Great Golf Moments in Pinehurst
Payne Stewart was coming off a major disappointment when he teed off in June 1999 seeking to win the one that got away a year earlier. After a perfect drive on the back nine of the 1998 US Open, Stewart had a dreadful lie when his ball wound up in a sand-covered divot. Stewart bogeyed that hole and went on to lose to eventual champion Lee Jansen by a single stroke.
But Pinehurst would be different.
The 1999 Open was held at Pinehurst #2. Again, the dapper 42-year-old Stewart led most of the way when he as caught on the back 9 on Sunday by Phil Mickelson. It was Father's Day and lefty was awaiting word of the birth of hist first child.
Lefty led by one with three holes to play, when Stewart's putter got hot: a 25-footer for par on 16, a kick-in birdie on 17. With Pinehurst's village chapel bells chiming and wife Tracey watching, Stewart jarred a 15-footer for par and a one-stroke win at the finishing hole. He punched the air, then embraced Mickelson, congratulating him on becoming a father. Four months later, a jet carrying Stewart crashed in South Dakota, ending prematurely a stunning PGA Tour career and a life that had been changed by maturity and his own experience of fatherhood.
"When I was a kid," Payne Stewart said after his Pinehurst triumph, "I used to pretend I was Jack
Nicklaus sinking a putt to win the U.S. Open." 
Pinehurst Golf Articles
Cock your wrist up (not back), swing your arms back, turn your shoulders and rotate your forearms
Rotate around your axis and maintain the same posture throughout your swing in order to pivot properly
CHRIS TOULSON demonstrates pitching basics including set up, wrist hinge, turning of the body and finish position
Controlling the distance of your shots stems from reducing potential power in your backswing or downswing
Place an umbrella under your arms and against your body and feel a pendulum motion in your putting stroke
Your naturally arms curve inwards, so you need to place the club in your left hand using this angle so that your clubface can return to impact square
