How to find the best possible setup position for your body type

In this edition of Play Smart, LPGA professional Gia Liwski shows us how to find the proper setup position to make a good ...
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Your trail hand position could be sabotaging your swing. Here's how to tell

Once you’ve completed the test and identified your ideal trail hand position, the next step is straightforward: match that ...

Unleash longer drives by mastering this 1 key move

In this edition of Play Smart, GOLF Top 100 Teacher Dave Phillips explains a move pros use to generate a positive angle of ...
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Want to add some serious speed to your swing? Try this training aid

What do you get when you pair a biomechanics professor with PING’s vice president of performance? Swing speed. Lots of swing speed. Dr. Sasho MacKenzie and PING’s Marty Jertson are two of the ...
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All gas and no brakes? Being able to stop a swing is a pretty important aspect of golf fitness

If you've never heard of him, he's a three-time World Long Drive champion and a holder of two amazing records: He has hit a ...
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3 unexpected reasons your golf swing is getting slower, according to an expert

Welcome to Play Smart, a game-improvement column that drops every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from Game Improvement Editor Luke Kerr-Dineen to help you play smarter, better golf. But when I found ...
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This simple grip-pressure test will tell you if you’re leaking swing speed

On a scale of 1-10, how tight is your grip pressure in the golf swing? The tricky part about measuring it is that it’s highly subjective. One golfer’s “loose” grip might feel like another player’s ...
Golf Digest

This speed training program led to a U.S. Open title. It’s also worked wonders for me

Matt Fitzpatrick and I had the same objective: We both wanted to get longer. It's just that Fitzpatrick was in search of a major title, and I'm still looking to break 80. While my clubhead speed in ...
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Using Swing Speed To Measure Pitch Deception

Swing speed and exit velocity are largely two sides of the same coin, with one important difference: we get swing-speed data on whiffs too. This is important as we can detect when batters are using ...