Chip Successfully

Fat or thin chips often share the same cause :too much body movement.For a successful shot concentrate on keeping your body still as you swing,using just your arms and hands to do the job.

Don’t Take Your Problems Home With You

You may identify one or two things that spoil an otherwise good round.If you have the energy, time, and facilities at your disposal,follow the pros example.Work on curing those faults before you go home,so that they don’t worry you until you play the next time.

Balance – Key To Good Strokes On Slopes

To retain your balance as you go through with your shot : for uphill slopes flex your right knee (only) more than usual and maintain that flex through your swing.For downhill slopes flex your left knee (only) more than usual as you play.

Tee Height

To find that sweetspot more often,as a general rule, aim to have the top of your club level with the middle of your ball.

Uphill Bunker Shots

If your ball lies uphill in the bunker, swing normally with your sand wedge having set your feet firmly for balance,your shoulders parallel to the slope,your ball a little behind your left heel, and aiming to contact the sand a couple of inches behind your ball.

Downhill Bunker Shots

If your ball is lying on a downslope in the bunker adjust your aim to hit the sand further back behind the ball than for a flat lie. Also open the blade less than you would do for a flat lie.

Leave Your Driver In Your Bag

There are those days when despite your best efforts your drives are wandering and threatening your score. Cut your losses: lose a little distance, gain in accuracy by switching to your 3 wood for the rest of the round.

Grip Maintenance

Loss of natural tackiness of your grips will affect the quality of your golf by inhibiting your shots. If you are playing weekly, clean the dirt off your grips once a month with a cloth dipped in soapy water, drying them off afterwards. Pros recommend that you replace your grips every two years.

Hole Your Chip Shots

Don’t be satisfied with aiming to get your ball close to the hole with your chip shot, far better that you aim and play your shot to hole it. Not only will you getter closer to the hole more frequently, but also more of your chip shots will drop in.

Using Your Putter To Run Your Ball Into The Green

If its windy , the fairway has minimal grass,and you are on the fairway forty yards out with a clear run to the flag, use your putter to bump and run the ball up to the flag. You should be more upright than for your normal putting stroke, with the ball forward. Sweep the ball firmly.