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    Ronaldo tops Forbes' 2023 highest-paid athletes list

    Sports, Published on 04/05/2023

    » New york: Cristiano Ronaldo became the world's highest-paid athlete after his move to Saudi Arabian side Al-Nassr nearly doubled his annual playing salary while Paris St-Germain duo Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe round off the top three, according to Forbes.

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    From swing flaws to success: Fixing hitting from the top

    Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 24/04/2024

    » The question a golf coach must consistently deal with is how to persuade their student to stop hitting from the top without becoming too technical or offering more advice than can be absorbed just in one session. I'm aware of five ways of conveying this feeling, one of which is to ask the student to try and hit the ball on the toe of the club for a while. Another is to place two balls on the ground about two inches apart and have the student hit the inside ball without touching the other.

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    The pitfalls of 'Hitting From the Top'

    Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 17/04/2024

    » Players have managed to play well with a 'Hitting From the Top' action despite this flaw. But because some players are athletic enough to make a compensation move, they can get away with it, which doesn't make it any less disastrous for the average golfer. No one has found an instant cure for this particular ailment. Here is a list of things that cause Hitting From the Top; your grip is too weak, especially the left hand. Misuse of your forearms, meaning the use of the wrists instead of the forearms at the beginning of the backswing and at impact.

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    Dispelling myths about head position

    Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 10/04/2024

    » Stay behind the ball is an old saying golfers hear often but show me a player who doesn't move their head during a swing. As all the top players move their heads slightly backwards before and during impact -- never forward.

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    The correct way to cock your wrists

    Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 06/03/2024

    » I like to see an early wrist cock, but l hesitate, when coaching, to overstate this movement with my students because so many become so entranced with getting their wrists cocked that they forget the rest of the swing. Concentrating just on the wrist cock will mess up other important movements.

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    Let your left heel come up for real free flowing swing

    Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 21/02/2024

    » A retired golfer has the time to practise the short game. Short shots don't require strength or flexibility. Certainly, the older golfer can't hit the ball as far as the younger player but once you reach the fringe of the green young and old become no worse than equals. Nothing sharpens your focus and improves your touch if you just use one ball in practice for getting up and down.

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    Let the left heel come up for easier body turn, freer swing

    Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 07/02/2024

    » Golfers who ride in golf carts are always driving here and there from one ball to the other, taking up a lot of time. If the rule is in effect that the cart is not allowed to leave the path, golfers are inclined to dawdle over club selection and make unnecessary trips back and forth from the ball to the bag. Walking keeps senior golfers' legs strong, and strong legs make for a more powerful swing.

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    Historic day for Rebecca at the Cottage

    Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 23/12/2023

    » Craven Cottage will be the unlikely setting for a significant slice of history today as Rebecca Welch becomes the first woman to referee a Premier League match when Fulham take on Burnley.

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    A year that said farewell to legendary Sir Bobby

    Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 30/12/2023

    » The year began with us mourning the loss of the great Brazilian footballer Pele who passed away in the final days of 2022.

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    The classy player who broke transfer barrier four decades ago

    Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 29/07/2023

    » With football transfer fees going into orbit these days the sad death of England star Trevor Francis this week at the age of 69 is a reminder of how things have changed since the days he became Britain's first £1 million player four decades ago.

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