Instruction

Annika Sorenstam: Wedge Wisdom

For crisp contact, don't cheat your turn

By Annika Sorenstam

Published Apr. 14, 2009

Keywords Instruction | annika sorenstam | wedges | distance control | spin

Instruction

Sidehill Saves

Adjust your aim, and stabilize your stance

By Tom Watson

Published Jun. 26, 2008

Keywords Instruction | Ernie Els | Spin | Chipping | wedges | backspin

Instruction

How To Spin Your Wedges

Crisp contact, not a big divot, creates backspin

By Ernie Els

Published Jun. 26, 2008

Keywords Instruction | Ernie Els | Spin | Chipping | wedges | backspin

Instruction

How To Spin Your Wedges

Crisp contact, not a big divot, creates backspin

By Ernie Els

Published Jun. 26, 2008

Keywords Instruction | Ernie Els | Spin | Chipping | wedges | backspin

Equipment: Open thinking

A peek at what clubs and balls might look like if the restraints were taken off golf equipment manufacturers

By E. Michael Johnson

Published Aug. 28, 2007

Keywords Equipment | curve | spin | ball | USGA | Open thinking

Instruction

Three Keys To...

Chipping it close

By Tiger Woods

Published Jun. 19, 2007

Keywords chipping | Annika | Sorenstam | aim | alignment | spin | drill

Blog: Bomb & Gouge

Another update from the USGA on grooves

GOUGE: Remember early last week when I relayed a story Terry Dill told me about J.B. Holmes bashing a 5-iron from the light rough 220 yards to land comfortably on the green on Colonial's first...

By Mike Stachura

Published Jul. 27, 2009

Keywords Bomb & Gouge | Golf | Golf DIgest | Grooves | J.B. Holmes | Spin | USGA

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Norman's groove theory

BOMB: Greetings from Turnberry, buddy. Wish you were here, particularly when I played Girvan GC last night—a par-64 gem with eight holes looking out over the water and Ailsa Craig. How good is it to...

By Mike Stachura

Published Jul. 15, 2009

Keywords Bomb & Gouge | British Open | Colonial | Greg Norman | J.B. Holmes | Spin | grooves

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A good smash in the face

GOUGE: You know how it is, partner, when you're going along and think you have everything figured out and then something smashes you right in the face? Sometimes you never recover from it. Sometimes you're...

By Mike Stachura

Published May. 05, 2009

Keywords Appendix III | Bomb Gouge | Rules of Golf | USGA | golf balls | grooves | spin

Equipment

Equipment: New Looks: Identity Crisis, Hybrids

What's a hybrid supposed to look like anyway?

By Mike Stachura

Published Sep. 23, 2009

Keywords golf | equipment | gear | new looks | hybrids | 3-irons | long irons | spin | shafts | clubheads

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Lost in the desert

BOMB: Well, back to work after our trek out west that included a round of golf in 116-degree heat, witnessing a hot-air balloon crashing to earth near a golf course and seeing what the equipment...

By Mike Stachura

Published Sep. 01, 2009

Keywords Bomb & Gouge | Emerald Canyon | Ernie Els | Golf DIgest | Y.E. Yang | golf | grooves | spin

Equipment

Equipment: The Death of Spin?

What the new grooves rule means for the game and you

By Mike Stachura

Published Jul. 22, 2009

Keywords golf equipment | gear | death of spin | grooves rules | Mike Stachura | drivers | woods | equipment manufacturers