If you want to shave strokes around the green, get lost in our in-depth instruction articles focused on the short game.
The side-saddle putting method may be making a comeback thanks to Bryson DeChambeau. The “golf scientist” has been well known in golf circles for a while now after a wildly successful amateur career including becoming only the fifth player ever to win both the US Amateur and the NCAA Division 1 Championship in the same year. But … Read more
There is no shortage of chipping tips and advice for your short game on this site (see here, here, here, here, here just to name a few). When you find yourself missing a green in regulation, you also have no shortage of decisions to make. You need to choose the type of shot to play, the club with which … Read more
Accuracy and consistently around the greens is no doubt something that can keep 20-handicappers from becoming 10-handicappers, and 10-handicappers from becoming single-digit handicappers. No matter your skill level, wouldn’t you love to be able to manage your distance control around the green just a little bit better? If the answer to the above is an emphatic YES(!), then … Read more
In the final video of Lakewood Golf’s 6-part series, Fox Hollow and Homestead Head Golf Pro Craig Parzybok shares tips for making more short putts. Joining him in the series are Denver Broncos Ring of Fame wide receiver Haven Moses, Lakewood’s Kim Montague and Colorado AvidGolfer‘s own associate publisher Chris Phillips. Perhaps the most frustrating occurrence on a golf course is … Read more
In the fifth video of Lakewood Golf’s 6-part series, Fox Hollow and Homestead Head Golf Pro Craig Parzybok shares tips for long putts along with Denver Broncos Ring of Fame wide receiver Haven Moses, Lakewood’s Kim Montague and Colorado AvidGolfer‘s own associate publisher Chris Phillips. If you’ve watched the first four videos in this series, you’ve seen tips to help … Read more
In the fourth video of Lakewood Golf’s 6-part series, Fox Hollow and Homestead Head Golf Pro Craig Parzybok shares chipping tips along with Denver Broncos Ring of Fame wide receiver Haven Moses, Lakewood’s Kim Montague and Colorado AvidGolfer‘s own associate publisher Chris Phillips. Chipping. It’s an area of the game that even Parzybok confesses is the scariest shot for … Read more
While players on the PGA Tour average over 50 percent in the sand save category, the majority of amateurs consider it an accomplishment just to save bogey. That may be because they think of bunkers as “traps” to escape. When I work with new students on greenside bunker shots, I can tell by their body … Read more
Have you ever had a putt break in the opposite direction you thought it would—even defying gravity as it went “uphill”? Have you ever read a putt completely differently from behind the hole than from behind the ball? Do you think putts always move away from the mountains or towards a creek or valley? Our … Read more
In the third installment of Lakewood Golf’s 6-part series, Fox Hollow and Homestead Head Golf Pro Craig Parzybok shares tips for getting out of the bunker. Among those joining him is Denver Broncos Ring of Fame wide receiver Haven Moses along with Lakewood’s Kim Montague and our own associate publisher Chris Phillips. It’s no secret that many … Read more
Whether trying to break 70 or 100, perhaps the #1 nemesis of a good round is the dreaded three putt. So what’s the best way to make more putts? Leave your second putt closer to the hole. Sure the pros impress us with the booming drives, spectacular iron play, and making the 15-footer seem like … Read more
