AUGUSTA, Ga. — It’s become a Masters tradition all of its own. Scottie Scheffler’s feet spinning, sliding out from under him. His right shoulder twirling around him. And his golf shots flying exactly where he wants them to, lifting him towards the top. There’s no golfer, now or perhaps ever, who swings the golf club Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jack Nicklaus, the man with more green jackets in his closet than any golfer in history, often spoke of eliminating one side of the golf course. Bryson DeChambeau, the man who is now the betting favorite to slip on the green jacket this year after opening rounds of 69 and 67 put Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga.— Practicing and warming up are distinctly different things. And the data Augusta National is collecting from the practice area this week proves it. You see all sorts of interesting things during pre-tournament practice sessions, some of which we wrote about here. Players alternating technical work with more artful stuff. Different driver-wedge splits, and Read more…
Augusta, Ga.—It was all going so well for Rory McIlroy during his first round of the 2025 Masters—until it wasn’t. Two double bogeys three holes apart tumbled him down the leaderboard into territory that, if recent history is to be believed, has effectively ended his chances of winning a green jacket. It’s easy to be Read more…
It’s been something of a slog on the golf swing front for most of the past years for Hovland. Hovland’s been unflinchingly honest about the struggles in his own golf swing. Perhaps to his own detriment. “It probably would benefit me to shut my mouth a little bit more,” he said on Tuesday. “But I Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Every shot players hit on Augusta National’s pristine $140 million practice area is on record this week via a new feature in the Masters app. “I think it’s really, really cool,” Nicolai Hojgaard said, “You can follow every shot and also see the numbers and how players prepare.” That’s right, Nicolai, we can. It’s Read more…
Ahead of the 2025 Masters, the tournament announced some truly delightful news for golf nerds: That every shot every player hits on Augusta National’s driving range over the course of the week would be logged on the Masters app. And even though Monday’s practice round was largely a washout, there were still enough shots clocked Read more…
It was 1948 when Ben Hogan’s first instruction book, “Power Golf,” hit the shelves. It was an iconic manual that popularized many of the golf swing ideas we take for granted today. Hogan’s unique change-the-stance-not-the-ball-position idea started in “Power Golf.” As did his detail about the benefits of a flatter backswing, which later caught mainstream Read more…
When you watch the Masters this year, you’ll notice a few things. The emerald green fairways. The old school scoreboards. The azaleas. And maybe, even, the differing positions of players’ right forearm at the top of their backswing. You’ve probably noticed it to some extent before, and maybe even wondered why there’s such a vast Read more…
Golf Digest’s No. 1-ranked teacher Mark Blackburn came on the Golf IQ podcast recently and dropped some serious knowledge. Knowledge about what many golfers consider the ugliest part of their golf swing: Early Extension According to stats from the AI-driven Mustard Golf App (which you can download right here), about 17 percent of all golfers Read more…
The greens are how Augusta National confuses the best golfers in the game, pushing them outside their comfort zones. Almost every hole forces players to make a binary choice: Option A or Option B.
Your lead shoulder (the left shoulder for right-handed golfers) should move almost double the amount across as it does down between the setup and the top of the backswing.
Almost all amateur golfers overestimate how far they hit each club, and as a result, almost none have a really clear idea of the gap between their clubs.
No move activates the army of armchair golf instructors on Instagram like Joaquin Niemann’s swing. And it’s almost always the same thing that gets called out: In the milliseconds around impact, the 26-year-old Chilean drops his right shoulder and torso dramatically as he turns through (seventh photo below). It gives his swing an extraordinary amount Read more…
In the hours after his opening-round 78, Justin Thomas was on the TPC Sawgrass driving range, figuring out what had just happened. On those odd occasions when Golf Channel clipped to him and he wasn’t hitting balls, JT was rehearsing his swing. But not with both hands on the club—or with a club at all. Read more…
I had heard rumblings. Golfers discontented with how annoying Apple’s new iOS update was for golfers who record videos of their golf swings. I was afraid to learn more, and staved off the iOS update as long as I could, despite my phone yelling at me at every opportunity along the way. Until, alas, eventually Read more…
How baseball (of all things) can relate to golf. For golfers, it’s the crucial moment between backswing and downswing, and it’s the source of most golfers’ swing problems.
The bars come in two different forms: “Performance Fuel” bars, which are designed to perk you up before or during your round; and “Recovery Fuel” bars, designed to help you recover afterwards.
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