At the Mexico Open at Vidanta in February, defending champion Jake Knapp was battling just to make the cut when he hit a bunker shot on his final hole (the ninth) of the second round. The ball didn’t make it out of the bunker, and in frustration, Knapp swiped the sand with his club. This Read more…
Team competitions are covered under Rule 24 – and they’re a big thing in the competitive golf landscape with the Ryder and Walker Cups coming up later in the year, not to mention all the pennant matches staged across the country. If you’re involved in one of these events, there are a few important things to remember about “helping” other members of your squad during a big match.
Abdomen muscles such as the rectus and transverse abdominus are hugely responsible for keeping the body stable when you perform any athletic activity, that includes swinging a golf club 90 miles per hour or faster. Without those muscles firing, you’d have a heckuva time swinging in balance much less trying to get the clubhead squarely Read more…
Back in 2019, shortly after the USGA and R&A enacted major revisions to the Rules of Golf, there were a few instances on the professional tours when players faced penalties for violating Rule 10.2b(4). In short, there was a lot of confusion about when golfers should be penalized for having their caddie stand in the Read more…
There is no catch-all, perfect exercise for golfers, but there are several that have wide-ranging benefits to improve performance on the course and help ward off injuries. One such exercise you might consider for your workout right now—if you haven’t already—is the Romanian deadlift. Commonly known as RDLs, think of them as a reverse action Read more…
You’ve hit your ball into the rough, fescue, gorse, anywhere but the fairway and are anxious to go see just where it wound up. Can’t blame you; there’s only three minutes of search time before the ball is considered lost (Rule 18.2). That said, some golfers don’t even bother to look, presuming they’ll be better Read more…
Timing is everything, as they say, so credit goes to Golf Digest for having great timing in speaking with Jack Nicklaus on the topic of, well, timing. Shortly before his legendary one-shot victory over Johnny Miller and Tom Weiskopf in the 1975 Masters, Nicklaus was asked about getting his golf swing tuned-up for spring. Before Read more…
The story seems to be told and re-told every time a young bomber reaches the professional ranks. When asked how they got so long off the tee, they’ll say as junior golfers, they just swung as hard as they could and then figured out over time how to find the fairway with that swing. From Read more…
Most fitness experts will tell you that if you play golf, dealing with forward-head-posture issues are likely to be magnified by the way you stand when you hit shots. You already live your life with your head buried in your mobile phone, and your neck muscles spend much more time in flexion than extension as Read more…
If you think the goal is to touch your toes, however, you might be surprised to know that it’s not nearly as important as other aspects of the test in spotting dysfunction.
Have you noticed that you’re struggling to finish shots in balance? Is your entire body facing the target when you’re done swinging a driver? Does playing out of the rough cause you to “bail out” through the impact zone? If you’ve noticed that your lower body is really active in the downswing, even spinning out Read more…
Rule 1.3c covers this and goes on to clarify what happens in general when a player breaches a rule and then breaches another rule before the next stroke.
Inflammation of the connective tissue that runs lengthwise along the bottom of your foot (the fascia) is a common problem for golfers. But the very thing that might have caused your foot pain is the same thing that might prevent it in the future. If you’re currently suffering from plantar fasciitis, a biting pain at Read more…
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