If you dread cardiovascular/aerobic training or are simply bored with the 30- to 45-minute routine you’ve developed on the treadmill, stationary bike, rower or elliptical, then we’ve got good news for you. You can stop doing it. That’s right. According to one study published by experts at McMaster University in Canada, you can get the Read more…
The final round of the Farmers Insurance Open in January took more than five hours to complete, drawing the ire of on-course TV commentator Dottie Pepper, who said: “I think we need a new word to talk about this pace-of-play issue, and it’s respect. Respect for your fellow competitors, for the fans, for broadcasts, for Read more…
No move activates the army of armchair golf instructors on Instagram like Joaquin Niemann’s swing. And it’s almost always the same thing that gets called out: In the milliseconds around impact, the 26-year-old Chilean drops his right shoulder and torso dramatically as he turns through (seventh photo below). It gives his swing an extraordinary amount Read more…
In the hours after his opening-round 78, Justin Thomas was on the TPC Sawgrass driving range, figuring out what had just happened. On those odd occasions when Golf Channel clipped to him and he wasn’t hitting balls, JT was rehearsing his swing. But not with both hands on the club—or with a club at all. Read more…
I had heard rumblings. Golfers discontented with how annoying Apple’s new iOS update was for golfers who record videos of their golf swings. I was afraid to learn more, and staved off the iOS update as long as I could, despite my phone yelling at me at every opportunity along the way. Until, alas, eventually Read more…
Most fitness experts will tell you that if you play golf, dealing with forward-head-posture issues are likely to be magnified by the way you stand when you hit shots. You already live your life with your head buried in your mobile phone, and your neck muscles spend much more time in flexion than extension as Read more…
Adam Scott was patient zero as far as I can tell. Starting sometime around 2022, before each shot Scott would place the club to his side, with the clubface facing towards the target, and grip the club with his left hand.
Joe Rogan’s podcasts always cover a lot of material. So it wasn’t a surprise that when Bill Murray was on the podcast, golf was a topic of discussion. What was surprising, however, was that Murray revealed he’s learned a lot from two coaches who worked extensively with Annika Sorenstam. Murray says on the podcast that Read more…
Aaron Rai led the PGA Tour in Driving Accuracy last season. We asked him what some golf-swing priorities for him are – and what the rest of us can learn from him.
AimPoint is a modern green-reading technique based primarily on feeling the slopes on the greens, rather than trying to spot them with your eyes. We take a deeper dive into the system here.
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