Golf Instructions

I’m guessing you’ve hit a miracle shot once or twice. Maybe you threaded it through the trees, or nipped a wedge off a cartpath. Before I joined the PGA Tour, I had a lot of […]

Golfers are often told to keep their hands passive when hitting shots—even I’ve been guilty of saying it from time to time. But what does having passive hands mean? Your hands are the only thing […]

ABOUT Every golfer knows that good ball-striking days are the best days you can have. Nothing beats that feeling of compressing the ball with the center of the clubface and seeing it streak off to […]

ABOUT You hear golfers say it all the time: “I’m wasting so many shots around the green—I need to work on my short game.” But what does that entail? Work certainly doesn’t sound like a […]

ABOUT The vast majority of strokes in any given round come around the greens. Yet most golfers struggle with short-game shots, because they’re uncertain about how to execute them, or they don’t practice them—or both. […]

ABOUT How well you hit your driver, if you’re like most golfers, is the biggest factor in how much you enjoy your round of golf. There might be more important statistical categories, but none more […]

ABOUT Golf statistician Lou Riccio, who has been compiling data from average golfers for more than 30 years, says the ability to hit greens is by far the biggest determinant of a player’s score. Not […]

ABOUT If you’re like a lot of golfers, the short game can be overwhelming. Every time you miss a green, you have so many little factors to consider—the lie, the trouble spots, the club, the […]

ABOUT One of the most striking differences between tour players and everyday golfers is how much distance they get for the amount of effort they put into the swing. Tour players look smooth and relaxed, […]

ABOUT Isn’t it time to stop the blow-up holes, the wasted rounds, the frustration—and start playing the golf you know you can? This five-lesson program is designed to help you find out where inconsistency is […]