Opinion
The Quiet Case for the Half Set
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 …
Course Management
Tips and Instruction
The Three-Quarter Swing: The Tempo Fix the Amateur Game Refuses to Try
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, …
Opinion
The Quiet Case for Playing One Set of Tees Forward
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 …
Tips and Instruction
The Bump-and-Run Most Amateurs Never Try, and Why Their Scores Suffer for It
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, …
Tips and Instruction
The Forty-Yard Shot Nobody Practices
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 …
Opinion
In Defence of the Layup
There is a moment that happens on a par-five at every level of the amateur game, and that I am increasingly convinced has been getting talked about wrongly for …
Tips and Instruction
How to Warm Up Before a Round: A Practical Pre-Round Routine
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 …
Equipment
Rangefinder or GPS Watch: Which Distance Device Do You Actually Need?
There was a time, not so long ago, when knowing the distance to the flag meant finding a sprinkler head, squinting at a yardage marker, or trusting the course …
Tips and Instruction
The Bump and Run: Golf's Most Underrated Short Game Shot
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. …
Tips and Instruction
Build a Pre-Shot Routine That Actually Works Under Pressure
Watch a Tour player prepare to hit a shot and you will notice something that looks almost choreographed. Two practice swings, a glance at the target, a waggle, …