One course, four different games a year
Soft and long in spring, firm and running in summer, leaves in autumn, temporary greens in winter. Read the ground first.
Section
Season
Playing the calendar: winter greens and mats, spring rust, the height of the season, and the trips that fill the months when the course is at its wettest.
Closing the season when the course never shuts
Clean and store indoors, submit every card, book the regrip at off-season prices, and treat winter golf as company rather than work.
Six weeks before your first proper round
Movement, then the short game, then distances and the bag. And why winter rounds on mats tell you almost nothing.
The winter golf trip: Algarve, Costa del Sol, Turkey, Morocco
Winter is high season down there: book in the right order, fly or hire the clubs, and plan fewer rounds than you think.
Wet-weather golf: how to play, and enjoy, a round in the rain
Dry hands, one more club and a target adjusted to the conditions: the wet round costs two shots, not eight.