Pace of play: where the minutes go, and how to get them back
Ready golf, the provisional ball, the bag on the right side of the green and tee intervals: four hours without hurrying.
Section
Practice
Seven rules of golf almost everyone gets wrong
Flagstick in, knee-height drops, loose impediments in bunkers, three-minute searches and the stroke-and-distance local rule.
Reading greens: the method, not the mystique
Read the last third first, find the general slope, decide speed before break, and calibrate on firm links surfaces.
The twenty-minute warm-up that saves the first three holes
Move before you swing, start short, find today's ball flight, and spend ten minutes on long putts rather than on the driver.
Bunker play: the technique that actually works
Open the face before you grip, enter two inches behind the ball and keep accelerating. Plus fairway bunkers, plugged lies and revetted faces.
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 take two more clubs into the wind.
Putting on fast greens: the drills that work
Same tempo, shorter stroke: the ladder, the gate and around the world, plus how much more the ball breaks at 11 feet.
Playing a links for the first time: wind, bump-and-run and club selection
Firm ground, fifty yards of run and a wind that decides everything: how to play your first links without leaving ten shots out there.