Chipping on frozen ground: the winter short game, from bump-and-run to dormant Bermuda
The short game you built in July does not survive November. On firm, cold, slow-growing turf the high, spinning pitch becomes the hard shot…
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Playing the calendar: winter golf and simulators, spring rust, summer heat, and the trips that fill the months when your home course is closed.
Winter practice in twenty square feet: a putting mat, an alignment stick and a mirror
Three objects, twenty square feet and twenty minutes three evenings a week: what a putting mat, an alignment stick and a mirror each teach,…
Golf in the heat: the heat index, a drink on every tee and the signs that mean you stop
The front nine feels fine. The bill arrives around the 13th hole, when the legs go heavy and the putts come up short. Here…
The same course plays four different ways a year
The same eighteen holes play as three or four different courses across a year. Push a tee into the fairway and look at the…
Closing the season: an hour that saves your spring
An hour of work in the fortnight after the last round protects the clubs, keeps the handicap honest and makes spring shorter. Everything booked…
The six weeks before your first round
Putting and chipping survive a winter lay-off; the full swing does not. Six weeks that respect that order start the season two shots ahead,…