I played a decent amount of golf this year, but by one measure it appears I didn’t do much at all. A review of my handicap shows I started the year as an 11 and it looks like I’m ending the year as . . . an 11. It reminds me of that Jerry Seinfeld Read more…
Early in Nancy Lopez’s professional career, she was struggling with hooking the ball. She couldn’t figure out why it was happening. In college, she had even gone through a grip change, moving the club more into the fingers of her right hand than the palm. Getting in a more neutral position should keep the ball Read more…
Does your swing feel a little too long at the top? Maybe it’s getting quick at the transition? Or you don’t know exactly what the problem is, but you just feel out of sync? Golf Digest Top 50 Teacher Erika Larkin has a simple drill that will get your swing back into rhythm. Set up Read more…
Back in 2016, many athletes in the Summer Olympics were caught on camera with bizarre circular blotches on their bodies (swimmer Michael Phelps most famously). The redish marks were the temporary side effect of a pain-management treatment known as cupping, and that exposure in the Olympics made it one of the most trendy therapies at Read more…
All of this is covered in Rule 8.1 and comes with the general penalty for a violation (loss of hole in match play or a two-shot penalty in strokeplay).
Sometimes there’s magic in a swing tip, a feeling, a thought or even a drill; something that just feels right, and gets you hitting better golf shots because of it. Like these:
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…
Dr. William Hogue, an optometrist at Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of New York, has a question for you: How often do you go to the dentist? He’s guessing that the answer is a lot more than you get your eyes checked. And that’s unfortunate, because golfers are at greater risk of developing advanced cataracts and/or Read more…
Fall golf can produce some of the prettiest rounds of the year. But there are realities to playing golf in colder temperatures. In order to get the most out of your game as the weather turns, Golf Digest Top 50 Teacher Erika Larkin says to keep these three things in mind. 1. Club Up The Read more…
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