Allyn McKeen

...and he cans a long putt as the discussion turns to his bad putting.

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14 are at under par.

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Finished with 10 under par on day one.

When comedian Pat Paulsen ran for president in 1968, he wanted to take Fluoride out of the water.

"Dayton, Ohio started putting Fluoride in the water in 1838, and none of those people are alive today."

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Let the right hand release the clubhead

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Watched a Nancy Lopez putting video the other day, and she said that she wished she had 2 right hands. I went out and went from an overlap grip to having both hands squarely on the grip and started putting with mostly my right hand. I saw immediate improvement.

In general, I would never putt like Nancy. In her view any putt she misses that doesn't go at least 4 feet past the hole is "a mishit".

Maxwell Moldova dunks his second shot on #1 for an eagle to start at 2 under. Didn't have that on my bingo card.

I have a signed Ichiro ball and cap from when he played for the Orix Blue Wave in Japan. A friend and I sat in the outfield cheering section for one of his games in Tokyo. I caught one of his first home run balls. An usher took me to a room near the dugout, and he came in and made the swap. He wás only 21 at the time, and he was already famous in Japan.

If you love baseball, put sitting in a cheering section at a Japanese baseball game on your bucket list. You won't be disappointed.

I sat next to David Shaber on a flight from Dallas to LA, and we mostly talked about The Warriors. He worked on a lot of great movies but this B movie project was kind of his claim to fame.

I first caught the movie late one night on HBO. It was very cheesy, but I couldn't stop watching it.

Really good day for MSU.

O'Connor news.
Leach to HOF.
Euro signee for basketball.
Julia Lopez Ramirez leading the US Open.

I work with a lot of guys that shoot in the 90's. At first, I don't help them with anything other than alignment, ball position, and making a good circle with their swing once they have the first 2 corrected. I can generally knock 8 to 10 shots off of their score with these basics.

Most, if not all, high handicap golfers point too far to the right. Get someone to check your feet, your hips, and your shoulders and see where you are lined up.

You want to hit up on drivers and down on irons. In general place the ball in line with your left heel on the driver and near the middle of your stance on irons. Keep it that simple to start.

Once you have these set, just make a good circle with your swing. Best way to learn this is rolling up a towel and use that as your club. Swing all the way back and let the towel hit your left shoulder. Now swing all the way through and let the towel hit your right shoulder and keep doing that back and forth 10 times. Take a 2 minute break and repeat 10 more times. Do that one more time and switch to a golf club and try to repeat that motion. Just tell yourself "left shoulder" on the way back and "right shoulder" on the way through. You won't hit your shoulder because the club is stiff, but you should be very close to the proper plane when you swing.

The big thing for me is for 90+ guys to eliminate death moves and stop over-thinking.

Remember vividly the interview with 84 year old Harry Truman who refused to leave the mountain when warned. He was one of the victims.