If you want to know how to deal with pine straw – and loose impediments in general – in terms of removing them and playing your next shot without penalty, read on.
As of Monday (April 15), every state in the U.S. is officially in “posting season” for handicap scores, so now is probably a good time to brush up your knowledge of how the relatively new (since 2020) World Handicap System works. In fact, on Jan. 1, the WHS was updated to reflect all the data Read more…
With golf season nearly in full swing (excuse the pun), you might find you’re struggling a bit to get your body operating the way it used to. The reality of aging is that unless you take measures to counter the erosion of physical abilities, you’re not going to be able to swing a golf club Read more…
There are a lot of things you can do in the golf swing to prevent a slice, but if you’re stuck inside because of wet weather or want to do something about it without hitting a heap of range balls, you can train your body to really help the club swing down from the inside.
Since the Rules of Golf have been greatly modified in the past five years, many terms we’ve all been accustomed to saying are technically no longer considered part of the game.
Unilateral exercises, in which you isolate and train with just one limb, have become increasingly popular with golfers for a variety of reasons including injury prevention, correcting muscular imbalances and being able to train for power without putting too much stress on the spine. Golf Digest’s Certified Fitness Trainers often emphasize weight-bearing moves involving only Read more…
Golf Digest Certified Fitness Trainer Ryan Elsass says there is a bunch of great equipment in the gym that you might be ignoring because those things are either too intimidating to use, or you’re not sure how to use them – especially in a golf workout.
The general principal of Rule 8 is to “play the course as you find it”. But there are times when you’re allowed to lift your ball and clean it beyond the putting green.
You probably don’t give this area of your body much thought when it comes to training for golf, but your neck is super important, and super involved, in any golf swing. “Golf is a neck-rotation sport,” says Golf Digest Certified Fitness Trainer Dee Tidwell, who trains athletes at Colorado Golf Fitness at “The Studio” in Read more…
You can’t jump on a ride-on mower and take out the fescue on the right side of the second hole in an effort to find your ball. But if you happen to accidentally rip some grass out as you reach down into the rough and scratch around for your ball, there is no penalty according to Rule 7.1.
Follow this circuit, and you’ll find newfound ability in your ankles, hamstrings, hips and mid-back to do what they’re supposed to do in a proper golf swing.
Australian Golf Digest
