Thick rough in the fall: getting out in one swing
The rough costs about six feet of proximity. The second hack costs a triple bogey. How to read the lie, take the club it…
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Practice
Practice that transfers to the course. Course management, the short game, putting on poa greens, cold-weather distances, and the habits that take strokes off a card.
Short putts under pressure: five steps that hold
The putt from five feet decides more rounds than any drive, and it is the one skill that survives a Canadian winter without a…
Food, water and the back nine, hot or cold
Fatigue reaches your decisions before it reaches your swing, which is why the card falls apart at fifteen while the ball striking still feels…
Fairway bunkers: the lip, then the club
From 150 yards in sand, the club is decided by the lip and not by the yardage. Almost all the improvement available here is…
Wedge numbers: nine distances, measured indoors
Three swing lengths across three wedges gives nine numbers between about 40 and 110 yards. You are not learning technique, you are learning how…
More fairways, and what cold air does to them
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 to track before the snow returns
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 and dome sessions that actually count
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 on slow spring 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…