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12 articles tagged “technique”.
Greens are often surrounded by banks, mounds and hollows, so many short-game shots are played from sloping lies. A slope changes your balance, the club's effective loft, the direction the ball starts…
Tight lies, with little or no grass under the ball, are some of the most intimidating chips in golf. There's no cushion to hide a poor strike, so a fraction too early and the club bounces into the…
Missing the green and finishing in long grass is one of the most common situations in golf, and one of the most unpredictable. The ball might sit up nicely on top of the grass or nestle down at the…
Chipping with a hybrid or fairway wood may look unusual, but it's one of the most useful and forgiving shots around the green. The wide sole glides through the grass, the ball comes off the face like…
The bump and run is the simplest, most reliable shot around the green. Instead of flying the ball high to the hole, you land it just on the green, or even short of it, and let it roll like a putt…
Bounce is the angle on the sole of a wedge that stops the leading edge digging into the ground. Many golfers fight their bounce by leaning the shaft forward and digging, which causes fat and chunked…
It's one of the trickiest little shots in golf: your ball has rolled to the edge of the green and stopped against the collar, the band of longer grass around the fringe. A normal putt will snag in…
Golfers putt in different ways. Some swing the putter on a gentle arc, opening slightly on the way back and closing on the way through. Others keep the putter face square to the line, moving it…
A standard splash shot from a good lie in a greenside bunker is very learnable. The trouble starts when the ball plugs in the face, sits on a downslope, rests in wet, compacted sand or is 40 yards…
Long irons, usually the 2-, 3- and 4-iron, have a reputation as the hardest clubs in the bag. With little loft, long shafts and small heads, they punish mishits and are hard to get airborne. Many…
Fairway woods are some of the most useful clubs in the bag. They give you distance from the fairway on long par 4s and par 5s, a reliable alternative to the driver off the tee, and a way to hit long…
The lob shot is golf's most spectacular short-game shot: the ball pops almost straight up, floats over a bunker and drops softly beside the flag. Played well, it can save a shot from an impossible…
