Turn up at most driving ranges on a Saturday morning and you will see the same thing repeated down the entire line: bucket after bucket of full-swing …
Most amateurs look up after an iron shot and read the ball flight for clues, which is a bit like reading a weather report after the storm has already passed …
Stand on any practice ground on a Saturday morning and watch what golfers do with their wedges. They hit the pitching wedge full, then the gap wedge full, then …
Watch a mid-handicap golfer walk into a greenside bunker and you can usually predict the result before the club touches the sand. The stance narrows instead of …
Stand on any practice green on a Saturday morning and watch what golfers actually work on. Nearly everyone is dropping three balls around the hole from six feet …
Ask most club golfers what they are thinking about over the ball and you will get an answer involving the takeaway, the hips, or where the clubface is pointing. …
Ask most club golfers what they need to work on and you will hear about tempo, or the takeaway, or getting the club on plane, and you will rarely hear the word …
Ask ten club golfers how to play a shot into the wind and nine of them will tell you to swing easier. It sounds sensible. Less speed, less distance the wind can …
Ask most club golfers what shot shape they play and they will tell you, usually with a wince, that they hit a slice, or occasionally a hook, and that they have …
Most club golfers walk into the rough expecting a shot to come up short. The grass grabs the hosel, the strike goes dead, and the ball limps out ten yards …
