What if you could make lasting improvement with less than an hour of putting practice each week? Sports biomechanist Dr Sasho MacKenzie says it’s possible, as long as you practise the right way.
As an unrepentant golf nerd endlessly obsessed with the minute details of the swing, Brooks Koepka seemed to be the antithesis of everything I found most fascinating.
You could have the best putting stroke in the world, but it’s not going to help much if you’re not aiming correctly so you should double-check what you’re doing is working.
According to one teacher, consistently ripping gloves in the heel pad is a major warning sign – not that you’re playing too much golf, but that you’re fighting a common swing flaw.
When you try to smash a lob wedge, you really only hit the ball higher, not further, and higher brings more variables into play and means you have to fly the ball right to your target.
This putting game was so difficult that a PGA Tour winner actually got a little heated when he was doing it. But he got hooked, and if you do it, it’ll make you a better putter.
Australian Golf Digest
