Written by Adrian Fryer on Wednesday 11 December 2019
There are nine strategy mistakes we all make on the golf course: Here’s how to avoid them We all have ideas about how we play the game, and where we lose shots… but how accurate are they? Thanks to modern shot data technology, we now know. Leaving approach shots shy of the green may be an accepted, common strategic error, but...
Written by Duncan Lennard on Thursday 22 April 2021
Using Shot Scope data, golf pro Adrian Fryer reveals where amateurs lose the most shots and shares simple drills to help you play better golf and lower your scores. We all have ideas about how we play golf, and where we lose shots… but how accurate are they? Thanks to modern shot data technology, we now know. RELATED: How to shoot your lowest-ever...
Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 2 November 2020
As we find ourselves in another coronavirus lockdown across England, we bring you the best tips to help you practise your golf in the comfort of your own home. We’ve gathered leading coaches to provide golf tips that can be done in your house, covering the golf swing, the body and the mind. RELATED: Me And My Golf’s best-ever tips Improve your line and...
Written by Karl Morris on Thursday 27 May 2021
They are heroes to millions, but golf tour pros don’t always make the best role models… Has Bryson DeChambeau struck the longest ever drive on the PGA Tour? Actually, he’s barely halfway. American Carl Cooper hit one 787 yards in 1992. And yes, there was a cart path involved. Genuine feats of power are not exactly new to golf either. Some of...
Monday 17 June 2019
Golf’s biggest stars are queuing up to work with Phil Kenyon, Britain’s foremost putting coach. Phil Kenyon is probably the greatest coach you do not know. Some of that comes down to choice, hence you rarely see him on TV screens, but it doesn’t help that he’s a master in the field of putting, the one part of the game golfers...
Written by Steve Astle on Thursday 13 August 2020
The claw putting grip has evolved to become a viable golf hold in its own right, used by Ryder Cup stars Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, Sergio Garcia and Webb Simpson. Once a perceived crutch to twitchy putters, the grip has become far more accepted having helped so many European Tour and PGA Tour players to big victories. RELATED: Putting coach Phil Kenyon...
Written by Andy Gordon on Friday 7 May 2021
Too much hip rotation in the golf downswing is a common cause of heavy (or fat) iron shots. Here’s how to avoid it… 1. Top of backswing The best golfers shift the lead knee and hip towards the target even before the club starts changing direction into the downswing. The weight is moving forwards before you’ve really completed the backswing. RELATED: Best Golf...
Written by Adrian Fryer on Monday 22 June 2020
Knowing how to grip the golf club correctly is one of the game’s fundamentals and crucial to creating a good golf swing that will help you lower your scores and handicap. Follow this four-step process to ensure your golf grip is better than ever. RELATED: Best Home Golf Practice Nets 1. Add a kink to the lead wrist Place your gloved hand to the side...
Monday 19 August 2019
For anyone who’s sliced it OB, three-jabbed from nowhere, duffed a chip or left a bunker shot in their own footprints, this is for you… It won’t have escaped your notice that not all of golf’s crimes carry equal punishment. We might not enjoy a necky drive that cuts off into the rough, but when you compare it to the big yahoo...
Written by Gareth Johnston on Tuesday 5 November 2019
Discover the preparation, strategy and skills that will take your par 3 performance to the next level Check the stroke indexes on the scorecard of your home course and you’ll likely find the par 3 holes are ranked among the easiest. It seems logical; after all, the shorter the hole, the fewer opportunities it gives us to mess it up. RELATED: Me And...
Written by Oliver Morton on Wednesday 6 November 2019
Get on top of bunkers once and for all with this targeted five-point plan. According to the statisticians, bunker shots constitute a relatively small proportion of the total shots we play during a typical round. But this doesn’t tell the full story. The mere sight of a heavily-trapped green or a particularly deep bunker can strike fear into the poor sand...
Written by David Armitage on Wednesday 8 January 2020
Help improve stability, rotation and train your movement with these eight drills One of golf’s best training aids is dangling off the rim of your bag. From tee to green, here are eight ways you can put your bag towel to better use. Related: Lower your scores with strategy tips from the world’s best golfers These tips come from TG Top 50 David Armitage:...
Written by Chris Ryan on Tuesday 7 April 2020
How to turn in the golf swing. All you have to do to build a better top-of-the-backswing position is move your upper body in two different directions. When you understand both, you can start to build a backswing that will give you better balance, rotation and power. Related: Lower your scores with strategy tips from the world’s best golfers 1. Bend sideways Stand upright, with your...
Written by Rob McGarr on Saturday 9 November 2019
Avoid embarrassment and costly mistakes as a beginner with our invaluable guide to becoming a fully fledged golfer. So you want to take up golf? Good for you, and welcome to a lifelong relationship with a sport (and before you say it, yes, golf is a sport, it’s in the Olympics and everything…) that will bring you joy and despair, highs...
Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 13 July 2020
Marc Warren shares the putting philosophy that helped him to a fourth European Tour victory. After a six-year wait, the 39-year-old Scotsman secured victory at the Diamond Country Club as the European Tour and Challenge Tour season returned from a four-month break due to Coronavirus, thanks largely to an exceptional performance on the greens with his Odyssey Prototype iX #1 and...
Monday 19 February 2018
With help from our TG Top 50 Coaches, here are 12 things you can improve easily to help with your consistency and get your handicap down. If you improve just one thing this year, make it one of these. Lower scores need not mean blistered hands on the range. Here are 12 things you can improve easily, by our Top 50...
Wednesday 15 August 2018
Go to the course prepared by using this five minute dynamic warm-up So you’ve been sitting down all day, starting at a computer screen, waiting for the moment you can leave and play some golf. It finally arrives, so you sit in a car for 20 minutes getting to the course. Sure enough, on the 1st tee you’ve as creased and rigid...
Tuesday 26 November 2019
Use these eight quick pieces of advice to help improve your mental game on the golf course As part of our fast fixes series, we asked the Mind Factor’s Dr Karl Morris to give us his most simple and effective tips to help improve your mental attitude. Here, he talks us through eight quick mental strategies that alter how you react on...
Tuesday 26 November 2019
Get better in a hurry with our hand-picked selection of simple and effective tips and drills… for your swing, your brain and your golf bag It’s generally accepted that in golf, to make genuine strides forward with your game you have to invest a huge amount of time, effort and expense. Nonsense. Any coach will tell you that five minutes...
Monday 30 September 2019
Inside the European Tour’s fitness and wellness truck When the European Tour’s physiotherapy unit was first founded in 1992, the idea of warming up, working out, and devoting half an hour to recovery after 18 holes was little more than an afterthought for most golfers. “When I first turned pro, I was the only one in the gym, except Vijay [Singh],” Tiger...