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The Dave Pelz Scoring Game School is coming to Brocket Hall in 2024.

World renowned Dave Pelz Golf School rolls into Brocket Hall

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...

Switching golf ball can add distance to your drives

I gained 8mph and 24 yards after one golf lesson with this unique coach

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...

MYP Golf aims to Maximise Your Performance.

Boost your game with MYP Golf: Master the mental edge with small changes

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...

Matt Fitzpatrick shares his golf putting tips with Today's Golfer.

Matt Fitzpatrick: My six steps to becoming a better putter

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...

A-Z Putting (B): Blade v Mallet

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...

Dustin Johnson: “How to create driver power”

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...

Putting coach Phil Kenyon helps your golf game.

Putting coach Phil Kenyon saves you six shots

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...

The right stats and strategy can save you shots on the golf course

How stats WILL improve your golf game

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…...

Mark Crossfield fixes your golf short game.

Mark Crossfield: Let me fix your golf short game

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...

Me And My Golf's Andy Proudman and Piers Ward share their best-ever golf tips with Today's Golfer.

Me and My Golf: Lower your scores with our best-ever golf tips

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 |...

Jon Rahm: Master golf’s short game with my lessons

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...

The key move all good golfers make (and you can practise it at home)

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...

How to play a downhill golf chip shot

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 –...

Jordan Spieth is trying hard to reverse a major slump in form.

Why the harder you try, the worse golf you play

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...

The mental game is an important part of golf.

The mind game myths damaging your golf scores

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,...

Strategy tips from the world's best golfers.

How to play golf: Tour pro strategy lessons

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...

Avoid a bad start to your round of golf this weekend.

Make a better start to your round of golf

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.

Score better on par 5s with our complete guide.

How to score better on par 5s

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...

We can all learn from Justin Thomas' takeaway check.

To get better at golf, have an end result in mind

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...

Lee Westwood: “Think smarter to play better golf”

Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 20 January 2020

Race to Dubai winner Lee Westwood on how his experiences can help you think smarter and play better From advice on how to master the basics to more specific pointers on putting and short game, 25-time European Tour winner Lee Westwood shares seven of his best tips to help you get better at golf. Related: Lee Westwood – My 25 Years on...