Updated Calendar Is Available On The Links Website
A calendar of events for the 2025 season has been updated to The Links website. Please refer to it often to check course availability and all golf activities. First Tee classes, YMCA and Women’s Wednesday League, PGA Junior League are all in “Full-Swing” the first week in May.
Upcoming Events / Course Closures to keep in mind:
Sunday May 4th, Attleboro Rec Golf Outing, front nine closed until approx. 2:00PM
Sunday May 18th, Norton Softball/FOP Golf Outing, 9:00 shotgun start, 90 players, course closed until approximately 1:00PM
Monday June 2nd, Perkins School Golf Outing, front nine closed 9:00am-1:30PM
Tuesday June 3th, Women’s Golf Day, front nine closed all day.
Wednesday June 18th, Acushnet Women’s Golf Clinic, front nine closed until approx. 5:00PM.
Wednesday June 25th, Attleboro Rec. Junior Clinic 12:30-1:30, front nine closed.
“Free” Summer Junior Members Only “Tune-Up” Clinics
Wednesday June 25th, 11:00am-12:00pm, front nine closed
Wednesday July 16th, 11:00am-12:00pm, front nine closed
Wednesday August 13th, 11:00am-12:00pm, front nine closed
For a complete list of all Links’ events including First Tee classes, please refer to The Links’ calendar often on our website linksatmassgolf.org or inside the clubhouse on the events bulletin board.
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Volunteers Needed
If you have the time and would like to make an impact on junior golf and the future of the game, we have many opportunities and are always looking for volunteers. If you have an interest in helping out, please contact PGA Golf Professional Drew Chapman: dchapman@massgolf.org.
Proper pace and acceleration in the downswing feel very slow during the first half of the downswing. If you feel like you are adding speed at the start down, you are probably over-accelerating. Once you reach your peak speed, you begin to decelerate. So, the golf swing is ever faster, never fastest (at least until three feet past the ball. That is where Ben Hogan felt his peak speed).
When the swing feels slow, your speed happens later, and the ball actually goes farther. Think about the last time you tried to lay up short of a penalty area and, unfortunately, hit your ball right into the water. It may have been the best shot that you hit that day because you did not try to put the speed at any particular place in the swing. Swinging with proper pace and acceleration can feel effortless. But be careful, the temptation to add more effort can actually cause the opposite to happen.
Try this drill to improve your timing, tempo, and rhythm…flip your club over so that you are holding on to your driver at the club head end. Swing the shaft back and forth listening for a swoosh sound. Where you hear the swoosh determines where your swing reaches peak speed. The place where you want to hear it is at impact and beyond a foot or so into the follow through. Hearing the swoosh at the top of your downswing may feel fast, but the sooner you go fast, the faster you go slow. Keep Swinging!
Golf Quote of the Month
“You will hit the ball farther more frequently when you don’t try to hit it far.”
-Sam Snead, 82 PGA Tour wins, including seven majors
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