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Tired of hitting weak irons from the fairway and leaving yourself short of the green. Maybe you’re trying to lift the ball. Lifting is common among weekend golfers—especially with irons. Instead of hitting down on the ball, they try to slip the clubface under the ball and lift it through the air. This swing fault [...]

Good golfers learn to get out of trouble with a minimum of damage. Damage control is what keeps their scores and golf handicaps low. Watch Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, Sergio Garcia, or any other golfer with a low golf handicap. You’ll see that they’re masters at getting out of trouble without costing themselves strokes.
Recreational golfers [...]

Two students taking my golf lessons have similar games. Both hit the ball fairly straight. Both are good at avoiding trouble when they can. And both have good short games. Their golf handicaps are also similar�one has a 15 the other a 1r. You could almost call them two peas in a pod.
But they differ [...]

There are only three ways of getting a ball close to the hole from a short distance�a chip, a pitch, and a lob. The pitch and the lob are lofted shots. They’re great when you have an obstacle, like a bunker or deep rough, in the way. The chip is a flatter shot with considerable [...]

Most players who take golf lessons from me don’t have an official golf handicap. That comes as no surprise to me since most recreational golfers don’t have a golf handicap anyways. Of the more than 26 million golfers in the United States (adults who played at least one round of golf during a season), less [...]

Teachers field all sorts of questions during a golf lesson. Not all of them are about the golf swing. In fact, many are not. During a recent lesson a student asked about golf gloves. A serious golfer, she wanted to know if she had to wear one and why. It was a good question. It [...]