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Keeping Score at Golf

Scoring is another great thing about golf. You can easily see how you're doing because your score is in black and white on the scorecard. Every course you play has a scorecard. The scorecard tells you [more…]

Improving Your Golf Game: Riding the Range

Going to the practice range doesn't have to be like "going to the rock pile." You can make the experience useful and fun by experimenting with different ways to practice. Use some of the following tricks [more…]

Putting Posture: Assuming the Golfing Position

To putt successfully, you need to be in the correct posture position. You should have a slight knee flex in your putting stance. If your knees are locked in a straight position, you're straining your back [more…]

Getting and Staying in Shape for Golf

For a golf exercise program to be most helpful, it must be golf-specific. Warming up by throwing a shot put is not going to help your golf game. Fitness programs for other sports aren't designed around [more…]

Planning Your Golf Game: Three Easy Strategies

The best golfers start every round with a plan for how they're going to approach the course. They know which holes they can attack and which holes are best to play safely. So should you. [more…]

Avoiding Common Short Game Misfires

Hitting the ball from the tee is easy compared to the short game. Heck, the ball sits up on a tee, you hit it with the same club most every time, and you can swing away and hit it as far as you want. The [more…]

Reading the Break of the Greens

Reading the break of a green is an art and a gift. It all seems so simple — you look at the ground and decide which way the surface of the green tilts, and then you adjust the line of your putt accordingly [more…]

Executing Bunker Shots from Troubled Lies

As if bunker shots aren't difficult enough, sometimes you encounter a situation where the ball doesn't lie on perfectly flat sand. [more…]

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