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The best way to get the most out of your pre-shot routine is to start on the driving range during your warm up. Stand directly behind your ball focusing on your target then walk to your ball; set the club directly at your target first, then set your feet (at this point your shoulders and feet should be just left of your target) and get comfortable. This assures that your alignment in tact. Once you get comfortable with your pre-shot routine, you should implement it prior to every shot you play. If you practice a pre-shot routine especially on the practice tee, you will lower your scores!

Joe Stevens
PGA Head Professional
Wild Dunes Resort

HIGH TIMES IN THE LOWCOUNTRY

You can argue until you’re blue in the face about where golf started in America; about where the first shot was struck; about when the first golf course was built. But the truth appears to be that the game was initially imported to the Lowcountry of South Carolina. Maybe that’s why there’s such great golf in South Carolina.

omebody had it bad. The year was 1743, some four decades before Charleston, S.C., would become the queen of the Southeast. Golf was virtually unheard of in the fledgling nation, much less in the coastal setting of Charleston, which would eventually grow into the busiest port between Philadelphia and the West Indies, a booming hub teeming with merchant princes and a cultural oasis often referred to as "Little London."
Yet there arrived at her sleepy docks a shipment of 96 golf clubs and 432 golf balls.
Yes, somebody had it bad.
It was always thought that 1786 was the first year in which golf was born in America, for that was when the first organized group of linksmen ­- the Charleston-based South Carolina Golf Club -­ was formed.
Members played the game over what was then known as Harleston’s Green, a park that has long since been overgrown by the city.
But the bill of lading for the clubs and the balls that arrived in 1743

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