Golf Pro Phil Mickelson to Share Secrets Of The Short Game

Golf Pro Phil Mickelson to Share Secrets Of The Short Game

Top Player To Release An Instructional Program, Just In Time For The Masters

Available On DVD April 7 As A Two-Disc Set With Instructional Booklet From CBS Home Entertainment And Paramount Home Entertainment

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Phil Mickelson, winner of 34 PGA Tour events -- including three major championships -- and long renowned for his masterful short game, shares his competitive insights for the first time ever on DVD in PHIL MICKELSON: SECRETS OF THE SHORT GAME. Teaming with Emmy Award-winning producer/director Terry Jastrow, the two-disc instructional set focusing on shots played from 50 yards will be available on DVD April 7 from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment.

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"My ideas about the short game are very different from a lot of the instruction I see out there," said Mickelson, "so it was a lot of fun to put this together with Terry and I'm very pleased with the way it turned out. The goal here is to help golfers build a foundation so that their practice time directly correlates to improved scoring on the golf course."

Jastrow has produced hugely popular instructional programs with Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and others but said, "No great golfer has done an instructional program in more than two decades. For years people have acknowledged Phil has a superior short game, but the question they still ask is, 'How does he do it?' Here Phil finally gives his answers."

Mickelson has been outspoken on various topics throughout his career and continues to be so in sharing his "Secrets."

On two popular chipping instructions: "the club should go back and through the same distance" or that there should be "no wrist" in the swing: "If anybody teaches you one of those two methods, go somewhere else. There is one great way to chip and it is a method that I call 'hinge and hold.' There has never been a good chipper who does not conform to this technique."

On putting: "For years I have heard how you want your hands to oppose each other. I don't buy into that either. We want our top hand turned stronger; this promotes a release."

PHIL MICKELSON: SECRETS OF THE SHORT GAME features sections on putting, chipping, sand shots and the flop shot Mickelson popularized soon after he joined the PGA Tour in 1992.

The two-disc set with approximately two hours of content is presented in 16x9 widescreen. It is not rated in the U.S. and has an exempt rating in Canada and will be available for the suggested retail price of $49.95.

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