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The Dave Pelz Scoring Game School is coming to Brocket Hall in 2024.

World renowned Dave Pelz Golf School rolls into Brocket Hall

Friday 22 December 2023

Brocket Hall added to 2024’s European roster of premier clubs offering the shot-saving Dave Pelz Scoring Game School. *This is an ‘advertisement feature’ in association with the Dave Pelz Scoring Game School* Fixing your short game can feel like a never-ending quest throughout your golf journey. Reading the lie, selecting the wedge, stance, ball positioning, weight distribution, trajectory, landing area – I’ve not...

The right stats and strategy can save you shots on the golf course

How stats WILL improve your golf game

Thursday 16 March 2023

Many of us dream of a better swing or short game to lower our scores. But Lou Stagner knows you can score better right now, with the game you have, just by picking the right stats, strategy, and mental approach. As data insights lead for Arccos, Lou Stagner crunches the numbers to help us understand where we are losing shots…...

Matt Fitzpatrick shares his golf putting tips with Today's Golfer.

Matt Fitzpatrick: My six steps to becoming a better putter

Monday 20 June 2022

US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick shares the putting tips which helped deliver his first Major victory at Brookline. Matt Fitzpatrick is well known for being one of the best putters on Tour. A student of Phil Kenyon, he ranked second is consistently among the top players in strokes-gained putting on the PGA Tour. We visited Fitzpatrick at Hallamshire Golf Club in his...

The key move all good golfers make (and you can practise it at home)

Written by Chris Ryan on Thursday 2 December 2021

Good golfers all possess their own, individual swings. But there is one, vital move they ALL make. Anyone can do it… but most of us don’t. We’ll show you how. There is no such thing as the perfect golf swing. The evidence smacks us in the face every day. Compare the fluid, elastic action of Dustin Johnson with the shorter, fast-twitch pounding...

Jon Rahm: Master golf’s short game with my lessons

Sunday 10 October 2021

Major champion, former World No.1 and European Ryder Cup star Jon Rahm shares the short-game lessons that helped him to the top. A razor-sharp short game is the key to really low scores and saving a bad round. From pitching to bump and runs and splashing shots out of bunkers, Jon Rahm is brilliant at it all, as he showed on his...

How to play a downhill golf chip shot

Written by Steve Astle on Tuesday 5 October 2021

How do I play the downhill golf chip shot? Here are four simple tips on how to play one of golf’s most daunting shots – the downhill chip – with more confidence and less hesitation. Duffing a chip shot is a fear all golfers have, and when your ball winds up on a downslope – the ground and grass higher behind the ball –...

We can all learn from Justin Thomas' takeaway check.

To get better at golf, have an end result in mind

Written by Karl Morris on Thursday 12 August 2021

Tweaking your golf swing without having an end goal in mind is a recipe for disaster. Judging by the bulging diaries my PGA professional colleagues have been showing me, it seems like the entire UK golfing community emerged from lockdown by taking a lesson. No harm in that, you might think. And yet, it has set the alarm bells ringing. Lessons, of...

Mark Crossfield fixes your golf short game.

Mark Crossfield: Let me fix your golf short game

Written by Mark Crossfield on Wednesday 23 June 2021

Fix your short game for lower golf scores with the help of PGA Professional and YouTube superstar, Mark Crossfield. One of the first online golf coaches, PGA Professional Mark Crossfield set up his YouTube channel in 2007. Since then his unique blend of straight talking, powerful, effective content and sense of humour has won him a legion of followers. To date, the channel...

Should golf tour pros really be our role models?

Written by Karl Morris on Thursday 27 May 2021

They are heroes to millions, but golf tour pros don’t always make the best role models… Has Bryson DeChambeau struck the longest ever drive on the PGA Tour? Actually, he’s barely halfway. American Carl Cooper hit one 787 yards in 1992. And yes, there was a cart path involved. Genuine feats of power are not exactly new to golf either. Some of...

Lumine Golf Club's head pro, Andy Gordon, shows you how to stop fatting your irons.

How to stop fatting your golf irons

Written by Andy Gordon on Friday 7 May 2021

Too much hip rotation in the golf downswing is a common cause of heavy (or fat) iron shots. Here’s how to avoid it… 1. Top of backswing The best golfers shift the lead knee and hip towards the target even before the club starts changing direction into the downswing. The weight is moving forwards before you’ve really completed the backswing. RELATED: Best Golf...

We use Shot Scope data to help you play better golf and lower your scores.

How to lower your golf scores in five easy steps

Written by Duncan Lennard on Thursday 22 April 2021

Using Shot Scope data, golf pro Adrian Fryer reveals where amateurs lose the most shots and shares simple drills to help you play better golf and lower your scores. We all have ideas about how we play golf, and where we lose shots… but how accurate are they? Thanks to modern shot data technology, we now know. RELATED: How to shoot your lowest-ever...

Me And My Golf's Andy Proudman and Piers Ward share their best-ever golf tips with Today's Golfer.

Me and My Golf: Lower your scores with our best-ever golf tips

Monday 8 March 2021

Me and My Golf, You Tube’s most-popular golf coaches, share their best-ever tee-to-green tips and fixes to help make this your best season on the course ever. When they’re not busy coaching European Tour star Aaron Rai, Piers Ward and Andy Proudman spend their days filming content and fixing the swings of everyday golfers. JUMP TO TIPS: Long game | Iron Play |...

Score better on par 5s with our complete guide.

How to score better on par 5s

Written by Gareth Johnston on Thursday 5 November 2020

Improve your performance on golf’s longest holes with our comprehensive shot-by-shot guide to play better on par 5s, in association with Callaway. Anyone who watches a lot of profefesional tour golf could be forgiven for thinking par 5s represent the easy holes in golf. Callaway’s Tour staff routinely make their score on these holes over the course of a tournament, with...

Best home golf practice tips

Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 2 November 2020

As we find ourselves in another coronavirus lockdown across England, we bring you the best tips to help you practise your golf in the comfort of your own home. We’ve gathered leading coaches to provide golf tips that can be done in your house, covering the golf swing, the body and the mind. RELATED: Me And My Golf’s best-ever tips Improve your line and...

Avoid a bad start to your round of golf this weekend.

Make a better start to your round of golf

Written by Karl Morris on Friday 9 October 2020

Always make a bad start to your round of golf? Our psychology coach shares his expertise to help you avoid making a bogey or worse on the 1st hole this weekend. I was recently sent a scorecard by an eight-handicap club golfer. He’d shot 83, but the total was not the point. From the 7th hole onwards he was two over.

Putting coach Phil Kenyon helps your golf game.

Putting coach Phil Kenyon saves you six shots

Wednesday 16 September 2020

Phil Kenyon, one golf’s most sought-after putting coaches, shares the seven simple drills that will improve your putting and save you up to six shots per round. Let me introduce myself. My name is Phil Kenyon and for 20 years I’ve been working as an elite putting coach, offering advice to amateur golfers as well as to superstars such as Rory...

Strategy tips from the world's best golfers.

How to play golf: Tour pro strategy lessons

Written by Rob Jerram on Friday 21 August 2020

European Tour, PGA Tour, Major and Ryder Cup winners share their golf strategy secrets to help you play better golf, lower your handicap and win those matchplay clashes with your mates. As amateur golfers so many of us fail to lower our handicaps or enjoy matchplay success because, despite physically knowing how to play golf, we drop silly shots due to...

Tommy Fleetwood uses the claw putting grip with great success.

Hole more putts with the claw grip

Written by Steve Astle on Thursday 13 August 2020

The claw putting grip has evolved to become a viable golf hold in its own right, used by Ryder Cup stars Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, Sergio Garcia and Webb Simpson. Once a perceived crutch to twitchy putters, the grip has become far more accepted having helped so many European Tour and PGA Tour players to big victories. RELATED: Putting coach Phil Kenyon...

The mental game is an important part of golf.

The mind game myths damaging your golf scores

Written by Karl Morris on Tuesday 11 August 2020

Play better golf by avoiding these four common mind game misconceptions. Competitive golf,” said the great Bobby Jones, “is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.” “Don’t ever try to tell me golf is not 99.9 percent a mental game,” said Jack Nicklaus. “I believe my creative mind is my greatest weapon,” said Tiger Woods. Related: Why the harder you try,...

Austrian Open champion Marc Warren: Everything I know about putting

Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 13 July 2020

Marc Warren shares the putting philosophy that helped him to a fourth European Tour victory. After a six-year wait, the 39-year-old Scotsman secured victory at the Diamond Country Club as the European Tour and Challenge Tour season returned from a four-month break due to Coronavirus, thanks largely to an exceptional performance on the greens with his Odyssey Prototype iX #1 and...