You’ve probably heard it a thousand times. Golf is a game of misses. If you think about it, you only make 18 shots per round. Every other shot misses to some degree. As we all know, some of them miss by an extremely high degree. Unfortunately, they tend to build golf courses so that the worse you miss, the more harshly you’re punished.
Golf courses are filled with trees, water, sand, rough and so on that are just waiting to dole [...]
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Many of us amateurs don’t have to worry about hitting from the kind of rough we might see on the PGA Tour from week to week, but I know in my case, the rough at my course can be pretty daunting. The primary rough is only a few inches deep, but it’s thick and healthy and a ball can really settle down. In the out of the way places, it’s left to grow all year and gets knee-deep.
There are a [...]
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I saw a great tip on an recent episode of Playing Lessons With the Pros on the Golf Channel. I want to say it was the Craig Stadler episode, but don’t hold me to that.
It was a great technique for getting out of thick green-side rough. Often, if you try to make a normal pitch or chip shot in that situation, the club head can get hung up and any number of things can happen, including the possibility [...]
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One thing that struck me as I watched the 2007 Masters was how professionals of that caliber can spray the ball all over the place off the tee and still manage to score. It seems obvious, but how many of us work on recovery in our practice sessions? More often than not, we’re hitting full shots or some kind of short game shot.
One of the ways I spruce up my practice time and give myself a little recovery [...]
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