Golf is most fun when your natural shot shape fits into the field of play. Doing that—seeing a course fits your eye—depends on how you aim. I see amateur golfers all the time who have decent swings, but they can’t aim correctly. They aim in a direction that doesn’t fit the field of play. Incorrect Read more…
At the start of the Shriners Children’s Open, Lexi Thompson said becoming the first woman since Babe Didrikson Zaharias in 1945 to make the cut in a men’s event would be among the biggest achievement of her career. She was just the seventh woman in history to try, and for a while, it looked like Read more…
An old photograph of Pamela Liebman playing golf at Trump Bedminster shows her taking a phone call—while taking a swing. Keep in mind, this was no small task before the days of Bluetooth, and it required a playing partner to hold the long cord connecting Liebman’s phone to her headphones while she hit the shot. Read more…
Course maintenance crews do make mistakes every now and then, and those mistakes can leave golfers frustrated and guessing what to do about it. Two instances occur on the teeing ground.
Playing public golf in New York City can be a moving target. Securing a tee time can be harder than ever—not to mention navigating to your course of choice—and yes, you’ll definitely meet some characters. Being a single golfer trying to play golf by myself this summer has given me some stories worth telling. Taking Read more…
Golf Digest published its first article on how to play this magnificent and infuriating game in the spring of 1950. Fittingly, it was titled “How to putt.” Can’t get that right, the editors must have figured, and there’s no sense in learning the rest. But since that time, the rest has been covered in this Read more…
At the conclusion of this year’s Wells Fargo Championship, having competed in seven PGA Tour events, Tiger Woods ranked 206th on tour in fairway accuracy (51 percent). Early-season performances like at the Farmers Insurance Open, where he hit only 17 fairways in four rounds, contributed a lot to his ranking and aren’t indicative of what Read more…
I feel like my accuracy stats with irons are a bit misleading. I play fairly aggressively week to week and fire at a lot of pins. So I might miss more greens than other pros, but I’m still only a few yards from the hole when I do. That being said, when I really need Read more…
Sean M. Haffey Golfers are used to watching tour pros at the Open Championship bundled up in cold-weather gear battling the elements. Not often are we watching the world’s best players playing in cold weather in August. But with the PGA Tour schedule getting pushed back because of COVID-19, we’re getting to see how well Read more…
Australian Golf Digest
