Promise you, that headline is not clickbait—it’s true! The more cardboard you recycle, the better chance you have of increasing your swing speed. Allow an expert to explain.One of golf’s biggest fallacies is that your grip pressure should remain light as you swing the club. That’s soooo not true, says Tyler Standifird, a doctor of Read more…
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. Amateur golfers often come up short Read more…
Professional golfers are better than amateur golfers at literally everything – that’s why they’re professional golfers – but they’re especially good at distance control.
Most pro golfers have a go-to club they lean on under pressure, or when it’s important they stay out of trouble off the tee. Spoiler alert: It’s not always driver. Tiger Woods won the 2006 Open Championship at Hoylake without hitting a single driver over the final 54 holes. His chosen club was a 2-iron, Read more…
Knowing how to hit a draw is a kind of holy grail for many golfers. A sign that you’ve officially made it. Most golfers grow up knowing how to slap a slice down the fairway. But turning it gently from right-to-left? That’s the good stuff. Which brings me to a really interesting article statistician Jake Read more…
If there’s one thing that brings together all golfers, from tour stars to beginners, it’s the desire for more distance off the tee. Ego plays a part, that’s for sure, but longer drives mean shorter approach shots, more greens in regulation, more putts for birdie—you get the idea. Distance helps. A lot. Take Bryson DeChambeau. Read more…
How did one of golf’s best ball-strikers ever come to be? By spying on golf’s best-ever ball striker. It was 1962 that served as the legendary Lee Trevino’s origin story. Trevino had just been discharged from the military two years earlier and was in the early stages of his professional career. Trevino was an unknown Read more…
If you’re lucky enough to live in a place where you can play golf all year, we salute you. For most of us, however, this is the time of the year where the clubs get shelved and the gym membership gets renewed.Knowing this, we wanted to offer you a potential framework for an exercise program Read more…
Golf fitness has come a long way since Tiger Woods brought it out of the shadows at the turn of the century. It has grown from a niche aspect of golf performance to a mainstream component, and along with that growth has come the rise of the sport-specific trainer. Where you once could count golf-fitness Read more…
How many times have you told yourself this over a chip shot: “It’s OK to go past the hole, just don’t come up short,” only to hit it halfway there—and right on line? Probably more times than you care to remember. And when you don’t make the ensuing putt, you blame your putting. The chip Read more…
You tee up the ball with a driver 14 (or so) times a round, but are you really paying attention to its height? Whether you tee the ball low or high can have a huge impact on your swing and can either help cure or exacerbate your misses. As part of our MythBusters series, we Read more…
Ben Hogan’s story is the stuff of legend. An undersized kid and iffy ball-striker who, seemingly overnight, transformed himself into one of the best golfers ever. And, perhaps, the best ball-striker ever. His rise caused a sensation at the time. Had Hogan actually figured out the secret to golf? Many claimed so, but in this Read more…
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