At times, professional golf can be a humorless enterprise, and the coverage of the sport usually follows suit. That’s where No Laying Up comes in. A...
The forecast was for scattered thunderstorms across the area and the clouds were already building from the south when we teed off at 8:30 in the...
Ben Larsen is a contributor to GolfWRX, and Strategic Content Manager at Arccos Golf, the game’s first fully-automatic performance-tracking system. Game. Improvement. Those are perhaps the...
Last week, I showed the metrics for Jordan Spieth and what makes him so great. In response, I had a lot of readers asking for a...
He was much misunderstood, and I certainly do not intend to contribute to more of that. My first few encounters with Mr. Hogan were tough. And if you...
I’m on a trip now where there won’t be any golf for almost three weeks. Since I live in Southern California and play year-round, this will...
This story was selected as one of the 15 best GolfWRX stories of 2015! How a golf club feels is usually a very important attribute for...
This story was selected as one of the 15 best GolfWRX stories of 2015! With Jordan Spieth winning the first two majors of the year, I...
Sure, you know Javier Colon as the winner of the inaugural season of NBC’s hit show The Voice. But, what you might not know is that...
After my train wreck with Mr. Hogan in locker room at Shady Oaks, I knew I had better get some coaching before I was near him again....
I’ve always been both awed and intimidated by private golf clubs. In general, the members of private courses aren’t better golfers – or better people –...
I am a huge Tiger Woods fan, and I admire what he has done for the game and how he has impacted a new generation of golfers...
After more than a decade and a half of agony, he’s finally off the hook. Jean Van De Velde’s 1999 Open Championship debacle at Carnoustie is...
Members of the crowd could be heard laughing after Tiger Woods topped a shot on the last hole of Round 1 of the U.S. Open at...
Looking more like a British Open than a U.S. Open, Chambers Bay Golf Links is set to host the 115th U.S. Open. It is the first golf...
The U.S. Open is golf’s second major championship, making it the unofficial halfway point of the PGA Tour season. Before we hit the second stretch of the...
You know you’re a golfer when… You tell the restaurant hostess that you’ll be a foursome for dinner. You think something “sub-par” must be really, really...
Nick Randall is our resident golf fitness guru here at GolfWRX. The strength and conditioning coach is also the creator of the golf fitness app Golf...
Chambers Bay. YES, we are excited! For the first time in the history of the Pacific Northwest, we are finally getting a U.S. Open. The 2015...
I was always an early-morning man, a dew-sweeper. When I didn’t already have a tee time, I’d get to the course an hour before sunrise on...
There’s simply no denying the fact that statistics have taken over the game of golf. ShotLink has become as much a part of a PGA Tour...
This story was selected as one of the 15 best GolfWRX stories of 2015! It was 1986, and The Ben Hogan Company needed a new engineer. I...
When great athletes struggle, they are almost always interviewed after their poor performances and their answers to the line of questioning that follows is predictable. They say...
I keep track of the radar metrics on the PGA Tour each week, and so far this season I’ve started to see some noticeable differences in...
Not that you need reminding, but Father’s Day is June 21. And if your pops is a golfer, you’ve come to the right place. GolfWRX presents...
In the past few years, I’ve paid as much as $350 to play a round of golf and I’ve paid as little as $10. Granted, the...
My name is Tom Stites, and 40 years ago I fell in love with a wonderful game. For most of that time I’ve also been a...
GolfWRX Featured Writer Dennis Clark has written nearly 100 articles since April of 2012, and his work has been read more than 5 million times. Clark...
Even pro golfers make double-bogeys. In fact, I can say with great certainty that everyone reading this is among that wide fraternity, which includes pretty much...
As we start to move into the tropical storm season in my home state of Florida, I want to go through the research I’ve done on...
I wrote the original story about amateurs playing relatively longer courses than the pros some four years ago and it became a movement called “Tee It...
The brief Texas swing commences Thursday with the Crowne Plaza Invitational, an event that falls solidly middle pack among PGA Tour fields. But there’s nothing middle...
I’ve been in a driving slump lately. Balls that once reliably went straight and (by my standards) long now may go left, right, or may not...
What. A. Performance. Rory McIlroy completed his four-day whipping of Quail Hollow on Sunday, following up an incredible Saturday 61 with a final-round 69 that he...
In a recent piece on Golf Digest’s website, Geoff Shackelford highlighted one benefit of smartwatches in general and the Apple Watch in particular. “Once at [the course]...