How Else Can You Read the Green?
Club Member hendricks97 says he tried Camilo's approach to reading greens--but needed help getting up off the green! He's seeking help again from the Forum in trying to find other ways to read greens and lower scores. Give him a hand.
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One of the easiest methods [of hitting a draw] ... is to set up normal and then drop your back foot back an inch or two, but swing along your original body line. This will produce an inside-to-outside swing and produce the draw you're looking for.
-- rookieblue7, Club Ambassador
Aces, Eagles and Age ShootersMy Draining hole-in-one. Read about Club Member Rita Janzen’s doubly draining hole in 1
For Pete's Sake, Dye's a Hall of Famer Once controversial course architect has the last laugh
Pete Dye was little more than a year old when his father, “Pink,” built the nine-hole Urbana Country Club on some hilly Ohio ground 40 miles west of Columbus, which was owned by his wife Elizabeth’s mother. So Pete grew up swinging a golf club and pushing a lawnmower, and when the course staff went away to war in 1941, he became the 16-year-old schoolboy superintendent.
Panhandle Perfection Where you’ll find an eclectic menu of courses
Florida is loaded with golf meccas. Any golfer worth his travel bag knows all about the numerous courses in Ponte Vedra Beach, Orlando and Naples. One part of Florida that doesn’t immediately come to mind when the white dimpled ball is mentioned is the panhandle, the northwestern part of the state that is often given passing mention in golf travel books.