Lots of help for your game this week as well as some fun highlights from the fabulous Women’s Golf Groups.
Kristin Walla is here to help fix your slice, Karen Palacios Jansen has a great exercise to give you more hip mobility, Sandra Chester shares her setup and timing for better pitch shots, we also have LPGA Master Professional Deb Vangellow on fairway bunker play, and Meredith Kirk showing you how to chip from the rough around the green.

How do you mark your golf balls? That’s a fun discussion started by Stacy in the Women’s Golf Group (see below). My favorite answer so far is ‘with a wine glass!’.

Five great lessons this week and a USGA rules question about whether you can practice on the course before or during your round. Have a go at answering before you scroll down to check if you know your rules 🙂.

On WomensGolf.com this week learn how to conquer those difficult downhill sloping lies with Sue, play Gianna’s practice game to sharpen up your approach shots, Christina’s lesson will help you if you hit your driver really low on the clubface, and Anne has the solution if you have been leaving your fairway woods in the bag.

Lessons from Trillium Rose on club selection from the rough, Cathy Kim has a drill to help you stop casting in your downswing, Kellie Stenzel on mastering soft landing bunker shots, Megan Johnston cures the ‘flying elbow’ and, last but not least, Erika Larkin shows how to decide which of your wedges suits different situations around the green.

Ahh the irony … two of the lessons in this update are about swing thoughts and overthinking and here’s me bombarding you with new lessons and drills every week!
In my defence it’s not just lessons though, we’ve had a fun 7 days in the member community group so I’ve included three of the best posts. Fancy meeting up with another Women’s Golf member in person at the Open Championship at St Andrews!

This week’s lessons will help you with deep bunkers (Trillium Rose), hinging your wrist correctly (Christina Ricci), avoiding early extension in your swing (Michele Low), and should you take the break out of sloping short putts or let the ball die into the hole? Maria Palozola explains all.

As well as the usual USGA rules question and answer, lessons in this email are Maria Palozola on how to get rid of the tension in your putting, Christina Ricci on making the best backswing, Aimee Cho will help you stop hitting those frustrating ‘fat’ chip shots, and Gianna Augustine demonstrates a great practice drill to eliminate 3-putts.

This week I’m featuring lessons on the best driver setup, how the lie of your club changes your shots, and the under the bridge posture and putter speed control drills. The very popular Lesson Request Post is now open for members. Just let me know about the part of your game you would love to improve and I’ll post the perfect video tip for you from the WomensGolf.com teachers.

Alison Curdt’s lesson on pitching over bunkers, Christina Ricci has great tips for controlling distance from the sand and Erika Larkin shows how to play shots from fairway bunkers. In non sand related lessons, Natalie Adams has a drill to get your feet moving through impact and Cathy Kim’s chair drill will help you strike the ball more solidly.

This week Christina Ricci shows you how to squat and extend for more distance, Meredith Kirk demonstrates the hinge and hold pitching drill, Maria Palozola will help you get deadly accurate with your target alignment, and Aimee Cho’s lesson focuses on getting more power from your hip turn.

Christina Ricci shows how to set up with your driver for great ball flight (and more distance!), the ProGolfGals tackle bad lies in bunkers, Michele Low helps you take the tension out of your swing and Megan Johnston has a practice drill to discover your putting speed. It’s also my pleasure to add a member of the month feature introducing Sarah Karls from Wisconsin.