Ask any golfer what they'd change about their local course and "faster rounds" comes up almost every time. But there's a common misconception baked into that wish: that playing faster means swinging...

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...