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JoAnne Carner shot her age with a 14-over 85 on Thursday in the first round of the U.S. Senior Women's Open at Fox Chapel.

Hideki Matsuyama shot an 8-under 63 for a two-stroke lead at Le Golf National as Olympic play opened Thursday.

If you struggle with combining arm swing and body pivot, GOLF Top 100 Teacher Mike Malizia shares a go-to drill to fix the issue.

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Tom Kim is in contention early at the Olympics. If he lands on the podium Sunday, he'll earn more just a medal.

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To help make learning and experiencing golf easier and more fun, Topgolf has created The Sure Thing golf club.

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Eight years into the modern Olympic golf experiment, the event finally found its voice during a sweaty, giddy first round of these Games. In 2016, when golf returned to sports’ biggest stage after a 112-year absence, the soundtrack was howls of protest from traditionalists and mealy-mouthed excuses from the top players who refused to see the big picture (Rory Mcllroy later admitted the noisy concerns about the Zika virus were just a convenient alibi). The 2021 Tokyo Games were played in deafening silence with fans banished because of a global pandemic.

But on Thursday at Le Golf National, Olympic golf was embraced as never before. A crowd of 25,000 strong made the journey to a distant suburb to give the competition the juice it deserves, at last. The fans serenaded the players with cheers, chants and the occasional national anthem. Practitioners of the loneliest sport could finally feel in their bones that they are playing for something larger than themselves.

Of his opening tee shot, Min Woo Lee said, “I had kind of like a tear in my eye because I made the team and I’m representing Australia. I didn’t know I was going to react like that. But it was pretty cool. I think that just shows how much it means to me. I think a lot of people say, ‘Why is golf an Olympic sport?’ I think for myself: now I know why.”

Thorbjørn Oleson of Denmark, an eight-time winner on the European Tour, said, “It’s a very different atmosphere from any other tournament. To see all the different flags, to hear people singing their anthems, it gives you a little bit of goosebumps.”

Joaquin Niemann of Chile (who is in third place with a 65, two strokes behind leader Hideki Matsuyama), added, “It does feel more special than any other golf tournament.”

Complete 2024 Olympic Golf tee times for Friday's second round of the men's event, featuring Hideki Matsuyama, Xander Schauffele and more.

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One round is complete at Le Golf National, and some of the biggest stars in the game are atop the leaderboard.

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We asked the team at Shot Scope to pull on-course data from their database of 350 million shots for Le Golf National, the venue for golf at the Olympic Games, to see how the amateur golfer plays the course.

Le Golf National is no stranger to hosting big events. The 2018 Ryder Cup took place on the Albatross Course where Team Europe was victorious.

The French Open has been held at Le Golf National (on and off) since 199 but has been there every year since 2002 so we can see how the pros play the course compared to amateurs.

Three holes that will cause drama – 4, 17, 18

Despite many holes having some form of water feature, one of the hardest holes on the Albatross course does not have any.

The fourth hole, a long par-4, measuring at 486 yards in the 2023 French Open, played 0.17 strokes over par, making it the fourth-hardest hole of the week.

Check out the clubs Hideki Matsuyama used to take an early first-round lead at the Men's Olympic Golf tournament.

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Keegan Bradley, the U.S. Ryder Cup captain, will join Stewart Cink, Justin Leonard and Kevin Kisner as Presidents Cup assistant captains.

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Titleist created more differentiation between the GT2 and GT3 fairways. The end result is two clubs geared for a wider range of golfers.

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How a club looks at address will make or break a testing session. If you need proof, just ask Titleist's metalwoods team.

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Titleist's all-new GT drivers employ several groundbreaking technologies that help it live up to some lofty standards.

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After three generations of the Titleist Speed (TS) Project, the company’s metalwood franchise has a new name. The GT in Titleist GT Drivers stands for Generational Technology. It signals a generational shift in materials, construction and, as you would expect, performance.

To be fair, the bones of this story aren’t entirely dissimilar from nearly any other driver story I’ve written. With that, it’s understandable that golfers might look at GT and assume nothing (other than a couple of letters) has changed.

I get it but, at the same time, I roll my eyes a little when someone looks at GT and concludes it’s the “same ol’ Titleist.”

Looks can be deceiving.

That’s especially true with the Titleist GT drivers where plenty has evolved under the hood (and I suppose with the hood itself).

Every equipment launch is designed to invoke a sense of optimism in potential buyers. With that, Titleist believes its GT series (hello, generational technology) of fairway metals is a pronounced step forward from the TS (Titleist Speed) line.

Because Titleist isn’t one to loosely toss around superlatives and over-caffeinated marketing lingo, the promise of something demonstrably better is, at a minimum, intriguing.

We’ll get to the details in a moment but the tech story centers on essentially the same updates in the material and construction as the GT drivers.

At first glance, GT doesn’t look much different than TSR. That wasn’t by mistake. In fact, it was a key design objective. If you wanted to paraphrase feedback garnered from PGA Tour staff as, “Make it better, but keep it the same…”, that’s largely accurate.

In this case, better meant faster and higher without increasing spin and the status quo was, well, everything else (sound, feel, address profile).

"To have a medal for the rest of your life would be very special," Masters champ Scottie Scheffler said. Here's what others are saying before Round 1.

If you can eliminate mishits and stupid shots I guarantee that you will break 90 during every round that you play. It’s really easy, just chose the correct club and keep all of your shots in the fairway. Hitting greens in regulation and misjudging your putts are the primary reason why its NOT EASY to break 80 or 70 . Weekend Warriors should be focusing on the elimination of Mishits and Stupid Shots to break 90.

The more time you spend practicing and playing golf with the proper swing, the better will be your chance of eliminating mishits. You may not see pros mishitting shots on TV as the producers focus on the perfection of the low scoring leaders. The higher scoring laggards are make their share of mishits and struggling to recover from the rough.

Mishit Elimination
By mishits, I’m referring to hooking and slicing your ball as well as missing the center of your club face (for toe or housel hits), topping it and hitting it fat or thin. We all make some of these shots but our goal is to eliminate or minimize them. Why not try:
-Using a consistent shot routine to improve your mental approach to golf.
–Practice with GOLFSTR+ to learn a straight arm backswing with a flat wrist for a square impact to eliminate slices, hooks, thin and fat shots.
–Plan to hit shorter shots, so that your 3rd shot on every par 4 will chip close to the hole.
-Be more strategic to miss every sand trap and pond on the course.
–Select one club lower in loft so that you can swing at 80% with MORE control.

Stupid Shot Elimination
By Stupid shots I am referring to avoiding those shots that have a 60% chance that they will get your next shot in trouble. It really is easy to hit a chip shot out of a poor lie or to aim a safe shot into the fairway instead of hitting up a tree line or between 2 trees. Hitting 200 yards over a pond is often a poor decision. You can always recall the poor shots that you should never have tried at the end of each round. Why not finish rounds shooting under 90 and enjoy the success of playing smart.

Don’t get frustrated and follow a poor shot with a Stupid Shot. The same thing holds true for putting. Ben Hogan said, “A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill”. Be happy with your close misses and make sure that you sink the next putt.