Despite what the advertising says, there really aren’t that many things in golf that are truly new. Single length irons? Bobby Jones reputedly had a set in his bag to win the grand slam a century ago. Of course, there have been some technical breakthroughs. You won’t find a golfer at the highest level using … Read more
How long is a piece of string? Trying to find a simple answer to the question “what is an average golf score?” fits firmly in the piece of string category. What do we mean? My average score? Tiger’s average? The average of all the golfers who play the game? Should we count just official competition … Read more
If you watch PGA golfers, especially in slow motion, there is something deeply satisfying about seeing that ball first contact followed by a beaver pelt divot being cut away after the ball. It just seems like the mark of a good golfer. Ball first, divot after. As a golfer who doesn’t take huge divots, I … Read more
After recently writing about the bump and run and how it is an underused shot for most golfers, I realised that most of us should probably take this a step further. If a shot that gets the ball running sooner with less loft and a more consistent swing is good, surely more of the same … Read more
The short game is one area of golf that has almost endless possibilities. In fact, if you put ten different golfers in the same place round the green, you might well get ten different shots. Even professional golfers will see the same shot in different ways. One might play a flop shot whereas another will … Read more
I would guess that the majority of golfers use some sort of help to measure distance on the course. Even for a casual round, it makes sense to know how far you have to go. Nothing worse than hitting one perfectly and seeing it land ten yards short of the green because your ‘guesstimate’ was a little … Read more
Let me just get this out there: I love playing in a Texas Scramble. In fact, it might be the only sort of ‘official’ competition I play at all nowadays. It ticks all the boxes as far as what I am looking for currently. So what exactly is it and what makes it so much … Read more
Until the last couple of decades, putter head shape was a non-issue. All putters were the same, essentially a blade with a couple of degrees of loft. Then the ping anser style putter came in and that was the new norm. Nowadays, the range of possible styles from blade to spaceship on a stick is … Read more
I love blades. I have owned quite a few sets over the years from classic to modern. I have also played with some of the chunkiest game improvement cavity backs you can imagine. I have enjoyed and continue to enjoy golf with a whole range of different clubs. Unfortunately, I hear and read some absolute … Read more
Putting is something of a touchy subject as far as my own golf game goes. It is, happily enough, trending towards “slightly less horrible” but I feel like I am never that far from disaster. I have tried all sorts of things in an effort to improve and some of them have even worked. This … Read more