I live in Connecticut, where there are clear lines between the golf season and its offseason. I’ve learned the trickiest part of playing golf in the offseason isn’t the weather. There are usually a decent number of ~50 degree days which count as passable golf weather in my eyes. Rather, it’s the courses. Everything gets Read more…
Professional golfers are better than amateur golfers at literally everything – that’s why they’re professional golfers – but they’re especially good at distance control.
Knowing how to hit a draw is a kind of holy grail for many golfers. A sign that you’ve officially made it. Most golfers grow up knowing how to slap a slice down the fairway. But turning it gently from right-to-left? That’s the good stuff. Which brings me to a really interesting article statistician Jake Read more…
How did one of golf’s best ball-strikers ever come to be? By spying on golf’s best-ever ball striker. It was 1962 that served as the legendary Lee Trevino’s origin story. Trevino had just been discharged from the military two years earlier and was in the early stages of his professional career. Trevino was an unknown Read more…
This putting game was so difficult that a PGA Tour winner actually got a little heated when he was doing it. But he got hooked, and if you do it, it’ll make you a better putter.
I’m fresh off a trip to Golf Digest’s Top Secret Hot List Testing, where I’ve been thinking a lot about alignment aids on putters.It’s a huge part of our putter testing, and for good reason.I’m not a tester, for clarity. My job is to be an editor, which essentially involves interviewing my testers about each Read more…
There’s more information out there than ever these days, and for golfers, it can make things really confusing. Whenever you think you have it figured out, something new happens. Maybe it’s a shot that you realize that you have no idea how to hit. Or a situation that you’ve never been in before. At Golf Read more…
Ben Hogan’s story is the stuff of legend. An undersized kid and iffy ball-striker who, seemingly overnight, transformed himself into one of the best golfers ever. And, perhaps, the best ball-striker ever. His rise caused a sensation at the time. Had Hogan actually figured out the secret to golf? Many claimed so, but in this Read more…
With the offseason approaching, there’s no better time to take a good look at your own game and figure out which part to fix. But which part should you fix first? That’s the question we addressed in the most recent episode of the Golf IQ podcast, sparked by my colleague’s recent article: Who are golf’s Read more…
Think of these as general golf swing guidelines – best practices that are useful to know, because they can help you identify an issue in your golf swing.
I spent some time with Scott Fawcett, a golf strategy expert who founded the app DECADE Golf, the other day. Scott has a knack for explaining important things very simply, and one of those important things is the concept of leaving yourself short-sided. But for as important as it undoubtedly is, it’s often misunderstood in Read more…
It was dark outside, and after a long day, Rory McIlroy grabbed a wedge from his bag. “I haven’t seen the ball flight in two weeks,” Rory told me, “so this should be fun.” The ball flight itself wasn’t a surprise—toweringly high and pin straight—but the comment itself was. Why hadn’t one of the best Read more…
Fade On Command: Matthieu Pavon is an emerging star after recent swing adjustments Matthieu Pavon is used to playing a lot of curve, especially with the driver. The 32-year-old Frenchman and PGA Tour rookie hits his patented left-to-right fade about 95 percent of the time off the tee, says his swing coach, Jamie Gough. “Moving Read more…
Byeong Hun An had just built a new house and became a first-time dad—and then lost his PGA Tour card. It was a devastating blow and a kind of existential threat for the man who, in 2009, became the youngest-ever player to win the U.S. Amateur Championship at just 17 years old. Not sure what Read more…
The reason why most of your putts don’t go in is because you’re misreading them. Unlike mashing a drive 320 metres, you possess all the tools to avoid these kinds of judgment errors. You just need to learn a few things that’ll help you along the way.
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