COVER STORY
How to save shots
Five easy ways to lower your scores. By Steve Stricker

INSTRUCTION
Swing Sequence: Tim Clark
Tim Clark’s swing isn’t textbook, but it repeats. Analysis by Manny Zerman

Tour Tips: Just gimme one thing
Quick tips from four tour pros.

Ten Rules: Driving
How to drive it longer and straighter. By Nick Price

Breaking 100-90-80
Handling really tough lies. By Rafael Alarcon

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION
A slippery Slope?
This year marks a radical change for Australian club golfers, their handicaps and the way they play the game as the ‘Slope’ system comes into effect. We ask: is it a good move?

PROFILES
Lights! Camera! Action!
Charisma and confidence helped carry James Nitties through an outstanding rookie season on the US PGA Tour, attracting attention in more ways than one.

Second chance
The world ranking says Steve Stricker is better than everyone but Tiger and Phil. Yes, things have changed.

ARCHITECTURE
Fancy facelifts
Examining the Australian golf courses that have undergone facelifts, including The Lakes, the new year’s Australian Open venue.

BACKSPIN
Jack Nicklaus at 70
Golf is a game of a lifetime – the poor shots still sting, and the good ones bring on a smile and a wink.

LONG WEEKEND
Package deals
With a growing number of golf courses placing restrictions on social golfers, the easiest way to play the Gold Coast’s best courses is through those in the know.

TIPS
Tiger Woods
How to hit a draw; the long explosion shot.

Butch Harmon
Return the loft on pitch shots.

Lorena Ochoa
Train your eyes for better putting.

Denis McDade
Pick your putting stroke

David Leadbetter
The key to a good shoulder turn.

Tom Watson
How to shake off bad shots.

EQUIPMENT
New Looks
What kind of putter works best?

Bomb & Gouge
The blurring of iron types, a multi-purpose chipper and oversize putter grips

On Tour: Lefties get it right
Short-changed for years when it came to equipment, southpaws finally get a break.

What's In My Bag
This month: US PGA champion Y.E. Yang.

COLUMNISTS
Adam Scott
How I won the Australian Open

Grant Dodd
Afer Tiger Woods' reign

Dan Jenkins
The Night of the Living Dead golf quiz

Andrew Daddo
Here's to another great year

PLUS MUCH MORE
Also in February...
Won Joon Lee: Where to now?; Best and worst of 2009; Our Player of the Year Awards; Has Tiger Woods’ recent scandal tainted his legacy?; Robert Allenby wins back-to-back; Assessing OneAsia’s entrance into Australia; Gavin Flint escapes the scrub at the Australian Open; Question time for ‘Slugger’ White; Tee with Tiger; Rules – Are you a mudder?; Love your 7-iron; New products for during and after your game; Keeping golfers in golf; All the action from the Australian Open and PGA, plus scores from the NSW PGA and NSW Open; Final moneylists for 2009, part II; Nine tough questions for Cameron Percy.

All this and more in the February edition of Australian Golf Digest, in newsagents January 13.