Lottie Woad found herself in the unenviable position of having to play the last five holes of Augusta National two under to force a playoff with Bailey Shoemaker at the 2024 Augusta National Women’s Amateur. The then 20-year-old from England had just made bogey on the par-5 13th, and had lost the two-shot lead she Read more…
The story seems to be told and re-told every time a young bomber reaches the professional ranks. When asked how they got so long off the tee, they’ll say as junior golfers, they just swung as hard as they could and then figured out over time how to find the fairway with that swing. From Read more…
Putting coach Ralph Bauer says he recommends using the line to most golfers – or to at the very least, try it – but does offer up one warning about how to use it best.
The hardest shot in golf, it’s been said, is the shot right after a shank. Because now you’re rattled, the thinking goes, and the memory is still fresh. The more golf you play, the more bad memories you risk accumulating. This is one of the downsides of experience. At my home course, I could provide 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…
If you’re a golfer, he needs no introduction. Butch Harmon is the greatest golf teacher of all time, the most outrageously under-appreciated figure yet to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame and Tiger Woods’ coach in his formative and peak years from 1993 to 2004—ages 17 to 28. “The way I put Read more…
How baseball (of all things) can relate to golf. For golfers, it’s the crucial moment between backswing and downswing, and it’s the source of most golfers’ swing problems.
The bars come in two different forms: “Performance Fuel” bars, which are designed to perk you up before or during your round; and “Recovery Fuel” bars, designed to help you recover afterwards.
Welcome to MythBusters, a Golf Digest+ series where we explore answers to some of golf’s most common questions through a series of tests with real golfers. While our findings might fall short of definitive, they still aim to shed new light on topics that have consumed golfers for years. Should you tee up an iron Read more…
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