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Strategies to improve your game from green to tee.

1. Work on your putting first. One stroke is still one stroke whether it's 8 inches or 320 yards. Learn to read a green, practice your setup, develop your mind, find your dominant eye and get on the putting green before each round. This single area will shave strokes off your round.

2. Work on your short game. If you can get the distance to the green but are just off the green, you'll want to be up and down in two. If you can do
that like Tiger, your short game will save you in more than one situation. In sand, too long, too short, par 3s, and on the fringe. Get a solid chip shot
with a 3 wood, a loft wedge, sand shots and know your nine iron and you will shave more strokes.

3. Hit straight off the tee. Work on your grip, stance, set-up, pre-shot routine, take away, swing plane, hip turn and finish and remember 200 yards dead center in the fairway beats 250 yards in sand, water, trees, deep grass, and the next fairway any day of the week.

4. Learn course management skills. Plan each hole to work on your strengths. Don't just blast away. The best test of this is the choice to hit a 3 wood 210 yards, or two 105 yard 8 irons. If you are a strong short iron player and spray the driver course management means to make that exact decision and not let your golfing buddies talk you out of it.

5. Learn to enjoy the game in your head. Much of this game is played in your head and getting a grip on your emotions and fears and the yips is one big part of the game. I played a round this year in which I shot an awful score but completed the round with the same ball I started with, had 3 fabulous sand saves, 3 greens-in-regulation, drove nice and straight but three-putted 11 $%$^**&#)?/ GREENS! I had lots of chances to throw my putter in the river, but . . . did not. That to me is a great day. Have more days like that.

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Master Your Wedge


Scooping is Not Allowed.

The reason you can buy a 56, 58, or 60 degree wedge is that they are designed to get the ball in the air.

You don't need to lift the ball or help it out.

Your goal is to swing the club through the ball and let the club do the work.

1: Basic Set Up

Set up with a normal stance with the ball in the center of your stance. You may see professionals adjusting their stance to be more open but for most beginners the best thing you can do is hit the same shot again and again. That means keep it simple to start.

2: Grip and Swing

If you are at all nervous about this shot, you may find you are gripping the club firmly. You may also be worried that the club head will hit the ground thus making that dreaded sound that precedes the ball hopping 4 feet in front of you.

So grip your club lightly. Then make sure when you take the club back that you are not using your wrists. They should be firm throughout the swing. The club should move like a pendulum - back and forward. Smooth is the operative word here.

You'll need to keep things steady so that you can allow the club to pass under the ball and allow it to loft the ball in the air.


3: Follow Through

One thing you will learn is that if you don't think of the follow through the ball is going to be more unpredictable.

On a short chip a follow through is not going to look like you see on the cover of a golf magazine after a long drive. It should finish with the club face pointing to the sky--about waist high.

A smooth swing and follow through will have you moving through the ball and finishing with the clubface waist high.

These basic building blocks will have you confident close to the green that you can hit a good chip shot.

Next Issue we'll talk about how to aim your chip shot from 5, 15 and 50 yard in.