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Video Tutorial: Punch Shot

Written by  Andrew Wild on Tuesday, 20 September 2011
To be a complete golfer, you need to practice all the shots you're going to face on the golf course. I was just playing a nice little punch shot there into a windy condition.




I've got the confidence to do it here because the Power Tee system also employs the fibre built mat insert, and that is a grass-like mat - it really is the closest thing you're going to get to grass on a driving range mat. It really does have a soft feel, and each individual fibre allows the club to go through it nice and easily, just as it would on grass. 

Plus it's on a nice solid rubber base, so once again it's a soft feel that's going to protect your wrists and elbows again giving you that confidence to hit down without getting the jarring you can sometimes get. 

So not only is Power Tee giving you the opportunity of having the ball brought up for you, it also gives you a save environment in which to practice all those different shots that you need to practice if you're going to be that complete golfer.
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Andrew Wild

Andrew Wild

Andrew manages all aspects of Sandford Springs including Food and Beverage, Golf, Finance and Memberships.

Andrew originally met the Chairman, Paul Gibbons, when he was an assistant Golf Pro at Reading Golf Club 28 years ago.

Interestingly, 15 years later Andrew was giving Paul a series of lessons, during which he mentioned there was a club in Hampshire which was up for sale. After going to visit the club, Mr Gibbons ended up buying Sandford Springs. 

Andrew joined the company a couple of years later and six years on, he became the General Manager at the club they had first discussed all that time ago.

Andrew has a deep passion for the game of golf, which aids his enthusiasm in all his endeavours at Sandford Springs. Aside from playing, he enjoys simply being around the golf club and takes a great interest in looking after his members.

He believes that the atmosphere at Sandford Springs is second to none and finds it such a pleasure to be involved with the club that, in his own words – "Sometimes it doesn't even feel like work".

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