I'd completely lost the plot in bunkers, but a lesson with PGA Fellow Professional and Golf Monthly Top 50 Coach Sarah ...

In this edition of Play Smart, GOLF Top 100 Teacher Joe Plecker explains the technique for short-sided bunker shots off hard ...

Professional Long Driver Averee Dovsek demonstrates how to hit a 50-yard bunker shot with a 9-iron. Using a 9-iron increases ...

Earlier this year, Keith Mitchell stunned golf fans when he nearly holed a gutsy greenside bunker shot during the 2025 Texas Children’s Houston Open. The risky shot in question? A Thai spinner — a ...

Golfers new to the game are often unaware that it's a penalty to repair a pitch mark or replace a divot if it's on your line of play (Rule 8.1). By doing so, you're improving your next shot and that ...

Some things are not what they appear or say they are. We find that golf has an abundance of contradictions, ironies, misnomers, myths, strange comparisons and sayings. For example, there aren’t any ...

Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you become a smarter, better golfer. I’ve played muni golf all my life. I was never a country-club kid and even the ...