Welcome to MythBusters, a Golf Digest+ series where we explore answers to some of golf’s most common questions through a series of tests with golfers and robots. Sometimes definitive, other times less ...

Driver distance depends heavily on launch conditions such as angle of attack, spin, and ball position. Many golfers lose ...

There may not be a more dangerous question in recreational golf than this one: How far do you hit your driver? That question ...

Let’s face it, we golfers are all obsessed with speed. Ask almost any player what the most important data point is when looking for a new driver and most will prioritize speed and distance over ...

Steve Otto, the R&A’s chief technology officer and one of the lead architects of the 100-year study of driving distance, says the plan to roll back distance through a shorter golf ball, formally ...

As an amateur golfer and a mid-handicapper, I often wonder what I need to do in order to generate more driver distance. Sure, swinging faster would help, but it’s never that easy — increasing club ...