This story is part of our new “GolfWRX Guides,” a how-to series created by our Featured Writers and Contributors — passionate golfers and golf professionals in...
Final scores are arbitrary markers of success and failure. It’s almost random how the same numbers can add up to make one player happy and another...
Perhaps one of the biggest misconceptions I had when I started to research the statistical part of golf was how players “go low.” This also shaped how...
GolfWRX Featured Writer Tom Stickney currently splits his time between Bighorn Golf Club in Palm Desert, Calif., and the Promontory Club in Park City, Utah, as...
The average golf fan probably doesn’t know much about tour reps. They’re masters of product knowledge, golf sense and interpersonal relations, and occupy the practice areas...
Golf is not only about making the shots, or making the putts. No, before that, golf is about making the time, especially if you have a...
When Jordan Spieth lost in a playoff last week at the Shell Houston Open–possibly in part due to an ill-timed camera shutter on the first extra...
Are golf movies better when they’re made by golfers? That’s the question raised by new golf movie “The Squeeze,” which tells the story of a golf prodigy (Jeremy...
The Masters is both the most widely watched and widely wagered PGA Tour event of the season. As such, I wanted to know a little bit...
[dropcap]B[/dropcap]ernhard Langer will celebrate the 30th anniversary of winning his first Green Jacket at the Masters this year, and he’ll be in the field competing for...
I read some of the 2015 GolfWRX Gear Trials and the comments. Recently, there was a also an analysis of the new Adams Blue line on the site....
They call him a ranger, a players’ host or a course ambassador, but usually, the marshal is just an older guy who spends a couple of...
Editor’s Note: Rich Hunt is a statistician whose clients include PGA Tour players, their caddies and their instructors. Each year, I create a filter to help...
After rampant speculation and embarrassingly heavy reporting on the whereabouts of Tiger Woods (and his private jet), the golfer announced his intention to play the 2015 Masters in the most...
Jimmy Walker came out of nowhere. We can all agree on that, right? A player who needed a majority of the 2000s to make it up...
I’m as guilty as the rest of the golfing population when it comes to replacing my wedges too infrequently. Quite frankly, the only time I’ve changed...
What’s your favorite shot? I mean other than the tap-in for birdie? “A big drive, out past everyone I’m playing with,” said Eddie, who’d out-driven me...
This is a light-hearted look at the five best and five worst pieces of gym/fitness equipment that you can use for your golf fitness routine. I...
Controlling face angle in putting is a tenacious task. The top players in the world even struggle with this on a daily basis. What about conventional...
Effective bounce sounds like a good description for what happens when a wedge shot works well, e.g. “he used the bounce effectively with that shot.” The...
First of all, thank you so much to all of you who took the time to read 2015 Gear Trials: Best Drivers and comment on the story. In...
This story was selected as one of the 15 best GolfWRX stories of 2015! Allow me a bit of forecasting, for those of you planning to...
I’ve made three free throws in a row before; before, as in a long, long time ago, and I made maybe five or six in a...
If you watch golf on television these days, you might think that golf instructors are ruining the game. Certainly the travails of Tiger Woods have offered...
I frequently get asked the question, “What statistics can I use to measure my entire game?” The issue is that while there are many advanced methods...
Except for the par-3, 16th hole at the TPC Scottsdale where the pros play in a coliseum-like setting with 20,000 fans chanting, singing, cheering, and even...
Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point — New York City’s first new course in 52 years — started booking tee times on Wednesday, and Donald Trump...
I am very fortunate to belong to Preston Trail, a golf club in Dallas noted for having professional and amateur players. Among them is Lee Trevino,...
Let’s start our discussion by making one thing clear. There’s a lot to fitting the flex and bend profile of shafts — enough to write a...
Everyone thinks the three worst words in golf are “You’re still away.” I think that’s wrong. I think the three worst words are “Out of bounds.”...
In a previous article, I discussed the fitting of the shaft weight and mentioned that a discussion about the weight of a golf club should not...
The great Gary Player — nine-time major champion, global jet setter with 165 career wins, one of the Big Three with Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer...
Russ Ortiz has always held a deeply personal and sincere passion for helping others. When Ortiz retired from Major League Baseball back in 2010, the former...
This is the second installment of a four-part series from Modern Golf on putter fitting and the Quintic System. Find a busy practice putting green, and...
When discussing the manner of fitting the shaft weight and total weight of a golf club, the conversation should also include fitting the swing weight, or...