This article originally appeared in the Golf IQ newsletter, which is available exclusively to Golf Digest+ subscribers. You can subscribe to Golf Digest+ right here. My boss, Sam Weinman, whose name you may recognize from his award winning Low Net newsletter, is a very nice, supportive guy. Except during a round of golf we played Read more…
Unless it’s noticeably strong, the direction the wind is blowing is more of an afterthought on the green for most golfers. Though maybe it shouldn’t be.
Imagine, for a moment, that you’re assembling some furniture, the kind that comes in a box with instructions. It can be any kind of furniture: a desk, a chair, whatever you want—it’s your imagination. But then you get to the point where you need to use that tiny little wrench that comes in a plastic Read more…
Do you know the term “Sway Gap?” Probably not, so jot it down in your golf memory books. It’s an important term to know, and better yet, a useful one that can help improve your golf swing. When we make a golf swing, our upper and lower bodies sway back and forth, or side-to-side. But Read more…
Making ball-first contact is the key to hitting crisp, consistent iron shots. Adding a little visual cue like this, simple as it is, can really help you do that.
Pretend you just hit a golf shot, and you hit that golf shot well. Not *perfectly*—as in, not totally off the screws—but really close. The shot felt good and looked good. But where did it end up? Probably slightly short, if Golf Digest Best in State Teacher Adam Young’s results are any indication. Young, who Read more…
Whether you’re throwing a club, a ball, a javelin or a punch, the reason why coaches like thinking of the golf swing like a throw is because the underlying principles are the same.
We looked at the stats of thousands of amateur golfers of all levels provided by Arccos, the official game-tracker of the PGA Tour. The numbers reveal some interesting mistakes that golfers make.
How did Babe get so good at golf, so quickly? Her unfathomable athleticism obviously plays a huge role, but a great book called “Wonder Girl” by Don Van Natta shared some other clues which the rest of us may learn from.
Here’s the text with grammar and spelling corrections: Sami Valimaki is flying the flag for Finland at Le Golf National this week, and through one round, he’s doing a good job of it: He’s currently the low Finnish player in the field, and comes into the second round T-6, within four shots of Hideki Matsuyama’s Read more…
Xander Schauffele was one of the brightest stars in the game, and a golfer destined for greatness. Whatever he was doing was working. Except if you studied it closely. Because if you did that, you would’ve noticed some small leaks, starting to appear. That’s what Xander did. Late last year he started making some changes. Read more…
Collin Morikawa is one of the four Olympic athletes to tee it up on behalf of Team U.S.A. at Le Golf National later this week. Morikawa has been experiencing an uptick in form recently, and at a Golf Digest cover shoot late last year, we picked his brain for a few ball-striking tips from one Read more…
At The Open, the task is navigating whatever happens to be in front of you that week, that day, that hour. It’s rarely fair, and never easy. They each reflect the culture they exist within, and the types of champions they produce.
The story of the 2024 Open Championship so far is the little-known English golfer Dan Brown vaulting himself into contention at Royal Troon. He comes into the final round one shot back of Billy Horschel’s 4-under, 54-hole lead. His surprise performance has come off the back of his putter—Brown ranks first in the field in Read more…
The rain poured during the third round at the Open Championship, and it created carnage at Royal Troon. Pros exist in precise little windows, but with the rain comes added variables. It makes playing golf a lot more complicated, in four ways specifically … 1. Knuckling The main issue the rain creates is that it Read more…
TROON, Scotland—For the first seven holes, players march in an almost perfectly straight line, back into the wind, and all the way out to the far corner of Royal Troon’s property. It’s exhausting to walk, let alone to hit golf shots in. Then they reach the par-3 8th, Royal Troon’s famed Postage Stamp hole, and Read more…
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