Shot shaping is a skill that really sets the top players apart. If you can hit the ball with some consistency, whether that’s ...

Two wins. Ryder Cup rookie. Ben Griffin's 2025 season reads like a golf fairy tale, and honestly, it should. The guy went from missing cuts to making Captain Keegan Bradley's team. Now he's backing up ...

Long irons, hybrids and fairway woods can be especially difficult to hit off the deck. If you're someone that struggles to ...

Ask pros what their favorite lie is for hitting iron shots, and they’ll say, “The tighter, the better.” Ask a typical amateur, and they’ll likely describe that cushy quarter-inch-high cut of grass ...

Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you become a smarter, better golfer. Getting longer off the tee is a goal of just about every golfer, but at the ...

Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you play smarter, better golf. If you want to hit crisp iron shots, you have to make ball-first contact. When you do ...

Unless you're a better-than-average golfer, there's a good chance you overlook one of the simplest factors when it comes to ...

If you were to poll 100 middle-to-high handicappers and ask them what their favorite iron is, I'm betting at least 80 of them would say their 7-iron or 8-iron. Why? These clubs have ample loft so they ...

Switching into new irons, especially at the PGA TOUR level, isn’t always about distance gains. TOUR players work incredibly hard on the range and golf course to ensure they’re hitting the exact ...