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Best Way to Hit a Open-Faced Bunker Shot in Golf

Using a square clubface and a sand iron with 60—64 degrees of loft will get you out of anything you can see out of. The aim for club golfers should be to get the ball out onto the green every time without being overly ambitious. A more advanced shot involves… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Hit a Downhill Shot in Golf

Downhill shots are always difficult. The first problem is that the ground gets in the way before your make contact with the ball.

If you make the mistake of taking your ordinary address position, you are likely to hit the ground behind the ball and probably miss it altogether.… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Get out of a Bunker with a Buried Lie in Golf

Should the ball be almost completely buried, as it can easily be if the sand is soft and the ball comes in from a high trajectory, make a few slight adjustments to the way you handled the half-buried lie.

Grip

First, close the club before taking your grip, with the… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Get Fit for Golf

Never assume that golfers don’t need to be fit. For a professional or top-class amateur golfer, playing competitive golf requires mobility, strength and stamina.

A top golfer may put as much effort into a drive as a javelin thrower does in throwing a javelin. Over a 36-hole, one-day event, that… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Find the Correct Address Position in the Golf Swing

There are several important elements involved in the way you stand to hit the ball, known to golfers as the ‘address position’. You owe it to yourself to get into good habits from the start.

Use a 7 iron. Sit the club squarely on the ground without a ball and… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Draw and Fade Your Ball in Golf

This is an article for advanced golfers who, having learnt to hit the ball straight, can then learn to bend the ball slightly from left to right or right to left. The benefit of this is that if you understand how to bend the ball it also teaches you how… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Do the Normal Pitch Shot in Golf

This is the shot played with the wedge from distances up to 90 yds (85 m) from the flag. You may be able to hit the ball further with your wedge, but it is inadvisable, since this club is for precision shots. Your aim is not just to land the… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Do Putting from the Sand in Golf

If the ball is lying on packed sand and there is no lip to the bunker, you may be able to putt the ball out with considerable accuracy. Everything is exactly the same as when you putt from off the green, with sufficient movement to be sure to come out… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Do a Partial Swing in Golf

If a strong wind is blowing (especially if it is against you), or there is a considerable distance between the front edge of the green and the flag, or if your ball is lying badly, striking the ball high in the air all the way to the target and landing… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Do a Correct Backswing in Golf

Inevitably most of your early lessons on the swing will focus on the backswing. Make sure you don’t work so hard on the backswing that you forget that it is simply preparation for hitting the ball forwards.

The address position prepares you for the backswing. The left arm is straight… Continue Reading…