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Zach Johnson is set to complete his Ryder Cup roster on Tuesday. Here's what you need to know before he finalizes Team USA.

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I teach far more golfers that hit down on the ball too much more than those that don't hit down enough. If you are one of those golfers that typically takes big divots and hits a low ball flight then stay with me....

I have found this sequence to work nicely with all golfers looking to shallow their attack angle and improve the crispness of the strike. Try the following (with either irons or driver):

PHASE 1 - 5 drags over the top of the ball

PHASE 2 - 5 low to high pitch style shots, keeping clubhead low in the backswing

PHASE 3 - 5 half speed and half size swings sensing an ascending strike (even with irons)

Can a player improve their putting distance control in just one second? Yes, and new GOLF Top 100 Teacher Erika Larkin explains how.

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Hovland gained 10 mph of ball speed by making two changes to his driver setup. Both were on display during the playoffs.

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Viktor Hovland has dominated professional golf the past two weeks. How has he done it? He focused on these three important parts of his game.

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Viktor Hovland made $18 million on Sunday at the Tour Championship, but his real payoff came after the money was already his.

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The United States Solheim Cup team was finalized Monday with three captain's picks made by Stacy Lewis. Here's who will be on the team.

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LPGA rookie Rose Zhang will represent the United States when it plays Europe in next month's Solheim Cup in Spain.

From Wyndham Clark's breakout to Justin Thomas' heartbreak, the 2022-23 PGA Tour season was full of highs and lows. Here's a look back at the top moments.

We can’t emphasize this enough: It doesn’t matter if you shoot 68 or 108; the golf ball is the only piece of equipment you use on every shot.

Does that make the golf ball the most important piece of equipment in the bag?

There’s certainly an argument to be made. It’s why we do robot testing every two years and why Ball Lab has become an integral part of what we do at MyGolfSpy.

Our 2023 test is our third foray into the world of ball testing. With each iteration, we’ve learned more about golf ball performance and have uncovered several surprise findings (both good and bad).

We learned “soft” is slow, performance differences are more significant than many golfers believe and a poorly made ball can fly significantly offline, even on a perfect swing.

Do you head to the driving range lugging your golf bag and dragging a small wagon overflowing with golf training aids and golf swing trainers?

We get it. The hope of getting better in golf can really make any training aid seem worth the money.

But all golf training aids are not created equal.

Just like golf clubs, the best golf training aids must offer value and improve your game. Here are our picks for the best golf training aids and some insight into how and why they can help you.

Orange Whip (Best for Flexibility, Speed and Strength)

The Orange Whip is a weighted and flexible shaft with a heavy orange ball on the end. With the Orange Whip, you don’t hit golf shots. Instead, you take swings and work on your swing tempo, a little swing plane and a lot of timing.

As golfers, there isn’t a day that goes by that we’re not inundated with the promise of improvement whether via a new club launch, training aid, fitness method, “a simple trick” or a one-swing “hack” to fix our slice and improve our on-course performance forever and ever, amen. Subscribing to the noise of these promises, you’d be led to believe we all belong on Tour.

But what about the equipment we wear—the great big world of performance apparel? Promises to enhance performance through a myriad of technologies and cutting-edge designs pepper nearly every product description, trying to persuade us that we’re just a $100 polo away from the best round of our lives. While there are undoubtedly benefits to the right equipment, both for our swings and for our bodies, it can be a minefield of features and benefits, the likes of which we seem to hear on repeat.  

And while there is an exhaustive list of features we could walk through in performance apparel, we’re going to keep things high-level. We will focus on the ones we hear about the most to try to understand what they mean, evaluate claims of their virtues and report what each actually means to you, your comfort and, ultimately, your game. 

Three is a Magic Number: Breathability, Moisture Wicking, Stretch

Apparel manufacturers, from the biggest global players to the tiniest upstart brands selling directly to the consumer, generally speak a lot of the same language. But if you peruse the product descriptions of brands across the world, you’ll see most claims generally center around three performance apparel characteristics: breathability, moisture wicking, stretch. Let’s start there.

Breathability

While this one’s relatively intuitive, there’s lots of room for interpretation. In the most general sense of the term, “breathability” refers to airflow. Does the shirt, short or pant allow air to flow freely to allow its wearer to stay cool and dry?  

Megan Khang beat Jin Young Ko with a par in a playoff for her first LPGA win, and Andrea Lee rallied to clinch a spot on the U.S. Solheim Cup team at the CPKC Women's Open on Sunday.

Viktor Hovland won the Tour Championship on Sunday. He’s golf’s newest superstar. Here are seven steps he took to get there.

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After Viktor Hovland won the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup by six, Rory McIlroy explained why he thinks the format works.

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GOLF's editors discuss Viktor Hovland's runaway Tour Championship win, the new FedEx Cup Playoffs, gambling at PGA Tour events and more.

The post Tour Confidential: An $18 million Viktory, fan gambling, U.S. Ryder Cup picks appeared first on Golf.

After the Tour Championship, here's where things stand for the remaining U.S. Ryder Cup team candidates before Zach Johnson makes his captain's picks Tuesday.

Viktor Hovland won the Tour Championship by 5 strokes over Xander Schauffele at East Lake Golf Club on Sunday to win the FedEx Cup and an $18 million bonus.

Take a look at the equipment Viktor Hovland used to win the 2023 Tour Championship at East Lake to secure his first FedEx Cup title.

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Viktor Hovland won the Tour Championship and season-long FedEx Cup by five strokes over Xander Schauffele Sunday at East Lake.

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