Golf Magazine

Golf Magazine is the number one source for golf instruction, equipment and travel, including: exclusive instruction from our Top 100 Teachers in America, introspective interviews with the game’s rising stars and old masters, and short-game tips from guru David Pelz. Plus, you’ll get the latest in gear, including ClubTest equipment reviews, and private lessons, tips personalized for your game.

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Northern Exposure

Get in the Game • 8AM Golf ’s family of companies and products deliver something for everyone to elevate their golf experiences. Don’t miss out.

A Little Nip and Tuck

Youth Movement • The USGA’s annual quartet of individual championships for young amateurs are hardware-heavy rites of passage—and career game changers. “Subpar” cohost Colt Knost has been there and won that.

Up Close with Dylan Dethier Craig Kessler • The former COO of Topgolf and the PGA of America has a brand-new gig: leading the way for the LPGA, where, he’ll be the first to tell you, the stars are already aligned

ON THE NUMBERS • There’s data behind every swing. We crunch it so you don’t have to.

Fried-Egg Fear

Shift Toward the Target • Your impact position should never look like your address position

A friend and I reached a tee box with only one marker. We played from where we thought was reasonable, guessing at the other marker’s location. Was that okay?

Grass Roots • Each of the five golf courses at Sand Valley is an outright winner, but the pleasures of the place aren’t limited to one sport. For tennis obsessives, the sprawling Wisconsin resort is aces too.

Sepp Straka • The big Austrian pairs a delicate short game with driving power and precision. Watch out, world.

The Heights • Solid contact depends on how high you tee your ball. Best you pay attention.

Gimme Off the Cuff

“You don’t see this very often, and you really don’t see it in games like golf.”

SPHERES OF INFLUENCE • Choosing the right golf ball has more effect on your performance than you think. Finally, a step-by-step guide to finding the one you’ve been searching for.

How to Be Your Own Ball Fitter

THE TOUR REP TOUR PLAYERS CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT • TaylorMade’s Adrian Rietveld builds clubs—and some of the best relationships in golf

LASER FOCUSED

DESERT CLASSICS

SL LOCAL HERO • THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP RETURNS TO ROYAL PORTRUSH THIS YEAR. SO WILL SHANE LOWRY, THE RANGY, BEARDED IRISHMAN WHO, IN 2019, BECAME THE FAIRY-TALE CHAMPION GOLFER OF THE YEAR—AND, WITH A CLARET JUG FULL OF JAMESON, THE TOAST OF ALL IRELAND.

SIX WAYS TO SUNDAY • AT THE 2019 OPEN AT ROYAL PORTRUSH, HOMETOWN HERO SHANE LOWRY WON BY SIX STROKES. HE DID IT BY CRUSHING THE COURSE’S SIX EASIEST HOLES AND BARELY HOLDING ON AT ITS SIX HARDEST. THIS YEAR, AS THE PROS RETURN—LET’S JUST SAY THEY’VE BEEN WARNED.

It’s a LIVing Thing • The team golf concept is absolutely central to LIV Golf’s enduring vision of a sport that, historically, has venerated individual accomplishment above all else. But on LIV, if there’s still a bit of an I in team (Bryson, Brooks, Rahmbo, Bubba), there’s a powerhouse GM too.

WHAT I’VEA LEARNED GARY PLAYER • With his 90th birthday approaching in November, the nine-time major champion says he has “traveled more miles than any human being” and calls himself “the most well-read athlete in history.” (Another apt assessment might be “most opinionated.”) Here are some lessons the Black Knight has picked up on his nine-decade journey.

Keep Your Head Back for Power

Pound the Sweet Spot

SHAPE SHOTS USING PALM POWER

Get ‘Light’ at the Top

HOW TO HIT EVERY PUTT ON TARGET

Low Pitches Made Easy

Two Ways to Beat a Buried Lie

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