The next best thing to paying a pro to stand at your side is to learn from a frame-by-frame pictorial with step-by-step captions that break down every stance, swing, and follow-through you need to lower your golf score. Techniques by a former pro and current editor for Golf Tips magazine show proven yet simple changes to improve your pitching, chipping, and putting.

See how to break the most common bad habits, from playing hazards to making difficult shots from greenside and fairway bunkers. With nearly life-size photos of right and wrong ways to grip a club, you can overcome your bad habits and avoid slicing, pulling, hooking, pushing, topping, fluffing, and overswinging. Special practice drills show how to make the right way the easy way for every skill. The author resides in Pawleys Island, SC.