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Lower Your Golf Handicap with These Proven Strategies

Golf is not easy and the want to improve is with all golfers. A few thoughts here will give you some extra focus

Tick Tock - Clockface Wedge Distance Principle

Tick Tock – Clockface Wedge Distance Principle

To properly control your landing distances you need to control your rhythm

Taking Sand After Impact

Taking Sand After Impact

Why taking sand after the ball is as important as what you take before it.

Learn to love the sand

Bunker shots with Sir Nick Faldo

Fresh Thinking Golf Part 3 - Sand Play

Fresh Thinking Golf Part 3

Sand Play

Fresh Thinking Golf Part 2

Pitching an idea

Pitching Lesson

Develop a basic golf pitching technique

Tour Style Chipping

Want to experience some short-game cheer?

Energy Efficient – Why a more compact swing will make you a better iron player

The following exercises are designed to help you trim the fat off your iron shots

Dial it in – Controlling your wedge golf game

It’s very easy to make the argument that the wedges are the most important clubs in the bag

Sand School – Become a great bunker player

The first steps involve taking on board a handful of proven fundamentals that encourage good technique

Chip Yip - Solving golf chipping problems

Chip Yip – Solving golf chipping problems

‘Ball back, hands forward, weight forward’ used to be a coaching standard

Hit Solid Wedges - Lee Janzen

Hit Solid Wedges

Good wedge play plays a vital role

Chase the Slope - Downhill Bunker Shots Technique

Chase the Slope – Downhill Bunker Shots Technique

The secret is to adjust your set up position so that you counter the slope

Hitting the Highs and Lows - High Flop Shot & Low Knock Down

Hitting the Highs and Lows – High Flop Shot & Low Knock Down

The low spinny pitch and the super-soft, high-flying flop shot.

On balance this is better - simple chipping drill

On balance this is better – simple chipping drill

Try this simple drill to improve your chipping technique.

Perfect pitching - Get the moves like Stricker

Perfect pitching – Get the moves like Stricker

Some thoughts on how to control your spin, distance and trajectory in the wedge game, based on a U-shaped swing that produces pin-point accuracy.

Talk Sand Play - David Leadbetter, Gary Player & Ernie Els

Talk Sand Play – David Leadbetter, Gary Player & Ernie Els

David Leadbetter found himself cast in the role of spectator as Els and Player put on an impromptu bunker clinic during the filming of a…

The Professional Touch - The Golf Chip Shot

The Professional Touch – The Golf Chip Shot

Identifying your landing area – and visualising the ball running to the hole from that point on the green – is the tour player’s secret…

A fresh approach to bunker play...

A fresh approach to bunker play…

With the equipment available today, becoming a good bunker player becomes a matter of having the right concepts and some time practising them.