The shot the touring professional plays from twenty yards short of the green, on a tight lie, with thirty feet of fairway between the ball and the front edge, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Watch any professional golfer crouch behind a putt on television and you could be forgiven for thinking that green reading is a kind of divination — a gift …
There is a shot in golf that the best players in the world use constantly and that the average amateur almost never considers. It does not require a lob wedge. …
The amateurs I play with spend almost all of their pre-putt routine staring at the line. They squat behind the ball, they walk to the low side, they hold a …
Watch enough Masters coverage and you will eventually see a Tour player standing on a bed of brown needles, head tilted, hands on hips, having a long quiet …
Watch a club competition closely and you’ll notice something. The shots that decide the day are almost never 250-yard drives. They’re 30-yard …
Wedges are the easiest clubs to buy badly. They look broadly the same on the rack, the technology stories are far less glamorous than the latest 10-gram driver …
