The U.S. Amateur returns to Hazeltine National this week for the first time since 2006, as the best amateurs in the world return to the Minnesota brute, whose narrow fairways and small greens make it a ball-striker’s delight. One guy who may not view Hazeltine as fondly is Tiger Woods, who narrowly lost the PGA Read more…
Vijay Singh may be 61 years old, but the turf at any tour driving range doesn’t know the difference from a 30-year-old Singh. Arguably no professional golfer has hit more balls over his career, and Singh continues to grind on his game, including this week at the PGA Tour Champions’ Boeing Classic in Washington. All Read more…
The cliché “swing your swing” might get tiring, but it’s based on the sound belief that everyone’s unique physiology is going to lead them to swing slightly differently. That unique physiology often means physical limitations, especially for older golfers who can still play but struggle to make the moves they once did. We’ve explored how Read more…
“These greens are so much faster than the putting green,” is one of the golf’s most common excuses – so common, in fact, that we decided to ask a superintendent if it holds any merit.
They (golf writers) say that there are few things more dangerous than a golfer playing with a fresh dose of perspective following the birth of their first child. It seems Scottie Scheffler is competing at the Paris Olympics this week with loads of perspective, but no, not just because he is a new father. No, Read more…
According to Michael Breed, one of Golf Digest’s top-ranked teachers, golfers who strive for perfectly straight shots without any curve are falling into a costly trap.
Of the many hopeless feelings in golf, struggling with your swing and having no idea what you’re doing wrong might go at the top. A close second is thinking you know what’s wrong, trying to fix it, only to realize that wasn’t it. Both problems are the focus of AI technology used in the Mustard Read more…
The beauty of a tournament with gross and net divisions, like many club championships around the country, is that golfers of all handicaps have something to play for.
Modern golf instruction, put simply, is a fusion of old, classic fundamentals and technology-driven new ideas. But just as there are timeless tips that still hold up today, there are other old-school ideas that have been largely abandoned by top instructors and players. One of those is the old takeaway, says Michael Breed, one of Read more…
In many ways, we should have seen Justin Rose contending at the British Open coming. The oldest major championship routinely rewards older players, but at 43, Rose has mostly struggled this season on the PGA Tour. So much, in fact, that he had to qualify for The Open at Royal Troon. Regardless, Rose has played Read more…
You know it as the long wispy grass that grabs your club and forces you to thoroughly check for ticks, but fescue grass is much more than agonizing long stuff. Cut at shorter lengths, fine fescue characterizes the rough, fairways and greens of many links courses and helps deliver the bouncy conditions that are deemed Read more…
Last year in the first round at the British Open, Rory McIlroy was greenside in two shots at the par-5 finishing hole, yet five minutes later he fist-pumped a 10-foot par save. Why? McIlroy was nestled under the lip of one of Royal Liverpool’s nasty bunkers. He tried to play out sideways and failed. His Read more…
If you watch enough professional golf, you see it over and over again: the low launching, high-spinning wedge shot that takes a few hops, checks and rolls gently to the hole. It’s a popular shot on tour, especially in links golf, where the firm fairways, high winds and large greens often mean the best play Read more…
One of the most difficult aspects of golf is that the solutions to many of our misses are counterintuitive. Once we understand what causes our worst shots and how to fix them, we realize that the key to fixing our golf swings is in our ball flight. Take the most common problem for everyday golfers: Read more…
There was a time not too long ago when Central Florida was an afterthought for great golf. Too flat, too monotonous, too boring. Streamsong’s success has thoroughly rebuffed that notion, and now an ultra-exclusive private club, High Grove, seeks to further redefine the region’s golf potential. High Grove, located in Venus, Fla., will feature 36 Read more…
As sports psychologist Dr Bhrett McCabe explains, there are numerous landmines, or mental mistakes, that we commonly make on the course that cause our scores to suffer.
Matthieu Pavon made history at Pinehurst during Thursday’s first round of the U.S. Open, when he became the first player ever to make two eagles in a U.S. Open round at Pinehurst No. 2, which fueled his round of three-under 67 to get in early contention. But it was how the Frenchman made the eagles—by Read more…
Why are the players so worried about Pinehurst’s greens? It’s a combination of severe slopes and the USGA’s willingness to place hole locations on the edges of those slopes.
I was sick. I had just gotten a lesson. I was busy with college final exams. My girlfriend was caddieing for me. These were just some of the lame excuses that came to mind six years ago when I received a letter from the USGA informing me that because of my poor performance in U.S. Read more…
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