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Golf Tips For U.S Open

The Olympic Club’s Lake Course—this year’s venue for the U.S. Open—is no picnic. Subtle changes have made a hard course even harder. Take Holes 12 (430 yards, par 4), where groundskeepers tacked on 30 yards to a hole that already required a tough tee shot through a narrow set of tees. Or, Hole 8 (200 […]

Golf Tip: Putting Downhill – Beating a Downhill Slider

A downhill slider is among golf’s most difficult putts. With sliders, the ball starts straight downhill then curves or “slides” right or left. Mis-hitting a downhill slider is costly. It runs the ball six or seven feet past the hole, maybe more. Depending on where the hole is and the green’s slope, the putt may […]