Adam Scott was patient zero as far as I can tell. Starting sometime around 2022, before each shot Scott would place the club to his side, with the clubface facing towards the target, and grip the club with his left hand.
Aaron Rai led the PGA Tour in Driving Accuracy last season. We asked him what some golf-swing priorities for him are – and what the rest of us can learn from him.
AimPoint is a modern green-reading technique based primarily on feeling the slopes on the greens, rather than trying to spot them with your eyes. We take a deeper dive into the system here.
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida— If I had to put a percentage on it, I’d say upwards of 97 percent of professional golfers use an alignment stick (or something very similar) on the driving range. Honestly, that might be low-balling it. Which is a little alarming, because if I had to put a percentage on how Read more…
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla.— Justin Thomas put it best before the second match of Monday’s doubleheader. “It’s just a different form of golf,” he said. In the year lead-up to its inaugural season, the league has paid painstaking attention to the details. The hitting areas have real turf, tended to by superintendents from the elite Read more…
You probably remember it. The PlaneMate was a pandemic-era hit—the hottest training aid at a time when golf was booming—and it popped up everywhere. It was named the best new training aid at the 2020 PGA Merchandise show, sold more than 30,000 units. Some of the best swings in golf, most notably Rory McIlroy, were Read more…
Ahead of TGL’s first-ever triple-header of matches this week, we interviewed TGL’s tech chief Andrew Macaulay to answer all the questions fans have been asking: about how it works, about its accuracy, and about some controversial shots that have golf fans talking.
Winning teams have been employing a strategy best described as “Hammer hoarding”, a loophole that undercuts what the Hammer was meant to be. So TGL is introducing a new rule to fix it.
One of Ben Hogan’s tips has been thoroughly cast by the wayside, which is interesting because Hogan insisted on this tip, and it was actually pretty mainstream advice at the time.
The goal of practising is so you can make the move you want without having to think about it. The problem is that this is a slight chicken-or-the-egg situation.
There were a few feel-good stories at the WM Phoenix Open last week, and potentially none more so than Daniel Berger. Berger didn’t win, but he popped into contention during the final round and finished at 17-under en route to a T-2 finish. It was his second runner-up finish in his last six PGA Tour Read more…
Jon Sherman is a golf-swing minimalist who goes deep on the different strategies that help you play better golf: from practising, to the mental side, to course management.
It’s Pebble Beach week on the PGA Tour, which is fun because we get to see the world’s best players hit golf shots up and down the cliffs of the Monterey Peninsula. Shots like this… …and this… …and this, from Pebble Beach’s neighboring Spyglass Hill. The thing is, these shots are cool, but they’re also Read more…
The golf swing is a machine with a lot of moving parts. But for the purpose of this article, think of it as a machine with just two parts: a top and a bottom.
Chris Kirk adjusted his swing to find the winner’s circle again Many tour players learn how to sling draws from an early age because it’s a shortcut to more distance. However, executing a big power hook depends a lot on precision timing, so many pros eventually curtail this shot shape for something easier to repeat. Read more…
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