The chapter title for Rule 8 in the Rules of Golf is pretty descript in terms of what happens when your ball ends up in a less-than-ideal lie. The title? “Course played as it is found.” It means, when your ball comes to rest, you normally have to accept the conditions affecting the stroke and Read more…
If your golf ball moves before you make a stroke, you could face a penalty – or not. Here’s how the Rules of Golf determine whether natural forces or player actions caused it.
Do you know a golfer who picks his or her ball up a lot? Does that player also want you to put down scores on the card that don’t seem quite right for handicap purposes? If so, it might be time for a quick review of the Rules of Handicapping and how to record scores Read more…
If you don’t recognize the golfer in the photo above, it’s Cameron Champ. Albeit he was a bit younger in this photo—he’s 30 now—Champ has aged well. How well? If you missed the RBC Canadian Open this past June, then you might be interested in knowing how far Champ drove the ball on the ninth Read more…
Most golfers are familiar with compression clothing and its benefits in terms of increasing blood circulation and its healing agents to areas where you feel pain/soreness, etc. What you might be less familiar with is literally the reverse of that concept.
Back in 2019, the LPGA Tour found itself in the spotlight for a curious ruling involving two tour players and a practice called “backstopping.” If you’ve never heard the term, tour pros commonly use it to describe purposely leaving a ball in place on the putting green instead of marking it. The thought is that Read more…
If you’re struggling to repeatedly make solid contact with the golf ball, there are plenty of possible reasons, but the most typical is improper sequencing in the downswing, says Jeff Ritter, one of Golf Digest’s Best Teachers in Oregon. The typical higher-handicap player relies too heavily on the torso and arms to get back to Read more…
Golf is hard enough that introducing “stingy” flagsticks at a golf course seems just plain cruel. Granted, if you’re putting, you should always pull the flagstick out as you gain virtually no advantage when leaving it in. Golf Digest ran tests on the value of leaving the pin in and found that other than perhaps Read more…
En route to his best year in professional golf, which included three wins and 12 top-10 finishes, Ben Griffin made a boatload of birdies—427 of them, in fact. He also finished in the top 10 in 12 scoring categories. Bottom line: He knows how to efficiently get the ball from the tee box to the Read more…
If you’ve ever wondered about those inverted-traction tables, the ones where a person hangs virtually upside down (below), their purpose is to decompress the spine, to regain some of the space between vertebrae that we lose over time from a variety of reasons—too much sitting being among the biggest. When the gel-like disc between the Read more…
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