On-Course Strategy

Scoring without swinging better: club selection, avoiding big numbers, and the mental side.

10 guides

Golf Course Management: How to Play the Percentages

Every shot on a golf course has a price in strokes, and it is knowable. Course management is nothing more than paying attention to that price before you swing rather than afterwards.

13 min read

Beginner

First Tee Nerves: How to Play Golf Under Pressure

The first tee is the only shot in golf with an audience, a queue and no warm-up shot before it. The feeling is not the problem. What the feeling talks you into is.

11 min read

Beginner

Golf Warm Up: A 10 Minute Plan and a 40 Minute One

The advice assumes you arrived an hour early. You arrived twelve minutes before the tee time with a coffee, and there is still a right way to spend them.

10 min read

Intermediate

Golf Club Selection: How to Choose the Right Club

Most golfers choose a club from the yardage on the sprinkler head and the best shot they ever hit with it. Tracked data says both inputs are wrong, and in the same direction.

11 min read

Intermediate

Golf Mental Game: How to Actually Stay Focused

One loose shot rarely costs a round on its own. What costs a round is the three shots that follow it, played by a golfer still arguing with the first one.

11 min read

Intermediate

Golf Swing Thoughts: What to Think About, and When

The swing lasts about a second and a half. Conscious instruction arrives too late to change any of it, which is why the golfer with three swing thoughts plays worse than the one with none.

10 min read

Intermediate

How to Avoid Big Numbers in Golf: Damage Control

One bad shot costs one shot. It becomes a seven when the next decision tries to win the whole thing back at once, which is the part that is genuinely fixable.

11 min read

Intermediate

How to Play a Par 5: The Strategy the Data Supports

A par 5 hands you a spare shot and then asks for two long ones to earn it. It is the hole where the widest gap in amateur golf shows up, in both directions.

11 min read

Intermediate

Intermediate Golf: The Complete Guide

The golfer who shoots 94 does not need a new swing. They need to stop turning three bad decisions and one loose wedge into a card full of sixes.

19 min read

Advanced

Advanced Golf: The Complete Guide

Good ball strikers stall at the same place: the swing is fine, the scores are not. What is left is proximity, scrambling, and the ability to produce a specific shot when it matters.

20 min read