Opinion
Bring Back the Full Green-Reading Book
Since the first of January 2022, players on the main tours have not been allowed to carry a green-reading book built from laser or level data. The rule, adopted …
Putting
Tips and Instruction
Most Three-Putts Are a Speed Problem, Not a Line Problem
Stand on any practice green on a Saturday morning and watch what golfers actually work on. Nearly everyone is dropping three balls around the hole from six feet …
Equipment
The Arm-Lock Putter: Why It's Legal, Why Tour Pros Keep Switching, and Whether You Should
Walk down the practice putting green at any PGA Tour event now and you will see it inside the first minute: a player gripping down near the steel of an …
Tips and Instruction
The Six-Footer: The Putt That Actually Decides Your Score
Ask most club golfers what costs them the most shots and they will point to something dramatic: the drive that finds the trees, the approach that comes up short …
Tips and Instruction
When the Putter Is the Smartest Club From Off the Green
Watch an amateur miss a green by three yards and you can usually guess what comes next. Out comes a wedge, in goes the chin, and a delicate little flick is …
Equipment
The Training Aids Actually Worth Your Money
The training aid industry runs on the same fuel as the diet industry: the gap between who we are and who we would like to be, plus a credit card. Every golfer …
Tips and Instruction
The First Putt: The Speed Drill the Amateur Game Won't Do
There is a putt that the average amateur faces ten or eleven times a round and almost never practises. The putt is the first putt from a distance the player …
PGA Tour
Koepka's 63 at Craig Ranch: The Putter Change That Has the Field Looking Up
The first thing to say about Brooks Koepka’s opening round at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson is that, by the time the early wave had walked off the eighteenth …
Tips and Instruction
How to Read Greens: A Practical Guide for the Rest of Us
Watch any professional golfer crouch behind a putt on television and you could be forgiven for thinking that green reading is a kind of divination — a gift …
Tips and Instruction
Lag Putting on Fast Greens: Why Pace Always Beats Line
The amateurs I play with spend almost all of their pre-putt routine staring at the line. They squat behind the ball, they walk to the low side, they hold a …