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]...
It’s ironic that it took Dan Washburn eight years to take The Forbidden Game from first interview to publication. The irony is underscored by the amount of time it...
At ECCO, we’re proud of the praise we’ve received in recent years for our premium golf shoes – especially the hybrid category that we helped pioneer...
An anonymous pro golfer commented on one of my articles last month (What score makes you happy?) saying that he’d once shot a 60 and hadn’t...
In the world of books devoted to the great Ben Hogan, a few stand above the rest. James Dodson’s Ben Hogan: An American Life, Curt Sampson’s...
If you asked a dozen golfers which type of hole they prefer — a par-3, a par-4 or a par-5 — I’d be surprised if any said...
The next leaders in golf course architecture, unfiltered. Sounding off on their work, the game, the state of the industry, the future of restoration and new...
Well, the time has come for me to admit that I’m NO longer a long-iron carrying player. I’m a hybrid convert! And I’m not ashamed to...
Eight years ago, I was sitting in a T.G.I. Fridays in Times Square with Calvin Peete waiting on our order to come. I had just moderated...
Editor’s note: Henry Stetina is the Program Coordinator for the PGA Golf Management Program at New Mexico State University. You’re a senior in high school, and if...
When we look at the current state of golf, there are more questions than answers. There is more confusion than clarity. There are more initiatives than...
The purists may argue, but in marketing golf equipment distance is No. 1. All else follows. When you understand that the USGA capped maximum ball speed...
There’s often a point in a round of golf, most typically after my second consecutive double-bogey, when I wonder what I’m doing, why I’m wasting my...
If you decided to skip out on the final round of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, you missed quite a show. A gaggle of golfers...