Pace of play: where the minutes go, and how to get them back
Ready golf, the provisional ball, the buggy on the right side of the green and tee intervals: four hours without hurrying.
Section
Practice
Eight rules of golf almost everyone gets wrong
Flagstick in, knee-height drops, loose impediments in bunkers, three-minute searches, and preferred lies as a local rule.
Reading greens: the method, not the mystique
Read the last third first, find the general slope, decide speed before break — and read the grain on couch and kikuyu.
The twenty-minute warm-up that saves the first three holes
Move before you swing, start short, find today's ball flight, and get the sunscreen and water in before the first tee.
Bunker play: the technique that actually works
Open the face before you grip, enter five centimetres behind the ball and keep accelerating. Plus Sandbelt sand and plugged lies.
Course management: five shots you can save without changing your swing
Play your real distances, aim at the middle, plan three shots when the hole needs three, and let the ball release on firm ground.
Fast, dry greens: how to putt and chip on Australian summer surfaces
Shorter stroke, same tempo, less loft and an earlier landing spot: the adjustments firm summer turf demands.