What happens when your tee shot ends up in a hole dug by a dog? Or perhaps it comes to rest in the dirt pile that was created by the paw-driven frenzy?
Training for golf comes in a lot of forms, ranging from simple cardiovascular exercises to improve stamina on the course to jumping to improve swing speed to stretching to improve your swing. There are so many things you can do, you might wonder where do you start? Golf Digest Certified Fitness Trainer Justin Barr boils Read more…
You can’t get in there with a shovel and carve out a nice hole to swing from. But shuffling your feet back and forth more than once to ensure decent footing is allowed.
As awkward as it might be, you can refuse to cancel the stroke. If you do, your opponent now has to take a stroke-and-distance penalty and play again from the wrong tee.
There is a phrase in the Rules of Golf that is important to remember and apply when you can’t see where your ball came to rest—it’s “known or virtually certain.” The phrase is the benchmark that must be met to proceed as if you know where your ball is, even when you might not. A Read more…
If you’re over 50 and admittedly not exercising like you used to, doing things such as box jumps, single-leg bounds and depth jumps are probably not on your daily checklist. That’s OK. For starters, you might not realize it, but you probably have lost your ability to leave the ground beyond a few inches. Your Read more…
The thing to remember when you’re in a bunker is you can’t do anything that can be construed as improving your lie or testing the conditions. If you’re not sure what that means, Rule 12.2 covers when touching the sand does or does not result in a penalty.
You left the golf course with an 84 and when you woke up the next day, the Golf Handicap Information Network (GHIN) treated it like an 81. How is that possible? When the World Handicap System was introduced in 2020, you might have missed in the fine print that your score for any given round Read more…
You’ve probably seen video replays of pro golfers smashing tee markers after hitting poor shots. Brooks Koepka’s assault on one at the LIV Golf Dallas tournament in late June comes to mind. So does Rory McIlroy’s treatment of one during the U.S. Open at Oakmont. What doesn’t happen as often (though it certainly does happen!) Read more…
There’s a reason why slices and pulls are the plague of amateur golf, and it doesn’t have to do with how much time average players spend on the driving range. Most recreational golfers struggle to initiate the downswing with their lower bodies and have an even a tougher time rotating their pelvis without their torsos Read more…
Dan Swinscoe is one of Golf Digest’s Best Fitness Trainers in America, but that’s not why you’re reading about him today. He’s also an avid golfer—and in May of 2023, he played 27 holes at Silverado Golf Club in Scottsdale one day with a friend.That’s where his story starts, and it’s his hope that it Read more…
In a rare hot-mic moment on the PGA Tour, we got to watch and listen as Justin Thomas tried to avoid a penalty for accidentally moving his ball in a waste area during the third round of the RBC Heritage in April. He eventually won, but only after getting a one-stroke penatly for telling a 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…
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