Playing The Ball Above Your Feet

When the ball lies on the slope above your feet, to play an effective shot keep your balance by keeping your weight on your toes.Grip down the shaft to compensate for the slope, and use a flatter swing plane.

Setting Up to Drive Have Your Head and Hands Behind the Ball

Set up position with head and hands ahead of your ball delofts your driver.Stay behind the ball for good contact, height, and distance off the tee.

Restricted Backswing?

Adjacent to a bush or tree?To avoid damage choke down on your club to just below the grip. Use a limited swing to punch the ball out.

Deep Rough – Take Your Medicine!

From a difficult lie in deep rough just get back onto the fairway, accepting that inevitable extra shot. Take your sand wedge or pitching wedge, open the face a little, take away steeply, and swing down powerfully through the ball to get it clear.

Rescue Club Chip and Run

Just a few yards off the green in light rough,normally you use your 7 or 8 iron to chip out and run up to the hole. Try your rescue club instead. Grip and setup as with your putter, playing the shot with the usual pendulum motion rocking your arms back and through. The bigger club [...]

Make Those Short Putts

From close in to the hole , your intention must be to make sure that you strike your putt with sufficient force for your ball to reach, or even go a little way past the cup , should you miss.

Keep Your Head Level

Topped or fat shots result if you bob up or down when you swing.Keep your head level to achieve solid shots regularly.

Avoid Too Much Spin

Playing into the green with your wedge or 9 iron make sure your swing is shallow, lifting your ball off the ground, without taking a divot, so that it drops and stops by the flag.

Know Your Distances

It is vital to give whatever time, effort, and thought is needed to get to know the distances that you achieve with each of your irons. Plus from experience, you must be able to adjust your distances to allow for different conditions out on the course.

Get Rid Of That Tension Before You Drive

Many Pros waggle their drivers so that they are focussed but relaxed at set up – a smooth take away results.