Depending on the course you play, you may be faced with a plethora of lies that are far from flat. My old home course of Osprey Links offers a multitude of challenging lies on the separate nines. It is a very fun track that challenges all of our shot making ability because of the dichotomy of terrain. Specifically on the back nine, I was guaranteed to have lie were the ball was above my feet. It is a shot I work on in practice because I knew it was practice time well spent. Because of this, I thought it would be a good idea to cover how to make such a golf shot.
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Great Golf Advice From Tommy Fleetwood
As an amateur, I am always looking for advice from better players. Wait, let me revise that, common sense advice from better players. No, wait, common sense advice that I can actually use from better golfers. Tommy Fleetwood quickly offers a list of things that amateurs can do to improve their golf game. He might not have realized that his words provide greater insight than expected. But for me, it hits to some of the fundamental tenets of golf.
Continue readingThree Tips For Hitting Consistent Irons
If you are like me, I struggled hitting my irons consistently. I practiced and practiced all aspects of setup, ball location, balance, tempo and many more in order to hit my irons consistently. Over the years, I worked on my hunt and peck method with slow agonizing success. Looking back, I wish I had discovered this video (actually there were no videos back in my early days of golf) or at least the information much sooner in my golfing journey. Well, thanks to Rick Shiels, you will benefit from my experience.
Continue readingWhat You See Is What You Get In Putting
Putting is a challenging skill where even the slightest error results in a higher golf score. If we could lower 3 to 5 strokes a round by setting up properly in the greens, it would seem like we won the lottery. I have discussed many different ways to set up your putting stroke, using lines to help align our putter face and the importance of following through twice as far as taking the club head back during your stroke. All of these tips are great and work when we implement them. One thing I have not talked about is how to test if what we are seeing when aligning our putter head is in fact what we think we are seeing. Seems like a basic step during practice, however I know I have relied on results to prove my point. I have never actually tested whether my putter face is actually square to my aim point. Well, that is about to change!
Continue readingDrawing A Line On Your Golf Ball
Following up my article from a few days ago titled: Using Lines To Aim While Putting, I found a video by Brad Faxon talking about why using a drawn line on our golf ball is beneficial. He talks about how he was the first to start this trend and how it has evolved in today’s golf ball market. It is interesting and offers some valuable information about how to use the line properly.
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The Grateful Golfer 