Latest Edition Available: Comprehensive Guide featuring Brad Faxon's Putting Techniques, Mimi Rhodes' Insights, New Titleist Irons, and a Trove of Additional Golf Tips
The latest issue of Golf Monthly is packed with valuable content to help golf enthusiasts enhance their game as we head into the second half of the season.
Mimi Rhodes, a rising star in professional golf, graces the cover with an exclusive interview. Rhodes discusses her entry into golf, her fast start in professional life, and her sibling rivalry with sister Patience. Additionally, Rhodes shares insights about her scintillating start to life as a pro in an article within the issue.
For those seeking expert advice, the new issue features an exclusive interview with Brad Faxon, a multiple PGA Tour winner, about his putting prowess, coaching style, and philosophy. Faxon also discusses his work with Rory, offering a unique perspective on the legendary golfer's approach to the game.
The instruction section of the magazine covers various aspects of the game, including driving, iron play, chipping, and putting. The "Top 50 Coaches" content offers numerous valuable tips for improving golf skills, but the specific "100 greatest tips" list is not directly available in one consolidated source. However, insights from the instruction section and related content highlight key advice across various areas of the game.
Driving Tips such as ensuring parallel alignment at setup, focusing on mid-spine rotation, using the tee wisely, curing common errors like hooks, and practicing with pressure by simulating fairway targets at the range are emphasized. Techniques to reduce anxiety by focusing mentally on a point near the ball rather than distant hazards are also emphasized.
Swing Advice involves making small grip adjustments before overhauling the entire swing, improving face control to affect ball flight, and focusing on short game improvements to lower scores without drastic changes.
Pre-Competition Routine stresses concise practice swings with intent, maintaining a consistent and informative pre-shot routine, and balancing technique focus with flow to avoid overthinking during pressure situations.
Course Management Tips, such as aiming for the middle of the green rather than directly at the flagstick to minimize risk, and using landmarks beyond the green to shape aim and shots, help create safer and smarter play.
Mental Strategies include deliberate practice designed to simulate pressure (like fairway finder drills), focusing attention on points close to the ball to reduce anxiety, and embracing consistent routines pre-shot and pre-round to enhance confidence and performance.
The issue also includes a review of the TaylorMade Spider 5K-ZT putter and reviews of the best new releases, including iron launches from Titleist and Ping, by the expert gear team. The Rules section, in collaboration with The R&A, provides information to help readers stay updated on the course this season.
Lastly, the Golf Monthly newsletter offers updates on tour news, equipment news, reviews, head-to-heads, and buyer's guides. The issue concludes with a list of the best courses to play in the UK and Ireland, curated by the Golf Monthly team.
While a definitive published list of the 100 greatest tips in one place is not provided in the current results, these key pieces constitute a broad synthesis of expert coaching advice designed to comprehensively improve golf skills. For a detailed breakdown or the "full 100 tips," visiting Golf Monthly's instruction section or subscribing to their coaching content would be the best approach to get the latest, detailed and curated tips from their top coaches.
[1] Mental Strategies section, paragraph 3 and 4. [2] Course Management Tips section, paragraph 1 and 2. [3] Swing Advice section, paragraph 1. [4] Pre-Competition Routine section, paragraph 1 and 3.
- Readers can find valuable tips for improving mental strategies in golf, such as focusing on points close to the ball to reduce anxiety and embracing consistent routines, in the Mental Strategies section of the magazine.
- In the Course Management Tips section, experts suggest Course Management strategies like aiming for the middle of the green rather than directly at the flagstick to minimize risk and using landmarks beyond the green to shape aim and shots.
