THE 18TH AT THE OLD COURSE lacks the bite of other famous drivable par 4s. Sharing a fairway with the first hole, the landing zone is as generous as it gets. Pros often take less t ...

GARRICK HIGGO AGE: 23 FROM: STELLENBOSCH, SOUTH AFRICA MY DAD LOVED THE GAME. He taught me how to play when I was a child growing up in South Africa. When I was 9, my family made t ...

MAYBE YOUR BOSS IS A JERK. Perhaps you’re working in a temporary job or you’re not happy with what you do, but nothing better is on the horizon, and you have bills to pay, righ ...

LANDO NORRIS is a young man always on the move—usually at speeds that would cause my Subaru to spontaneously combust. So it’s only fitting that I caught up with the Formula 1 s ...

THE MOST reverberant golf quote I know actually comes from John Ford’s 1962 Western called “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” starring John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, who were ...

I’ll absolutely confess to being something of a swing nerd. When I work on my game with my main coach, Mark Blackburn, I want to see all the data behind what I’m doing and unde ...

If you’re on a bad run of holes, it’s tempting to try something different off the tee or swing at 140 percent—because, hey, what you’re doing isn’t working. Instead, you ...

It’s natural to feel desperate when you can’t find the center of the face with your irons, or you’re spraying the ball all over the place. I’ve been there, and the way out ...

Keeping with the spirit of limiting choices when your game goes crooked, distance wedges are easier to hit under quieter hand-action conditions. The most forgiving wedge shot comes ...

On days when you’re off with your driving or ball-striking, you can make things right with your short game. I use this “cut spinner” so much around the greens, it’s almost ...