Monday 24 June 2019
Mind coach Karl Morris on how to get over nerves when you’re standing over your putts Think back to the last putt you got really nervous on. If you pull the situation apart, you can begin to see how those nerves were based on a prediction of failure. Effectively, you were anticipating just how unpleasant or problematic a miss would be.
Monday 24 June 2019
Use this quick drill to fix your face angle on short putts Holing short putts is all about face aim, and ensuring the blade is square to your target line at impact. To train this, narrow your target. Set up three balls, each on a high tee peg. From a distance of no more than two feet, try to knock each one...
Monday 24 June 2019
Five key messages from the Lost Art of Putting TG Top 50 teachers Gary Nicol and Karl Morris Gary and Karl have years of experience coaching everyone from beginners to Major winners. Karl’s company, The Mind Factor, works closely with TPEGS Ultimate Golf Experiences, run by Gary and Andrew Coltart at Archerfield Links. Written by two TG Top 50 coaches, this 2018...
Monday 24 June 2019
The key to holing putts is a pure roll: Here are two drills will help you achieve that Putters are built with two or three degrees of loft to help get the ball up and out of the little depression it creates through its weight. It does though mean that even the purest putt has an initial period of skid before...
Monday 24 June 2019
Jason Day: The PGA Tour’s star putter last year reveals his set-up secrets Jason Day might have lost some of the form which took him to world No.1 in 2016, but hasn’t lost his touch on the greens. On the PGA Tour last year he finished second in Strokes Gained: Putting, and made over 90% of putts from inside 10 feet using...
Written by Simon Daddow on Monday 24 June 2019
Understanding the importance of impact and how it affects your putt There is no one perfect way to hit a putt – just like drivers and irons, every golfer has their own unique way of presenting the putter face to the ball at impact. Impact though takes a fraction of a second and because 75% of where the ball rolls to...
Monday 24 June 2019
Looking for a new golf grip? Consider one of these… FLAT CAT – £29.95 www.flatcatgolf.com Favoured by Justin Rose, Flat Cat comes in five sizes. The brand say the wide, at surfaces of the grip (which can be positioned either square or at 90o to the face) puts the putter face in the palm of your hand. They say it gives a...
Monday 24 June 2019
Drills for Pure Putting: Five go-to exercises that have stood the test of time If you want some simple but effective drills to help you with your stroke, alignment and accuracy, then look no further. These five drills all help with a different part of your putting, and are aimed to help you cut down the number of putts per round. 1. Belly...
Written by Jamie Donaldson on Monday 24 June 2019
AimApoint: The system that takes the mystery out of green-reading (Jump to drill: Four steps to a better read with Aimpoint) A couple of things we already know. Putts break towards water or the sea or into a valley. They break more at the than they do at the beginning and no matter how experienced you might be, there is always an...
Monday 17 June 2019
Pete Cowen, the coach of U.S Open champion Gary Woodland and PGA Champ Brooks Koepka, has built a career out of turning golfers into serial winners. Now it’s your turn… Pete Cowen has had plenty to celebrate this year: Being the short-game coach of Brooks Koepka will do that, having picked up his fourth major and posting two runner-ups at the...
Monday 8 October 2018
Justin Rose: 7 Ways to hit it pure Known as one of the Tour’s ‘flushers’, Justin Rose has been an elite ball-striker for more than a decade. Working with coaches Sean Foley and Justin Buckthorp to improve his swing technique and physical conditioning, he has been able to keep up with the new generation of power hitters that play the game in...
Written by Andy Sullivan, European Tour winner on Tuesday 4 June 2019
We all know golf is about 90% mental, so it amazes me how many amateurs walk into a bunker looking absolutely terrified and wonder why they can’t get out. A lot of bunker success comes down to confidence and going in there with a positive, rather than defeatist, attitude. Follow my advice and you’ll soon start to think like a...
Written by Michael Catling on Thursday 10 January 2019
Jordan Spieth: “To make more birdies you need to do a lot of things right. Here I’ll take you through some tips, from the tee to the green” How good does it feel to make a birdie? It means you’ve played a hole perfectly – a tee shot into the fairway, an accurate approach and a solid putt. My birdie stats...
Wednesday 22 May 2019
We all gauge our all-round game by our handicap – and we can do the same just for our short game. Here’s how, plus some simple tips and drills to improve yours… In allowing competitive games between all levels of player, golf’s handicapping system may just be one of sport’s finest conceptions. It does, however, have one major drawback; it hides...
Monday 20 May 2019
The man who fine-tunes the swings of DJ and Koepka has some advice to improve your driving As a third-generation coach, Claude Harmon has had a hard time living up to his family’s name. Much has been made of his dad coaching Tiger for 11 years and taking him to World No.1, but less has been said about Claude’s grandfather winning The...
Thursday 25 April 2019
11 Great ways to improve your ironplay Technology presents a clear picture to the club golfer. Arccos stats show how our handicap level is at the mercy of our ability to hit greens; they also reveal an ugly tendency to come up short, and how a lack of clubface control sees us miss both sides. GC Quad impact data reveals the...
Thursday 18 April 2019
Ironplay: Where’s the problem? The stats show us where amateurs go wrong Since 2014, the Arccos shot-tracking system has given the club golfer the opportunity to analyse and understand their performance like never before. Individual sensors screwed into the butt of each club send data to your smartphone, and work with your phone’s GPS system to record and chart your performance with...
Thursday 21 March 2019
Whether you want to improve your mobility, your balance, flexibility or your posture, here are five ways to get golf fit this Spring. When things go wrong with our game, our first instinct is to question our technique. Of course that might be where the problem lies; but more often than you might think, a simple focus on improving your physical...
Written by Michael Catling on Wednesday 4 July 2018
5 Shots you need for links golf and how play them… In order to conquer links golf, you need to play several shots consistently well – clearing the lips in the traps, driving the ball under the wind, approaches from slopey lies and chipping from tight lies. Ahead of The Open this summer, we asked Carnoustie Head Pro Colin Sinclair to talk...
Thursday 28 February 2019
What’s the purpose of a golf swing? This tip comes from TG Top 50 teacher Karl Morris That sounds like an easy question to answer. But in my experience of working with club players – and indeed touring professionals, right up to Major winners – there are plenty out there who would struggle to deliver the correct answer. A golf swing’s sole...