Posted by Double Eagle in Mental Game -
Something I think an awful lot of players could stand to work on is management of expectations. This includes me. Big time.
I was watching an episode of Playing Lessons from the Pros on the Golf Channel recently that featured PGA Tour Pro Stewart Cink. At one stage in the show, he was talking about power and about keeping it in the fairway. He remarked something to the effect of (I’m paraphrasing), “Sure I could get it [...]
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Posted by Double Eagle in Short Game Tips -
Conventional chipping wisdom says that the best plan of attack in a chipping situation is to use a club that gets the ball on the green rolling like a putt as soon as possible. That means chipping with anything from a pitching wedge to a mid or even long iron. It’s not uncommon to see people chipping with woods when the conditions call for it.
Assuming conditions are right for running the ball, you want to land it [...]
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Posted by Double Eagle in Putting Tips -
Since I began my comeback to the game this year, one thing I’ve noticed is that my putting stroke is very sloppy. I catch a lot of putts flush and a lot off center, but there’s not really a tendency one way or another.
My belief is that a good putting stroke involves a simple pendulum motion that originates at the shoulders. There should be no breakdown of the hands or any kind of motion in the body’s core [...]
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Posted by Double Eagle in Rules -
Many people think of golf as a game where you go out, play the holes, add up your score and that’s it. But there are many different types of play and scoring systems that add some flavor to the game. Some are derived from the rules of golf, some are alternatives to standard stroke tabulation, and some seem to exist just for betting.
The Basics
The rules of golf define both match play and stroke play, where match play is [...]
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Posted by Double Eagle in Rules -
We’ve all been there. What a bad feeling. Especially when it looked like it was a good shot. Bad breaks sometimes leave us under a bush, against a tree, or in rough deep enough to lose a child.
Lucky for us, Rule 28 covers situations where the ball is unplayable. It is completely up to the player’s discretion when to declare a ball unplayable.
Before declaring a ball unplayable, you should carefully consider why the ball is unplayable. [...]
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