What’s Inside

For the fourth consecutive year Executive Golfer readers have selected the 7,011-yard course in Melbourne as their favorite public or semi-private course in Arkansas. Cooper’s Hawk was the clear winner, with 4,643 votes, while runner-up Big Creek, located in Mountain Home, claimed 977 votes to move up from its No. 7 finish last year.

With more than 30 years as a golf professional and course operator, Tim Jenkins has seen the game from a different perspective than many who caught on to golf during its Tiger Woods-era surge and subsequent decline.

Brad Martin, who played collegiate golf at the University of Oklahoma, is director of golf and certified First Tee coach at The First Tee of Central Arkansas in Little Rock. In this slideshow, Martin breaks down the four steps to a proper golf swing.