Articles in the Specialty Shots Category
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Fix Your Sway
by Senior Instructor, Jonathan Dudley
Are you struggling with a consistent ground strike with yourirons? Are you hitting under your Driver?
If this is you pay attention!
A common tendency with many golfers is an inconsistentbottom arc or as I like to call it “strike point.” More often than not, when golfers strugglehere, he or she is “moving off the ball”. This is where inconsistency reallyplays a factor. If your strike point continually changes you are not able toaccurately judge yardage or trajectory very well. Also, many of your long …
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Cure Your Slice
by Senior Instructor, Jonathan Dudley
So most of you probably know that you do or do not have an over the top swing, but how have you been improving it ?
The most important part of cleansing your swing of the over the top move is the initial start of your downswing. Many times “over the top ” swingers TRY to create speed with their arms and upper body and not their hips. UH OHHH!!!! Why? Because there is no way the average human being can create more speed …
Featured, Golf Tips, Headline, Specialty Shots, Steve Nixon »
This golf tip discusses the best one that I have ever received. No, it wasn’t about “adding distance to your drives.”
Nor was it about “foolproof putting.” Instead, believe it or not, the best tip I have ever received was on fairway bunkers. The entire essence of the tip is as follows? “keep your lower body as still as possible when hitting a fairway bunker shot”.
It was quite a long time ago that I received the tip. (It was at a golf seminar in Charleston, SC.) It also seems eerie …
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How to Hit 10 – 15 yard Greenside Bunker
by Head Instructor, Simon McGreal
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Six Steps to Help You Play a Side-hill Shot
by Robert Linville, Director of Instruction
One of the toughest shots in golf is the side-hill lie when the ball is below your feet. I’ll give you a quick checklist to help you play these shots with more consistency.
Step 1…Don’t choke down on the grip. It’s important to use the full length of the club.
Step 2…Move slightly closer to the ball. The steeper the incline, the closer you get to the ball because the ball is farther away from you.
Step 3…Play the ball …
Featured, Jeff Crittenden, Specialty Shots »
Have you ever been out on the tee box and ran out of tees? That doesn’t mean it will hurt your drive. “Critter” gives some examples of some good alternates to tees. Be careful, you may get wet!
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Playing from Greenside Rough
by Robert Linville, Director of Instruction
Playing golf in the summer and fall in the south present golfers with a variety of short game shots from the bermuda-grass rough. Two of the most common shots we encounter around the greens are (1) The ball sits up on top of the thick grass or (2) the ball nestles down in the thick rough. Each shot is difficult and each shot has to be played with a different technique from the other.
It is very easy to slide …
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Every golfer can recall a time on the golf course where you have to either hook or slice the ball around a tree or around a dogleg hole. These shots can come in handy a lot of the times. It is important to know how to hit these shots, not only to use them on the golf course, but to fix your own shots if you are hitting it a certain way. Hook or Draw
Let’s assume that you are set up correctly and square to the target.
The angle that your club …
