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Grant Horvat Golf

150 verified teaching moments with direct channel credit and official-source links.

• Closing your stance shifts your ball position
• Never let the clubhead get inside your hands
• Find the launch window from ball flight
• Diagnose a straight block from face and path
• Move fairway-wood weight back for height
• Check if you are too inside when every shot draws
• Use swing data to guide club fitting
• Keep the hands up and twist against the body for speed
• Chip by using the bounce and sweeping the ball
• Bigger grips make it harder to hit it left
• Choose grip texture for feedback without slip
• Fit an arm-lock putter below the elbow
• Deloft by turning the forearms down early
• Build carry numbers from five-shot averages
• Tee lower and choke down to hit a low stinger
• Focus pre-round warm-up on short game, not swing mechanics
• Use ball position to explore neutral swing path
• Set the clubface square before taking your grip
• Find the straight putt before choosing break
• Move the ball back for a low 70% wedge swing
• Take the safe punch-out from a poor lie
• Move the ball up and keep the club outside for long irons
• Aim where the fairway wood cannot reach trouble
• Shallow the angle of attack when bunker sand isn't fluffy
• Work your curve toward the pin
• Pause at the top, push back with your butt, then rotate
• Club down when driver can run through the fairway
• Lag long putts to within a two-foot circle
• Use hybrid from a downhill rough lie
• Hit 30-yard pitches low with spin for a one-hop stop
• Test a swing change with a 7 or 8 iron, not a wedge
• Open the face and swing hard in greenside bunkers
• Pass on a tight 300-yard tournament window
• Bunker keys: weight left, open face, inch behind
• Putt to remove the chunk from play
• Flop higher when rough grows toward the green
• Look for a consistent shot grouping in short-game practice
• Leave the uphill putt
• Toe up at address forces hands up and early extension
• Compare center, toe, and heel iron strikes
• Open for a cut, close a hair for a draw
• Use tempo to narrow shaft weight
• Push the club out from the top
• Start your warm-up with small swings and build up
• Heavier shaft plays stiffer and lowers spin and flight
• Hit longer irons to expose your real misses
• Chip with weight on the left side and sweep, don't stab
• Use slope and wind to widen wedge margin
• Use an upslope to stop a downwind wedge
• In scramble order, put one ball safely on the green first
• Focus on your next shot, not your opponent
• Flight wedges with a three-quarter swing
• Use lift-clean-place only in fairways
• Build basic wedge yardages to work from
• Fly a 35-yard pitch about 25 yards
• Don't over-weight your shaft if you load it smoothly
• Prefer short-right when long is the costly miss
• Play back to the fairway and accept bogey
• Fight a hooking lie by closing your stance
• Feel set before the transition
• Move the ball back for a low iron flight
• Get your clubs readjusted every year
• Focus on the shot, not future scenarios, under pressure
• Choose 54 degrees to keep flight down
• Use a committed stock swing for wedge carry
• Tee driver low for a punch runner
• Test the practice bunker sand before a round
• Use a stiffer hybrid shaft if whippy shafts hook
• Chip instead of putting through sand
• Factor green receptiveness into long approaches
• Check for grain changes near the hole
• Lag the putt when protecting a lead
• Shorten the backswing and accelerate on short wedges
• Lay a club at your target on the range for alignment
• Choose the option with the better bad result
• Come in lower on spongy greens
• Keep four-iron mishits in the test sample
• Favor a higher, softer flight when a draw may release
• Rehearse the tee shots the course requires
• Bring it in low for the bank
• Measure delivered lie angle directly
• Thicker irons go straighter but work the ball less
• Fit arm-lock length to keep hands on the grip
• Use your upper body for a small greenside shot
• Hit a fade: ball forward, open body, path across
• Don't roll short downhill putts over the ball's seam
• Arm lock putters need six or seven degrees of loft
• Test a new putter on long putts too
• Feel left-side weight to flight the ball low
• Start left and cut with a left-to-right wind
• Favor the right edge on a dogleg
• Match loft to a mostly airborne shot
• Position the driver off your left heel, weight 50/50
• Open up and move the ball forward to hit it higher
• Warm up short to long before you tee off
• Play the first hole in your head before teeing off
• Find the backswing length for the right distance
• Rock the shoulders and let the putter's weight swing it
• Don't grab from the top - let the club set and rotate
• Match mini driver to a draw-shaped tee shot