Sleep apnea is considered a serious condition that is often treated medically using a machine that keeps the upper airway unblocked with continuous positive pressure.
Ready for a challenge? Test your knowledge of the Rules of Golf by “playing” this par 5, where just about every unusual rules situation you can think of happens along the way. See if you can get to the next tee by knowing what to do in each scenario.
Dr. William Hogue, an optometrist at Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of New York, has a question for you: How often do you go to the dentist? He’s guessing that the answer is a lot more than you get your eyes checked. And that’s unfortunate, because golfers are at greater risk of developing advanced cataracts and/or Read more…
As much as we’d like to think you spend the better part of your day standing up, let’s not pretend. You’re probably sitting down as you read this, and that could be a big problem, especially if you play golf. Prolonged, chronic sitting is linked to so many health issues, we could spend the next Read more…
Before Robin Symes, one of Golf Digest’s top instructors in Florida, gives you six hacks to avoid slice the next time you tee it up, it might be helpful to relize why the ball keeps peeling off to the right (or to the left if you’re swinging left-handed). Launch monitors have verified what Robin and Read more…
Course maintenance crews do make mistakes every now and then, and those mistakes can leave golfers frustrated and guessing what to do about it. Two instances occur on the teeing ground.
At the conclusion of this year’s Wells Fargo Championship, having competed in seven PGA Tour events, Tiger Woods ranked 206th on tour in fairway accuracy (51 percent). Early-season performances like at the Farmers Insurance Open, where he hit only 17 fairways in four rounds, contributed a lot to his ranking and aren’t indicative of what Read more…
Golf Digest published its first article on how to play this magnificent and infuriating game in the spring of 1950. Fittingly, it was titled “How to putt.” Can’t get that right, the editors must have figured, and there’s no sense in learning the rest. But since that time, the rest has been covered in this Read more…
At the conclusion of this year’s Wells Fargo Championship, having competed in seven PGA Tour events, Tiger Woods ranked 206th on tour in fairway accuracy (51 percent). Early-season performances like at the Farmers Insurance Open, where he hit only 17 fairways in four rounds, contributed a lot to his ranking and aren’t indicative of what Read more…
You need stable legs to make a powerful swing, but lower-body stability doesn’t require hours in the gym doing Olympic lifts or other complicated exercises. You can build a sturdy platform to swing from in your lounge room.
The Rules of Golf have things outlined pretty well for circumstances when it’s known or virtually certain that your ball was picked up by someone (or something) else.
Not only is it important to hold a golf club correctly if you want to generate power and allow it to “release” through the impact zone, it also reduces the stress placed on the joints of the arm.
Medicine balls are considerably heavier than a golf club, which means you need to recruit more muscle power than your arms can provide if you want to throw one with any force.
With the Solheim Cup and Ryder Cup being held in back-to-back weeks, now is a good time to review the Rules of Golf and highlight some of the unique aspects that only apply to matchplay.
Golfers experience all sorts of panic, but one of the worst is experiencing back spasms in the day or hours before a round of golf that you really want to play.
Australian Golf Digest
