NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — The grounds were still buzzing almost 24 hours after it happened. Jordan Spieth won’t win this PGA Championship, but he quite possibly hit the defining shot of the tournament. “I don’t think most amateurs understand how incredible it was,” says coach Josh Gregory. “It was an unbelievable golf shot. Unbelievable,” says Read more…
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — The one and really only thing you need to know about hole locations is that there’s no such thing as an illegal one. There are no rules, only norms. The most interesting setups are when the golf course begins flirting with those norms. That’s what we have at Aronimink Golf Club Read more…
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — Pros don’t wing it when it comes to the distances they hit their clubs. They deal in incriments. Tommy Fleetwood’s club distances book proves it. It may look overwhelming to the rest of us—but it’s not qute as confusing as it looks. All the numbers in black are Tommy’s stock carry Read more…
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — Earlier this week I watched one of the kind of little miracles that pop up from time-to-time on the driving ranges of professional golf. After a few wedge shots, Tommy Fleetwood pulled his 8-iron and started hitting three-quarter, hold-off finished shots. I witnessed five consecutive shots where the club path was Read more…
There are good misses, and bad misses. And at Aronimink Golf Club on the opening day of the 2026 PGA Championship, there was one miss that was worst of all.
Statistically, chip shots that don’t even find the green rank only behind shots struck out-of-bounds for scorecard damage. Here are six common strategies pros use to avoid chipping woes.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The signals were there. Subtle, and hard to spot, but flashing. By Saturday evening they were loud and screaming. Rory McIlroy has lost control of his golf swing. His third-round 73 transformed his six-shot lead into a co-lead. Yet the fate of the 2026 Masters is still firmly in his hands. The Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Scottie Scheffler shot 65 on Saturday at Augusta National—his lowest round ever here. It vaulted the two-time Masters champ squarely into contention. But his press conference after the round had a bit of an edge about it. To be fair, transcripts aren’t the best judge of tone—I was there, and Scottie smiled Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Rory McIlroy is putting on a strange kind of masterclass through two rounds at Augusta National. He’s 12-under and leading by six, but doing it while ranking second-to-last in driving accuracy, and losing SG: Off The Tee as a result. But he’s patching it together by, in his words: “Becoming a wily Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Nobody prepared smarter than Wyndham Clark ahead of the 2026 Masters. The stats back it up. When DataGolf’s model estimated what types of shots Clark would face at Augusta National, his preparation matched it almost exactly. He was, in a word, “optimizing” his time. The early returns are good. His four-under 68 Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The score itself isn’t particularly impressive—a two-over 74. But while the scorecard never lies, it does occasionally omit the full story. Because Jose Maria Olazabal’s round on Thursday at the Masters—on what would’ve been his dear friend Seve Ballesteros’ 69th birthday—was quite simply the best chipping display I’ve ever witnessed. It had Read more…
AUGUSTA, GA. — How do pros get so good at chipping? A combination of confidence and control. They’ve mastered the technique that’s essential to Augusta National, and have the belief in it to call upon it when required. One way Justin Rose does that? Using this coin drill. He was spotted using it from the Read more…
Who is going to win the 2026 Masters? The answer may be on the driving range. Last year at the 2025 Masters, the tournament began tracking all players’ data from the driving range. It was fascinating on multiple levels, and they’re doing it again ahead of the 2026 contest. I asked Tommy Fleetwood what we Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga.—There’s a trap at Augusta National, and players walk into it willingly every day.some It happens on the practice putting green. In fact, it is the practice putting green. A small part of Augusta National’s multimillion-dollar practice facility that doubles as the nicest range on earth. It’s a haven for players, flanked by a Read more…
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