Opinion
The Quiet Case for Playing One Set of Tees Forward
The recreational golfer who has, over the course of the last decade, slowly worked his handicap from the high twenties down to the mid teens, and who plays, on …
Amateur Golf
Opinion
Pace of Play Is Not the Problem Most Golfers Think It Is
The pace-of-play conversation, in the modern amateur game, has reached the kind of saturation point at which it has stopped being a conversation about a problem …
Equipment
How to Pick a Golf Glove That Actually Fits
Of all the equipment decisions a recreational golfer makes, the glove is the one taken with the least thought. The driver is fitted on a launch monitor. The …
Tips and Instruction
The Greenside Bunker Shot Most Amateurs Get Wrong
There is a moment, common to almost every weekend round at almost every public course, when an amateur steps into a greenside bunker and proceeds to play the …
Equipment
Golf Shoes: The Equipment Choice That Is Actually About Walking
There is a piece of equipment in the game that touches the player for every minute of the four hours they are on the course, and that almost no amateur thinks …
Tips and Instruction
The Forty-Yard Shot Nobody Practices
There is a yardage that decides more amateur rounds than any other, and almost no one practises it. It is the awkward in-between distance from the front edge of …
Opinion
In Defence of the Layup
There is a moment that happens on a par-five at every level of the amateur game, and that I am increasingly convinced has been getting talked about wrongly for …
Equipment
Regripping: The Cheapest Stroke You Can Save
There is a specific kind of amateur golfer who will spend three thousand dollars on a new set of irons, eight hundred on a putter fitting, and four hundred on a …
Tips and Instruction
How to Warm Up Before a Round: A Practical Pre-Round Routine
There is a recognisable rhythm to most amateur rounds. The first three holes are a kind of low-grade emergency, a stretch of double-bogeys and missed …
Opinion
In Praise of the 7-Iron
There is a club in your bag that you do not write home about. It is not the driver, with its crown the size of a soup bowl and its capacity to ruin a Saturday …