When you sit down to watch the 2026 Players Championship this week, you may spot something interesting happening at TPC Sawgrass. Players breaking their own course strategy rules; aiming at pins they shouldn’t. But there’s a good reason for it. There are advantages hiding in plain sight, and in golf Cory Jez—the founder of a Read more…
Brooks Koepka has always had one of the most interesting putting techniques in golf. It’s a homegrown technique that he’s refined over the years to obvious success. It flies under the radar somewhat because people focus on unique golf swings more than unique putting strokes, but Brooks’ is top tier. What, specifically, is so unique? Read more…
The Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass is target golf at its very finest. From its inception in 1980, Pete Dye demanded players hit specific shots to specific targets—and threatened the harshest punishments if they didn’t. But the mastery of TPC Sawgrass isn’t just the iron fist it wields, but the cushion it allows for Read more…
Looking to take your golf game to the next level? Here are 10 training aids I personally use and recommend for improving swing, putting, and power, perfect for practise at home or on the range.
Rickie Fowler is the PGA Tour’s master of avoiding three-putts, averaging just 1.4% last season. Learn his grips, pre-shot routine, and putting tips to improve your short game.
In the latest episode of Golf Digest’s Game Plan, we explore all things Tiger Woods. What made him so good? And how did he do it? You can’t answer that question without understanding what Tiger did off the tee. His tee shots accounted for more than 20% of his total Strokes Gained over his peers, Read more…
It never felt quite right that Collin Morikawa was on a two-year winless streak. The guy is too talented a golfer; too solid a ball-striker; too smart a person for it to last. It always felt inevitable that he’d snap it sooner or later. Last week at Pebble Beach, it happened. Collin gained roughly 1 Read more…
There’s a big myth in golf that has lasted for most of the last century: to be a good putter, you have to prevent deceleration. The putterhead can’t slow down as you get closer to hitting the ball. In fact, it needs to speed up. The only problem is—that’s not true, and one needs to Read more…
Justin Rose has been playing so well recently that it sent me down a mini rabbit hole, which is where I found this interesting little video. And now I want to try it. The video is from Rose’s offseason training camp at his home in the Bahamas. Golf Digest No. 1-ranked coach Mark Blackburn joined Read more…
The claw. It was a putting grio that used to be seen as a kind of act of desperation, but now more and more players keep switching to the claw—and it keeps working. Justin Rose is perhaps the best success story, but Scottie Scheffler and Tommy Fleetwood and Collin Morikawa and Nick Taylor and tons Read more…
Golf is one of the few sports where players don’t practise or warm up under the watchful eye of a coach. Golfers for the most part go it alone, which is how bad habits form. It means we have to be extra-smart about how we approach it.
My ears always perk up when I hear legends of the game talk about their golf swing—especially when one of the legends won more majors than anybody else in history, and the other is considered one of the best ball strikers ever. The players we’re talking about are Jack Nicklaus and Lee Trevino, and what’s Read more…
It’s 2026 now, which means you’re soon going to be an entirely different person. 20 lbs slimmer and a golfer whose wildest dreams will soon come true. In all seriousness, that’s the mistake people make. They treat their New Years Resolutions with an attitude of wholesale change. They pick a goal that’s too ambitious, commit, Read more…
Young Tiger Woods—which I’m defining here as the period before he turned 30, encompassing eight major wins from his 1997 Masters through 2002—was a phenomenon. He was a disruptor in the truest sense of the word, dominating golf courses with the kind of athletic prowess golf hadn’t seen before. What followed, though, was a perhaps Read more…
It’s the question I’ve been obssesed with my entire life: How are these guys so good at golf? Golf is an impossibly difficult game. Millions of people play it—most of them terribly—and yet somehow, a few hundred have managed to get fantastically good at it. In 2025, I spent another year working like a scientist Read more…
The allure of becoming a scratch golfer is strong among the amateur ranks. It’s the ultimate goal for many, and a universal sign of respect. The thing is, a lot of golfers, even many who aspire to get their handicap down to scratch, have some misconceptions about the whole thing – both what it means Read more…
The chart from PING might just be the most important in all of golf. It represents perfection, putting into cold hard numbers the drives we all dream of hitting. The kind that Rory, Bryson, and Ludvig launch high, fly flat, and roll out forever. I call them knucklebombs, and they’re probably the most important shot Read more…
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