Golf

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 …

Rule Revisions: A Softening at the R&A

A golfer with a good knowledge of the rules has, in my mind, an advantage over the player that merely has a grasp of the basics. For example, knowing when you can take relief without penalty can make all the difference to your scorecard or match.  OK, realistically not many people are actually going to read the Rules of Golf from cover to cover, but the recent rule changes are certainly worth swotting up on, for this very reason. These are the most significant amendments, and what they mean to us as golfers.…Read more …
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