Althea Gibson was one of the greatest athletes of all time and a groundbreaking woman in not one but two sports. Gibson was best known for her tennis career, as she was the first African American to compete at the U.S. National Championships and won 11 Grand Slam titles throughout her eight-year career. Her athletic Read more…
There’s never a bad time to investigate buying new clubs, so to help you actually swing those new sticks the way they’re designed, we compiled some equipment-related tips from some of our Best in State and Top 50 coaches.
Is your son or daughter hooked on the game and aspiring to play golf in college? Great! An exciting journey awaits, but the road to securing a spot on a college golf team can be overwhelming. Is my kid good enough to play D-I? D-III? When should they start reaching out to coaches? What tournaments Read more…
Welcome back to Low Net, written for the average golfer by an average golfer. This will be a weekly newsletter for Golf Digest+ members, but you’re getting it free for now. To continue to get Low Net, sign up for Golf Digest+ right here. Have a topic you want me to explore? Send me an Read more…
You can’t walk more than a few paces on a tour driving range without seeing a player practising with at least one alignment stick. Watch amateurs at a driving range and you’d be lucky if you found one at all.
The golf swing is a combination of tilts, turns, and bends. Lots of different parts of your body turn, tilt and bend when you swing a golf club. But one of the most important is a movement called side bend. It’s a term you may have heard before. Side bend is this kind of reverse Read more…
Unilateral exercises, in which you isolate and train with just one limb, have become increasingly popular with golfers for a variety of reasons including injury prevention, correcting muscular imbalances and being able to train for power without putting too much stress on the spine. Golf Digest’s Certified Fitness Trainers often emphasize weight-bearing moves involving only Read more…
Anthony Kim’s comeback is officially underway. The LIV Golf Tour officially announced this week that the pair had cut a deal for the 38 year-old to play in its remaining slate of 2024 tournaments, starting at this week’s Jeddah event. It’s a fascinating science experiment, of sorts. How will a formerly top player fare after Read more…
One of the things I miss most about playing college golf is the travel. Every few weeks, our team would arrive at an incredible golf course and play a minimum of 54 holes before packing up and heading home. It was like taking buddies trips every month with the additional luxury of having everything planned Read more…
A good pair of women’s golf pants is hard to find. I never thought I’d find a great pair at Old Navy. I hadn’t considered Old Navy’s athletic wear until a golf instructor and fitness trainer mentioned liking their line, saying that you get a lot of quality for the price. Of the few pieces Read more…
LIV Golf has all but confirmed that Anthony Kim will be making his return to professional golf at this week’s LIV Golf Jeddah event. Kim has become a sort of mythic creature since his last PGA Tour start in 2012. That mystique continued with LIV’s cryptic promo, released Monday, which shows a few quick hits Read more…
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