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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
There is a number stamped on the back of every wedge, usually next to the loft, that almost no recreational golfer has ever consciously checked. The loft is the …
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 …
