Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you become a smarter, better golfer. If you’re a beginning golfer, you may be surprised to find out that you need to ...

I love teaching beginner golfers, and I’m so honored whenever I get to give a golfer their first lesson to learn the golf basics. Once you get a good handle on those, you’ll be able to launch the ball ...

I’ll be honest: Up until now, golf was never my thing. The idea of schlepping around a course for hours swinging a club just didn’t appeal to me — even though my husband and many close friends were ...