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Yahoo
15-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
This Cheat Code Will Lead to Better Green-Reading in No Time
This Cheat Code Will Lead to Better Green-Reading in No Time originally appeared on Athlon Sports. I've gotten tons of golf lessons from some of the best golf instructors in the country over the past few years, but one thing that I continue to ignore (I know, shame on me!) is learning how to read a green the right way. Advertisement While my tee shots have improved and I'm hitting more fairways than ever, and my ball-striking with my irons is superb, it all gets wasted when I'm putting — because I seem to misread everything. But the Rainmakers Golf Club spent some time picking the brain of Scott Curry, one of the best putting teachers on the planet, who shares some tips on how to read a green like a pro — which should lead to less strokes and lower scores in no time. How to Read a Green Like a Pro If you really want to improve your golf scores, it all starts with the short game. I know, trying to bomb your drives with increased club head speed is more fun, but when you can limit putts per round, you're going to shave strokes faster. Advertisement While putting speed is crucial, understanding how to read a green is just as important, since, you know, you need to make sure the thing actually funnels towards the hole. In the video above, golf coach Scott Curry says one easy trick can help you identify how a ball will break on even the trickiest green. 'Don't just focus on your ball and your line,' Curry shares. He then demonstrates what he means by this. 'If I don't know what my putt is doing, a quick way to figure it out is to take a couple steps over to the right and say that this is definitively going to break left,' he adds. Now walk the few steps back to your ball and use that information to your advantage. Advertisement '[By using this trick], it's going to help my eyes see that right-to-left break,' Curry says. 'So now I know the putt is going to go a little left, I'm going to take my time to line this up, set up to it, and hit a confident putt.' So if you really want to impress your playing partners during your next golf round, don't try to flex your muscle with the driver, just use Curry's easy trick in order to read greens — leading to less putts and lower scores. Related: How to Increase Club Head Speed With Your Driver Related: Ask a Golf Caddie: What's the Most Common Mistake Rec Players Make? Related: Pro Golfer Emilio Gonzalez Shares the Do's & Don'ts of a Perfect Pre-Shot Routine in Golf This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jul 3, 2025, where it first appeared.
Yahoo
01-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Of All the Chipping Tips, This is the Simplest One to Practice
Of All the Chipping Tips, This is the Simplest One to Practice originally appeared on Athlon Sports. When it comes to sharing chipping tips, I'm a sucker for listening to anyone who can help my short game shots. After all, when you can master shots near the green, you often score much lower. Advertisement While most amateur golfers only focus on putting practice to shave strokes off their scorecards, they're really not doing themselves any favors — since having to sink a long-distance putt to save par puts added pressure on them — which is where a masterful short game comes into play. So what's an easy way to practice chipping without buying some crazy training aid or fidgeting with your technique over and over? The Rainmakers Golf crew asked top-ranked golf coach Brian Mogg, who shared one of the easiest chipping tips you'll ever see. This Chipping Tip Will Transform Your Short Game View the original article to see embedded media. When you either chunk or skull a chip in golf — and everyone reading this no doubt has — there are a few different reasons why it might happen. Advertisement Whether you came in too steep with your club, transferred your weight wrong, decelerated on the downswing, or just totally botched the setup, these are all recipes for disaster — and they aren't easy to just quickly clean up. But Mogg offers up a simple chipping tip that can help reset your mind and feels around the green: One-handed chipping! In the video above, Mogg shares why, of all the chipping tips, practicing with just one hand is the one you should commit to using most. 'In modern golf, chipping is a lot different than 30 or 40 years ago,' Mogg explains. 'You've got so many different clubhead designs, so now when you release it, it's no longer a hit and hold to grab the grip through.' Advertisement So what's the preferred and more modernized way of chipping? Mogg says that it's more of a release of the clubhead. 'You want to be able to thump the [bounce of the club] off of the ground,' he adds. This is where one-handed chipping practice comes into play. 'A good drill to practice this is one-handed chipping,' Mogg shares. 'This teaches you how to release the clubhead, with the grip at impact almost going backwards as the club goes forward. 'Too many amateurs try to pull and drag that club forward, which produces very inconsistent results.' While there are hundreds of different chipping tips out there, Mogg's one-handed tip feels like a cheat code that can lead to softer short-game shots that sit closer to the flagstick. So give it a try during your next golf practice session. Advertisement Related: Learn How to Hit a Power Fade with 2 Simple Driver Tweaks Related: This Golf Ball Test Shows the Differences Between a New vs. Old Ball Related: 2 Little-Known Factors That Influence Your Short-Game Shots This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 16, 2025, where it first appeared.
Washington Post
15-06-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
Scottie Scheffler is fighting his swing at the U.S. Open. He's hanging around anyway
OAKMONT, Pa. — Scottie Scheffler arrived at Oakmont with his swing in a good place. Wherever that place was, it's gone. Temporarily, at least. While world's top-ranked player put together his best round of the week at the U.S. Open on Saturday by firing an even-par 70 to remain at 4 over, he knows tracking down good friend and third-round leader Sam Burns eight shots ahead might require the kind of crisp, clean golf Scheffler has struggled to produce over 54 holes. 'Am I in the position I had hoped to be after three days? Obviously not,' Scheffler said. 'But for the way I've swung it and played the last few days, I feel like I could be a lot worse.' Such is the level that the 28-year-old star finds himself at that, during feels like an 'off week,' he will head to the course on Sunday on the front page of the leaderboard, albeit at the bottom. 'For me to be sitting where I am this week, not having really my best stuff, I think is pretty good,' Scheffler said. It's not like Scheffler hasn't been searching for it. He hit the practice range shortly after a 71 on Friday, then proceeded to have an animated session with longtime coach Randy Smith. Scheffler waved his arms at times, clearly frustrated by the results. Asked about it, Scheffler shrugged and called the whole thing 'pretty regular,' and it should be pointed out that the practice range at most tournaments doesn't sit next to the media center as it does at Oakmont. Scheffler admitted the session ended without much progress, though Smith shared some thoughts that 'definitely helped.' Still, the 'silly mistakes' that have dogged him this week prevented him from making a legitimate move. He missed a 2-footer for par on the par-3 eighth. He hit it into the native area along the left side of the ninth fairway, forcing him to take a drop. He bounced back on the back nine. Stuffing a wedge to 10 inches on the par-5 12th for birdie. A drive into the fairway bunker on the par-4 14th led to a bogey, but he responded by birdieing the short par-4 17th. When he tapped in for par on 18, he'd inched up the leaderboard on a day he knew he needed to leap up it. On Sunday, Scheffler might need to go full Johnny Miller in 1973 to track down Burns. Considering the way Scheffler has played this season, maybe there's reason for optimism, even when things aren't coming as easily as he's made it look. 'I've had three days where I haven't really had my swing, and I've been battling out there and still have a chance, albeit an outside chance,' he said. 'But still a chance.' Carlos Ortiz was in danger of missing the cut when he began the second round by shooting a 5-over 40 on the front nine. Twenty-seven holes and 30-ish hours later, the 34-year-old from Guadalajara, Mexico, will go out in one of the final groups after firing a 3-under 67 in the third round. Heady territory for a player who came to Oakmont having made the cut just twice in nine major appearances. Ortiz, who won the Houston Open in 2020 before joining LIV Golf in 2022, had a nearly flawless card slightly more gettable — by Oakmont standards anyway — course thanks to overnight rain that softened things up a bit. Ortiz birdied both the par-5s and added birdies on the par-3 sixth and the par-4 14th. His bid for a bogey-free round ended when he failed to get up-and-down from a greenside bunker following an errant drive. He shrugged it off afterward, pointing to all the positives instead. He'll wake up Sunday in contention at the U.S. Open. During the tournament's last trip to Oakmont nine years ago, he shot back-to-back 76s to miss the weekend by six. Not this time. 'Different player, same course,' Ortiz said, then added for emphasis, 'same course.' Philip Barbaree Jr. had a sleepless night for all the right reasons. He had to return to Oakmont on Saturday morning to finish his second round, knowing he had to make a par to make the cut for the first time in the U.S. Open. His final hole was No. 9, the hardest one on perhaps golf's toughest course. 'Probably a lot of pent-up emotion and stress from sleeping last night — or not sleeping last night — just knowing that I pretty much had to come out and make par on one of the hardest holes on the course,' he said. He found the fairway. He hit his approach to 25 feet. He left the uphill putt 5 feet short. And he made it for a 71 to finish at 7-over 147. An hour later, he teed off in the third round with Oakmont's head pro, Devin Gee, as his non-scoring marker. Barbaree had a pair of double bogeys and an eagle in his round of 75. But that par is what mattered. The celebration looked like someone who won the tournament, especially the strong hug with his caddie — wife, Chloe. 'To be able to pull off a shot like that when it matters, and then with her on the bag, it's special,' Barbaree said. His wife knows next to nothing about golf, but Barbaree asked her to caddie for him last year. He immediately started playing better and asked her to stick around. He's on the PGA Tour Americas, a third-tier circuit that splits time between Latin America and Canada. The cut at least exempts Barbaree from having to go through the first stage of Q-school later this year. Barbaree also gets to skip the first stage of U.S. Open qualifying next spring. Big putt, indeed. Tyrrell Hatton is rarely one to keep his emotions in check . Yet the fiery Englishman managed to do just that during one particularly difficult moment to keep a round that became a 2-under 68 and thrust him into contention at 1-over on track. Hatton was at 3 under for the day and even for the tournament when his approach to the par-4 15th landed in the grass on a side slope abutting a greenside bunker. Standing awkwardly, he choked down on a lob wedge and was 'delighted' when the ball managed to stay on the putting surface, though that didn't stop him from gesturing angrily in the direction of the bunker after he three-putted for a double bogey. While Hatton would prefer not to have so much thick rough around the bunkers, he knows it's pointless to complain about the setup. 'It doesn't matter if I don't agree with it or every player in the field doesn't agree with it,' he said. 'Everyone has to deal with it. It's just how it is.' Hatton recovered by birdieing the par-4 17th and saving par on the 18th after his drive found a bunker to put him in the mix for his first major. ___ AP Golf Writer Doug Ferguson contrubuted to this report. ___ AP golf:
Daily Mail
17-05-2025
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Convicted child molester and former golf mentor Sean Lynch is hit with new child sex offences - just one year after his release from jail
Depraved golf coach Sean Lynch, who was jailed for sexually abusing a young girl, is now facing new child sex charges just one year after his release. Lynch, 71, was once known as the 'King of the Kids' for his work coaching junior athletes, including former world No. 1 Jason Day. But in his role as a mentor in Queensland, Lynch groomed and abused a gifted young girl, telling her it would help her performance on the green. Lynch kissed and touched the girl and made her perform vile sex acts on him, in what Crown prosecutor Chris Cook described as 'abhorrent and depraved conduct... for his sick, selfish sexual gratification'. The offending in 2018 and 2019 left the young girl deeply traumatised and no longer able to play golf, despite her extraordinary talent. Lynch showed no remorse at his 2022 trial and pleaded not guilty to 11 charges. He was eventually found guilty of seven. The former mentor was sentenced to three years in jail but only served 18 months, as the rest of the sentence was suspended for five years. Now, only a year after he was released, Lynch has been arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated sexual intercourse with a child between the ages of 14-16. They relate to alleged offending against a girl Lynch knew between 2017 and 2019 in the Murwillumbah area, north of Byron Bay. Lynch was arrested on Thursday after attending Tweed Heads Police Station. He appeared in Tweed Heads Court later that day and was granted conditional bail after an unnamed person lodged a $10,000 surety. The conditions included that he must surrender his Irish passport and not enter any point of departure from Australia, according to court documents. He was also not to communicate with his alleged victim or her father, or to have any contact with children unless in the company of another adult. Lynch is due to appear again in Tweed Heads Court on July 18.
