If you know a golfer who isn’t interested in hitting the ball farther, you might want to gather some friends and family for an intervention. Something’s not right.For the 99.9 percent of us who do want to crank more drives, improving technique will obviously do wonders, but so will a different approach to your workouts. Read more…
With any luck, the July 4 weekend will be the low point of my golf season, because I was awful. Every day, my scores got worse. I pulled my irons, got easily frustrated and wondered if I was wasting my time. I’m already at the point where I’m glad it happened. Whether out of delusion Read more…
Matt Fitzpatrick’s golf swing felt lost. “The Players this year, it was really bad…I couldn’t find the face with the ball. It was just not good,” Fitzpatrick said. “That’s the lowest I’ve been, I felt, in my career. Statistically it could be the worst run that I’ve played as well. Yeah, I just didn’t feel Read more…
One of the fascinating wrinkles of Open Championship week is the greens. Portrush’s greens on Friday were rolling the fastest they had all week—11 on the stimp meter, before the rain rolled through and slowed them down about a foot more, according to commentator Kevin Kisner. That’s notably slower than an average PGA Tour event. Read more…
Low stingers are perhaps the nastiest shot in golf. A shot so cool that people gave it its own name, and even that nickname was awesome. The stinger; it’s a shot that pros usually use off the tee that rips through the air very low and usually pretty straight. There are three things that golfers Read more…
Loving the Open Championship means loving links golf. There’s something so refreshing about watching players hit shots we don’t usually see, in weather we’d usually try to avoid. To play links golf well, there are a few shots you need to be able to hit. On a trip to Scotland, Jason Guss, a Golf Digest Read more…
Australia’s Grace Kim says this simple shot is going to get you landing the ball softly with little runout, and it’s a whole lot easier to hit than the flop shot.
Golf Games Explained is exactly what it sounds like. You want to mix it up and try something new for once? Well, someone has to do the thankless work of playing different golf formats and telling you if it’s worth it. You can thank me later. Just when I thought I’d run out of golf Read more…
For you golf-history buffs, the photo above is of Todd Hamilton at the 2004 Open Championship. You might recall that en route to his victory, he often hit bump-and-run-type shots from off the green with a hybrid. It was one of the first times that shot was in golf’s spotlight, and more than two decades later, Read more…
The adjustments players have to make on the greens are more subtle than on the fairway, but look closely and you’ll see them. You may even learn more about putting.
It’s safe to say Scottie Scheffler wants to win the year’s final men’s major, the British Open, next week at Royal Portrush. To do so, of course, requires something a little different than what’s needed at the Masters, PGA Championship or U.S. Open. To hold the claret jug means solving the riddle of links golf. Read more…
Australian Golf Digest
