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Wanna be a good putter? Here are some basic fundamentals you should be practicing.

• Get a putter with a very distinct line marked on it to indicate the target line and practice with a chalk line. You can get a chalk line at any hardware store for 5 or 6 bucks, and it’s as valuable a training aid as there is anywhere. Find a putt on the practice green that is straight. Snap a chalk line down from about 5 or 6 feet to the middle of the cup. Make sure that the entire length of the line on your putter is exactly on the chalk line. Start making putts. This will train your eyes to “see square” precisely.
• Keep your the pressure in your hands soft and constant throughout the stroke. Sensitivity is obviously a huge part of putting. If your hands are tight on the grip you are diminishing your sensitivity - period. Also, if your grip pressure changes during the stroke, it’s probably not “a stroke” but more likely a jab, flinch, spasm, push, hit … well, you get the point — good luck with that kind of technique.
• There is no independent action in the hands. Nothing could be more logical: If you do indeed have the putter face aligned precisely, as in the first point above, the last thing you’d want to do is to change the position of the face. Therefore, your hands should not be moving independently of your arms and shoulders. To see if your hands are moving, as a drill try watching your hands very carefully (instead of the ball) a few times. You’ll see what your hands are doing quite easily.

There are many more (seemingly endless) details about putting, of course, but if you turn these fundamental concepts into habits it will take you a long way toward being a consistently good putter.

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Although not the longest driver on the LPGA Tour, at 5 feet 5 inches tall and 125 pounds, Lorena Ochoa can belt it out with the best of them. Lorena’s 270.6 yard average driving distance ranks third on the LPGA Tour.

So how does an average size woman hit it so far? With a lot of practice and a rock solid set-up that promotes power. If you are looking to increase distance off the tee try this power set-up.

The Correct Angle of Attack at Impact

Angle of attack is the way the clubhead approaches the ball at impact.

To hit the ball correctly in the sweet spot you must understand how the clubhead should approach the ball.

When you hit a driver, the angle of attack is shallow. The clubhead should arrive to the ball at the same level.

This sweeping motion assures that you will hit the ball in the sweet spot.

Set-up Correctly for Power and Distance

In order to achieve the correct angle, you must set-up “behind the ball at address.” To do this, play the ball off the inside of the left foot and tilt slightly into your right side so that the head starts behind the driver. You want to have the ball in line with your left ear. This position will help you turn and sweep the ball off the tee at impact.

The most common fault I see with high handicappers is that they have the wrong angle of attack with their drivers. This happens when they set up incorrectly with too much weight on the left side, causing the head to be on top of the ball or even in front of the ball at address.

A reverse pivot follows this set up and causes too steep of an angle of attack. When the clubhead approaches too steeply or from the outside, you will end up hitting the ball on the toe or on the top of the clubhead.

By Karen Palacios-Jansen,
Special From www.WorldGolf.com

Consumed by fear each and every time your ball heads into a bunker? Well, there’s no need to be. In the first article of a new and exclusive instructional series for Asian Golf Monthly, Steve North (pictured), director of instruction at the St Andrews Links Golf Academy, explains that escaping from a sand trap is the easiest shot in golf! Read on.Most amateur golfers have a phobia about bunkers; everyone believes they are way harder than they actually are.Virtually every amateur, upon climbing into a bunker, starts going through a list of swing thoughts – open stance, open clubface, swing out to in, hit two inches behind the ball, follow through, and so on.As a result, by the time they have to hit the shot, they’re thinking about so many things they can hardly take the club back.Basic bunker shots are easy. You don’t even have to hit the ball. The fact is, there is more margin for error with a bunker shot than any other shot in the game. All you have to do is understand how the sand wedge works and why the set up is all-important.You may have noticed that your sand iron features a heavy flange on its sole. Study the flange closely and you will see that the back edge sits lower than the leading edge.

That gives the club what we call ‘bounce’ (some clubs have more bounce than others – as a general rule, the softer the sand the more beneficial the bounce factor is).

When the sand iron is skimmed through the sand, the flange acts as a rudder, forcing the club and the ball up and out to safety.

Pictures 1 and 2

Before you set up to the ball, open the clubface and then make your grip. Then, having placed your hands on the club, open your stance (ie. as you settle down to the shot, make sure that the lines across your feet, knees, hips and shoulders point to the left of the target) and position the ball just forward of centre in your stance (pictures 1 and 2).

Be careful not to let the club touch the sand at address, as grounding the club in a hazard will result in a penalty.

Pictures 3 and 4

To play the shot, simply swing along the line of your toes (pictures 3 and 4) and don’t be afraid to hit the sand fairly hard.

As long as you maintain your momentum and accelerate through impact, the ball will come out softly (pictures 5 and 6).

  

  

    

Pictures 5 and 6

To play a shot out of the Road Hole bunker you would have to use an extremely open clubface, making sure you maintain the open clubface all the way through impact. Visualise the grooves looking up towards the sky.

If you follow these basic techniques you’ll see why the bunker shot is the easiest shot in golf.

PGA Golf Management (PGAGM) provides all of the tuition services at the new St Andrews Links Academy for St Andrews Links Trust. PGAGM also manages the PGA Golf Academy at China’s Bayhood No 9 Golf Club, 30 minutes from Beijing’s central business district.

For further details, please visit www.pgagm.com

Michelle Wie either plays sensational golf or very mediocre golf; she’s never in the middle of the pack. Last week, it was the later as she missed the cut in the LPGA Open Championship, aided by a quintuple bogey.Wie needs to really step up her game if she’s going to keep her tour card for 2009. According to ESPN, she needs to finish in the top 10 of the eight remaining events in which she intends to compete. As for “Q” school: 18-year-old Wie says that it would conflict with her studies at Stanford. Time will tell.

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Practice makes perfect, and nowhere is this saying more applicable than in the game of golf.

Don’t under estimate the value of practice. Your local practice facility is as essential to your golf game as your favourite club!

Pre-Game Practice Routine
A pre-game practice routine is essential to establishing your tempo, building your confidence and achieving consistent on-course results. Start your warm-up with some stretching and then move onto stroke practice.

Tiger Woods Preaches Benefits of a Warm-Up Routine
At a demonstration conducted by Tiger Woods before the 35th Ryder Cup, Woods preached the benefits of his warm-up routine, which he says he borrowed from Jack Nicklaus. He begins his warm up by hitting three sand wedges, then moves to the 8-iron, the 4-iron, the 2-iron, the 3-wood, the driver, and then reverses the entire process. According to Woods, “it’s really simple…I hit the same shot with a different club…when I hit my first three sand wedges I don’t care where they go…I just try to feel the club and the ball on the face….from there on out, I hit every shot to a target.”

Loosen up before your round
Try to allow yourself some time before your round to take advantage of your course practice facilities. Loosen up with some easier shots and then work your way up the bag.

Driving Range Practice
When hitting at the driving range, work on your technique, tempo and consistency. It’s better to focus on hitting a few “good” shots with each club, rather than a multitude of bad ones.

At the Putting Green
If time permits, move to the putting green. Start by chipping and putting around the fringe (collar) of the green. Try to take about 10 chip shots before taking out your putter. When putting, start slowly, and get a feel for the speed of the green. It’s a good idea to start putting from a fairly close distance to the pin, taking about 3 or 4 shots, and then slowly work your way back away from the pin in increments.

Buy A Bucket and Practice
If you use the Tiger Woods method on the driving range, hitting 3 balls every time you use a different club, you can get away with a small bucket of balls (40 balls) at the range. Practice — like the pros! Bottom line — give yourself time to practice your game. Enjoy an outing at the practice range, and always allow yourself some time before your round for a proper pre-game practice routine. It definitely pays off in the long run — and if it’s good enough for the touring professionals, we should probably consider it too!

Yours in golf,
Kevin Purcell
CPGA Professional

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- Feature Article - Some simple pointers.
- Readers Comments
- Reader Tips
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Teeing from the Green

 Originally, golfers teed the ball on the green of the hole
 they had just completed. This practice was phased out
 during the 18th century for the very good reason that the
 greens were being chopped to bits by club heads digging
 into the turf. Thereafter, players moved to a special teeing
 area near, but not on the green.

Casual Water

 When water accumulates in a place not designated
 as a water hazard, it is considered “casual water.”
 A player who hits into casual water may lift the ball,
 clean it and drop it within club length of the affected
 area, but of course, no closer to the hole. In such
 situations, no penalty are incurred.

Hit Away from Trouble

 Whenever possible aim away from obstacles such as
 Sand traps, trees and water hazards. For instance, if
 There is water on the left, then tee up on the left and
 Drive toward a safe spot on the fairway. This advice
 May seem obvious, but you’d be surprised how many
 Golfers fail to heed it.

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a very good hole, take what you can from it and use it for later
golfing.

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By Tiger Woods, Golf Digest Playing Editor, Edited By Pete McDaniel and Mark Soltau

My key to straight irons

I think of hitting the ball with the back of my lead hand

There are several keys to good iron play, but none is more important than an under-standing of how the back of the lead hand works at impact. It’s critical for accuracy and solid ball-striking.

Straight shots are hit with the back of your lead hand square to the target at impact. Crooked shots occur when the back of your lead hand is anything but square, because that hand mirrors the clubface.

All too often, I see my amateur partners slice or hook a routine iron shot off the planet without any idea why. Banana balls result when they hit the ball with the side of the hand leading through impact. Snappers result when they turn their hands over too much. In both cases, the back of the lead hand is compromised.

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To improve your iron play, feel as if you’re hitting the ball with the back of your lead hand facing the target, the shaft leaning slightly forward. This will help produce a nice divot on the forward side of the ball pointing directly at your target.
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Needless to say, I’m a little stir crazy since my knee surgery on April 15. Although I’ve been through this before and understand the need for patience, I don’t enjoy sitting around.

I really don’t have a timetable for returning to competition. The doctors have said I should be able to play again in four-to-six weeks, but nothing is certain. I’m just going to do what they tell me to do.

At least I’m done with the crutches. I used them last week at Tiger Jam XI in Las Vegas to get around the hotel. Now, I’m wearing a knee brace and hope to start rehabbing soon.

I knew a couple of months ago I was going to have the surgery. The knee has been bugging me for a while. The only decision was do you miss the Masters or play in the Masters? I decided to play. Even if I had won, I still would have had the surgery.

I’ve definitely been playing in pain, but that’s not why I didn’t win at Augusta. I just never got comfortable with my putting stroke. As I said after the tournament, I was dragging the putter coming through which meant I couldn’t start the ball on line. That’s all it takes on those greens. Obviously, it was frustrating because I hit the ball well enough to win. It was just one of those things.

I called Trevor Immelman a couple days later to congratulate him. He was on the TV circuit, so I didn’t actually talk to him, but I left a voice message. Nobody has ever doubted his ability. He has a beautiful golf swing and it was only a matter of time before he put it all together at a major championship.

The course was very difficult. I didn’t hear as many roars as I usually hear, especially on the weekend. It did play like a U.S. Open course, which is fine. But I think the galleries are used to seeing birdies and eagles. On Sunday, the way the wind was blowing, it was tough to make pars. I hear the club might be making some changes next year to give us a break. We’ll see what happens.

Tiger Jam XI was a great success. Many thanks to the sponsors, celebrities and fans for helping us raise more than $1.5 million for the Tiger Woods Foundation. Our live and silent auctions were big hits. Hot items were a 2009 Masters trip; a private Royal Canadian Pacific rail cruise; an Olympics package; and a 2008 Buick Enclave.

VAN HALEN put on a great show. Special thanks to David Lee Roth, who personally contributed $100,000 to the Tiger Woods Foundation. I also want to thank the Van Halens - Eddie, Alex and Wolfgang - who donated $100,000 to help our programs.

My sincere thanks to all the fans who have emailed their support and best wishes since my surgery. It means a lot to me. I’ll keep you updated on my progress.

Take care.

Tiger