Want to lower your golf handicap quickly? Improve your chipping. Many of the best golfers in the world—Mickelson, Watson, Woods—are great chippers. Most great chippers, however, are self- taught. There are so many lies, types of grass, and course conditions that it’s hard to cover every chip in a handful of golf instruction sessions. Sure, […]
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Just because your drive lands in the fairway doesn’t mean you have a good lie. Golf course architects love to build in undulations in fairways like hills and down slopes that can produce tough lies. Downhill lies are among the toughest. They can cost you strokes if you mis-hit one. But follow the tips we
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There aren’t many places where you can practice bunker shots. Fortunately, the skills you need to escape a greenside bunker are rather simple. One skill you must learn with bunker shots is to take just the right amount of sand during the shot. Players sometimes take to much sand and sometimes not enough. As a
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Golfers are always looking for an edge. Learning to spin the ball from the fairway provides the edge many golfers are looking for. It lets you hit approach shots that stop dead on the green instead of rolling off either into a bunker or the junk that surrounds many greens. Spinning the ball from the
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Weekend players often come up short when chipping the ball.That’s because they tend to decelerate through the shot. Or they swing too fast from the start—which makes their swing too long—and chip the ball past the hole. The idea is to accelerate to the ball and then stop your swing almost immediately after impact. Below
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