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It’s that time of the year, when the rain comes and affects the playing conditions on the golf course. The three keys to playing golf in wet conditions are simply to stay dry, use more club and knowing the rules of golf for casual water.

Your putting stroke should be like your signature. When signing your name, you write with a flow and confident stroke. You do not worry if you are spelling your name wrong. Each signature takes the same amount of time and usually without much thought to it.

Most golfers know to open up their clubhead on bunker shots. This is because the sandwedge is designed to create enough bounce to allow the club to pass underneath the ball without getting stuck in the sand.

We all have our own timing and tempo. Every time we play, we work on the tempo and pace of our play. But everyone doesn’t always keep the same tempo. Sometimes on the putting green, people change how they play. They shouldn’t. The one area I recommend you keep a regular tempo is on the putting green.

There are three stages to developing your golf game and shot-making abilities. The three stages are when you wish you could hit a shot or shoot a certain score, believing you can hit that shot or score and knowing you can hit that shot or score.

You don’t hear much about how important it is to work on your attitude while golfing, but it’s just as important as the swing.

A logical way to make more birdies is to simply have more birdie attempts. And the key to more attempts is to hit more greens in regulation.

We can learn balance and posture for our golf swing from other sports. In golf, the address position is a very athletic ready position. In the position, golfers bend at their hips and knees while keeping their back straight. Weight should be balanced on the balls of golfer’s feet.

With the Fourth of July having passed by this week, many golfers asked why golf courses do not use American flags on each hole to celebrate the holiday. Although the course would like to use American flags on all patriotic holidays, we can’t. Golfers lay the flag pole - with the flag - on the ground while putting.

After nearly 40 years of memberships at Ridgemark Golf and Country Club, change is coming to the once-community-owned golf course.