There are a lot of books out there on the wonderful game of golf but not too many are worth keeping and reading again. You will notice there are no instruction manuals in our list, because trying to learn how to play golf from a book is like trying to become a great lover by […]
We all think we know Augusta National because it’s the only course to host a Major every year. But there are a number of falsehoods and misunderstandings about the place
Myth: You need to be a great putter
Ian Woosnam, Bernhard Langer and Fred Couples have all won there in the last 15 years and none of […]
Taking some time off from your busy work and spending it on your favorite hobby is probably the best gift that you can give to yourself. You know how much it takes to earn money-working overtime, under pressure, and sometimes neglecting significant events such as your birthday or your wedding anniversary. You will eventually appreciate […]
Seventeenth holes on golf courses seem to be designed with just one aim – to ruin your day.
In golf there are rules, by which most of us abide (if we know what they are), and then there are laws, which may be unwritten but are much more powerful. For example, it is a rule of […]
We all know, from his television commentaries with America’s NBC network, that Johnny Miller can talk the talk but for a time in the mid 1970s he also walked the walk – probably better than anyone else who ever stepped on a golf course.
Everyone he competed against, and that included Nicklaus, Watson, Weiskopf and Trevino, […]
After playing five holes of the championship course at Carnoustie you could be forgiven for wondering what all the fuss is about. The holes are all par fours, only one of which (the second) is over 400 yards and, if you’ve managed to avoid bunkers you could be in pretty good shape and feeling rather […]
The biggest problem with us golfers, I suspect, is that we are eternally hopeful and anyone who plays the game demonstrates time and again that old adage about re-marrying – it demonstrates the triumph of optimism over experience.
Despite the fact that the game can make happy men very old, that the best we manage is […]
We all know that putting is a game within a game and those who manage to excel at the black arts are usually the ones to go home with someone else’s money in their pocket
Willie Park Jr famously said that the man who can putt is a match for anyone and in the rarified atmosphere […]
One of golf’s best-known aphorisms is ‘Drive for show, putt for dough’ but your chance to make a putt is somewhat reduced if you can’t find the fairway, and then the green. At the very highest level the quality of ball-striking is such that tournaments are often won by the guy who has a hot […]
The more golf instruction sessions I do and the more golf tips I write, the more I’m convinced that a solid set-up is a critical fundamental. Without a good one no one, including the greatest golfer in the world, can play the game well. That’s why I key on the set-up in introductory golf lessons. […]