The Gazette & Herald and sister paper the Wiltshire Times have teamed up with PGA golf teaching professional Simon Shanks for a new series of tips to improve your game. Simon, from Warminster, is based at the Bowood Hotel, Spa and Golf Resort, near Calne has been voted a Top 100 Teacher by Golf World magazine and is also the head coach to the successful Wiltshire Boys team. Get in touch via simonshanksgolf.com or at simonshanksgolf@gmail.com

Control the rhythm, control the distance

When putting, the swing length should be the same either side of the ball

5:00pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

THIS WEEK: Rhythm

Finding the right cure to end your topping woes

A shallow angle of hit causes you to hit up on the ball

1:19pm Thursday 16th May 2013

THIS WEEK: The top (part two)

Banish bunker blues

Set up with the club face pointing right and your body aiming left

12:38pm Friday 10th May 2013

THIS WEEK: Bunkers

Quality not quantity is what’s needed

Quality not quantity is what’s needed

9:00am Friday 3rd May 2013

THIS WEEK: On the range

Tee it high, see it fly

Getting the right tee height can help with long, straight driving

11:26am Friday 26th April 2013

THIS WEEK: Tee shots

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Your Say Your Gazette

I refer to the article on Chippenham RFC seeking permission from the Rugby Football Union to allow their second team to be promoted to Southern Counties (level seven of the RFU league structure) should they finish top of Dorset & Wilts 1 North (level eight), (Gazette & Herald, February 28). The most interesting aspect of the article was actually what was not said by the club’s representative or was not mentioned.  − Colin Brockhurst, Corsham

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A newsletter hit my doormat on March 2 from ‘Nick Watts and the Lib Dem team’ headlined: Freeze Wilts council tax say Lib Dems. This document goes on to tell us that: “hard-working families cannot afford unnecessary council tax hikes in these difficult times” and so “Nick Watts and the Liberal Democrats have promised not to support any attempt by Wiltshire Conservatives to hit families by increasing council tax this year”.  − Peter Kemp, Chippenham

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