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    2 Most Common Causes Of Penalty Strokes

    Aside from knocking your ball into a hazard or out-of-bounds area, the two ways most commonly found to pile up the penalty strokes are from lost balls and unplayable lies.

    When you hit the ball in a wooded area on the side of the fairway, and the location is not considered to be out-of-bounds, you can dig around and try your best to find the ball. In doing so, one of the following three things is bound to happen:

    1. You may find the ball and then attempt to hit it onto the fairway.

    2. The ball might be located in an unplayable lie, which means that there is no chance to make a shot. You're only two options are to pick up the ball and move over by two club lengths or hit the ball again from where you originally took your last shot. Either way, you pick up a one-stroke penalty.

    3. The ball may not be easy enough to find, and can be declared lost. This means that you have to go back to the area where you hit your last shot, shoot over, and take a penalty stroke.

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    • Archive for March, 2009

    How To Master The Fairway Bunker Shot

    Monday, March 30th, 2009

    Don’t you despise an excellent drive that suddenly turns bad? One of the most common examples is when the ball ends up in a fairway bunker. When this happens to you, your number one priority is to get out of the bunker, and the lie has the most say in that matter.
    If the ball is [...]

    How To Be A Master Pitch Player

    Friday, March 13th, 2009

    The differences between a pitch shot and the chip shot can be summed up in 3 main points:
    1) The amount of time the ball is airborne.
    2) How high the ball is while in the air.
    3) The amount of backspin on the ball.
    The ball stays in the air longer because of the length of the swing [...]

    6 Short Game Tips Professional Golfers Use

    Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

    A decent short game means having good technique, an eye for distance, and most important, a creative imagination. Check out these professional short game tips that anyone can use to improve their golf game:
    When Chipping, Pay Attention To Posture
    You rarely hear about posture when it comes to chip shots. However, as most PGA professionals will [...]

    5 Short Game Tips Professional Golfers Use

    Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

    Do you think that professional golfers are so accurate that they send every tee-off directly where they want it to go, and every shot on the green perfectly? The answer is no, thus the reason why the pros place so much emphasis on mastering the most important shots in golf – the short game.
    Chipping Is [...]

    5 Putting Tips From The Professionals

    Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

    Putting has often been said to be a game all on its own and, to a certain degree, that’s very true. The skills needed to get in the perfect stroke downhill, on a slope, or with the perfect curve of the green, bear little resemblance to all the other shots made from the tee or [...]