Golf is one of the few sports where players don’t practise or warm up under the watchful eye of a coach. Golfers for the most part go it alone, which is how bad habits form. It means we have to be extra-smart about how we approach it.
Your browser does not support the video tag. Almost every golf instructor points to a similar problem with their students. The issue isn’t so much a lack of practice, but a lack of practice that resembles real golf. Even players with access to a driving range or a short-game facility revert to hitting a bunch 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. If tracking your stats is an important step for anyone looking to make meaningful improvements in their golf games, some numbers Read more…
In 2025, Ben Griffin went from being a decent PGA Tour player to a three-time winner and one of the best players in the world. What changed? Using Arccos Pro Insights—the advanced statistical analysis platform I use to advise nearly 50 players on the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and LPGA Tour—we analyzed Griffin’s data 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 practice and playing. Read more from his “Late Scratch?” series here. I was thrilled to get the green light to chase shooting red scores, but how was I actually going to go about Read more…
If you’ve ever wondered about those inverted-traction tables, the ones where a person hangs virtually upside down (below), their purpose is to decompress the spine, to regain some of the space between vertebrae that we lose over time from a variety of reasons—too much sitting being among the biggest. When the gel-like disc between the Read more…
Training for golf comes in a lot of forms, ranging from simple cardiovascular exercises to improve stamina on the course to jumping to improve swing speed to stretching to improve your swing. There are so many things you can do, you might wonder where do you start? Golf Digest Certified Fitness Trainer Justin Barr boils Read more…
My ears always perk up when I hear legends of the game talk about their golf swing—especially when one of the legends won more majors than anybody else in history, and the other is considered one of the best ball strikers ever. The players we’re talking about are Jack Nicklaus and Lee Trevino, and what’s Read more…
You can’t get in there with a shovel and carve out a nice hole to swing from. But shuffling your feet back and forth more than once to ensure decent footing is allowed.
It’s 2026 now, which means you’re soon going to be an entirely different person. 20 lbs slimmer and a golfer whose wildest dreams will soon come true. In all seriousness, that’s the mistake people make. They treat their New Years Resolutions with an attitude of wholesale change. They pick a goal that’s too ambitious, commit, Read more…
Over the holidays, Charley Hull didn’t miss any range time. Bundled up in layers and a knit hat, Hull hit balls on a dreary-looking day. She posted a brief video of her range session on her Instagram story with the caption, “Little insight to how I work with my drills & normal swings …” She Read more…
Three years ago, I went through a three-month game-improvement program that saw me slice my handicap in half from an 8 to a 4. It was a drastic mid-life measure to help a dad who was struggling with his golf. After sticking to the plan from the fine folks at the Golf Performance Center for Read more…
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