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 […]

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. […]

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. […]