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Dear Dr. Donohue: I’m a high-school pitcher. Sometimes I play other positions, but most of the time I pitch. My coach has told me to start doing strength work on my legs. He says it will increase the speed of my pitches. He didn’t say how. Can you tell me how? It sounds like hogwash to me.

F.A.

Dear F.A.: Definitely, it’s not hogwash.

Nolan Ryan, one of baseball’s greatest pitchers, was still throwing the ball at near 100 miles an hour when he was in his 40s. He said he owed his longevity as a pitcher and his speed of pitching to all the work he put in strengthening his legs.

That shouldn’t be a big surprise. The power imparted to a golf swing’s impact with a golf ball comes mostly from the golfer’s legs. The same thing can be said of all sports where there’s a transfer of power from the legs to the shoulders and arms.

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Name: Dave Honsey
School and sport: Stewartville girls golf
What I teach: English; also College Now instructor and student council advisor
Family: Wife  Jessica Honsey (band director at SHS); children: Blake, 20, a junior at Winona State; Blair, 17, a junior at SHS ( on the golf team)

How would you explain your coaching philosophy?
I try to be sure that the golf instruction is helping the person.
I think it is really important to serve the needs of the athlete as a person when coaching golf. It can never be about the coach trying to show what they know about golf. It has to be about helping the golfer. Maybe more than any other sport, golf is uniquely psychological. There are some golfers that respond better to certain types of teaching and strategies and some that don’t respond to the same teaching strategies at all. You do have to know and understand golf fundamentals. I try to give each golfer good fundamentals and then help them to create metaphors or analogies that allow them to hit the ball consistently and be comfortable over the ball in tense situations.

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By Mark Immelman, Special to PGATOUR.COM

The HP Byron Nelson Championship is a preferred stop for many members of the PGA TOUR for various reasons, the biggest of which being a desire to pay tribute to the great man, Byron Nelson.

A member of the World Golf Hall of Fame for his achievements with a golf club in his hands, I have no doubt that if there was a “Good People of Sport Hall of Fame”, Byron Nelson would be a shoo-in for selection. Truly one of the nicest men in golf, and sport, stories of his goodness and kindness abound. An account that best illustrates the caliber of the man goes as follows:

Immelman

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If a lime-green van pulls up to a crowded restaurant or shopping mall and you see golfers pop out wearing some crazy threads, no, that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re in need of a vacation.

It’s part of the Colorado PGA’s new strategy to grow the game in conjunction with the national “Golf 2.0″ initiative.

“We want to have people know that golf is fun, it’s inviting,” said Eddie Ainsworth, executive director of the Colorado Section of the PGA. “From that van, we’ll have chipping games and giveaways. We’ll offer tips and advice. We’ll have college-aged golfers in clothes like (touring pro) Rickie Fowler. People are going to love it.”

Golf 2.0, a cooperative effort among the PGA of America, the United States Golf Association and other golf organizations, was officially unveiled in January at the PGA Merchandise Show. Its charge is to introduce more people to the game and reverse the downward trend of the golf industry.

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