The impact zone – an area measuring a couple of feet before the ball and a couple after it – is what good golf is all about. It's sometimes referred to as the 'moment of truth', or the 'business end' of the golf swing. As such, it should be analysed, practised and trained more than anything else.It isn't, though. Work your way through most golf instruction books, magazines, DVDs or internet tips and you'll find that impact barely gets a mention, not in any detailed sense.It...

Recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants and with works exhibited at the prestigious Biennale de Paris, New York’s Whitney Museum, the de Menil Collection in Houston, and other venues, Bob “Daddy-O” Wade started “keeping it weird” in 1961 when he arrived in Austin with his ’51 custom Ford hot rod and his slicked-back hair. Primed to study art at the University of Texas, Wade’s coif and dragster earned him his trademark moniker, and the abstract, welded sculptures he fashio...