Wally Armstrong’s Blog

Good news: Junior golf is booming. According to the National Golf Foundation, more than 2 million youngsters (ages 12-17) play golf, and junior programs and junior tournaments have seen double-digit increases in recent years.
Bad news: Golf can be an expensive sport, and there aren’t enough public facilities to handle the demand. In large metropolitan areas […]

The healthiest approach to the Christian faith is to realize the futility of trying to live a perfect life—to come to grips with our humanity, and our sinful nature—and to lay our struggles at the feet of Jesus. We are a fallen people, with flaws and imperfections that run throughout our character. We will never […]

I’ve noticed an interesting dynamic among golfers of all skill levels and handicaps. I’ll be playing with a foursome and we’ll come to a short hole with a very narrow fairway feeding toward the green. Most players will take an iron or a wood they feel confident with and land the ball pretty safely in […]

Over the last few years I’ve had the privilege of playing in a lot of 40+ tournaments. It’s a competitive golf circuit that helps a number of players prepare for the Senior tour. One of the players I met on the circuit is a man named David Smith—a man of deep faith and a great […]

“The devotion of the golfer to his game is only equaled by the contempt of him who looks upon it for the first time. You wonder a great many things when you first see it played, but your wonderment is greatest that a game which appears so simple should have created such a furor.”

All kids don’t learn the same. Just as kids have differing temperaments and personalities, they also have particular ways of learning. The senses through which children absorb and learn new information are visual, auditory and kinesthetic. Let’s look at how they apply to learning golf.
If your child is a visual learner, then he learns […]

Some of my favorite memories from my days on the tour came from the hundreds of practice rounds I got to play with Gary Player. As a young golfer I had the privilege of caddying for Gary, and then after earning my card to play, our friendship continued to grow. Only now I was competing […]

Think about it: What other sport gives you a captive audience with your kids for four or five hours? What other sport presents so much concentrated time to interact with your children? Hunting, perhaps, and you could make an argument for skiing or snowboarding, but I’ve long felt that golf is the best sporting activity […]

Hey everyone,
I am so glad that you came to check out my new blog! I’m just starting to get my feet wet with all of these different social netowrks, Facebook & Twitter, so I figured I should have a blog as well. I wil be updating as often as possbile with great golf tips, instructions, […]