Ask a club golfer which bunker shot frightens them and almost all of them will name the greenside one, the delicate splash from soft sand by the putting …
Watch an amateur miss a green by three yards and you can usually guess what comes next. Out comes a wedge, in goes the chin, and a delicate little flick is …
Stand on any par four on a Saturday morning and watch where club golfers aim their approach shots. Almost without exception, they aim at the flag. It does not …
Watch the US Open this week and you will see the best players in the world treat thick rough with a respect that most amateurs never quite manage. When a Tour …
Watch a US Open at a links-style course and you will see the best players in the world reduced, for a few hours at least, to something close to mortal. The …
Ask a club golfer which shot frightens them most and the honest ones will not say the long bunker shot or the downhill four-footer. They will say the little …
There is a quiet decision made on the first tee of almost every amateur round, and it is usually the wrong one. A group arrives, looks at the markers, and walks …
The driving range is a flat lie machine. Every ball a club golfer hits in practice sits on a level mat or a level patch of turf, the feet square to a level …
There is a particular look a certain kind of golfer gives you when you tell them you only played nine. It is somewhere between sympathy and suspicion, as though …
The greenside bunker is the only shot in golf where the player is, in the literal sense, trying not to hit the ball. Every other shot in the bag is a contest …
