One of the sneaky news bits of the week is that LIV Golf’s future road map includes plans for “home-team” events, a move that could help to bolster the league’s struggling team dynamic. From the looks of things at The Grange, however, Ripper G.C. captain Cam Smith already has a formidable homefield advantage cooking as Read more…
It can be hard to think about properly fueling on the golf course. There are so many other pressing issues, like trying to keep the ball in play. But what you eat on the golf course can directly affect how you perform. If your on-course eating habits need to be revamped, here’s some inspiration from Read more…
In most of the country, golf courses fight an unrelenting battle against weather and daylight. How do you get enough rounds in to generate the revenue required to keep the doors open? One Phoenix-area operation is trying to change those terms of engagement with a modern marketing plan, banks of stadium lights and a whole Read more…
The marketing claims around the first Grass League event held last week at the Phoenix-area night golf course, Glass Clippings Rolling Hills, were bold. It was to be high stakes par-3 golf under the lights, where amateurs would compete for a $100,000 purse (yes, amateurs. More on that later). The tournament’s organizers, who leased and Read more…
With so much attention on Nelly Korda and Scottie Scheffler of late, we haven’t heard much about 2023 PGA Championship star/hero/legend Michael Block. But that’s about to start changing, folks. Because it’s almost #BlockieSzn again. The PGA Championship is heading to Valhalla next month—where Block has a piece of the course record by the way—and Read more…
If you struggle with a slice, there’s a good chance you can spot why the moment you start your swing. Why? Because it’s one of the most common mistakes slicers make. They set up to the golf ball, then as they start their golf swing, they begin rolling the clubface open and inside with their Read more…
Sometimes the best instruction is so simple it could teach a reasonably intelligent dog to execute a high draw (see the molded grip), and sometimes, especially in the modern era of deep-dive analytics and motion-capture animation, you need a Ph.D. in biomechanics and physiology just to begin to formulate words to describe what you think Read more…
It’s team time on the PGA Tour, where, after two weeks of the top stars playing against each other in massive events, there is a brief respite for a week to play in a different format for four days in a much more relaxed atmosphere. Not that they aren’t attempting to bring home the hardware Read more…
Hitting good shots is great, but that’s not the name of the game in golf. Not really. Golf, as the cliche we all know goes, is a game of misses. The better your misses are, the better your scores will be. The problem is amateur golfers aren’t good at thinking about their misses. They’re lured Read more…
The Zurich Classic is a “unique week” on the PGA Tour. As such, before you go betting your hard-earned dollars won last week on the Nelly/Scottie parlay, make sure you understand the many details that are easily overlooked in New Orleans. 1. The tournament has a special format. Eighty teams of two players will compete Read more…
Back in January, Justin Thomas was asked by reporters about a course he hasn’t played but would like to. The answer was immediate—Pine Valley Golf Club, ranked as the No. 1 course on Golf Digest’s America’s 100 Greatest Courses list. JT described how stoked he was to be making his maiden voyage in April along Read more…
You don’t have to be a coach or a player to sense the difference in tone on a PGA Tour range during a practice day early in the week versus a competition day later in the week. There’s work going on both days, but the intensity is different, and so are the goals. One of Read more…
Excuse the SPOILER ALERT, but if you’ve watched Season 2 (or even Season 1) of Netflix’s “Full Swing,” then none of what you’re about to hear will be new information. Matt Fitzpatrick has a younger brother named Alex Fitzpatrick who is also a tour pro. Matt Fitzpatrick is a very analytical tour pro. Alex Fitzpatrick Read more…
South Carolina, Stanford, Wake Forest, LSU, USC and UCLA each earned No. 1 seeds as the NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Committee announced its selection of 72 teams and 36 individuals to participate in the 2024 NCAA Women’s D-I Regionals, May 6-8. Thirteen SEC schools earned spots into the regional fields (including four No. 1 Read more…
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