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Scotland and Ireland own the conversation, and for good reason. St. Andrews, Muirfield, Royal County Down, Royal Portrush and Ballybunion are as good as advertised — possibly better. The difficulty is that everyone knows it. Tee times open 18 months in advance, and the most coveted are gone within hours. A trip that once felt like a rite of passage now requires the planning of a military operation.

The answer is hiding in plain sight. England. Crazy? Stay with me.

London may be the greatest golf city in the world. Melbourne is in the conversation, but no other city comes close. Within 45 minutes of Heathrow are four courses on GOLF’s World Top 100 list, and unlike New York, Chicago or San Fran, where golf of this caliber sits behind private gates, every one is open to the visiting golfer.

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On the outskirts of the capital, the Surrey Sandbelt takes five days to play. Settle in and the courses — Sunningdale Old and New, St. George’s Hill, Swinley Forest — are 30 minutes apart. The least celebrated of those is ranked No. 57 on our World list. Walton Heath (Old) sits within an hour, and its sibling New Course rewards those who squeeze it into their itinerary. Six world-class rounds, well within reach of the airport. For the golfer with time to spare, the three W’s —Worplesdon, Woking and West Hill — are must-plays too.

For those traveling as a couple, Central London has it all. The hotels are among the finest anywhere. The restaurant scene has long since earned its place among the world’s best. Globally renowned art galleries, shopping, theater and live sports abound. A non-golfing partner will not be kept wanting while you play England’s best.

Two hours from London, the Southeast coast will reset your preconceptions about English golf. Royal St. George’s, Royal Cinque Ports and Prince’s sit side by side on linksland that belongs in the same conversation as any in the British Isles. Add Rye and, for many, the Southeast becomes the whole reason for the trip.

The South may have the glamour, but it doesn’t have all the golf. Four hours north of London, Royal Liverpool, Royal Lytham and Royal Birkdale need no introduction. Hillside, Wallasey and Formby complete a stretch that would be celebrated the world over were it located almost anywhere else.

The tee sheets are open, the courses are in magnificent shape and the golfer who makes the trip to England leaves asking the same question: What took me so long?

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“Heathland citrus.”

Odds are you’ve never heard the term, but it’s how Jim Wagner describes the course he and Gil Hanse recently completed at the southern tip of a sandy ridge that runs for 100 miles through otherwise flat central Florida.

The label fits. In a state where most courses play to type (palm-fringed; real estate–flanked), High Grove bucks and rolls. More than 65 feet of elevation change mark the property, lending uncommon movement to holes that climb and dip across a rumpled canvas.

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The terrain makes High Grove unusual. The setting makes it singular. Most of the holes spill through a working citrus grove, so the air is perfumed with blossoms and the backdrop bustles with handpicking.

A standout stretch from 6 through 9 plays over and along a sandy spine that bisects the site, delivering scenery and shotmaking demands rare for Florida too.

The first 18 opened in December and a short course in March, equidistant from Naples and Jupiter, in a setting that feels both peacefully removed and central to the state’s booming golf belt.

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When you get a look at the green from the fairway, it’s tempting to take dead aim at the flagstick, but it’s not always the best play.

When the pin is guarded by a hazard — like on No. 4 at TPC Sawgrass (see main photo above) — going for it can bring a big number into play. The key to posting a low score is avoiding mistakes rather than pulling off hero shots. Remember these four things when facing a tucked pin.

4 keys to remember when attacking a tucked pin

1. Aim for the fat. Make your target line the widest part of the green. This gives you the largest margin for error. 

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2. Don’t over-curve it. When shaping the shot toward the flagstick, don’t overdo it or you’ll be short-sided (or worse). 

3. Take extra club. It’s smart to take a little more club than the number calls for. Even if you miss your start line, you’ll carry the trouble. 

4. Accept a long putt. There’s nothing wrong with hitting an approach to 45 feet and two-putting. Par will never hurt your scorecard.

Joe Plecker is the director of instruction at The Landings Golf & Athletic Club in Savannah, Ga.

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Earlier this year, I attended the LPGA’s Ford Championship to observe how the best women in the game prepare for their rounds.

It was an enlightening experience — especially when it came to watching World No. 1 Nelly Korda go about her business.

Did she spend ages beating balls on the range, as we rec players tend to do? No. In fact, Korda’s on-course warm-up was relatively short: only 44 minutes from start to finish, yet she managed to touch on every single part of her game.

Needless to say, there’s a lot we can learn from Korda! Check out the minute-by-minute breakdown of her pre-round preparation below.

Nelly Korda’s minute-by-minute pre-round warm-up

When: March 27, 2026

Where: Ford Championship

11:57 a.m. Korda arrives at the putting green.

11:59 a.m. Short putts first. Korda begins with a tee-gate drill that her caddie set up before her arrival. Various distances are already marked, with the longest tee mark about 10 feet from the hole. Korda concludes her putting work with a few shorties on a stroke-training mat.

12:10 p.m. Range warm-up begins with an alignment stick and easy wedges, working up to short irons.

12:20 p.m. Mid-irons, hybrids and fairway woods.

12:27 p.m. A few swipes with the driver, before finishing with a couple more easy wedges.

12:31 p.m. Short chips and bunker shots.

12:36 p.m. Korda heads back to the putting green to hit a few 30-footers to various targets.

12:41 p.m. That’s a wrap — and a short walk to the 1st tee for a 12:50 p.m. tee time.

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Every rec player wants to hit chip shots that take one hop and stop on a dime.

Good news: It’s easier than it looks. The key is combining an open clubface with a downward angle of attack, and both are achievable with a few simple setup adjustments.

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Start by grabbing your highest-lofted wedge and positioning the ball slightly forward in your stance, just below your lead eye. To promote a steeper attack angle, use a modified grip: place all five fingers of your trail hand on the club, then set the index finger of your lead hand over the pinkie of your trail hand to create a reverse overlap. Finally, rotate your trail hand slightly on top of the grip to encourage a more descending angle of attack.

From there, make an up-and-down chipping motion and focus on striking the back of the ball cleanly. Done correctly, the ball will check quickly and stop—just like it does for the pros.

Jeff Smith is director of instruction at The Vintage Club in Indian Wells, Calif., and Pine Canyon Golf Club, in Flagstaff, Ariz.

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There are basically two types of golfers: tilters and horizontal golfers. If you don’t know which one you are, you’ll always struggle.

Tilters use a lot of side bend in the downswing and through impact. Think of guys like Dustin Johnson or Joaquín Niemann: At impact, the right side of their torso bends to the side, lowering the back shoulder as their lead side moves upward. It’s a great way to swing the club, but many golfers get stuck trying it and even get hurt doing it.

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Making more of a horizontal swing works just as well. Picture Bryson DeChambeau or Google Walter Hagen’s classic swings. These players are less worried about creating side bend than getting through the ball using a flatter swing that levels out as they rotate.

Experiment! At the range, try adding more side bend (see main image on left). Then try more rotation (main image on right). The results will speak for themselves.

Check out a video on how to use tilt or rotation in your swing below.

E.A. Tischler (@eatischler) is the founder of New Horizons Golf Approach, cofounder of BioSwing Dynamics and director of instruction at The Woodlands CC, The Woodlands, Texas.

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Want more power and control to your swing? Make what I call a “centered” turn, something you can learn quickly with this easy drill.

Stand in front of a mirror at home without a club. Use a dry-erase pen to draw a straight vertical line on the mirror. While standing erect, position your body so that when you look in the mirror, the line you’ve drawn runs straight from your shirt buttons to your belt buckle. 

Now, tilt to your forward side with your upper body and touch your front knee with your target-side hand, letting your pelvis “bump” a little away from the target [1]. Then fold your arms across your chest [2]. Rotate back [3] and finally extend your arms like you’re at the top of your backswing [4]. The trick is to do all this without the center of your body moving off the line on the mirror. A good thing to think about as you perform this drill: Whatever direction your shirt buttons go, your belt buckle moves opposite.

The Hall of Fame instructor Jack Grout knew decades ago about the importance of a centered turn, so much so that he would often grab hold of a young Jack Nicklaus’ hair to keep him from moving off the line. (Story goes that Nicklaus got a crew cut so Grout couldn’t do that anymore.) It’s an easy drill that pays big dividends

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Time — and hundreds of major championship winners — has proven that there’s no “perfect” wrist position at the top. You can be cupped, bowed or neutral. They all work, but only within the dynamics of your swing. 

Here’s how to know what’s right for you.

Neutral wrist

Definition: A neutral wrist means the lead wrist stays flat — not bowed or cupped — throughout the swing. It’s a foundational piece of many technically sound, “classic” swings and is often paired with a neutral grip. 

Pros who use it: Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Adam Scott, Ludvig Åberg

How to square the face: From a neutral position, squaring the face is a blend of weight shift and torso rotation. Players shift pressure into the lead side early, then rotate the torso through the shot. As the rib cage unwinds, it exerts a force through the shaft that helps push the clubhead outward, encouraging natural forearm rotation, which is what squares the face. With this motion, the shaft leans slightly forward at impact, but not excessively. It’s a balanced impact condition that allows for both control and versatility.

Advantages: The neutral wrist gives players a lot of freedom in the downswing. Because the face isn’t overly closed or open at the top, you don’t have to rely on timing or other compensations to square it. It also makes it easier to preserve each club’s intended loft, which is particularly helpful for players who want to maintain consistent trajectories throughout the bag. It encourages natural release, solid contact and fluid motion.

Disadvantages: The biggest risk with a neutral wrist is letting the face get too open at the top. This often happens when the wrist overextends or collapses during the backswing. If the clubface opens too much, it puts more pressure on the player to time the rotation of the forearms precisely during the downswing. Without proper rotation and sequencing, the result can be blocks or weak fades.

Ways to work on your swing: Try a split-hand drill. Grip the club as if you’re a hockey player getting prepped to hit a slap shot. As you make your turn to the top, feel as if the clubhead is “light” as it works back on plane. Let your arms fall naturally as you shift into the lead side, then allow your torso to rotate through. This blend of movement keeps the clubface square and synced with your body. Good sequencing is the major key.

Bowed wrist

Definition: A bowed wrist — aka a flexed wrist — is when the lead wrist is angled upward at the top of the swing. This position closes the clubface relative to the swing path and is often adopted by players looking to preset the impact position early in the swing. 

Pros who use it: Collin Morikawa, Dustin Johnson, Jon Rahm, Xander Schauffele

How to square the face: Because the clubface is already closed at the top, players who use this wrist position don’t need to rely as much on forearm rotation on the way down. Instead, they create speed and squareness through powerful lower-body movement and aggressive torso rotation. They shift hard into the lead leg and create side bend through the torso to keep the club on plane. Timing and sequencing are everything. If they don’t rotate enough — or if they stall their body — the face can shut down.

Advantages: The biggest upside of a bowed wrist is its efficiency in setting up impact. With the lead wrist already in flexion, players can deliver the club with forward shaft lean, which promotes crisp contact and a strong, low-spin ball flight. It’s also an ideal pattern for players who favor a fade, since the closed face combined with a leftward swing path produces a reliable left-to-right shape.

Disadvantages: The downside is that this move isn’t easy to repeat. It requires excellent athleticism, strength and flexibility to pull off consistently. Because the wrist is so bowed at the top, the shaft can lean excessively forward at impact, de-lofting the club and making it harder to launch the ball high. Players who mistime the rotation or try to flip the club back to square risk missing left — and badly.

Ways to work on your swing: This style often starts with a strong grip, but the key is not to overdo it. Here’s how to keep things in check and strike it solid time and again. Place an alignment stick through your belt loops and turn to the top of your swing. Initiate the downswing by shifting into your lead side, then fire your hips to open them through impact, getting the alignment stick to point left of your target. This promotes a ball flight that starts left and fades back to the right.

Cupped wrist

Definition: 3. A cupped wrist — or wrist extension — is when the lead wrist bends forward at the top of the swing, opening the clubface relative to the swing path.

Pros who use it: Shane Lowry, Webb Simpson, Will Zalatoris

How to square the face: From a cupped position at the top, players must actively flatten the wrist and rotate their body hard through impact. The combination of forearm rotation and torso unwinding is what squares the clubface. This motion typically happens later in the downswing, so timing is essential. If the wrists don’t flatten or the rotation doesn’t happen in time, the clubface can remain open, leading to weak fades or slices.

Advantages: One of the main benefits of a cupped wrist is that it creates a wide, flowing motion — especially with longer clubs. It often feels more “free-wheeling” and athletic, giving players a sense of rhythm and fluidity. It also encourages a higher launch with more spin, which can be a huge asset for players who need help getting the ball in the air.

Disadvantages: Because the face is open at the top, it needs to close more aggressively through impact. That means more room for error. If the timing of the rotation is off — or if the player tries to “save” the shot with their hands — it can lead to a flip through impact and inconsistent strikes. The clubface can stay open too long or close too quickly, creating volatility in both direction and contact.

Ways to work on your swing: Start by managing your arm depth. Try to avoid lifting your arms too vertically during the backswing. Instead, let them move around your body and get a little deeper. This shallows the shaft and makes it easier to rotate from the inside. During the downswing, feel like you’re falling slightly into your lead side while spinning through the shot. That combination of pressure shift and rotation allows the wrist to naturally flatten and the face to square on time — without needing a flip.

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You slice. You catch it fat from the fairway. Your game: riddled with a two-way miss. With my plan, that’s all part of your golfing past.

Below, you’ll learn how to nix these errors and get a ton more consistent in your ball striking. It’s a plan that I feel works for everyone — from struggling rec player to the golfers you see on TV each weekend. It’s based on always getting back to a solid impact position, something you can do by rehearsing impact first. Then you’ll be growing the swing to add more speed and power.

In this special edition of GOLF instruction, I’ll show you how to do just that in five easy steps, starting with learning what proper impact should look and feel like while incrementally adding width and speed to your overall swing. They are proven fundamentals that will not only help you, but also give some structure and insight to your regular practice sessions. Guided practice is the best practice, more so than simply swinging for the fences when you’re at the range. Follow along and at the start of the new season, your golfing buddies won’t believe what they’re seeing. Neither will you.

STEP 1: REHEARSE IMPACT WITH A LOWER- CASE ‘y’

In order to achieve perfect impact, you need to know what it looks and feels like. That’s Step 1 in this learning session. So … with a wedge, follow these steps:

1. With a ball set slightly forward of center, ground your club while setting about 80 percent of your weight on your front foot.

2. Push your tailbone back and rotate your hips 40 to 45 degrees open — as if you’re getting them “out of the way” for the moment you strike the ball.

3. Call this the Holy Grail of impact: Press your hands forward without moving anything else, adding some bend to your trail wrist while keeping your lead arm straight. You know you did it right if your arms, hands and club form a lowercase ‘y’, as you see in the photo above.

4. As you get into these positions, mind your head — set the right side of your face behind the ball. As you’ve probably experienced in your golfing career, moving your head too far in front of the ball tends to lead to a ton of swing misery.

5. Once you’re set, stick a tee between your trail arm and your torso, right in your armpit. Create pressure between your arm and your body to hold the tee in place. Subtle, but this trail arm and body connection is one of the true keys to producing solid strikes, as you’ll learn in Step 2 below.

If you can copy what you see here, you’re on the fast track to better ball striking and lower scores. Practice these impact alignments as much as you can. You can spend time at the range as well as at home grooving this. In the next step, you’ll learn how to guide your swing through this A-plus position.

STEP 2: SWING LOWERCASE “y” TO CAPITAL “Y”

Once you have nailed the look and feel of a proper impact position in Step 1, it’s time to add some motion to your overall swing. We’ll start small and work into fuller motions in the proceeding steps.

To put this in action: It’s time to reset your lowercase ‘y’ impact position, then smoothly rotate back. The goal here is to transport the lowercase ‘y’ you formed in your mock impact position to a one-third backswing (top photo avove). All you need is a slight shoulder turn and moving a bit of weight from your front foot to your trail foot. Important: Don’t swing past this length at this point in the overall exercise.

Once you’ve set your lowercase ‘y’ mini- backswing, hit the ball, swinging your arms and turning as normal, but cutting off your finish to the point where the club is parallel to the ground (bottom photo above). Check that you’ve posted up solidly on your lead leg. Your wrists will have just a slight re-hinge. This combination of body turn and arm extension is a hallmark of great players. You’ll know you did it correctly when you move from a lowercase ‘y’ to a capital ‘Y’ position.

Big key: Keep the connection between your trail arm and your torso, pinching the tee in your armpit firmly. This is critical to managing your body structure as well as keeping you on plane through the strike.

You’re not looking for big hits here, just solid strikes as you work on your lowercase ‘y’ to capital ‘Y’ motion. If you’re like most of my students, you’ll feel like you’re compressing the ball like never before, even with a “mini-swing.”

Dedicate at least a full range bucket to this drill before even thinking about adding length to your motion.

STEP 3: BUILD AN ADDRESS POSITION THAT FUELS SOLD IMPACT

Suggestion: Start every one of your practice sessions with Steps 1 and 2. You’ll build the ability to create solid ball-first contact every time.

But knowing you can’t play this game in “drill mode,” it’s now time to build an address position that best allows you to achieve the four key impact fundamentals without even thinking. Here’s what to do, in four easy steps:

1. Stand erect with any iron, hinging your wrist to get the club parallel with the ground while keeping both arms snug against your sides. Put the club level to your belt buckle.

2. Without changing anything else, extend your hands away from your body. Checkpoint: The distance between the butt of the grip and your body should equal the distance between your thumb and pinkie when both splayed.

3. Again, without changing anything else, simply bend from your hips and sole the club against the ground. Think “back straight” and “arms relaxed.” You’re looking good.

4. To complete the process, simply add a bit of knee flex. You’re now in a position that is balanced and ready to dynamically move. Once you’re set, take your trail hand off the club and splay your hand with pinkie and thumb open wide. Use this gauge to make sure the distance between the club and your body hasn’t changed since Step 1 in this drill.

You need to practice these steps to build your great setup. By doing so, you’re in an excellent position to catch it crisp every time.

STEP 4: SWING CAPITAL ‘L’ TO CAPITAL ‘L’

So far this lesson has focused on the main requirements of Tour-level impact with what you need to do at address to make it all possible. But, as every golfer knows, this is a power game. At some point you need to learn how to add speed without losing the fundamentals of impact and setup address in Steps 1 to 3.

Enter Step 4: adding serious mph to your lowercase ‘y’ swing. Easy. To get it right, get into your address posture, but this time with an alignment rod held snug between your hands and whatever iron you’ve chosen to swing.

Get set, take the club back, and now you’re building more length to the swing. You’re using the alignment rod to check your ‘L’ positions and to groove a great swing plane. In the backswing, the ‘L’ should point at or slightly inside the ball target line. On the through swing, it should return back and point at the target line again. When using the alignment rod, move slowly back and through to check your angles. This is not about speed; there’s a reason why this is called the “punisher drill.” If you don’t do it correctly, you will hit yourself with the stick. Go slowly to work on the motion, then you can take the rod away and simply swing the club from ‘L’ to ‘L’. This is where the perfect “snap” release lives — the swish! You can also practice this drill only swinging the alignment stick, and you’ll really hear the speed firing up! If you fight a slice with the dreaded chicken wing through the ball, you’re definitely not doing this!

This is how you begin building speed correctly.

STEP 5: GET YOUR SHOULDERS IN ACTION BY TURNING TO ‘THE WALL’

The four drills discussed thus far are your fast track to better strikes and more speed. There’s just one more element as you work on each during your training sessions and that’s turn.

A great way to practice this is to set up in your address position [1], with an alignment stick set perpendicular to your target line just inside your trail foot.

As you move from your dynamic address and start building your capital ‘L’ [2], you’re now going to focus on turning both shoulders to the rod while keeping the ‘L’ shape intact [3]. I call this turning to the “imaginary wall.”

Think of the alignment stick on the ground as a thin vertical wall that is running through your trail shoulder at address. Your upper body and lower body are fully coiled to it. As you can see in the picture [3], my lead shoulder and the edge
of my trail hip are both stacked over the rod. We’re now in a fantastic spot to let things unleash back through a great impact [4]. This move is a bona fide swing accelerator and usually the one that separates good golfers from those who can really mash it.

Go in slow motion at first if you need to, but once you groove creating that capital ‘L’ in your backswing and moving it all the way to a solid top position with your shoulder and hip turn, the ball won’t know what hit it.

All the while, keep in mind that your primary goal is to deliver the club through a great impact position, no matter how far back your body allows you to turn.

It’s a process — go step by step. Soon, you’ll be striping it better than ever. There’s one more letter to keep in mind: a capital T.

ONE MORE MOVE: MAKE A “T” AT THE FINISH

Practice your impact position, creating the lowercase ‘y’ with your arms, club and hands. Build your swing from lowercase ‘y’ to uppercase ‘Y’. Then, move ‘L’ to ‘L’, stretching your swing by keeping all of these elements intact while finishing the full turn.

We’re now moving on to the full finish: the capital ‘T’. As you turn fully through, your trail shoulder will be closer to the target and you will be fully balanced on your lead leg, with your hands above your lead shoulder. Your body is facing the target. If you do it right, your body and the club will magically form the letter ‘T’ as you see here.

As I tell my players, you’ve done all the hard work in practice that builds a great impact. Now you’ve earned the right to let it go.

Brech Spradley is the owner and director of instruction at Barton Creek Golf Academy in Austin, Texas.

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The key to powerful shots is knowing where and, more importantly, when to create pressure in your swing.

I have an easy way to explain both by using a homemade training aid (a streamer wrapped around the hosel of my driver) to explain.

At the start, the takeaway, the clubhead moves back, away from the target, and by the end of the backswing, it has traveled back toward the target. The secret to applying pressure to create power is moving your pressure with the clubhead. So, as you take the club back, away from your target, your pressure (or, if you prefer, your weight) should do likewise.

In the photo above, you can see (with the help of the streamer) that the club is moving away from the target and that I’ve matched this move by shifting my pressure away from the target, into my trail leg.

As soon as your club reaches parallel to the ground in your backswing, however, the clubhead actually starts its journey toward the target, culminating at the top of your backswing. So it’s at this point — the first time the club gets parallel to the ground — when you need to begin shifting forward.

This might be earlier than you’ve ever imagined. Timing this pressure shift (from back to front) turns on the jets on your down-swing. Bombs away!

Dom DiJulia is director of instruction at Jericho National GC in New Hope, Pa.

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