Minimizing the flat stick shots is a surefire way to bring scores down and improve handicaps. It’s arguably the easiest part of the game to improve, since practice opportunities are so readily available. Apart from putting at home into cups or onto beer mats, or between sticks or tees, can mini-golf help? [Read more…]
6 Things To Keep In Mind When Chipping Around The Green
While driving and putting get the majority of the acclaim, one of the most important areas of the game for most amateurs and professionals is chipping. A strong chipping game can turn a bad day into a good one, a high score into a low one, and otherwise keep you in a match. Chipping, of course, is the area of your game around the greens. Chipping includes short shots out of the green-side rough after missing the green left or right, or chipping from the fairway before the green after coming up a few yards short. [Read more…]
How To Use A Ball Mark
Marking your ball on the green is a pretty standard practice to most golfers. However, not all players are marking properly. And in some cases, golfers aren’t marking their balls at all. Now, I’ll be the first to tell you that it’s not always necessary to mark your ball — especially when your ball is not in line-of-sight of the player currently putting. But, with golf being the gentlemen’s game that it is, it’s common courtesy to mark your ball whenever it may distract or impede another player’s putt. [Read more…]
This Drill Will Help You Putt The Ball Straighter
Putting is one of the most frustrating parts of golf for a lot of players. This goes for amateur and professional players alike. Some well-known pros, such as Bernhard Langer, experience the yips — a terrible affliction whereby the player viscously twitches as they are about to strike a putt. [Read more…]
Should You Putt Or Chip When Just Off The Green?
When it comes to amateur players, this is one of the age-old questions out there. When you are on the short grass around the green, you have the choice to either chip it or putt it. This is a debate that many players struggle with. They tend to go back in forth between the two options, depending on how they are feeling at that moment in time. [Read more…]
When Is A Gimme A Gimme?
It’s a hot potato all right! When the PGA asked a similar question on their Facebook page, they were overwhelmed with more than 500 posts about the various approaches to this old chestnut. Some folks hold passionate views about the benefits of the gimme, especially if it speeds up play. The purists detest the practice and steadfastly believe that balls should be played to the hole regardless. [Read more…]
8 Things You Can Do At Your House To Shave Strokes
It’s no secret that all golfers want to improve. Getting better is a way of life. Shaving strokes off our scores and handicaps is a consistent goal. We’re constantly thinking about how we can improve our swing and gain an edge. [Read more…]