COVER STORY
Simple tips for lower scores
Set flexibility can change your game. By Phil Mickelson

INSTRUCTION
Swing Sequence: Trevor Immelman
The swing that won the Masters. Analysis by David Leadbetter

Short Game: Chipping do’s and don’ts
And the secret move all great chippers make. By Josh Zander

Putting: Jack’s putting basics
Book bonus: How the Nicklaus stroke can help you on the greens. By Jim Flick

Breaking 100-90-80
Ignite your short game. By Bob Ford

SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS
The Power of One
We look at the objectives of the OneAsia Tour.

The European revival
Two years after being compared to the Nationwide Tour, Europe’s worldwide circuit has found new life. Europeans are second-class golf citizens no more.

US PGA CHAMPIONSHIP OPEN PREVIEW
Still crazy after all these years
As the US PGA returns to Oakland Hills, the greens remain the defining test.
Plus: Golf’s most embarrassing shots.

PROFILE
Learning process
Perth’s Brett Rumford took his time navigating a path onto the US PGA Tour, but he’s understood all along that golf – and life – is one continual learning process.

ARCHITECTURE
Top 100 Courses
An inside look at Australia’s best courses. This month: Alice Springs Golf Club in the Northern Territory faces extremes that few others in Australia do.

TRAVEL
Powers of attraction
This month’s weekend getaway: The New South Wales Mid-North Coast

CORPORATE GOLF
Tropical fancy
Jack Newton’s annual gathering of corporates – and friends – moved to the Queensland tropics this winter.

US OPEN REPORT
King of pain
Tiger Woods overcame a tender knee to win his third US Open.

COLUMNISTS
Adam Scott
The US Open, Tiger and the chances ahead

Jack Newton
Is Tiger better than Nicklaus?

Grant Dodd
The Gods of Golf

Andrew Daddo
Knees, pleas and a commentary freeze

TIPS
Tiger Woods
Balance matters; smooth wedge shots

Annika Sorenstam
Three keys to keeping your tempo

EQUIPMENT
Thinking inside the box
Designers challenge the R&A and USGA’s “plain in shape” mandate

New looks
Hybrids and fairway woods

On Tour: Long to be gone?
Once plentiful on tour, belly and long putters have been declining in numbers.

What’s in my bag
This month: Justin Rose

Bomb & Gouge
Are mallets the answer for pathetic putters?

PLUS MUCH MORE
Also in August...
Tiger Woods’ iron will at the US Open; Exploring the Sandhurst Club’s new Champions Course; Stuart Appleby completes an unwanted Slam; Scott Strange breaks through in Europe; One Aussie journo’s 100th major; Should golf return to the Olympic arena?; Why caddies should be removed from the professional game; Origins of the Stimpmeter; Little things make a difference where golf meets the environment; Ailment can’t keep David Graham down; Superstretches and the da Vinci code of golf flexibility; meet the Terry Price you don’t know.

All this and more in the August edition of Australian Golf Digest, in newsagents July 16.