Water, food and playing through the heat
Fatigue reaches your decisions before it reaches your swing, which is why the card falls apart at fifteen while the ball striking still feels…
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Practice
Practice that transfers to the course. Course management, the short game, putting on couch and bent greens, and the habits that take strokes off a card.
Fairway bunkers: the lip picks the club
From 135 metres in sand, the club is decided by the lip and not by the distance. Almost all the improvement available here is…
Wedge numbers: three swing lengths, nine distances
Three swing lengths across three wedges gives nine numbers between about 40 and 100 metres. You are not learning technique, you are learning how…
Hit more fairways without rebuilding your swing
Aim at the side the trouble is not on, play the shape you actually own, and stop reaching for driver by habit. Fairways hit…
Five numbers that show where your shots go
Five numbers on the back of the card tell you within three rounds where your strokes actually go. It is almost never the driver,…
Range sessions that count, and the low wind shot
An hour beating drivers feels like practice and changes nothing. Warm up before you train, work one thought with one club, then finish by…
Lag putting: pace, grain and fast summer greens
Three-putts are a speed problem, not a stroke problem. Put a tee three feet behind the hole and make that corridor the target: it…
Chipping in summer: three shots for firm greens
You need three shots around a green, not twelve, and the one to default to is the low runner with an 8-iron. Almost every…
Pace of play: four hours before the heat arrives
A fourball spends under an hour actually swinging. Five-hour rounds are built between shots, and six habits recover the time without anyone hurrying a…