Most golfers spend their practice time working on the stroke itself, the takeaway, the tempo, the follow-through, and almost none of it on what happens before the putter ever moves. That is a...

You crouch behind your ball, picture the line, and step up to putt with total confidence, only to watch the ball curve late and miss on the low side, well after you thought it had already found its...

You're standing over your ball on the fairway, itching to hit your approach shot. The green looks open. Your playing partners are ready to move. But if you look up and there's still a group walking...

Your ball comes up just short of the green. It's sitting in the fringe — that narrow band of slightly longer grass between the fairway and the putting surface — a foot or two off the actual...

It happens on almost every green, in almost every casual round. Your ball rolls up a foot or two from the cup, someone in your group waves a hand and says "that's good," and you pick it up without...

It's easy to think of a golf cart as harmless. It doesn't leave the deep divots a mishit iron shot does, it doesn't ball-mark the green, and nobody's ever been penalized two strokes for driving one...