To improve iron play fast—and chop strokes off your golf handicap—look to your hands. It’s hard to hit quality shots if you don’t use your hands correctly. As a serious golfer looking to improve, you must learn what role your hands play in hitting iron shots. If you do, you’ll boost your game to a […]
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The goal of a golf trip—aside from beating your golf handicap—is having fun with your friends. In fact, there’s no sense in going on a trip if it’s not going to be fun. Admittedly, this can be hard to do sometimes even when you’re with great people. To enjoy a golf trip fully, you must
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As a golf instructor you’re always dispensing advice. Sometimes when giving golf lessons or offering golf tips, you emphasize key positions in an effort to help a player eliminate a swing flaw. Players then obsess about achieving these positions and focus almost exclusively on achieving them during their swings. They also start thinking about specific
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The pros are good at all phases of golf. But they usually depend heavily on one phase to help them make the cut. Chipping it close, that’s their “go to” phase. Take Brad Faxon. He putts as well as anyone. In fact, he led the tour in putting average three times from 1996 to 2000.
Many American courses had no trees in the beginning. But over time maintenance crews started planting trees. This trend took hold and crews planted more and more trees. Pretty soon the “parkland” concept took hold. Today, nearly one in every 10 courses has some leaf reference in their names, like Oak Tree or Shady Oak,
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