Living in New York City, I do the majority of my practice on indoor simulators, which means I see plenty of videos of my swing. It also means I usually have a decent enough understanding of my tendencies to know what’s happening when something is off. That’s why, when I noticed that my swing path Read more…
We’re still more than a week out from Thanksgiving, but Christmas came particularly early for one PGA Tour caddie over the weekend. Carl Smith had already had an incredible year looping for Sahith Theegala with the young star earning $16 million including his $7.5 million bonus for finishing third in the FedEx Cup standings. And Read more…
Odyssey’s all-new Ai-One Square 2 Square putters are new to the marketplace, but don’t think for a second that “zero torque” is unfamiliar territory for the putter manufacturer. Go back several years and you’ll find Backstryke and Toe Up, two Odyssey creations designed around similar concepts that never quite landed with Tour pros and recreational Read more…
We’ve reached the penultimate event on the LPGA at the Annika driven by Gainbridge at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Fla. The week started with Caitlin Clark playing in the Wednesday pro-am alongside both Nelly Korda and Annika Sorenstam. But now that we’re into the final round, Korda is in contention after returning for the Read more…
Before we get into the details of how to get out of a greenside bunker—for the record, I wrote a book on it—watch me address and hit this shot in slow motion and see what your eyes pick up on. Did anything stand out? If you watched carefully, you might note a couple of key Read more…
It’s fairly obvious that Wesley Bryan doesn’t take the results of his PGA Tour career all that seriously these days. Since Wesley and brother George started their popular YouTube channel, Bryan Bros Golf, they’ve been just as happy traveling the world to create fun ccontent as working to collect tournament checks and trophies. Need evidence? Read more…
DUBAI, U.A.E. — If any of what follows looks and sounds familiar, that’s because it is. In more ways than one, this was Groundhog Day minus Bill Murray. Exactly 12 months on from his identical twin, Nicolai’s, victory in this DP World Tour Championship, Rasmus Hojgaard is tied for the lead with 18 holes to Read more…
An LPGA sophomore season is usually defined by players picking and choosing their events after sampling as many courses as possible during their rookie year. They start finding a season-long rhythm, discovering a daily routine, how to book their travel, when to practice, how many events in a row their body can handle before taking Read more…
Golf fitness has come a long way since Tiger Woods brought it out of the shadows at the turn of the century. It has grown from a niche aspect of golf performance to a mainstream component, and along with that growth has come the rise of the sport-specific trainer. Where you once could count golf-fitness Read more…
DUBAI, U.A.E. — He’s two shots back at the halfway stage of the DP World Tour Championship. Apart from the leader, Antoine Rozner, he has two formidable names ahead of him in Rory McIlroy and Tyrrell Hatton. And he is part of a chasing pack that includes the likes of Shane Lowry, Rasmus Hojgaard and Read more…
Let’s get ahead of any pushback up front. We’re certainly not stating that you should be destroying golf clubs all willy-nilly. If you miss a gimme and break your putter on the regular, might we recommend calming down? Or perhaps therapy? And yet, once in a blue moon, murdering a club might be exactly what Read more…
You know when you hear a story that is literally impossible to believe until you remind yourself the person involved is a legend and legendary things seem to always happen to legends? Yeah, this story about Hockey Hall of Famer Ray Bourque, a living legend, is one of those stories. RELATED: Caitlin Clark nearly takes Read more…
The prize money payout at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship is modest for a PGA Tour event these days: $1.242 million to the winner from an overall purse of $6.9 million. But with its penultimate spot on the tour schedule, the tournament comes with its own sense of urgency. The push for tour pros to finish Read more…
DUBAI, U.A.E. — Billy Horschel talks about it a lot. Twice a winner of the biggest event on the DP World Tour, the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, the 37-year-old Floridian has often wondered why his regular attendance on the Old World circuit is not replicated by more of his fellow Americans. Citing the quality Read more…