Insight from Scott Spector on Backswing.com:
Distance and Recovery
Posted on: 16 Sep 2020
Length and power will be paramount for the week with this ywar’s set up. Length to literally compete with the courses added length since 2006 and power to advance ball from rough. This years open won’t be solely about who shoots the lowest but who makes fewest mistakes on approach and around the expanded green […]
Speed kills
Posted on: 20 Aug 2020
if you’re unsuccessful with speed (distance, slope, putting stroke length and tempo) alignment is irrelevant. all great putters and all bad putters have one thing in common – speed – it’s either correct or not. 3 drills to develop speed and distance feel: 1. graduated practice – start on as straight a putt as possible […]
West Coast guy
Posted on: 07 Aug 2020
unlikely anyone outside the west coast comes away with this one. the weather, the juicy rough, the dead rough and the grainy greens makes this one a locals dream – look for Colin, Xander and other with ties to the left coast