Sixty balls under the floodlights: a range hour that carries over to the course
A floodlit bay with ball-tracking and unlimited balls is built for volume, not learning. Set a ball count, spend ten minutes on soft wedges,…
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Practice
Practice that transfers to the course. Course management, the short game, putting, wind play, and the habits that take strokes off a card without rebuilding a swing.
Fewer three-putts: pace control for dewy mornings, firm links greens and the Himalayas
Three-putts are a pace problem, not a stroke problem. Aim for a zone just past the hole, calibrate your stroke length on today's practice…
Bump and run, pitch or lob: chipping on firm links turf and soft winter parkland
Most club golfers chip with too much loft. On firm links turf and muddy winter parkland alike, a bump and run with an 8…
The four-hour four-ball: what the Rules say about pace and where British rounds lose time
Slow rounds are lost between shots, not during them. Rule 5.6b already asks for 40 seconds a stroke and ready golf in stroke play;…
Burns, gorse and winter rules: the Rules of Golf British club golfers get wrong
Most clubhouse rulings on burns, gorse, pot bunkers and winter lies are older than the current Rules. In nearly every case The R&A's Rules…
Reading greens from St Andrews to your home course: hole first, pace second, spot third
Most of a putt's curve happens in its final few feet, so read from the hole backwards, feel the slope through your feet and…
Frost on the car park, medal at 8.30: a winter warm-up routine for British club golfers
Most club golfers use the first three holes as their warm-up, and on a cold British morning it shows on the card. Twenty minutes…
Pot bunkers without panic: the greenside splash, the Rules in sand and where to practise in the UK
A greenside bunker is the one shot where you never hit the ball, which makes it far more forgiving than a tight chip off…
Wind, Stableford and tucked flags: course management that turns British doubles into bogeys
Most club golfers lose their shots before the swing, not during it. Use the distance you really hit, read the wind first, aim at…