Welcome to Play Smart, a game-improvement column that drops every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from Director of Game Improvement content Luke Kerr-Dineen to help you play smarter, better golf. I’m a ...

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Arm-lock putting has gained considerable popularity on the PGA Tour over the last few years and, of late, has even become a hot-button topic. However, in the ranks of the women’s ...

While Matt Kuchar – the current FedExCup points leader -- is the man behind the recent resurgence in the arm-lock putting method, a couple of amateurs named Spider and the Ace Man also deserve a ...

DUBLIN, Ohio – Xander Schauffele began the week ranked ninth on the PGA Tour in strokes gained: putting. Most players with that kind of lofty advantage would be more than happy to leave well enough ...

World No. 5 Xander Schauffele thinks the arm-lock method of putting should be banned. Until it is, however, he's going to give it a go. Although he ranked ninth on the PGA Tour in "Strokes Gained: ...

Just weeks after marrying his longtime girlfriend, Maya Lowe, Xander Schauffele is experiencing another major life change prior to the Open Championship, albeit a much-less important one. He's ...

Orlando, Fla.— Brian Tennyson remembers the last round of the 2019 British Amateur Championship at Scotland’s fabled North Berwick Links. He hit every par 5 in two, drove one par-4 green and had ...

Americans are uncommonly inventive – and there’s nothing at all wrong with that – but golf, at times, is victimized by innovation just as much as it has benefitted from it. Easier is not necessarily ...