Tips from Golf Magazine

Question 1

Greenside chips 1

Answer 1

Greenside chips 1

Question 2

Greenside chips 2

Answer 2

Question 3

Greenside chips 3

Answer 3

Question 4

Greenside chips 4

Answer 4

Question 5

Eye on ball at address

Answer 5

Question 6

First tee Jitters

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Jack Nicklaus says to hit a club you have confidence.

Question 7

2 Pitches to master.

Answer 7

Question 8

Accelerate to impact.

Answer 8

Question 9

Blast over the bunker lip.

Answer 9

Question 10

On Back Swing keep gloved hand flat at the top.

Answer 10

Question 11

How to use the driver on fairway.

Answer 11

Question 12

How to make the high and low wedge shots.

Answer 12

Question 13

In Closed In path 1.

Answer 13

Question 14

In Closed In path 2

Answer 14

Question 15

Iron play 1

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Question 16

Keep your chin up.

Answer 16

This shows how much room to keep chin up. Too excessive and it hurts my neck.

Question 17

Left Arm glued to your chest.

Answer 17

Question 18

Left shoulder low maintains spine angle.

Answer 18

Question 19

Right elbow points to my Right hip on Backswing.

Answer 19

Question 20

Sand shot 1

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Question 21

Scramble like a pro.

Answer 21

Question 22

Under the trees, back to the fairway

Answer 22

Question 23

Keep your weight forward on short game.

Answer 23

Question 24

Flat wrist or bowed at impact.

Answer 24

Hogan says bowed at impact for more distance.

Question 25

Abort liftoff.

Answer 25

Do not lift your upper body in the downswing.

Question 26

How to blast your 7 far as your 6?

Answer 26

Fully extend your right arm through impact.

Question 27

Do not steer the ball toward the pin.

Answer 27

Turn your club over through impact to keep all that power!

Question 28

HT get more power out of my shot?

Answer 28

Aggressively rotate your lower body opening it toward the target.

Question 29

A better sand shot:

Imagine laying two quarters, one after the other, in front of your ball in the sand. Now make your shot scooping under the ball and the two quarters in front of the ball.

Golf Mag. July 2012. The Problem:

The key to hitting good bunker shots is to take a divot directly underneath the ball, not after it like you do with an iron in the fairway. This tip, however, tends to make amateurs enter the bunker way too early and take too much sand before the ball, an error that fails to create enough blast force to lift the ball up and out. You want to hit the sand shot fat, not taking 2 inches of sand before contact. You want it just like a fat shot in the fairway.

(Remember to aim with toe of sand wedge and hold heel up off the ground to keep from burying the edge in the sand.)

Answer 29

Here is the drill to fix the problem;

Plop a ball down in the practice bunker and set a quarter an inch in front of the ball on the target side. Your goal is to get the ball and quarter out of the bunker.

The only way to do this is to shift your divot forward by entering the sand as close to the ball as possible without touching it, and sliding your wedge far enough target-ward to catch the quarter. If you shift your impact focus from the ball to the quarter you’ll probably do fine, but if you struggle, try setting up with the majority of your weight on your front foot and leave it there when you swing.

Question 30

Don’t hit down on the ball. This is old school. You will get better ball compression with a flatter downswing.

Answer 30

The key is to hit the dimple on the exact center of the ball like you do at the range. Your ground force reaction will be at maximum then and you won’t bury your wedge or iron in the dirt with a fat or thin shot.