Think about it: chipping is such a simple action. The only stroke that you can make that is more simple at its core is a putting stroke, and chipping can certainly be done in a nearly identical fashion to putting.
At the same time, so many players have trouble chipping effectively. Put some players just off the green with a perfect lie in the short grass and the results will be somewhere between inconsistent and disastrous.
It almost goes without saying at [...]
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Many weekend players aren’t big on practice and like to show up on the weekends, knock the ball around, and have fun with friends. I think that’s great. The game is what we make of it, and hopefully we concentrate on keeping it fun.
But there are many of us that put in work to improve. In many cases, it’s a significant amount of work. That’s great, as well, but it’s painful to see people working so hard, all the while [...]
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Practice is not something we golfers seem to like much. Of course, most of us would rather be out on the course than at the driving range or practice green. That’s only natural. But we put in the time anyway, so that we can play better golf. Unfortunately, we don’t tend to have the best practice habits.
We often approach it like a chore, instead of looking at it like critical preparation for what we really love to do. You can [...]
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It’s been raining here in one form or another for the better part of the past week. I did manage to get out to the driving range on Tuesday, but other than that, Mother Nature has foiled me again.
For many of you, it’s tough to find time to play golf, let alone commit time to improving. With family, job, and other obligations, just blocking out four or five hours on the weekend to play is tough enough. It’s even more [...]
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We golfers practice for one reason: to be able to hit the shots on the course that we hit on the practice tee. We are training our bodies to produce an automatic reaction on the course to whatever shot we are faced with. We hit certain shots repeatedly on the practice tee and practice green until they become second nature. When they come up on the course, the fact that our bodies have been programmed to hit them inspires confidence [...]
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