Equipment
The Training Aids Actually Worth Your Money
The training aid industry runs on the same fuel as the diet industry: the gap between who we are and who we would like to be, plus a credit card. Every golfer …
Practice
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 …
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 …
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, …
Tips and Instruction
Lag Putting on Fast Greens: Why Pace Always Beats Line
The amateurs I play with spend almost all of their pre-putt routine staring at the line. They squat behind the ball, they walk to the low side, they hold a …
Tips and Instruction
Five Ways to Actually Lower Your Scores This Spring
Spring is here, the courses are opening up, and you’ve told yourself that this is the year you finally break 90. Or 80. Or whatever number has been …