On Par - All about golf in Australia

In the endless search for short game nirvana, Ive found a couple of sites offering potential salvation.

Golf Medic – www.golfmedic.net
A key to any good round of golf is sinking the short putts. Ive ruined many a good hole with a poorly hit short putt, and unfortunately a putt counts the same as a booming drive down the middle of the fairway! Golf Medic is a great site providing a daily golf tip for the long suffering golf tragics out there.

One of the medics recent tips involved a short putting drill that could help a lot. As the Medic says, short putts are often missed by taking an overly long backswing and then decelerating on the putt causing a lame, shaky and ugly missed putt. This drill works on reducing the backswing and hitting through the putt.

The Wedge Guy – www.thewedgeguy.com
Terry Koehler is passionate about the short game, has designed putters and wedges, and has recently setup a blog – The Wedge Guy, offering tips and techniques to help lower the score by getting the ball in the hole quicker!

One of Terry’s tips recommends using ‘Gravity’ as a key swing thought when playing a pitch or chip, this ideally avoids the over-acceleration or deceleration associated with the fat chunked duff into the bunker or the thin skinnied rifle across the green

The pain of a missed putt, and of shoving the putter into your groin!