With help from Randy (one of Golf Digest’s 50 Best Teachers in America), I want to show you things that I’ve done that will help you get to your next level.
A bit of luck plays a part in a career-best score, but if you analyse thoroughly enough, you’ll find tangible takeaways that you can apply to future rounds.
It’s 2024, which marks a clean slate to fix the various things in our golf game that we’re not happy with. The list can get long in a hurry, but where’s the best place to start?
It feels wrong to call Luke List a bomber, even though he objectively is one. The newly-crowned winner of the Sanderson Farms Championship finished eighth, 12th, and 18th in Driving Distance his last three seasons on the PGA Tour, helping him onto a 13th, seventh, and 10th ranking in SG: Tee-to-Green, respectively. His average remains Read more…
You need stable legs to make a powerful swing, but lower-body stability doesn’t require hours in the gym doing Olympic lifts or other complicated exercises. You can build a sturdy platform to swing from in your lounge room.
ROME — Jon Rahm marched onto the empty green as the sun was still rising over Marco Simone. The Spaniard always brings with him a certain aura, but the energy felt different on Friday morning. For Rahm, this morning wasn’t about having fun. It was about going to work. The task of hitting your team’s Read more…
Not only is it important to hold a golf club correctly if you want to generate power and allow it to “release” through the impact zone, it also reduces the stress placed on the joints of the arm.
Things like this don’t win and lose Ryder Cups. It’s just a minor nuisance for the US Team, and a subtle perk for Europe. A charming and clever piece of home team gamesmanship.
How do players navigate the terrifying task of hitting a golf ball, with millions of people watching and feeling more nervous than you’ve ever been? Just ask Justin Rose…
ROME — You won’t see players on opposing sides agreeing on much this week, especially with the contest officially underway. Yet cruising around the grounds this week, there’s one exception: A VISIO practice mat training aid, which has been littered around the Marco Simone Golf Club and used religiously by players on both sides. By Read more…
ROME — The youngest player at Marco Simone Golf Club this week isn’t Ludvig Aberg, who was picked for the Ryder Cup team despite only turning pro in the summer. Nor is it any player on the American side. It’s Nicolai Hojgaard, the 22 year-old European Tour rising star who earned Captain Luke Donald’s 12th Read more…