With more and more statistics available than ever before, we now know that the age old cliche “Drive for show and putt for dough” doesn’t always ring true but sometimes it does. The way the modern game is played, the players who tend to drive the ball long and (relatively) straight and hit their wedges […]
Is your aim and intention to improve your putting stroke or to hole more putts? As far back as I can remember, I have always been told that if we improve our stroke, we will hole more putts. One creates the other. Cause and effect. However, I would question the sequence of that or any […]
Every winter we always make the same statements. Must get the clubs out the garage again and head to the driving range. Must play more next year. Must play better next year. Must putt better next year. Must buy a new putter in order to putt better next year. We often talk to our students […]
Do you love watching the world’s best players on TV most weekends? What do you enjoy most, watching their swings or the shots they create? Historically, we have been encouraged to watch players swings by commentators as dissecting a swing and exposing why the ball went long, short, left or right, gave the men with […]
How many times have you read a magazine article or watched a YouTube video and thought, “That’s what I need to do.”? You read or watch it again and again and subconsciously think that merely by observing and absorbing that information you will be transformed into the golfer you deserve to be. If fitness and […]
How many putters do you or have you owned? How often do you change your putter? Why does the putter always get the blame? Many years ago when I was a teenager who “needed” a new Ping Anser to transform my putting, my late father informed me that the issue in fact lay “With the […]
Training aids are all very well, argues The Lost Art of Putting author Gary Nicol, but not if they become a crutch denied to you when you step out on the course. What does your current putting practice regime look like and are you sure it is helping you to hole more putts on the […]
What can you say about Rory McIlroy the hasn’t been said before? His ball striking is off the charts. He is arguably the best driver of the golf ball in the modern game. When he plays his best, he is virtually untouchable. His recent run of form has been incredible! Over the last six weeks, […]
Gary Nicol and Karl Morris are co-authors of the best-selling book The Lost Art Of Putting, so who better to give us some putting tips? This time, they show us a drill that involves just a few tees… Putting tips: The ladder drill The ladder drill involves a handful of tees and will help you […]
How can Trackman performance software help you to improve your putting? Gary Nicol is joined by Trackman expert Matt Wiley at Archerfield Links to talk through a few of the parameters that will help you improve on the greens. Here, they ask what you would do if you had 10 spare minutes on the putting […]