Professional golfers are better than amateur golfers at literally everything – that’s why they’re professional golfers – but they’re especially good at distance control.
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?
Chinese Taipei’s Chuan-Tai Lin and China’s Wenyi Ding shared the 36-hole lead at the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship on a day when Royal Melbourne’s fickle breezes brought many rounds undone. Chinese-Taipei’s ‘Teddy’ Lin fired the day’s lowest score, a 4-under 67 that catapulted him into a tie for the lead. He credited his caddie, a Royal Melbourne member, Read more…
The Champions Tour’s Pure Insurance Championship at Pebble Beach Golf Links is no ordinary event. It’s especially unique because of the format. There is a Champions Tour title stake as usual, but each tour player also plays as part of a team with a junior golfer from The First Tee. There is also an amateur Read more…
Luke Donald forced players to play for $100 matches on the first hole during practice rounds, and three-hole money matches between themselves to help them get into an aggressive mindset early.
ROME — If you’ve watched any Ryder Cup action over the course of the week, you’ve probably seen Justin Rose making putts. He’s dropped a variety to crucial ones over the course of the two four ball sessions, including two match winning birdie putts, the latter of which helped him and Robert MacIntyre deliver Justin Read more…
ROME — What a day at Marco Simone. A historic one, either in a good or bad way depending on your allegiance. There’s a lot to break down, so let’s run through a few takeaways. 1. Hero Hovland’s chip-in was the best shot of the morning Chipping in from a tight lie from the first Read more…
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.
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