GOLF TIP Chipping out from thick greenside rough

We despise thick rough around the greens, but often you’ll need to know how to get out of it without making a mess on the scorecard.

You could do a lot worse than follow along with Brad Hughes has to say about the golf swing.

Hughes, a two-time Australian Masters winner, Nationwide Tour winner and one of the best ball-strikers in the game. More recently, Hughes is also the swing coach of recent PGA tour winner Brendan Todd, one of the great comeback stories in golf.

Hughes doesn’t mince words with his golf tips, often offering his own unique take.

Luckily, Australian golf doesn’t suffer from as many of these lies as they do in the US but these deep greenside lies do exist and it’s worth knowing how to easily get out of them.