Golfweek Wrapped 2025 (instruction): Averee Dovsek's most popular tips

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2025 was an incredible year for Golfweek, and we’ve been diving into the numbers to see which stories captured your attention the most. We’re excited to share the insights with you — our loyal and amazing readers — so we can look back together.

As we wrap up the final days of 2025, we’ve been highlighting the top five stories from Golfweek’s most popular sections: travel, the PGA and LPGA tours, LIV Golf, instruction, and amateur golf.

Today, we’re focusing on instruction, led by Averee Dovsek — long-drive competitor and former college golfer.Here’s a look at the stories you clicked on the most:

1. Stop casting your golf club for good

It’s time to stop casting the club in your downswing and allow yourself to create lag.

You can use a painter's stick, ruler or a similar flat item with a rubber band to complete this drill. If the ruler points downwards during your backswing, you are not casting the club. If the ruler slides up, that is a recipe for casting, leading to early extension and flipping at the golf ball.

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2. Here are 3 simple tips to hit bombs with your driver

Getting more speed and power with your driver doesn’t have to be overly complicated.

Getting the hands high at the top of the swing, allowing the lower body to drop into motion on the downswing and explosive footwork are three solid moves to help create more power.

Watch as Averee walks you through it.

3. Lead leg drill every golfer should know

Many amateur golfers struggle to transfer weight to their lead leg in their swing.

This drill trains your body to naturally shift weight forward, promoting better ball striking, more consistent contact and increased distance.

Click here to see it.

4. The easiest hack to improve distance control when putting

When putting, many amateurs think that line is more important than distance control, but that is false. You can have a good line, but if you hit it 20 feet past the hole, it is a wasted effort.

It’s not the read most golfers get wrong, oftentimes the stroke that causes the miss. Try these distance control tips to reduce three-putts and improve your scores.

Here's the tip.

5. The dead-arm chip shot is the key to lowering scores

Every golfer has had an unexpected chip that has taken their score on a hole from an easy par to a double bogey.

Weakening the left hand and maintaining a smooth putting stroke-like motion will reduce dreaded chunked shots and skulled balls over the green. The key to lower scores is having a chip shot you can trust and repeat.

Here's the video.

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