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 …
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 …
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 phrase the Tour commentator uses, two or three times a Sunday telecast, that the average amateur has heard a thousand times and has never once made …
There is a putt that the average amateur faces ten or eleven times a round and almost never practises. The putt is the first putt from a distance the player …
There is a moment in almost every amateur round in which the player notices the swing is not where it was on the range. The contact has gone thin. The driver, …
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 …
