Welcome to Play Smart, a game-improvement column that drops every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from Director of Game Improvement content Luke Kerr-Dineen to help you play smarter, better golf. I’m a ...

The claw. It was a putting grio that used to be seen as a kind of act of desperation, but now more and more players keep switching to the claw—and it keeps working. Justin Rose is perhaps the best ...

Everyday on the lesson tee I see players who have no concept of how to hit a basic short shot, be it a putt or a chip. Between 40 and 50 percent of golf strokes occur on or near the putting green. If ...

They say, “Putting separates the pros from the amateurs,” but what separates the pros from the pros? The answer often boils down to even better putting (among other things, of course, but let’s talk ...

Six-time winner Billy Horschel went out of his way to call for the arm-lock putting technique to be banned as more and more PGA TOUR pros adopt the grip made popular by Bryson DeChambeau. "... I'm ...

As amateur golfers we all go through tough periods on the greens from time-to-time, but rather than tackle the problem and attempt to improve our putting, we often just get our head down and power ...