Stretches to Improve Your Golf Game
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How to Control Your Pitch Shots
Seve Ballesteros 1988 Imagine throwing a golf ball underhanded with your right hand—if that’s your “feel” hand—to a spot short of the flag. Then simply try to reproduce the weight and feel of that action with the wedge in your hands. Natural Golf Bobby Jones 1966 There is one significant difference to be noted between […]
Ten Tips to Make Every Putt
Jim Barnes 1925 Aim at cultivating the movement of a man driving a tack or nail with a hammer. Keep the eye and the attention on striking the ball, and all the time aim at acquiring a steady, smooth, rhythmic stroke motion in swinging the club. This smooth steady striking is the basic essential of […]
Jim Urbina: Golf Architecture’s Rising Star
Tom Doak’s longtime associate Jim Urbina has set up shop on his own
Review: "Unconscious Scoring" by Dave Stockton
A winning text from a winning golfer makes it easy to build a sure-fire short game
Fast Solutions for Slow Play
What can do about the tortoise-like pace out there?
How to Fix Your Slice
Jack Burke 1954 Unquestionably the major cause of the slice is bad footwork. Good footwork correctly shifts your weight and turns your hips, bringing the clubhead down unerringly within the path it made going back. In order to do this, the right knee must be pointed well in front of the ball on the downswing. […]
Lee Wybranski on the Official U.S. Open Poster
Poster Boy, U.S. Open Artist
1966 U.S. Open: Arnie’s Anguish
I’d come on Sunday to watch Arnie make history, and sadly that’s just what he did
Furman Bisher on a Long Lasting Career
WHEN THE CURTAIN RISES on the 76th Masters, the press tent will be without one of its most enduring characters. Furman Bisher, the longtime columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, will be following the action on TV at home while recovering from a recent surgery, thus ending an attendance streak that’s positively DiMaggio-esque—he’s been to every Masters since 1950. […]