Developing a solid short game is a must if you want to shave strokes off your golf handi-cap. As we’ve often said in our golf tips newsletter, a good pitch or chip from 100 yards and in turns three (or more) strokes into two. These saved strokes add up over the course of a round […]
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Iron play is all about accuracy. Unfortunately, many weekend golfers with high golf handicaps focus on minute details in their swings. Often, these details are irrelevant and uncontrollable. You can’t predict how a smudge of dirt on your 7-iron will affect contact. You also can’t predict how a slight breeze will affect distance if you
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Augusta National is one of the longest golf courses on the PGA Tour. As a result, good driving is among the keys to winning The Masters. Take the course’s par 4, 495-yard 10th hole. Named Camelia, this hole is among the toughest on the course, if not the toughest. You need to gain extra distance
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By Jack Moorehouse Wedges are among the most sophisticated clubs in your bag. In fact, they’re almost as sophisticated as drivers. Wedges come with a wide variety of designs and features and a broad range of lofts and bounce angles. Yet you probably pay as much attention to your wedges as you do to a
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When you’re within 20 yards of the goal in American football—the Red Zone—you must score. If you don’t, your team’s offense failed. When you’re within 40 yards of the green—8-iron, 9-iron, and wedge distance—the Scoring Zone—you also must “score.” Put another way, you must drop the shot as close to the hole as possible, leaving
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