Craig - i love winter golf but treat it as a completely different game and don't take my scores so seriously in the winter. On the fairway greens i often add a bit of wrist too the stroke just to get the ball to the hole. The distances are hilarious in difference. On my course, which is very windy, the cold can make as much as three club difference on a par three. An example of how it affects my game is on a 460 yard par 4 we have. In summer its often drive 8,9,w for me, last week, into a cold gale it was nailed driver, rescue and 20 yard pitch!! Just got to enjoy it and be grateful to play!

Oh and for hard bunkers i make sure i have more weight on the front foot and really break my wrists in the backswing. If the sand is really hard i will even treat it like fairway and take the ball first. It comes out lower but has a lot of spin.

nick