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Address your ball properly to increase distance

To increase your power and distance, you need to address your ball properly. Once you’ve gripped your club and precisely aimed it at your target, you need to focus on your posture. To increase your power and distance, you first need to keep your back or spine straight. To rotate your torso effectively, you need to keep your chin up, back straight, bottom stuck out and legs sl...

Golf | 2017-08-16 13:56

Female golfers promote Korean firms

Hanwha’s logo was written on the cap of Kim In-kyung when the female golfer raised her trophy for the cameras at the Ricoh Women’s British Open last week. When Haru Nomura won the Volunteers of America Texas Shootout in May, the Korean-Japanese female golfer was also wearing her cap and orange jacket decorated with Hanwha’s logos. Korea’s eighth-largest conglomerate was not t...

Golf | 2017-08-14 14:16

Yielding extra yards off the tee

To lower your score, you have to drive your ball in the fairway. More important, you need to hit your tee shots farther to make easier approach shots with shorter clubs. With short irons, you will have more chances to hit your ball close to the pin. Just like strength-sapped seniors, players lacking distance are desperate to increase power. There are diverse different ways th...

Golf | 2017-08-09 18:22

Kim In-kyung gets major redemption at Women's British Open

Korean golfer Kim In-kyung claimed her first career major championship win at the Ricoh Women’s British Open, Sunday. At Kingsbarns Links in Scotland, Kim had a two-stroke victory over Jodi Ewart Shadoff of England after carding a one-under 71 in the final round. Her overall score for four rounds was an 18-under 270, one stroke shy of Karen Stupples’ tournament record in 2004...

Golf | 2017-08-07 17:31

Korean golfers seek continued dominance at Women's British Open

The Ricoh Women’s British Open will feature the world’s top golfers at Kingsbarns Links in Scotland, starting Thursday. Twenty Koreans will compete in one of the major championships in women’s golf, aiming to continue their dominance in the sport. Korean golfers have had 11 wins in 21 LPGA Tour tournaments this season. And they have won the past three major events -- Park Sun...

Golf | 2017-08-02 18:15

Achieving full, balanced finish to send your ball perfectly

Once you’ve hit your ball, you need to make sure you swing into a full, balanced finish. If you quit swinging your club immediately after hitting, your clubface will not close enough. If your clubface stays open when your ball leaves your club, you will fail to send your ball accurately toward your target. Your ball will travel straight to your right or curve from left to rig...

Golf | 2017-08-02 17:21

Lee Mi-hyang wins Ladies Scottish Open

Korean golfer Lee Mi-hyang scored a one-stroke win over Hall of Famer Karrie Webb in Scotland, Sunday, for her second career LPGA Tour victory. At the Dundonald Links in Ayrshire, the 24-year-old claimed the Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open title after carding a six-under 66 on the final day for a four-round total of a six-under 282. She was only one stroke ahea...

Golf | 2017-07-31 16:54

Swing your club down properly

Swinging your club down properly is as important as taking your club back. Your key thought on the downswing needs to be to let the clubhead come down to inside your target line. You are committing a fatal mistake if you lunge forward toward your target in a faulty effort to hit the ball hard. That forces you to throw the club outside the target line and swipe the ball from o...

Golf | 2017-07-26 17:06

Kim In-kyung wins LPGA Marathon Classic

Korean golfer Kim In-kyung claimed another LPGA Tour title, Sunday, following Park Sung-hyun’s U.S. Women’s Open win last week. At Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania, Ohio, Kim picked up her second victory of the year at the Marathon Classic. The 29-year-old carded a bogey-free eight-under par 63 in the final round and finished 72 holes with a 21-under par 263. This was t...

Golf | 2017-07-24 18:22

S. Korean Kim In-kyung picks up 2nd LPGA win of '17

South Korean Kim In-kyung has picked up her second LPGA win of the season. Kim rallied to captured the Marathon Classic at the par-71 Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania, Ohio, on Sunday (local time), thanks to a blistering 63 in the weather-interrupted final round. Kim had a four-round total of 21-under 263 to beat American Lexi Thompson by four strokes.

Golf | 2017-07-24 09:15

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