A truly essential skill for scoring well is controlling distance on the greens and getting your first putt close enough to tap in. Distance control starts with solid technique and a simple principle: ...

Before every shot, every golfer makes the same decision: they judge distance. In the fairway, range finders, GPS devices and even the occasional sprinkler head help calculate the distance to the flag.

Becoming a great bunker player requires sound technique and a solid understanding of how different adjustments affect your shot outcome. Let's start with the fundamentals and then explore the key ...

To see success with putting, distance control is everything. Sure, it helps to have the ability to read greens and to understand slopes, but when your speed is precise, you make a very difficult sport ...

Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you play smarter, better golf. Lag putting is a key skill in golf. While making putts inside 10 feet is important, ...

When you're hitting balls on the driving range, there's a good chance you don't have a good plan that actually helps you improve your golf game. That's not a knock, but the cold hard truth, as most ...

Professional golfers are better than amateur golfers at literally everything—that's why they're professional golfers—but they're especially good at distance control. But exactly how good are they?

Before every shot, every golfer makes the same decision: they judge distance. In the fairway, range finders, GPS devices and even the occasional sprinkler head help calculate the distance to the flag.

That’s not a knock, but the cold hard truth, as most amateur golfers just whip out their driver and try crushing drives over and over. But if you really want to translate your golf practice from the ...