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A Secret To Great Putting
If you asked a lot of golfers how to teach the putting stroke, they might say that when holding the club, the arms and shoulders create a triangle shape that points down at the ball. The goal is keeping that triangle shape intact during the stroke. I get the visual, but I think it's upside down. The best putters make a stroke where the putterhead creates the triangle's base and the grip end is the point. Can you picture that?
Winterize Your Golf Game
You're not into skiing; you can't skate; you built your last snowman 27 years ago, and that whole dusk at 4:25 p.m. thing really gets you down. We get it. Winter sucks. For those of us who don't have a nourishing cold-weather activity to pass the time between golf seasons, the "dark months" are brutal. Even worse, as we peek out the window, wondering if it will ever be playable again, our golf games turn to crap. By the time spring rolls around, we're struggling just to put the ball in play. ?
How To Close: Handle The Pressure In The Clutch
Tour players get nervous, too. Hitting shots that mean the difference between winning and losing tournaments (and hundreds of thousands of dollars) is nerve-racking. The players who beat those jitters aren’t eliminating the feelings. They beat them by having a process they can rely on. That’s something you can steal for your game, especially around the greens, where execution matters most. What is a process? It’s making decisions about what you’re going to do before you do it.
Stan Utley: Pitch It High From Any Lie
How do you practice your short game? Most people move from one perfect lie to another and start to find their rhythm after half a dozen or so tries. That's nice, but how much of your real golf comes in perfect conditions? Even if you're teeing it up at Augusta National, you'll run across a variety of less-than-ideal greenside lies. Unless you know how to diagnose the situation and use the club the right way for each shot, you're going to be hitting and hoping.
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