Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you become a smarter, better golfer. Most amateurs aspire to hit a draw off the tee, but in the professional ranks it’s ...

Controlling your ball flight is one of the most useful skills in golf. It opens up strategic options, encourages creativity and can bail you out when things go sideways. For players like me who play a ...

Tiger Woods is known for his patented draw-chip in the short game, so top-ranked golf teacher Shawn Callahan shows me how to execute it. In his prime, nobody did it better than Woods, with his decades ...

Thanks to top-ranked golf instructor Kelvin Kelley, you can learn the secret to shaping golf shots like Rory McIlroy did at this year’s Masters Tournament. If you watched this year’s Masters ...