We’ve been getting a lot of rain around here recently. When that happens, even if the sun has started shining again, the course gets saturated and the game changes some. With an awareness of the issues and a few adjustments, you’ll be ready to tackle a round on a wet course. Length Becomes a Premium Without a doubt, when a golf course is wet, it plays longer, sometimes significantly. Just about all shots will roll less after landing, if they even roll at all. On a wet course, club selection is critical. Depending on how much water the course is holding, it may make club selection very easy. If it’s wet enough where you’re seeing little or no roll on shots, then you simply play to the full shot distance. In other words, if you normally account for some roll after a shot lands, you’re going to want to play the shot to land where you would normally expect it to finish rolling. Adjust Your Course Management Plan You really need to consider the makeup

The season is starting to wind down for many people in the northern hemisphere. In many places it’s starting to cool down and October is really the last month of solid golf weather. After this month, the days are short, the temperatures start to get cold, and snow becomes an issue in more and more places. That doesn’t mean that your golf game has to go dormant. Sure, getting to play or hit balls at the range might not be possible, but there are many things you can do to keep your game in shape and emerge from your cocoon in spring with a running start. Here are seven things you can do to improve yourself over the winter: Start working out more Time is no excuse. If you’re not playing golf, then fill the time void with some workout sessions. Concentrate on cardiovascular endurance and strength training. Check out my blogroll and links section for some great golf fitness resources to help you with ideas for off season workouts. Start a golf-specific stretching program

Total Golf Game Improvement Week is at an end. This post summarizes the mountain of tips, drills, and information that covered everything about golf, including driving, putting, iron play, sand play, recovery, short game, the mental game, and fitness over the last five days.

We made it to the end! This is day five of total game improvement week. Each day for the past week (OK, five days), I posted a series of tips, drills, advice, and information designed to help every aspect of your game. I haven’t gotten much response on the request for reader submitted tips, so tomorrow I’m just going to wrap it up with a recap of the week. But first, we have one more day’s worth of tips, drills, and info. Putting One of the fascinating things that Dave Pelz shares in his Putting Bible is the fact that his research shows that golfers rarely read enough break on putts. In fact, he tested 1,500 golfers, including 50 tour pros, and not one was reading enough break on their putts. Not even the tour pros! When we talk break, we’re talking about the line where you start the ball, if it were extended past the hole. If a putt requires three feet of break, we’d say that the apex (high point) of the arc

We made it to the home stretch. This is day four of total game improvement week. Each day for a week, I’ll be posting a series of tips, drills, advice, and information designed to help every aspect of your game. Don’t forget to e-mail me your favorite tips and drills from any of the different categories for inclusion in the post on day-six. Putting Recently, I’ve touted the pure in line square (pils) putting stroke which is one of the core fundamentals of Dave Pelz’s teaching. The basic idea is that creating a perfectly vertical pendulum motion with your hands directly below your shoulders will help keep the putter face square, eliminating inconsistency coming from trying to square the face at just the right time. So how do you work on grooving the pils putting stroke? A good training aid is your best option. There are a few alternatives: Dave Pelz has designed a training aid called the Putting Track, to help groove the pils stroke. I’ve considered trying it, but unfortunately it’s a bit