Posts by ebough

Originally Posted by iWALK18 For the most part, agreed. And for the record, a draw does not have topspin. No full-swing shot has topspin unless you have topped the ball. It is true that in general it does have less...

Chances are, if you play your regular game, you won't be on many greens in regulation. I don't agree with blasting it off the tee. Practice your short game extra hard so that you can pull off more up-and-downs from 50 yards in.

Depends on the situation. As noted above, chipping and putting are alternatives depending on what is front of the green. I will only hit down on it hard if it's a relatively long pitch. For short, delicate pitches, I play the ball in mid...

On the driving range, most golfers are hitting multiple shots with a given club and tend to get better as the swing gets grooved for that club. One drill I do toward the end of practice is to pretend that I am playing holes. So I hit...

I would go one better than the previous post. Keep your right arm glued to your side through the backswing. If you do that, it's almost impossible to come over the top.

Keep your right arm glued to your side through the backswing. If you do that, it is virtually impossible to come over the top.

Suggest you read "The Fine Green Line" by a writer jock who spent a year preparing for Q school. The advice he got from a pro teacher was that a year of dedicated practice might lower his low handicap by about a point. Good luck!

Golf is a two dimensional game, requiring both distance and lateral accuracy. Everybody should routinely use the shot shape which they can hit most consistently. For most pros and amateurs, that just happens to be a fade. There is no...

Here is another way to think about this problem. To shoot bogey golf (90 for par 72), you cannot hit more than 1 bad shot per hole (and that shot can't be so bad that multiple strokes are need for recovery). So a bogey golfer hits 72/90...

Originally Posted by Jay-Bird I'm re-sumbutting this link, Please read the info. All of it. It's not just about holding up the putter and looking at the hole. The putter shaft must be vertical. You have to know...