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One wrong score for a hole can end your round
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 15/10/2025
» If you return a scorecard with a wrong score for a hole; the score you entered stands if it was higher than your actual score. However, you are disqualified if you return a score that is lower than your actual score or if you fail to return a score for a hole. Putting down a lower score is considered a serious breach of the rules and results in disqualification, unless an unknown penalty was the cause. Some professional tours have adopted a rule that gives players a 15-minute window to correct an incorrect score after leaving the scoring area.
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.
Choosing the right putter is important
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 20/08/2025
» Putters come in many shapes and sizes: blade putters and mallet putters. Some are more traditional, have a simple design and are often favoured by 'feel' putters who rely more on their intuition and touch. Mallet putters have larger heads and offer more forgiveness on off-centre hits, making them ideal for golfers who prefer a 'straight-back-straight-through' stroke.
Planets align perfectly for down-to-earth Lee
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 29/03/2023
» Golfer Danny Lee emigrated from South Korea to New Zealand at the age of 8 and went on to become the youngest winner of the US Amateur in 2008.
Horschel has ideas that are interesting
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 24/11/2021
» I have expressed my view for ages about the fact that the rich are just getting richer on the PGA and European Tours whilst many are making a very good living from arguably mediocre golf, and it seems that now Billy Horschel has ideas on how to make the PGA Tour a more compelling and competitive product and how to strengthen the circuit by reducing the number of available tour cards.
Things aren't so good for Mr Pars on tough PGA Tour
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 12/07/2020
» Thank you all for the positive feedback on introducing Mr Pars which was intended to illustrate the level of play required to receive a regular cheque on the PGA Tour when it restarted last month.
Rory's solution: Cut the size
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 25/08/2019
» Rory McIlroy's solution to slow play that those who are not in the same league as him should not be in the field has "put the cat among the pigeons" with his fellow colleagues and those whose jobs are associated with the PGA and European Tours.
It's about time tours penalise spitters
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 28/07/2019
» I wince when I see tour players spit on TV and now there's a call for this disgusting habit to be outlawed with a penalty implemented for those who continue to do it. Why do player do this? Is it a nervous twitch?
Come up with ideas to survive
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 09/12/2018
» Selling land or developing attractive real estate along the fairways is the obvious way for financially distressed clubs to stop going under.
Life can be tough for a touring pro
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 21/01/2018
» Spare a thought for the battling players trying hard to make it from the secondary level to any of the main tours.