Golf Masters Blog

Every golfer wants more distance, and most of us chase it in the wrong place. We buy a new driver, tinker with the grip, or swing out of our shoes hoping to muscle the ball an extra ten yards. Real distance comes from a short list of things done well: how fast the...

Few shots feel worse than the fat one. You commit to the swing, the clubhead thuds into the turf an inch or two behind the ball, and what should have been a crisp 150-yard iron dribbles out to 90. Golfers call it hitting it fat, chunking, or hitting it heavy, and it...

Few shots feel worse than a top. You make what feels like a decent swing, and the ball skitters along the ground barely past the forward tees, or dribbles off the tee box while your playing partners study their shoes. The good news is that topping is one of the most...

Few misses rattle a golfer like the shank. One swing feels fine, the ball rockets almost sideways off to the right (for a right-hander), and suddenly you're scared to make contact at all. The good news, and it's genuinely good news, is that the shank is one of the...

A hook can be a strange miss to own. One day the ball is drilling low and left into trouble, the next it looks almost powerful until it dives off the fairway at the last second. If you fight a hook, you probably already hit it a long way and have decent hands. The...

Breaking 80 is the line where recreational golf starts to look like real golf. Shoot 79 on a par-72 course and you have averaged better than a bogey a hole for eighteen straight holes. That is a different task from breaking 90. You cannot bogey your way to a 79. You...

Breaking 90 is the score that separates a casual golfer from a genuinely competent one. To do it, you need to shoot 89 or better across 18 holes. On a par-72 course, that means you can average a bogey on every single hole and still have three shots to spare. Read that...

Almost everyone who plays golf regularly wants to shoot in the 90s. If your scores live in that 100-to-115 range right now, here's the good news: you don't need to hit longer drives, flush your irons, or add a single new skill to break 100. You need to stop making a...

Golf carries a gentle reputation — no tackles, no sprinting, a leisurely walk between shots. Yet studies put the annual injury rate somewhere between roughly 15% and 40% of amateur golfers, and professionals fare no better — reported annual and lifetime injury rates...

Golf is one of the few competitive sports you can genuinely play for life. Plenty of golfers post their best-ever scores in their 60s and 70s, and the walk itself is one of the healthiest habits a person can keep. But the body does change with age, and the golfers who...