This highly effective short-game challenge was inspired from a story I read in the magazine years ago by the great coach, Jack Lumpkin.

One of the most efficient ways to lower your golf scores is to improve your short game. A combination of good technique, proper shot selection can add up.

With a $115 budget, I set out to buy things that are useful enough that they can actually help improve my short game from home.

With that in mind, Golf Digest sought to identify and honor the best of the best in various short-game skills on the LPGA Tour. To accomplish this, we sifted through scores of statistics ...

Is Your Short Game Ruining Your Score? / Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from "The Lost Art of the Short Game," written by instructors Gary Nicol and Karl Morris.

Short courses strip down the game to its most fundamental and fun elements, representing the perfect blend of challenge and enjoyment, that makes them an integral part of the golf landscape.