of Feet In Chipping

Play Smart Golf

Plane Your Takeaway

Putter Grip

Downhill Lies

Closer Is Better

Got Width?

Reading Putts

Coming Over The Top

Welcome to Shawn’s Blog

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 23:49:20 +0000

Get exclusive insight and up-to-date information on this great game from Golf Magazine’s Top 100 Teacher Shawn Humphries. You’ll go on location with Shawn as he travels to some of the finest golf destinations to conduct corporate schools, outings and individual lessons as well as photo shoots with Golf Magazine and his personal vacations.

“Each month, I’ll update you on our instruction, schools and training, the latest golf equipment and recent golf articles. I’ll review a book, inspire you and take you places as you’ll experience first-hand entries from my travel journal and learn about premier golf destinations, schools, camps and golf events from around the country and around the world. It will be a fun, entertaining and very candid look around the golf world and who knows, you might even learn something!”

–Shawn Humphries

The Bookshelf

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:54:44 +0000

Have you ever wondered what the elite coaches read each month?

This month: Train Your Mind change Your Brain by Sharon Begley

Train Your Mind change Your Brain by Sharon Begley. Copyright by Mind and Life Institute. Ballantine Books, 2007

In this fascinating and far-reaching book, Newsweek science writer Sharon Begley reports on how cutting-edge science and the ancient wisdom of Buddhism have come together to reveal that, contrary to popular belief, we have the power to literally change our brains by changing our minds. Recent pioneering experiments in neuroplasticity–the ability of the brain to change in response to experience–reveal that the brain is capable of altering its structure and function, and even of generating new neurons, a power we retain well into old age. The brain can adapt, heal, renew itself after trauma, compensate for disabilities, rewire itself to overcome dyslexia, and break cycles of depression and OCD. And as scientists are learning from studies performed on Buddhist monks, it is not only the outside world that can change the brain, so can the mind and, in particular, focused attention through the classic Buddhist practice of mindfulness.

With her gift for making science accessible, meaningful, and compelling, Sharon Begley illuminates a profound shift in our understanding of how the brain and the mind interact and takes us to the leading edge of a revolution in what it means to be human.