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How to Save Yourself Three Shots Every Round

TIPS • 1 August 2025

How to Save Yourself Three Shots Every Round

There are numerous ways to improve your golf game, but no matter the level you play at, making smarter decisions and deploying better course management is something universal that we should all be mindful of.

How To Strike Your Irons Better

TIPS • 1 August 2025

How To Strike Your Irons Better

PGA Professional Ryan Rastall shares three key tips to help you play better golf by improving your iron play. In this new video, Ryan starts by helping you understand your own swing tendencies, before moving on to advice for improving alignment and improving your strike.

How To Pitch It Close Everytime

TIPS • 1 August 2025

How To Pitch It Close Everytime

Want to sharpen your short game and save strokes around the green? PGA Pro Ryan Rastall shares three essential tips to help you master your pitching and chipping.

How to Hit Your Driver Straighter and Longer - 3 Simple Tips

TIPS • 1 August 2025

How to Hit Your Driver Straighter and Longer - 3 Simple Tips

In this video, PGA Professional Ryan Rastall shares three straightforward tips to help amateur golfers hit their driver with more confidence. Ryan breaks down the key fundamentals that can lead to better performance off the tee and ultimately longer, straighter and more consistent drives.

How To Putt Better Every Time

TIPS • 1 August 2025

How To Putt Better Every Time

In this video, PGA Professional and Golfshake equipment expert Ryan Rastall breaks down the fundamentals of a great putting stroke. Whether you're a beginner or looking to fine-tune your game, Ryan shares expert advice to help you improve your putting technique, start line accuracy, and distance control.

How to Play From Fairway Bunkers - Get Out Every Time

TIPS • 25 February 2025

How to Play From Fairway Bunkers - Get Out Every Time

Fairway bunkers are tricky and come in all shapes and sizes depending on the courses that you play, but if you are fortunate to have a good lie in the sand, how can you ensure that you escape every time and maximise the distance that you can reach with your next shot?

How to Hit Your Driver Further Without Increasing Swing Speed

TIPS • 20 February 2025

How to Hit Your Driver Further Without Increasing Swing Speed

If you want to hit the ball further, then you probably think that increasing your swing speed is essential. While that is a huge component behind the distance that you can drive the ball, it's not the only factor to consider. Golfshake's Ryan Rastall shares some tips on how you could gain extra yardage without necessarily swinging the club faster.

Strike Your Irons Better Get Longer, Straighter, More Consistent

TIPS • 20 January 2025

Strike Your Irons Better Get Longer, Straighter, More Consistent

As we continue to get ready for the 2025 golf season, honing one's skills on the course becomes a greater priority.  To aid with this, Golfshake's Gear Expert and PGA Professional, Ryan Rastall, offers a series of straightforward tips designed to enhance your iron play and overall game.

Simple Tips for Better Iron Play and Breaking 90

TIPS • 31 December 2024

Simple Tips for Better Iron Play and Breaking 90

As golf season approaches, many of us are eager to improve our game and hit more successful shots on the course. To help you achieve this goal, Golfshake's Gear Expert and PGA Pro Ryan Rastall shares some simple tips that can make a big difference in your iron play.

Winter Golf Drills to Try at The Range

TIPS • 24 November 2023

Winter Golf Drills to Try at The Range

Simply hitting ball after ball at the range can become a little monotonous and is less productive than you may expect, so what should you be working on when you're visiting the range? Golfshake's Ryan Rastall shares a handful of great tips and drills for you to try at the range this winter - all of which should make a positive contribution to various parts of your game.

10 Beginner Golf Tips To Help Your Game

TIPS • 4 August 2023

10 Beginner Golf Tips To Help Your Game

Showcasing tips that are ideally suited for beginners as they cover the fundamentals, we have searched through the archives of the Golfshake Tuition Section to uncover a helpful collection of videos put together by some of the finest professionals in the country.

10 of The Best Golf Tips For Beginners

TIPS • 26 June 2023

10 of The Best Golf Tips For Beginners

Golf can be a difficult sport to master, but following certain tips can help an amateur golfer develop their skills and lower their handicap over time. This article provides 10 tips that can help improve consistency and pave the way to better scores.

How to Make Better Decisions on The Golf Course

TIPS • 16 June 2023

How to Make Better Decisions on The Golf Course

We have studied the Golfshake Tuition Section to pick out a series of tips that will help you to make better choices on the golf course, improving your strategy and gaining rewards from that.

3 Tips to Improve Your Bunker Play

TIPS • 9 June 2023

3 Tips to Improve Your Bunker Play

For a significant proportion of everyday golfers, bunkers are often the ultimate card-wreckers, seeing you total up a damaging number from the sand as you're unable to effectively escape and play a deft recovery shot. However, we have something that could help you to become a little better from these traps and save you strokes this season and beyond.

7 Drills to Improve Your Putting

TIPS • 2 June 2023

7 Drills to Improve Your Putting

Helping you to improve your own putting statistics this season and beyond, we have gone through the archives of the Golfshake Tuition Section to uncover a series of tips and drills that could make a positive difference to you!

How to Improve Your Short Game Stats

TIPS • 26 May 2023

How to Improve Your Short Game Stats

We all know the importance of keeping your short game in check, especially when it's unlikely we will hit the green in regulation every time. To help improve your short game stats and ultimately your overall scores, these tips focus on helping you to get up and down more often.

5 Tips to Help You Hit More Fairways This Season

TIPS • 26 May 2023

5 Tips to Help You Hit More Fairways This Season

Everyone would love to gain more distance from the tee, but avoiding the trouble is key to shooting consistently lower scores. Helping you to accomplish just that, we have gone through the archives of the Golfshake Tuition Section to pick out a handful of great tips that will have you playing your second shots from the short grass more often!

5 Tips to Hit More Consistent Iron Shots

TIPS • 12 May 2023

5 Tips to Hit More Consistent Iron Shots

Every golfer desires to make more birdies, but to give yourself those tantalising opportunities, you first need to hit some proper iron shots into the greens! We have taken a look through the Golfshake Tuition Section to find a selection of great tips from professionals that will help you to become more consistent with your approach play this season and beyond.

8 Tips That Will Help You to Hit Longer Drives

TIPS • 12 May 2023

8 Tips That Will Help You to Hit Longer Drives

Don't believe any golfer who says that they wouldn't want to drive the ball a little further - it's fun and makes the game easier! We have studied the archives of the Golfshake Tuition Section to share a selected playlist of tips from professional golfers that are specifically engineered towards helping you hit longer drives.

Cure Your Slice - Top Tips With David Howell

TIPS • 25 November 2022

Cure Your Slice - Top Tips With David Howell

Golfshake travel partner Golfbreaks.com have teamed up with 7-time DP World Tour winner David Howell to bring a series of top tips to help improve your game. First off David offers some advice on curing the dreaded slice!

8 Tips to Keep Your Season in Check

TIPS • 2 September 2022

8 Tips to Keep Your Season in Check

Whilst the weather is starting to change and the nights begin to draw-in, signalling the shift in the seasons and less favourable conditions for playing golf, this time of year can often be the most important time, with the culmination of season long order of merits or the grand finale in annual knock-out competitions.  So this could mean keeping your game in check is more important than ever and these 8 tips may just help.

Putting Tips To Help You Hole More Putts

TIPS • 5 May 2023

Putting Tips To Help You Hole More Putts

This video playlist features 5 putting tips from PGA Professionals Ryan Rastall and Scott Parry as part of Break 100 90 80 series.  These 5 simple tips are all focused on things you can do on the practice green and aimed at helping you hole more putts.

The Importance of Varying Your Tee Shots

TIPS • 31 May 2022

The Importance of Varying Your Tee Shots

PGA Pro Ryan Rastall talks through some simple advice focused on course management.  This video tip focuses on how you you can vary your play and how having different shot variations off the tee could help with your scores, your percentage play and improving your course management.

Putting Drill to Hole Out More Often

TIPS • 31 May 2022

Putting Drill to Hole Out More Often

In this short video Ryan Rastall talks through a simple tip to help improve your putting. This putting drill is focused on pace, strike and distance to help you hole out more often.

How To Play The Chip And Run Shot

TIPS • 26 May 2022

How To Play The Chip And Run Shot

This video focuses on the fundamentals of playing a chip and run shot when you miss the green and leave yourself short.  Scott Parry talks through how to play the chip and run shot and get the ball up but running like a putt offering a few simple techniques and set-up fundamentls to play this shot consistently more often.

How To Hit a Low Punch Shot With Your Driver

TIPS • 26 May 2022

How To Hit a Low Punch Shot With Your Driver

In this video Ryan Rastall talks through playing a low punch shot with a driver, a shot which can come in handy when you need to keep the ball below the wind or need a shot where you might want some extra run.

How to Play From The Rough

TIPS • 26 May 2022

How to Play From The Rough

Ryan Rastall talks through playing the golf ball when deep in the rough.  Playing from the rough is is a shot that a lot of us will play on many occassions and having a sure fire way to get the ball out and back into play will ensure we aren't punished too much from a wayward shot.

How To Play a Downhill Lie Chip Shot

TIPS • 20 May 2022

How To Play a Downhill Lie Chip Shot

Scott Parry talks through the advice needed to play the ball when you are on a downslope lie close to the green.  Scott talks through the importance of getting yourself level with the slope and utilising your body positionand how to allocate your weight.

Get Out of Bunkers Every Time - 10 Yard Bunker Shot

TIPS • 20 May 2022

Get Out of Bunkers Every Time - 10 Yard Bunker Shot

Ryan Rastall talks through a simple tip to get out of a bunker every time. This tip focuses on repetition and practising the same shot over and over again.  Once you master the 10 yard bunker shot you should have a stock shot that you can rely on to get you out every time and get your ball on the green.

How to Compress The Ball With Your Irons

TIPS • 18 May 2022

How to Compress The Ball With Your Irons

PGA Professional Scott Parry talks through how you can compress the ball better with the irons.  Scott talks through the process to ensure you stay on top of the ball and at impact ensuring you have shifted the weight to your lead leg.

How To Play a Plugged Lie From a Bunker

TIPS • 13 May 2022

How To Play a Plugged Lie From a Bunker

Ryan Rastall talks through some simple techniques to give you the best chance of getting the ball out of the bunker from a plugged lie and on to the green.  Ryan talks through some simple tips and how you bunker set-up my differ slightly and also the importance of speed.

How To Strike The Ball Better With Your Driver

TIPS • 13 May 2022

How To Strike The Ball Better With Your Driver

Ryan Rastall offers some advice on how to strike the ball better when hitting your driver of the tee.   He talks through the use of different tee heights and the reasons why you may want to adjust the height of the ball depending your swing and offers a simple technique to find out where you hit the ball on the face.

Play Smarter to Lower Your Scores

TIPS • 13 May 2022

Play Smarter to Lower Your Scores

Ryan Rastall and Scott Parry talk through how you can lower your scores on your way to breaking 100, 90 or 80 simply by thinking about how you get around the golf course by playing smarter.    They guys chat through some of the common faults made by amateur golfers and how thinking smarter can stop you wasting shots on the course.

How To Align Your Putts

TIPS • 6 May 2022

How To Align Your Putts

Having a reliable routine for aligning your putts will provide confidence and consistency to your game.  PGA Professional Ryan Rastall talks through his simple routine when he comes to align putts that helps instil confidence when he stands over the ball giving him a better choice of holing the putt every time.

Putting Pace Drill to Hole More Putts

TIPS • 6 May 2022

Putting Pace Drill to Hole More Putts

The easy putting drill will allow you to work on your putting pace.  PGA Professional Scott Parry talks through a simple pace putting drill that you can use on the practice greens and do when warming up before every round.

How to Get The Perfect Pitching Technique

TIPS • 6 May 2022

How to Get The Perfect Pitching Technique

Perfecting a pitching technique will help you to become more consistent and get up and down more often.  PGA Professional Scott Parry talks through the technique for improving your pitching. 

7 Tips For Playing Links Golf

TIPS • 7 March 2022

7 Tips For Playing Links Golf

In this series of videos we provide a playlist from our recent links golf tips series filmed with PGA Pro Ryan Rastall on the Scottish Links of Dundonald Links on the Ayrshire coast.

FREE 4 Week Putting Series

TIPS • 23 September 2021

FREE 4 Week Putting Series

Did you want to own the greens and improve your putting? Then check out our 4 Week Putting Series that was filmed in association with Odyssey Golf at St Andrews.

4 Drills To Improve Your Putting

TIPS • 28 July 2021

4 Drills To Improve Your Putting

Golfshake Equipment expert and PGA Pro Ryan Rastall talks through 4 simple drills that you can do on the practice green to hopefully improve your game.  These simple drills on focused on getting you to challenge yourself to hopefully make you a better putter.

How To Lower Your Iron Flight

TIPS • 8 November 2024

How To Lower Your Iron Flight

Links golf can be tough especially with the accustomed variable weather conditions.  Being able to change the flight of your golf ball will provide a great option in your locker when faced with conditions that may warrant a lower flighted ball with your irons.

Reading Putts in Stages

TIPS • 28 July 2021

Reading Putts in Stages

Golfshake Equipment expert and PGA Pro Ryan Rastall talks through how to read putts on links greens which will often provide a variety of undulation and elevation making the greens tough to read with multiple breaks.

Playing From Tight Lies

TIPS • 22 July 2021

Playing From Tight Lies

Tight lies on links courses can often be a difficult shot to pull off every time but this type of shot should be fairly straight forward.  Ryan Rastall talks through how to set-up to help playing from tight lies and improving your ball strike.

How To Get Out Of Pot Bunkers - Links Tips Series

TIPS • 22 July 2021

How To Get Out Of Pot Bunkers - Links Tips Series

Pot bunkers are synonymous with links golf and often you will hear golfers groan if their ball is gobbled up by one of the carefully positioned pot bunkers waiting to grab any shot not placed in the perfect position.  Ryan Rastall talks through some simple tips and set-up techniques to help you get up and out of pot bunkers more often.

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