There are some shots in golf that make you feel like a real player. Hitting a wedge with spin, mastering a flop, executing a stinger when you need it — these are all shots that require practice and ...

Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you play smarter, better golf. During the 1998 U.S. Open at Olympic Club, Payne Stewart held a two-stroke lead on the ...

Q: What is your opinion on taking divots with all iron shots? I seem to get the same distance whether I "pick" the ball or take a divot and tear up the fairway or tee box? Should I be taking divots ...

If you don't take a divot on your approach shots, you're probably pulling up onto your back foot during the downswing. Here's Butch Harmon's favorite drill for learning to take good divots.

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Local pros solve your golf problems in a weekly instruction video with Plain Dealer columnist Bud Shaw and videographer David I. Andersen. This week, PGA Master Professional John ...

Editor's note: Each week, Megan Padua, a teaching professional at Maidstone Club (East Hampton, N.Y.) and Belfair Plantation (Bluffton, S.C.), and one of Golf Digest's Best Young Teachers, offers tips ...

Next time you get to a par 3, compare the divots on the back tee to the ones on the closer tees. You should see two differences: Divot holes from better players start past the ball (you can usually ...

A good divot is usually a sign of a good iron shot. Since the clubs are designed to hit the ball on the descent, irons usually scrape off a thin layer of the turf in front of the ball. They often tell ...

Beginners' Golf: How to Take a Swing Eric Alpenfels, director of golf instruction at the Pinehurst Golf Academy in North Carolina, illustrates how to achieve good form in a golf swing.

It's one of the most brutal moments in golf: arriving to your golf ball to find that it has wound up in the middle of an old divot. The shot you thought you hit well and wound wind up with a clean lie ...