Articles by Sam Weinman

January 21st, 2026

A sceptic’s guide to new golf equipment

Thanks to the tutelage of Golf Galaxy master clubfitter Devin Logue, we focused on four main areas.

January 13th, 2026

Low Net: How to set goals you can stick to

Happy New Year! This week we’re talking about goals, including a season-long project, worthwhile golfer resolutions, and Tiger’s 50th birthday. How good could you get if you went all in for a year? This is the time of year when we lock in on habits we want to change—a worthwhile exercise unless you happen to Read more…

December 31st, 2025

The most popular Golf Digest+ stories of 2025

Golf Digest has long featured a motto of “How to play, what to play, where to play” golf. You might have seen the phrase on our cover over the years. It’s even a registered trademark. But more importantly, it serves as a guiding principle and reminder of what audiences have valued from us for more Read more…

December 30th, 2025

Tiger @ 50: What Woods’ radical swing change revealed about his competitive mindset

[Image: Golf Digest US] Editor’s Note: In honour of Tiger Woods’ 50th birthday on December 30, 2025, Golf Digest is analysing different parts of Woods’ game and career to explain what made the 15-time major champion so great.  One of the most important moments of Tiger Woods’ career is also one of the most misunderstood. Read more…

December 6th, 2025

This quiz is designed to take the full picture of your golf year

The holiday season is about giving thanks and reconnecting with the people you love, but before you do that, you need to take a hard look at the golf season that just passed. This is the third year of my season-end self-assessment known as the Golf Competence Achievement & Reward Test (aka the Golf CART™), Read more…

November 25th, 2025

The universal lessons from one golfer’s viral ‘nightmare’

By now, coverage of the Internet Invitational has rivaled some PGA Tour events and maybe even a few major championships, most of it reflecting the inevitable drama of a high-stakes competition between YouTube personalities. But beyond entertainment, there were also tangible lessons for golfers everywhere, even from the parts that went spectacularly wrong. Specifically, we’re Read more…

November 18th, 2025

The case for shutting it down

The end of my golf season was a mess. I played poorly when I was away, and then when I got home, I hit the ball … even worse. My instinct when stuck in this sort of rut has always been to persist further—hit more balls, analyze more swings, search harder for answers wherever I Read more…

October 31st, 2025

The mental trap EVERY golfer falls into, and how to avoid it

The abundance of options feels like it should be a good thing. The mediocre result suggests otherwise.

October 18th, 2025

7 Golf Digest staff swing thoughts, and whether they work

In the modest golf world most of us inhabit, even a two-man scramble qualifies as a reason to sharpen your game. Golf Digest’s annual intrasquad tournament, the Seitz Cup, will never be confused with a major championship. The range of players on our staff is too broad, the format too contrived, plus some players enjoy Read more…

October 8th, 2025

Playing the right tee box matters more than you realise – it influences how you learn

Look closely at how any of us play golf and you’ll find traces of where we play, too. Example: My home course is tight and has small greens, which I miss with enough frequency that it’s made me a versatile chipper. Friends who play golf courses with steep bunkers tend to be better out of Read more…

October 1st, 2025

Ryder Cup 2025: If you’re cursing at golfers from the stands, you don’t understand the game

If you’re berating Rory McIlroy loudly enough to require a squadron of state troopers, something is missing. Either you don’t know the game, or you don’t really care. When it comes to golf, you’re clueless.

September 7th, 2025

The key to getting better? It’s called ‘grit’, and it factors in more than you think

As common as it is for golfers to be stuck in a rut, we also can emerge from them with renewed optimism.

August 29th, 2025

A survival guide to family vacation golf

My kids were barely old enough to grip a club when our family vacations began to include modest forms of golf—putt-putt, driving range detours, eventually nine-hole rounds in which the boys teed off from the 150-yard markers and we jammed three to a golf cart. Before long, there were real tee-times and 18-hole rounds that Read more…

August 12th, 2025

The secret to the perfect golf warm-up

The do’s and don’ts when preparing to play.

August 2nd, 2025

The barriers to 79: Lessons learned from an almost-breakthrough

My lowest score in a round of golf is 80, which I posted for the fourth time last month. Sadly, painfully, I needed two putts from about 45 feet for a 79, but I lipped out the seven-footer for par. Did I choke? It’s easy to say I did. Put it this way: If I Read more…

July 22nd, 2025

The sneaky upside to playing your worst

With any luck, the July 4 weekend will be the low point of my golf season, because I was awful. Every day, my scores got worse. I pulled my irons, got easily frustrated and wondered if I was wasting my time. I’m already at the point where I’m glad it happened. Whether out of delusion Read more…

July 4th, 2025

How golf training is catching up with other sports

At some point, thinking about golf practice brought me back to my earliest days on skates. Some background here would help: When I grew up playing hockey, most of the drills in practice emphasized isolated skills. The coach would line us up at one end of the rink and blow a whistle, and then we Read more…

July 3rd, 2025

We’ve been practicing all wrong

The most common affliction in golf is not the slice but the driving range swing that has mysteriously vanished. For many players the typical practice session involves a bucket of balls, a series of swings and the occasional sense that a problem has been solved. If it rarely works out, it’s because this way of Read more…

June 26th, 2025

Step away from the hot dog: A sports nutritionist explains how the right food can lead to better golf

The bogeys and double bogeys at the U.S. Open earlier this month were usually attributed to the same factors: Oakmont’s dense rough and slick greens, plus a little bit of major championship pressure. No one thought to consider if the golfer might have had a lame breakfast. It would be a stretch to say the Read more…

June 21st, 2025

No two golfers are the same, but these handicap groups often have the same problems

Like any group of golfers, the Golf Digest staff can kill hours dissecting a player’s game and whether their handicap fits. When a 13-index stops a towering 8-iron five feet from the flag, the initial reaction is skepticism. Then he takes two out of the bunker a few holes later, and it starts to make Read more…

June 19th, 2025

Rory McIlroy’s post-Masters hangover seems familiar

David Duval famously reached his summit, then struggled with what to do next.

June 13th, 2025

U.S. Open 2025: There’s one lesson from Oakmont the rest of us can embrace

OAKMONT, Pa. — If the U.S. Open is the most difficult golf tournament of the year, the implication is that it’s also the most miserable. By the simplest logic: making birdies is more fun than making double bogeys, and the U.S. Open is when words like “carnage” and “suffering” are liberally employed. If you were Read more…