Golf Instruction and Tips

Las Vegas, Nevada (April 23, 2012)--TPC Las Vegas is a resort course owned and operated by the PGA Tour. And one of the benefits of the relationship with the PGA Tour is high-level golf instruction. TPC Las Vegas is home to the official TOUR Academy, led by head instructor Brandon Stooksbury. Read on for a video about how to hit it solid and how you can make your reservations for the TOUR Academy. --By Brian Hurlburt.

Las Vegas, Nevada (February 11, 2012)--Drive for show, putt for dough. Every golfer has heard the phrase, and it rings in your head immediately after a three-putt bogey. Las Vegas Golf Region resident and Golf Magazine Top 100 and PGA of America teaching professional Mike Davis feels the pain, but offers a cure. Davis is the Director of Instruction of Walters Golf, operators of three Las Vegas golf courses. Click now for a video about his putting tips and drills. --By Brian Hurlburt, Instruction by Mike Davis.

Las Vegas, Nevada (January 30, 2012)--Las Vegas Golf Region resident Charley Hoffman is one of the most recognizeable PGA Tour golfers. Long, surfer hair and a personality to match will do that for you. But Hoffman is also one of the game's best players. And recently in Golf Digest, he and his longtime swing coach, Shawn Callahan, shared some of their thoughts about what makes him swing the best and thoughts about golf instruction. --By Brian Hurlburt.

Las Vegas, Nevada (January 27, 2012)--Butch Harmon lives in the Las Vegas Golf Region, and operates his School of golf at Las Vegas resort course Rio Secco Golf Club. Now he is releasing "Butch Harmon About Golf Presented by Titleist", a two-set DVD featuring 57 chapters and more than 250 tips. Plus included is actual footage from Harmon working with the likes of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Natalie Gulbis, Fred Couples, Dustin Johnson, Adam Scott, Greg Norman, and Nick Watney. Click now for the official website and where you can get information about the DVD.--By Brian Hurlburt (follow @LVGolfinsider).

Las Vegas, Nevada (December 30, 2011)--Just about everybody knows these days that the best golf teacher out there is Las Vegas Golf Region resident Butch Harmon. At least his peers in a Golf Digest poll have voted that way for the last dozen years or so. The cool thing? YOU can take a golf lesson from the man himself. Harmon has announced his 2012 Golf School instruction schedule at the Butch Harmon School of Golf at Las Vegas resort course Rio Secco Golf Club. YOU are invited. --By Brian Hurlburt.

Las Vegas, Nevada (November 8, 2011)--Some of the world's best golfers are in town today completing the 20th year of the Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge. This Las Vegas golf tournament played at the resort Rio Secco Golf Club features three players from the PGA Tour, LPGA Tour and Champions Tour playing against each other. Prior to the main event today, some of the pros offered golf tips to Golf Channel viewers and others gathered live at the Butch Harmon School of Golf. --By Brian Hurlburt.

Las Vegas, Nevada (September 28, 2011)--The best thing about attending the functions surrounding a PGA Tour event are that you will pick up a tip to improve your game. That was the case early in the week when Charley Hoffman, a Las Vegas Golf Region resident, gave out one of his best scoring zone golf tips prior to the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. The golf instruction came during his Monday clinic prior to the playing of the Charley Hoffman Foundation Pro-Am at TPC Summerlin. Read on for this golf tip gem. --By Brian Hurlburt.

Las Vegas, Nevada (August 15, 2011)--Butch Harmon teaches the world's best players. And in the July 2011 edition of Golf Digest, he shares his secrets about how to hit a half-distance wedge. Harmon has been voted the world's best golf instructor for the last decade in a Golf Digest poll of his peers. Also, Harmon operates the Butch Harmon School of Golf at Las Vegas golf course Rio Secco. --Staff report.