‘Fore…’ Things To Stop Doing When You Reach Middle-Age!

"There comes a moment in every man's life when he realises he shall never play the Dane". (Uncle Monty, 'Withnail and I') 1. Stop warming up. Whilst medical advice would point to the beneficial effects of a quiet half hour of yoga before a round, followed by working through the bag on the range, and then twenty minutes of putting, the reality is very different. The soft draw you have just perfected on the range will be replaced by a great carving slice off the first tee, only causing you to wander off down…Read more …

Improve the Improvement Section

I’m willing to make a bet with you. If you dug out a few golf magazines from a couple of years ago and compared them to a selection of this month’s publications on the shelves, you’d find instructional pieces regurgitating the same suggestions on how to improve your swing. Now, I’ll immediately concede that it must be difficult for publishers and editors. For starters, there are a limited number of shots on which you can effectively provide instruction when illustrating a point with a pen and a few photographs.  It’s also true that the…Read more …