....I got so confused about what tips work and which ones don't that it's probably hopeless.
All the tips work. You just have to know which ones will correct the fault you have! You DO know what your swing fault is, don't you? :-). Every Spring the cover features something like "10 Ways to rid yourself of the dreaded bannaball" or "20 Ways to improve your score" "Kiss your shank goodbye"............Yeah sure!
Read the entire magazine and you will surely find some new piece of equipment that promises "you will hit it further, straighter and all with total consistency" This year they added those smelly colgne ads so that you can't read the articles till you air out the issue for a week. I guess that says it all about the state of the industry!