How To Handle Buried Lies Stiffing an approach shot often spells trouble. If the ball hits the green hard and takes a bad bounce, you could find yourself buried in the deep grass behind the green. That’s not where you want to be. Saving par from there is a challenge. The problem is the grass. […]
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“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” Dickens’ opening to A Tale of Two Cities sounds a lot like a typical round of golf for some players. They hit good shots and they hit bad ones. The bad ones often spell trouble. And when golfers are in trouble, they sometimes
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If you’re landing short, hooking, or slicing off the tee, you could be making a “fake turn” during your backswing. Instead of taking a full turn, you make only a partial, half-hearted turn. Golfers who make fake turns either lack the flexibility to turn their backs to the target or they just don’t make the
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Players with high golf handicaps are often wild off the tee. They may also be wild from the fairway. Inaccuracy costs golfers a lot of strokes during a round. If this is you, you can overcome this flaw by mastering your short game. This includes learning to “nip” your wedges from just off the green.
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Think you’ve played some tough par 3s? Think again. Nothing beats the par 3 “Xtreme 19th” at South Africa’s Legends Golf & Safari Resort. Its tee sits atop a cliff on Hanglip Mountain, over 1,400 feet above the green. You have to take a helicopter to get to the tee box. Once there, it’s more
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