Written by Chris Jones on Friday 8 August 2025
Top coach Scott Cranfield has created a brand new instruction plan that can help you rebuild your swing in 21 days. How would you describe a great golf swing? When Scott asks golfers this question, he tells us the same words pop up time and again – ‘flowing’, ‘confident’, ‘effortlessly powerful’. But when he asks them to describe their own...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Friday 22 December 2023
Brocket Hall added to 2024’s European roster of premier clubs offering the shot-saving Dave Pelz Scoring Game School. *This is an ‘advertisement feature’ in association with the Dave Pelz Scoring Game School* Fixing your short game can feel like a never-ending quest throughout your golf journey. Reading the lie, selecting the wedge, stance, ball positioning, weight distribution, trajectory, landing area – I’ve not...
Written by Rob McGarr on Monday 30 September 2024
Learn the secrets of a faster swing and longer drives from the world’s leading long drive coach. Every golfer wants to drive the ball further. Confidently striding past your playing partner’s tee shot, knowing your ball is the one 30 yards further up, is one of the most satisfying feelings in the game. But extra yards are good for more than just...
Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 11 November 2024
MYP Golf is all about Maximising Your Performance without quick fixes or drastic overhauls. Here’s how… Advertising feature in association with MYP Golf MYP Golf founders Jamie Donaldson and Bevis Moynan have developed a pioneering methodology for Golfing Mindset, which blends deep golfing insight with cognitive psychology and motivation mapping. MYP Golf isn’t about quick fixes or drastic overhauls. It’s about understanding the...
Written by Michael Catling on Monday 20 June 2022
US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick shares the putting tips which helped deliver his first Major victory at Brookline. Matt Fitzpatrick is well known for being one of the best putters on Tour. A student of Phil Kenyon, he ranked second is consistently among the top players in strokes-gained putting on the PGA Tour. We visited Fitzpatrick at Hallamshire Golf Club in his...
Monday 24 June 2019
Blades were always used by the best players on Tour. Not anymore though The best putters in the business all used to use blades. Fact. Loren Roberts, Steve Stricker, Brad Faxon and of course Tiger Woods were all great at holing out, they also all used blades too. Today things are not so clear-cut; Justin Rose, DJ, Jason Day, Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy...
Written by Dustin Johnson on Monday 29 June 2020
Two-time Major champion Dustin Johnson reveals the secrets to his huge driver distances – and what you can copy from his golf swing. As you can imagine, I’m often asked how I’m able to hit the ball so far off the tee. Most people assume it’s all down to swing speed, but there’s more to it than that to be one...
Written by Michael Catling on Wednesday 16 September 2020
Phil Kenyon, one golf’s most sought-after putting coaches, shares the seven simple drills that will improve your putting and save you up to six shots per round. Let me introduce myself. My name is Phil Kenyon and for 20 years I’ve been working as an elite putting coach, offering advice to amateur golfers as well as to superstars such as Rory...
Written by Chris Jones on Thursday 16 March 2023
Many of us dream of a better swing or short game to lower our scores. But Lou Stagner knows you can score better right now, with the game you have, just by picking the right stats, strategy, and mental approach. As data insights lead for Arccos, Lou Stagner crunches the numbers to help us understand where we are losing shots…...
Written by Mark Crossfield on Wednesday 23 June 2021
Fix your short game for lower golf scores with the help of PGA Professional and YouTube superstar, Mark Crossfield. One of the first online golf coaches, PGA Professional Mark Crossfield set up his YouTube channel in 2007. Since then his unique blend of straight talking, powerful, effective content and sense of humour has won him a legion of followers. To date, the channel...
Written by Michael Catling on Monday 8 March 2021
Me and My Golf, You Tube’s most-popular golf coaches, share their best-ever tee-to-green tips and fixes to help make this your best season on the course ever. When they’re not busy coaching European Tour star Aaron Rai, Piers Ward and Andy Proudman spend their days filming content and fixing the swings of everyday golfers. JUMP TO TIPS: Long game | Iron Play |...
Written by Rob Jerram on Sunday 10 October 2021
Major champion, former World No.1 and European Ryder Cup star Jon Rahm shares the short-game lessons that helped him to the top. A razor-sharp short game is the key to really low scores and saving a bad round. From pitching to bump and runs and splashing shots out of bunkers, Jon Rahm is brilliant at it all, as he showed on his...
Written by Chris Ryan on Thursday 2 December 2021
Good golfers all possess their own, individual swings. But there is one, vital move they ALL make. Anyone can do it… but most of us don’t. We’ll show you how. There is no such thing as the perfect golf swing. The evidence smacks us in the face every day. Compare the fluid, elastic action of Dustin Johnson with the shorter, fast-twitch pounding...
Written by Steve Astle on Tuesday 5 October 2021
How do I play the downhill golf chip shot? Here are four simple tips on how to play one of golf’s most daunting shots – the downhill chip – with more confidence and less hesitation. Duffing a chip shot is a fear all golfers have, and when your ball winds up on a downslope – the ground and grass higher behind the ball –...
Written by Karl Morris on Friday 10 July 2020
Why trying harder may be making you worse at golf – and how to fix it In most sports, trying hard is easy to see and its benefits obvious; consider a midfielder working to close down his opponent, a bowler steaming in to gain speed or rugby backs getting off the line fast to counter an attack. It is culturally wired...
Written by Karl Morris on Tuesday 11 August 2020
Play better golf by avoiding these four common mind game misconceptions. Competitive golf,” said the great Bobby Jones, “is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.” “Don’t ever try to tell me golf is not 99.9 percent a mental game,” said Jack Nicklaus. “I believe my creative mind is my greatest weapon,” said Tiger Woods. Related: Why the harder you try,...
Written by Rob Jerram on Friday 21 August 2020
European Tour, PGA Tour, Major and Ryder Cup winners share their golf strategy secrets to help you play better golf, lower your handicap and win those matchplay clashes with your mates. As amateur golfers so many of us fail to lower our handicaps or enjoy matchplay success because, despite physically knowing how to play golf, we drop silly shots due to...
Written by Karl Morris on Friday 9 October 2020
Always make a bad start to your round of golf? Our psychology coach shares his expertise to help you avoid making a bogey or worse on the 1st hole this weekend. I was recently sent a scorecard by an eight-handicap club golfer. He’d shot 83, but the total was not the point. From the 7th hole onwards he was two over.
Written by Gareth Johnston on Thursday 5 November 2020
Improve your performance on golf’s longest holes with our comprehensive shot-by-shot guide to play better on par 5s, in association with Callaway. Anyone who watches a lot of profefesional tour golf could be forgiven for thinking par 5s represent the easy holes in golf. Callaway’s Tour staff routinely make their score on these holes over the course of a tournament, with...
Written by Karl Morris on Thursday 12 August 2021
Tweaking your golf swing without having an end goal in mind is a recipe for disaster. Judging by the bulging diaries my PGA professional colleagues have been showing me, it seems like the entire UK golfing community emerged from lockdown by taking a lesson. No harm in that, you might think. And yet, it has set the alarm bells ringing. Lessons, of...