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Golf's odd club rules explained
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 08/10/2025
» Here's a confusing rule that l would like to hopefully make clearer. You're allowed to carry up to fourteen clubs for a round of golf. However, you can have fewer -- just one if you wish. There is no restriction on the type of clubs you carry so long as they conform to the Rules of Golf. For example, you can carry multiple putters, multiple drivers, or some left-handed clubs and some right-handed clubs. If you start a round with fourteen clubs, you are generally limited to those clubs for the rest of the round, even if you lose one. But if you break one you can continue using that damaged club, replace it, or have it repaired, if possible. If you start a round with fewer than fourteen clubs, you can add clubs during the round until you reach fourteen, but you must not delay play in doing so.
Old tricks and new science in green reading
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 27/08/2025
» I have to be honest and say that the 'Feet Feeling Method' for finding the break in a putt has never excited me. This involves using your feet to feel the slope of the green while you walk around it. The Plumb Bob Method in finding the line of any putt involves using your putter as a plumb line to judge the slope. To do this, you need to stand behind your ball, at a right angle to the hole, and hold up your putter so it covers the ball. Then, you align the shaft of your putter with the ball. If the shaft seems to tilt to one side, it indicates that the green also slopes in that direction and you then allow for this.
Beat the heat! Smart tips for thriving
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 26/02/2025
» Let's face it, practising in Thailand's heat is not the most pleasurable of activities. Therefore, a little bit of thought needs to be implemented into the task of fine tuning or refining a new movement. Psychologically we must approach making a movement change, over a certain amount of time, with the realisation that there will be a measurable number of strange looking shots before improvement can be seen.
Master your putting and transform your game in '25
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 08/01/2025
» Let's start the New Year off with something very basic 'Putting' -- as whether we like it or not for the average golfer, half of golf is putting. Top players earning their living on Tour only use up around 26, 27 or 28 putts per round. This basically relates to two putts every other hole and just one putt for the hole in between.
Douglas Brasier inducted into Sweden's Hall of Fame
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 24/07/2024
» A good drill for developing the feel for distance is to putt a ball 30 feet. Then putt the next one 29 feet. Then 28 feet, and so on. An average golfer misses short putts because of fear or a lack of concentration. Instead of just stroking the putt into the hole, he or she is thinking about any number of things -- including other players who are watching for the result. Don't guide short putts into the hole, the right way is to approach a short putt from behind and line it up. If you decide it breaks two inches left of the cup, then that's where you want to strike it -- not jerk it into the hole.
Perfect your putting: Tips for mastering the greens
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 10/07/2024
» When practising on the putting green, always choose a level area, or perhaps somewhere where you'll be putting slightly uphill. It's true that a ball that never reaches the cup never goes in, but neither does the ball that goes past it.
Aim at something with your practice swing
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 24/01/2024
» Golf's best players understand the immense importance of the short game. They put as many hours into their full swings as they do wedges, chipping, sand play and putting, as they know this will lead to better scores. Practising hard on your chipping and putting can bring your score down fast, it's up to you. The trouble is that so many golfers think that practising the short game is hard work, that's why so few of us do it.
It's possible to be good with a weird swing
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 15/01/2023
» For every piece of golf advice telling you to do one thing, you can find another that contradicts it.
Many tips from average golfers are useless
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 08/01/2023
» If you regularly practise around other golfers or play with a regular group of friends, you're going to be offered tips all the time.
Do not rush your swings
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 25/12/2022
» It is easy to rush a golf swing as we are all trying to hit the ball a significant distance, especially if you are standing on the tee with others watching, so it is only natural to swing as hard and fast as possible.