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  Let’s talk about the short game. Now for me the short game is the poor relation in golf. It’s the thing everybody knows you should practice if you want to lower your scores, but no one does. No idea why. Maybe it’s because we are all obsessed with striking the ball perfectly and the ... Read More

  I heard this on the radio the other day, so it must be a true story. Apparently there is a restaurant owner in London who is fed up with smartphones. Turns out he’s got the right hump with people coming to his restaurant for a nice meal and instead of conversing with each other, ... Read More

  “You can talk to a fade, but a hook just won’t listen” – Lee Trevino Never has truer word passed the lips of a professional golfer. The fade shot, the shot that start’s left of target and gently drifts to the right (assuming you’re a right handed player) is one of the safest shots ... Read More

  Back in the day when I was giving a lot of lessons, I’d have student after student turn up asking me if they could all learn to do the same thing. Something which is nye on impossible. Something that even the greatest players in the world never even attempt to do. Because they can’t. ... Read More

  “The more I practice the luckier I get” – Gary Player Practice, as I well and truly know, is a luxury for many who subscribe to this little email ditty. Life has a habit of getting in the way, a trip away for work, a family occasion, jobs that need doing around the house ... Read More

  As it’s a Sunday, this might be relevant…… A fella once was struggling to believe in the whole concept of God and Heaven. He went to church every Sunday as his Mrs was a devout Christian and he thought he should do the good thing and go with her. Every Sunday he would sit ... Read More

  Cast your eye down the following list of golfers. John Daly Trevor Immleman Lee Janzen Chris DiMarco Mike Weir Anthony Kim David Duval Bill Rodgers Yani Tseng Ian Baker-Finch What do the above golfers all have in common? They all scaled the heights to become one of the world’s best, including winning major championships, ... Read More

This article was originally published as an email in 2019. Still makes good reading.   Amazing how the world has become so offended at the slightest drop of a hat. Political correctness has gone mad and the following is proof. Not two weeks ago Hank Haney the former coach to Tiger Woods was on an ... Read More

The U.S Open. The national championship of the largest golf playing nation on earth. What a tournament, feels to me that summer is just getting started when the US Open starts and one of my favourite venues is Pebble Beach. Did you know that Pebble Beach is actually a public course, anyone can play it, ... Read More

  Here’s a true story. It involves one of my very favourite golfers who ever graced this planet. Ben Hogan. Now for those of you not familiar with Ben Hogan, he was the Tiger Woods of his day, only he hit the ball super straight, hardly ever missing a fairway and remained happily married to ... Read More