Sleep apnea is considered a serious condition that is often treated medically using a machine that keeps the upper airway unblocked with continuous positive pressure.
The coldest round of golf I ever played was our Golf Digest company tournament, the Seitz Cup, in November 2019. It was 19 degrees in Connecticut, frost on every fairway. My outfit was basically what it would be if I was packing for a long weekend, didn’t want to bring a bag, and just wore Read more…
Ready for a challenge? Test your knowledge of the Rules of Golf by “playing” this par 5, where just about every unusual rules situation you can think of happens along the way. See if you can get to the next tee by knowing what to do in each scenario.
When you want to know how much horsepower a car has, you look at its engine. When you want to how powerful a golf swing is, you look at its pivot. Your golf swing’s pivot is, basically, its turn. And it is for all intents and purposes the engine of your golf swing. It’s the Read more…
As a teacher who has worked with amateurs and tour pros for 30 years, I can tell you that short-game fundamentals have evolved quite a bit over time. This is especially true as technology has advanced in ways that make it easy to study and analyze what good players do. I used to have to Read more…
There’s no harder transition to make in golf than the jump from the college ranks to the professional level. Even when you’re one of the best amateurs in the country, like Andy Ogletree was. Ogletree won the 2019 U.S. Amateur, then finished low amateur at the 2020 Masters. But golf can be a cruel game Read more…
As it turns out, PGA Tour rookie Davis Thompson shares more in common with Davis Love III than just his first name. Both are tall—Thompson is 6-foot-4, and World Golf Hall of Famer Love stands 6-foot-3—and both reside in St. Simons Island, Ga. In fact, Thompson’s father, Todd, is tournament director for The RSM Classic, Read more…
Something that goes underappreciated when amateur golfers watch pros on television is how much higher they hit the golf ball. Pros launch their ball seemingly into the stratosphere—the average apex on tour hovers around 100 feet. Amateur golfers, by contrast, often struggle to hit their drives north of 60 feet high. A large part of Read more…
As much as we’d like to think you spend the better part of your day standing up, let’s not pretend. You’re probably sitting down as you read this, and that could be a big problem, especially if you play golf. Prolonged, chronic sitting is linked to so many health issues, we could spend the next Read more…