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Personal Lesson: Stop your chips dead at the hole
Andrew Cooper, Head Teaching Professional at Victoria Golf Club, demonstrates the keys to gaining sufficient elevation and stopping power for chips around the green – a very common skill requirement around the tight lies of the Melbourne Sandbelt, but an action which can be applied on most surfaces around the green.
12 Mar 2025
PGA Personal Lesson: Stop Hitting It Fat (and Thin)
PGA of Australia member and head teaching professional at Commonwealth Golf Club, Marcus Hakkinen, has a simple and effective drill for improving the quality of your ball-striking and eliminating the dreaded fat chunk
16 Jan 2025
PGA Personal Lesson: the lost art of chipping with 5-iron
If you catch vision of Open Championships from the '60s and '70s, you'll see players of the day chipping onto greens with 4- and 5-irons. Chris Hynes, Head Teaching Professional at Sanctuary Lakes, calls it a lost art. And wants to bring it back. And, given its low margin for error and consistent results, particularly in the wind, you may wonder why you'd ever reach for lob-wedge again.
11 Dec 2024
Video Lesson: Sweep the floor when chipping on tight lies
This drill, demonstrated and explained here by PGA professional and Director of Instruction at Kingston Heath, Tom Corker, will teach you to use the sole of the club to make solid contact with the ball – without necessarily striking it first.
30 Nov 2024
PGA Personal Lesson - Andrew Cooper, Victoria GC
You’ve hit the back of the green and are now faced with a long, big-breaking, downhill putt which is well within three-putt territory. The keys from here are process, touch and feel, according to Head Teaching Professional at Victoria GC, Andrew Cooper
19 Nov 2024
Video Lesson: honing the feel of a repeatable putting stroke
Head Professional at Monash Country Club in Sydney's north, Torie Blakemore demonstrates a simple drill to hone the feel of a repeatable putting stroke.
23 Sep 2024
Video Lesson: Hit a stinger into the wind
Head Teaching Professional at Long Reef Golf Club in Sydney, Michael Infanti, offers up a quick tip on how to successfully penetrate a prevailing breeze.
30 Jul 2024
Video Lesson: Make putts with money
Keep your head down, the putter head square, and putt for dough with dough using these two simple drills performed by Cypress Lakes' Head Golf Professional and PGA of Australia member, Scott Cubis.
17 Jul 2024
Video Lesson: Chipping to a tee, with a tee
Many golfers, as soon as they’re over the ball and about to chip, have it in their heads to “lift” the golf ball into the air.
17 Jul 2024
Video Lesson: Hit your flop shots stone dead
You're faced with a tough up and down ... with very little green to work with between a bunker and the flag. What do you do?
19 Apr 2024
Video lesson: The key to perfect alignment
Proper alignment is vital for a good golf swing.
7 Apr 2024
Video lesson: Maximise your driving power with a pitch
Have you ever considered that driving a golf ball off the tee is similar to throwing a ball?
26 Mar 2024
Video lesson: Keep the 'golfer's gateway' open for a better swing
If you are fighting inconsistent ball-striking, where one good shot is followed by three or four bad ones, there is every chance you are closing your golfer’s gateway and restricting a good backswing as a result.
14 Mar 2024
Video lesson: Square up your alignment
If you are wondering why you never seem to hit a straight golf shot, it probably has something to do with your alignment.
14 Feb 2024
Video lesson: Stop hitting chunky shots now
Are you having trouble hitting the ball cleanly?
14 Feb 2024
Video lesson: Brett Rumford reveals how to hit pure pitch shots
Have you ever wondered why Tour pros make pitch shots look so damn easy?
17 Jan 2024
Video lesson: Change your focus to nail all short putts
Missing short putts – particularly within two to three feet of the cup – really stings, not just on the scorecard but also for what it does to your confidence about making these putts.
13 Dec 2023
Video lesson: Turn, don't slide through impact
A lot of golfers move too much in the downswing in order to get more power to hit the ball further.
13 Dec 2023
Video lesson: Drilling good balance through impact
There are two downswing positions that will always leave you unbalanced through impact and are likely to lead to a poor shot.
14 Nov 2023
Video lesson: Roll the rock like Cam Smith
Pace control is one area of putting we can all improve and, if you can get better at dialling in your distance on the greens, your scores will be lower.
14 Nov 2023
Video lesson: The 'lift' killing your bunker play
There is a common cause for most poor bunker shots and it is the inconsistent strike of the sand at impact.
14 Nov 2023
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