Welcome to Play Smart, a game-improvement column that drops every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from Game Improvement Editor Luke Kerr-Dineen to help raise your golf IQ and play smarter, better golf.

Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you play smarter, better golf. Your arms and hands are essential in determining the overall success and effectiveness ...

Swinging a golf club involves the movement of three distinct muscle groups in a very natural and athletic sequence. Those muscle groups are the lower torso from the waist down, the upper torso from ...

A few weeks ago a reader of my Golf IQ newsletter (which you can sign up for via Golf Digest+ right here), asked an interesting question. He was worried, in short, that one of his arms was so weak ...

If I tossed you a golf ball and asked you to toss it right back to me, without even thinking, I bet you'd throw it with your dominant arm. What this should tell you is that even though you've got two ...

Swinging with your arms is half the battle when it comes to a proper golf swing. Here's how to transfer your weight to your lead leg in the downswing to avoid the dreaded arm swing. Having proper ...

DUBLIN, OH - OCTOBER 03: Presidents Cup host Jack Nicklaus walks past he Ohio State University marching band prior to the start of the Day One Four-Ball Matches at the Muirfield Village Golf Club on ...

Sam Burns during the second round of the Valspar Championship on the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club. Getty Images Sam Burns is the 2021 Valspar Championship winner. This week he ...

Brandel Chamblee, Golf Channel’s astute analyst and a former Tour pro, doesn’t shy from controversy. He mercilessly criticized Tiger Woods’s swing changes after Woods stopped working with coach Butch ...