COVER STORY
The Power Issue
Add 38 metres now!
Our testing shows the key to power is hitting from the inside. By Mike Stachura

Learn to swing in to out
My tips for beating the over-the-top downswing and putting more ‘pop’ in your tee shots. By Rick Smith

We asked the tour pros
How they hit it so far and how you can, too.

INSTRUCTION
Swing Sequence: Lorena Ochoa
The women’s world No.1 is doing what she’s always tried to do: Beat everyone. Analysis by Rafael Alarcon

TIPS
Tiger Woods
My two basics for chipping it close

Annika Sorenstam
Here’s how I hit the standard bunker shot

David Leadbetter
Practise with a milk carton to improve your takeaway

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION
Golf 2010
Assorted people from the Australian golf industry give their opinion on what the game in Australia needs – right now.

PROFILE
Home truths
When Marcus Fraser returns home to the Murray River town of Corowa, it’s usually with rest and relaxation on his mind. The people closest to him, however, would dearly love the 30-year-old to take golf’s next step.

ARCHITECTURE
Top 100 Courses
Every two years some excellent Australian golf courses miss out on inclusion in our Top 100 Courses ranking. Here are the ones that our judges feel were most hard done by in 2008.

RYDER CUP PREVIEW
The Ryder Cup, my way
Jack Nicklaus discusses the matches, course, captains, pressure and who will win.

SPECIAL REPORT
Living on the Fairway
Our annual update of Australia’s golf-course residential developments looks at how course architects tackle design projects with a residential component.

BRITISH OPEN REPORT
Gone with the wind
Greg Norman’s bid for an improbable third British Open title came up short as Padraig Harrington closed like a champion.

COLUMNISTS
Adam Scott
Nursing injuries and golf ailments

Grant Dodd
All the small things

Andrew Daddo
Going mental over bad golf

EQUIPMENT
Steel futures
A perfect steel shaft?

New looks
Another hybrid theory

Fit me up!
Club manufacturers and retailers go to great lengths to entice the average golfer into buying the newest equipment. But what’s actually involved in getting clubs custom fitted?

On Tour: Recalling wooden woods
Today’s tour pros (those who remember it anyway) don’t exactly pine for persimmon.

What’s in my bag
This month: Stewart Cink

PLUS MUCH MORE
Also in September...
Camilo Villegas’ sand blast at the British Open; Visiting Byron Bay Golf Club; It was a revitalised Greg Norman who almost stole the British Open; Sir Bob Charles joins the World Golf Hall of Fame; This year’s WGC events show how the series favours the US and European circuits; One family’s dream golf backyard; Recalling Sandy Lyle’s faux pas; Venting at on-course residents; Is it a mistake to raise the maximum club handicap for men to 36?; How to handle obstructions; Left-brain vs right-brain golfers; Karen Quinn swaps playing for caddieing in Europe; Look like a pro; Rachel Hetherington’s advice for kids; LPGA veteran Juli Inkster on travel tips; More superstretches; Meet the Brandt Snedeker you don’t know.

All this and more in the September edition of Australian Golf Digest, in newsagents August 13.