You don’t have to dig very far into the Rules of Golf to find out that golfers who are competing can’t agree to ignore any rules when they play. In fact, Rule 1.3b(1) says that if two or more players agree to ignore any rule or penalties and someone in that group starts the round, Read more…
You could spend $30 a month on a gym membership. You also could outfit your basement with thousands of dollars of weights and a cardio machine like a treadmill or bike. Or…you could buy a few resistance bands for less than the cost of a tank of gas and get a decent workout to enhance Read more…
There are things you can do to make your next shot easier as found in the Rules of Golf, but there are a lot of things you can’t do. Rule 8.1 covers actions players can’t do to because they would improve conditions affecting the stroke. You probably know a lot of them even if you’ve Read more…
This will take a little patience, but please bear with us: Many elite swing coaches and biomechanists agree that if you want better sequencing in your swing and to hit the ball farther, copy the short and quick way Jon Rahm takes the club back. The reason? You probably can’t. Merely trying to copy Rahm’s Read more…
The photo above is of a golfer named Kyle Berkshire. If you’ve never heard of him, he’s a three-time World Long Drive champion and a holder of two amazing records: He has hit a golf ball 241 miles per hour and another 580 yards! In short, he’s a beast. Apart from his physical gifts, a Read more…
Where the Rules of Golf can be a little unclear concerns actions taken in a bunker that some might consider testing the surface or improving the conditions affecting the stroke. Let’s review what is and isn’t a penalty.
It’s true that all you need are two fingers and a stopwatch to figure out whether your heart is in overdrive as you play golf. Your pulse/heart rate is a key indicator of how the sympathetic nervous system, the fight or flight nerves, are behaving. Knowing you are nervous is one thing, but what if Read more…
OK, let’s get the explanation for this image (above) out of the way. No, Gary Woodland is not seen here hitting a shot from the wrong green. This was his infamous chip on the 17th hole at Pebble Beach during the final round of the 2019 U.S. Open—a tournament he won, if you recall. We Read more…
When their side bend is insignificant or incorrect, you can pretty much bet the golfer is going to make poor contact with the ball and the flight will likely be a slice or a pull (those two mis-hits are related).
The topic of purposely putting away from a hole to show someone else in the group how his or her putt will break is a bit of a grey area for the Rules of Golf.
You’re looking here at Golf Digest’s No. 1 ranked teacher in America, Mark Blackburn. No, this isn’t what Mark looks like in his downswing. Here he’s modeling a classic fault—sliding. It’s what happens when your body drifts out in front of the ball’s position during the through-swing. Another classic mistake is swaying, which is when Read more…
If you’re guilty of pulling a practice ball out from time to time, you might wonder if you’re running afoul of the rules in terms of potentially using a non-conforming golf ball. And what about those X-out balls you can get for $20 a dozen?
Instead, you should be more focused on how they are supposed to operate with other parts of the body during the golf swing, says Ryon Bosscher, a Golf Digest Certified Fitness Trainer.
“In or out” and “on or off” are good things to know if you want to avoid mistakenly committing a penalty, because the Rules of Golf vary depending on what kind of marker is beside your ball.
Most golf instructors focus on improving a player’s backswing because a lot of flaws in the downswing occur as a result of starting from a bad position at the top, says David Leadbetter, one of Golf Digest’s Legends of Golf Instruction. “It’s an attempt to recover from a poor backswing,” he says. To take the Read more…
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