Golf Instructions

[ad_1] I can always tell when golfers are nervous in the sand: They make no body turn through the shot—it’s just a fast swipe with the hands. And when the hands get active, they tend to close the clubface, which makes the leading edge dig. You want to do just the opposite: Slide the clubhead […]

[ad_1] When Nelly Korda won her first LPGA Tour event in 2018, she matched a feat her sister, Jessica, had already accomplished. Together, the two became one set of just three sisters who have won on the LPGA Tour, the other two being Annika and Charlotta Sorenstam and Ariya and Moriya Jutanugarn. With five LPGA

[ad_1] Most golfers know, when you can’t keep your driver from slicing, it’s hard to shoot a decent score. Every hole becomes a recovery mission, and that can get old fast—real fast.  You might know that an open clubface is what causes the slice, but you might not know how to fix it or, even

[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Sophia Popov wasn’t supposed to be in the field at the AIG Women’s British Open, let alone win it. Ranked 304th in the world and a member of the Symetra Tour, which is a developmental tour for the LPGA, Popov was a last-minute addition to the Open after finishing T-9 at the

[ad_1] You hear it all the time when you’re watching golf broadcasts on TV. A player whose ball is in a seemingly awkward spot asks to speak to a rules official about the situation and what options he or she can take. Suddenly, the player is getting relief, and viewers at home are wondering what’s

[ad_1] The running joke within golf teacher circles Sunday night was that practice ranges around the country would be filled the next day with weekend hackers trying to bend their left wrists at the top of the backswing to copy the new Masters champ. It was a joke—sort of—but illustrative of one of the problems

[ad_1] My iron play in 2019 wasn’t as good as I wanted, so after the surgery on my left knee at the end of the season, I worked on getting my ball-striking back to where it was a few years ago. I think a lot of golfers can relate to dealing with the ups and

[ad_1] Recently, a few tour players have been experimenting with longer driver shafts in an attempt to increase their swing speed and distance off the tee. Dylan Frittelli, in the top five after 54 holes at the 2020 Masters, credited a longer driver for boosting his speed over the past couple of months. Everyone wants

[ad_1] Often times on the PGA Tour, we see players allowed to lift, clean and place the ball on the fairway when a local rule is employed during wet conditions on the PGA Tour, which means conditions are ripe for tee shots that find the fairway to leave the ball with an extra passenger of

[ad_1] You aren’t going to barricade yourself in your coach’s house for two months, drink multiple protein shakes a day and hit 3,000 balls in a week. But that doesn’t mean you can’t draft off of some of the DeChambeau experience to play better. Golf Digest 50 Best Teacher Chris Como, Tiger Woods’ former instructor,

[ad_1] Tiger Woods is arguably the most accomplished champion in the history of golf, but that doesn’t mean he’s above learning from other players. Throughout his career, Woods has sought advice and information from some of the best short-game wizards of all time. Because in golf, even the best can always get better. “Learning short-game

[ad_1] For the top wedge players on tour, it’s not enough just to have precise distance control. It’s about having vastly different shots in their arsenals. For a back pin on soft greens, they need a low-trajectory punch that doesn’t spin back when it lands. But for a front pin on the firm greens they

[ad_1] To have success on any hilly golf course, you have to be able to accurately estimate yardages over sloped terrain. Judging how much shorter to play a downhill shot or how much longer to play an uphill one, including how an uneven lie will affect the ball flight, is critical at a place like

[ad_1] With the Masters just two weeks away, Tiger Woods’ focus has shifted toward Augusta National. Part of the reason Woods has had so much success there is his ability to hit shots off uneven lies. With Augusta’s hilly terrain, players rarely have a completely flat lie. And typically speaking, the guys in contention are

[ad_1] In normal times on the PGA Tour, Tiger Woods draws thousands of fans to the course every time he plays. And those fans are often delighted when Woods hits a wayward drive in their direction, because it means he’ll venture outside the ropes to hit a recovery shot. TV cameras have captured this scene

[ad_1] As a player who has missed his fair share of fairways during his career, Tiger Woods has often had to rely on his unparalleled ability to pull off escape shots from trouble. Given Woods’ capacity to draw or fade normal shots at will, it should come as no surprise that he’s a master of

[ad_1] Monte Scheinblum knows firsthand what happens to big hitters as they age. A former long-drive champ, he watched in slow-motion horror as his clubhead speed shrank from 130 miles per hour into the 110s during a two-year period. “Getting old hurts a strong player more,” says Scheinblum, 53, who teaches his power techniques at

[ad_1] An underrated part of playing out of the rough is knowing the type of grass you’re dealing with. A ball coming out of a buried lie in Bermuda grass will react differently than one in Kentucky Bluegrass, or fescue, or any of the other varieties. The same is true for the flier lie. Simply

[ad_1] Pros often wow us with their ability to hit high, soft-landing shots out of the rough. But sometimes they’re faced with a lie so brutal that there’s simply no way to get the ball to the green, no matter how strong their forearms or how much clubhead speed they can generate. “With a lie

[ad_1] Most amateurs struggle with fairway-bunker shots, and one of the big reasons is, they don’t get to practice them. The vast majority of practice ranges don’t include a fairway-bunker area, so for most golfers, there just isn’t a way to put in the work needed to improve at one of golf’s most difficult shots.