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Golf Instruction / Breaking 100/90/80

One of the simplest ways to develop distance and accuracy doesn't even involve swinging a club. Make some practice swings from your regular setup with a standard kitchen broom. The weight of the broom won't let you make the arms-only swings that many players use on the course.

January 2012

By Kevin Weeks

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Golf Instruction / Breaking 100/90/80

One of the simplest ways to develop distance and accuracy doesn't even involve swinging a club. Make some practice swings from your regular setup with a standard kitchen broom. The weight of the broom won't let you make the arms-only swings that many players use on the course.

January 2012

By Kevin Weeks

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Golf Instruction / Breaking 100/90/80

Shoulder turn is tough to monitor on your own because you can't see yourself swing. To get the next-best thing, slide one of those alignment aids or sticks—I use the ones the hardware store sells as driveway guides for snow plowing—through the sleeves of your shirt so it runs along the top of your shoulders.

January 2012

By Kevin Weeks

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Golf Instruction / Breaking 80

For golfers trying to gauge greenside shots, a system is necessary for feeling how much swing creates how much shot. Enter Goldilocks.

August 2011

By Tim Cooke

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Golf Instruction / Breaking 100

Rehearse a baseball or T-ball swing, keeping the shaft as parallel to the ground as possible and below your shoulders as you go back and through.

August 2011

By Tim Cooke

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Golf Instruction / Breaking 90

Your body must rotate around your front foot so your hands can remain firm, and not flip, through impact.

August 2011

By Tim Cooke

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Golf Instruction / Breaking 100

Play the ball just forward of center, with your stance slightly open and your sternum more over your left foot.

July 2011

By Mark Immelman

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Golf Instruction / Breaking 80

Better players should understand how the bounce and belly features of a sand wedge affect trajectory.

July 2011

By Mark Immelman

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Golf Instruction / Breaking 90

If you're struggling from greenside bunkers, be mindful that the more you cut across the ball from out to in with a wide-open clubface, the more sidespin you impart on it.

July 2011

By Mark Immelman

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Golf Instruction / Breaking 70

If you want to break par, when you're on the course you have to be a player, not a student of the swing. With the elite players we teach, we ask them to place a physical "line of commitment" on the ground behind the ball for every practice session.

June 2007

By Lynn Marriot and Pia Nilsson