Somewhere on the course today, a golfer is going to shout "ready golf!" and someone new to the game is going to wonder what that actually means. It sounds informal, maybe even a little rule-breaking....

Why One Bad Shot Turns Into Several Golf gives you a strange amount of time to think between shots, and that time is exactly where scores get away from people. After a mis-hit, it is easy to...

Nobody enjoys being the group that holds up the entire course. The tee sheet keeps stacking up behind you, the group ahead disappears into the distance, and a five-hour round starts to feel less like...

You line up what looks like a straight putt, strike it well, and watch it slide past the right edge of the cup anyway. The stroke felt fine. The speed felt fine. And yet the ball never had a chance,...

Every golfer knows the feeling. You stand over an iron shot, tell yourself to "help it up," and the result is a thin dart that skips across the green or a fat chunk that dies twenty yards short. The...

Almost every golfer has hit it: a shot that starts out promising, then peels weakly off to the right and lands well short of where it should. It is one of the most common misses in the game, and also...