Eight rules of golf almost everyone gets wrong on a Saturday
Flagstick in, knee-height drops, loose impediments in bunkers, three-minute searches, and preferred lies as a local rule.
Section
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.
Reading greens: grain on couch and kikuyu
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 before a 5.30am tee time
Move before you swing, start short, find today's ball flight, and get the sunscreen and water in before the first tee.
Bunker play: what works in Sandbelt sand
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 on firm Australian fairways
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.