The eight-time European Tour winner offers his thoughts on how to combat some common golfing woes and improve your all-round game
I’m not trying to be funny, but I would say try to hit a draw! Feeling the difference between the two is key.
2 Reading greens
Read your putts in sections. Start close, then work your way back through it and pick your spots. Try to then hit your spot in every section. So if you have a ten-footer, divide it into three sections.
3 Match play
Don’t give anything away! I don’t mean don’t give short putts if they are stone dead – I mean just don’t give any holes away. People think you’ve got to make pars or birdies to win a hole, but that’s not always the case. Sometimes even bogey is good enough. Anything can happen in match play and you’ve got to make them work for it. So just make sure you’re always in the hole – it doesn’t always have to be a birdie or an eagle!
This story is from the June 2018 edition of Golf Monthly.
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