Last week, multiple people sent me the same viral video clip, understandable given how closely the subject aligned with my interests. The video was an interview with a hockey player (my other favorite sport) on the psychology of performance (my favorite subject). When describing his 34-save effort to beat the reigning Stanley Cup champion Carolina Read more…
While the idea of staying fit is one motivation for training, better golf performance remains at the forefront, and training to make a better coil in the backswing can help.
What happens when someone asks for your handicap and you genuinely have no idea? There are plenty of things to be nervous about when starting a new job: meeting your co-workers, making a good first impression, remembering everyone’s names. For me, it was also answering one simple question: What’s your golf handicap? Ahead of my Read more…
If you hit better iron shots than drives, you can improve your tee shots by training your body to rotate without moving so much laterally. And if you drive the ball better than you hit irons, you need a better blend of lateral and rotational movement.
Golf Digest senior writer Alex Myers is on a one-year mission to see how good he can get at golf through daily training, practice and playing. Read more from his “Late Scratch?” series here. My first foray into caddying earlier this year was both a fun and eye-opening experience. By the end of that day Read more…
Whether you’re in line for a potential penalty or not in this situation, it comes down to who left the bunker rake in the position where it could be used as an advantage.
What do you do when you hit a ball on the bank of unmarked penalty area? What do you do when you hit a ball in the middle of an unmarked penalty area? What do you do when your ball is sitting in a dry creek bed or ditch? We answer all three with a review of what is and what isn’t a penalty area.
Of the absurd number of swing videos on my phone, I have one that I return to more than I should. It’s from a fall round a few years back, when for some mystical reason, I drove the ball better than ever. That a friend captured one of those swings on video would seem to Read more…
Golf Digest senior writer Alex Myers is on a one-year mission to see how good he can get at golf through daily training, practice and playing. Read more from his “Late Scratch?” series here. On a recent Friday, I was the talk of the town in Rye, NY—but not in a positive way. Despite an Read more…
What do you do when someone breaches a rule and then breaches another rule as part of their next stroke? It depends on the format, but this scenario is not as egregious as it might seem.
At the Solheim Cup, we watched pros do something difficult that a lot of average golfers attempt, too: play team golf. It’s different from typical stroke play, or even one-on-one match play events. Pros, like the test of us, usually play their own ball. But in the Netherlands, they had to play with a partner Read more…
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