
BY MIKE PEDERSEN If you want to rapidly improve your golf, stretch your golfing muscles on a consistent basis! What’s the difference between a “golf stretch” and an everyday stretch? The answer to this question may be your missing link to a great game and years of enjoyment instead of frustration and weak attempts at [...]
BY DR. RICHARD MYERS Many experts would agree that most golfers take their swing too seriously. Learn the basics, practice a lot and stay out of your own way! Here are the basic steps for a full and perfect golf swing: 1. Grip the club with your left hand so that your thumb lies along [...]
BY JAMES VINCENT Keep your eye firmly on the ball for every shot and watch your handicap drop like a stone. Mystery writers know they must grab the reader’s attention right off and hold it until the very end. You must do the same with the ball – keep your attention focused on it through the [...]
BY JONATHAN BARRETT What part of the body contributes the most to generating maximum golf club head speed? This single answer allowed me to make a huge leap in my understanding of the golf swing, and in everything I had seen and read about the golf swing, none of it emphasised it enough. I carried [...]
BY DAVID NEVOGT The first thing that you need to realize about creating backspin is that it?s a very tough shot to accomplish, let alone control. The second thing that you should realize is that there are very few situations where this shot is actually needed. In my opinion, the best shot to master is [...]
Posted on 08 February 2012
BY CLINT HITCHCOCK Golf is an easy game: Everyone should and can learn to play. If you can stay away from the technical aspects of the game, and learn to trust yourself and your ability, golf is somewhat simplified. Trying to think of keeping your left elbow in, right elbow tucked, take the clubhead past [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 07 February 2012
BY MARTIN VOUSDEN 12. Paul Runyan Still remembered on the US Tour as the sort of opponent that everyone hates. He was a short, slight man who was consistently out-driven by everyone — often by a huge margin — but could get up and down better than almost anyone who ever lived. Won the USPGA [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 06 February 2012
BY MARTIN VOUSDEN We all know that putting is a game within a game and those who manage to excel at the black arts are usually the ones to go home with someone else’s money in their pocket Willie Park Jr. famously said that the man who can putt is a match for anyone, and [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 05 February 2012
BY MARTIN VOUSDEN Seventeenth holes on golf courses seem to be designed with just one aim — to ruin your day. In golf there are rules, by which most of us abide (if we know what they are), and then there are laws, which may be unwritten but are much more powerful. For example, it [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 04 February 2012
BY MARTIN VOUSDEN 10. Ben Hogan Hogan, like many Texans who grow up trying to hit the ball low under the wind, developed a chronic hook that almost ended his career, but through bloody-minded determination and unceasing practice he made himself into one of the best drivers ever instead. So much so that the sixth [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 03 February 2012
BY MARTIN VOUSDEN One of golf’s best-known aphorisms is “Drive for show, putt for dough,” but your chance to make a putt is somewhat reduced if you can’t find the fairway, and then the green. At the very highest level the quality of ball-striking is such that tournaments are often won by the guy who [...] Continue Reading
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