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 …
The provisional ball is the one shot in golf the rules of the game have explicitly designed to save the player from themselves, and it is the one shot in golf …
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 small experiment that almost every amateur should perform, in the off-season or on a slow evening at the home course, and that almost no amateur ever …
There is a moment that arrives at the first tee of every cold, wet, badly-windy round that begins the same way for everyone who has signed up to play it. The …
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 recreational golfer who has, over the course of the last decade, slowly worked his handicap from the high twenties down to the mid teens, and who plays, on …
The pace-of-play conversation, in the modern amateur game, has reached the kind of saturation point at which it has stopped being a conversation about a problem …
Of all the equipment decisions a recreational golfer makes, the glove is the one taken with the least thought. The driver is fitted on a launch monitor. The …
