Top-ranked golf instructor Mike Malizia shares three simple fundamentals to stop chunking golf shots — increasing your confidence near the greens. Envision this scenario: You’ve hit the fairway off ...

Many golfers overlook how wedge bounce impacts short game shot selection. Golf coach and Head Pro Anthony Wik advises analyzing the lie, conditions, landing area, and hazards before choosing a wedge.

Maybe it’s just the 13 handicap in me coming out, but I’ve really struggled with 50-yard wedge shots lately — and many amateurs can probably relate. For only being half a football field away from the ...

Welcome to Shaving Strokes, a GOLF.com series in which we’re sharing improvements, learnings and takeaways from amateur golfers just like you — including some of the speed bumps and challenges they ...

We all love to bomb tee shots on the driving range to blow off some steam — and try to flex some muscle to any onlookers — but if you really want to lower your scores, most of your efforts should be ...

During a recent golf trip to see Wik at Claremont Golf Club in Portland, OR, I asked him something most amateur golfers struggle with: What is bounce on a wedge, and how should you use it in the short ...

It’s a hard truth many golfers don’t like to admit: You hit about four greens a round. Tops. On the other 14 holes you’re missing greens right, left, long and short. That’s a bunch of short-game shots ...

The golf wedges can be the difference between precision and frustration on the short game. There are many designs, loft options, grinds and bounce configurations which makes it difficult to know what ...

Envision this scenario: You’ve hit the fairway off the tee, navigated the hole with expert-level course management, and just missed a green-in-regulation, so all that’s left for par is getting ...