Pace of play: where the minutes go, and how to get them back
Ready golf, the provisional ball, the cart used properly 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 lift-clean-and-place 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 allow for poa annua in the afternoon.
The twenty-minute warm-up that saves the first three holes
Move before you swing, start short, find today's ball flight, and give the first rounds of May twice the movement work.
Bunker play: the technique that actually works
Open the face before you grip, enter two inches behind the ball and keep accelerating. Plus wet spring 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 add a club when the air is…
Playing in wind and rain: club selection and shot shapes
Dry hands, two more clubs into the wind, and aiming into a crosswind instead of fighting it.
Extending the season: spring and fall golf that works
Which courses open first, why temporary greens are a gift, and how cold air changes club selection.