Among golf’s many unique aspects are the seemingly endless variables and conditions it presents, from round to round, hole to hole and even shot to shot. Just when you think you’ve seen it all, you find yourself staring at a situation you’ve never faced before.
A ball buried under a bunker lip.
A shot from a bed of pine straw.
An approach to a green with a “false front.”
At any given time, a golfer might need to adjust to changing weather conditions, like wind, or different playing surfaces, such as wet sand or long grass. On one hole, you find your ball on a hardpan lie. On the next, you’ve got to play over trees. Later, you’re staring at a downhill stance. Then up comes a strong crosswind to throw everything out of whack.
Our Golf Magazine, Playing Advice section is your resource for online tips on handling golf’s ever-shifting demands.
The Golf Magazine online type tips listed to your left, offered in both text and video formats, will prepare you for what to expect on the golf course. (Short answer: anything and everything.) We’ll explain what might happen in a given spot (e.g., from wet grass, iron shots spin less and roll farther) and why (because water gets between the grooves and the ball). And we’ll tell you, in plain English, exactly how to deal with the situation – step by step.
The Golf Magazine Playing Advice section includes tips on tackling various lies and surfaces, from fairway to rough, bunkers to the green. We examine the choice between hitting draws or fades, and explore your options when playing from the trees (it happens to the best golfers).
Reading the wind, deciding when to lay up and when to go for broke, hitting from a water hazard, shaping your strategy to match certain course design features – just a few among dozens of golf topics covered in-depth here at Golf-Info-Guide.com.
Our online Golf Magazine library of golf tips and lessons is constantly expanding, so if you can’t find the advice you’re looking for, drop us a line via the Suggest A Tip function. Just when you think you’ve seen it all, something crazy is bound to happen.
