You go straight to table of contents to see what is most interesting article and there it is, swing advice from winner of last major tournament. “This is just what I need,” you say to yourself as you flip to correct page knowing that your club tournament is 2 months away.

The article has one of those swing-sequence photo frames. It has some quotes from other pros. It has a sidebar from “Top instructor of all time” with his ideas of perfect swing. The second page of article is dwarfed by an advertisement for greatest swing gadget ever created by a human and endorsed by sixteen instruction schools in five countries. The author talks about how he “remade” his swing prior to winning that major but that his best buddy on tour is struggling using same method and swing guru. The captions on each of swing-sequence photos point out minute details of where parts of body of pro are at 10 different positions during swing and which of those are “technically not correct”.

You don’t want to give up on article, since you really do need swing advice, so you go to your dressing room mirror and check a couple of your body parts with some of pictures in article while attempting to freeze your swing at same points as stop-action photos. “I got it!” you tell yourself when you match a couple of these positions and then practice them outside with your real club. You congratulate yourself and then sit back down in your easy chair to get back to business of relaxing.

A little later in evening, you flip to Golf Channel and instead of usual tournament from 1994 there is a lesson program from a pro instructor. Lo and behold, he teaches that move you worked so hard on an hour ago was prevailing instruction of 1980’s and has since been proven to be “unreliable in competition”.

You jump out of your chair to go check your favorite golf sites about this guy on show and it seems that he is everywhere when you do a search for him. A couple of articles you land on say he has best golf instruction this side of border and a couple more take pride in picking him apart. The instructor’s own website is loaded with testimonials from his students on how well his program worked for them so you keep surfing for further info.

Meeting Mickey Mantle would be a dream comes true. A dream realized for Dan on his 38th birthday, when his wife honored him with a week long stay at Yankee Fantasy Camp in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Dan played with some of Yankee legends: Bobby Murcer, Mickey Rivers, Ron Guidry, Moose Skowron and Catfish Hunter. The games were great and being on same field with some of players he had watched on TV or at Yankee Stadium was mesmerizing.