Luke Kerr-Dineen

3 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | Luke Kerr-Dineen

One year ago, Golf Channel analyst Johnson Wagner did something at Pinehurst that even U.S. Champion Bryson DeChambeau couldn't. In the darkness after play had finished, Wagner dropped his ball a foot from the same spot in the bunker DeChambeau had effectively secured his second major from just a few hours earlier. DeChambeau was left with a nervy four-footer at the end of it, though. Wagner didn't need that stress.

3 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | Luke Kerr-Dineen

The awkward 50 to 100 yard wedge shot is one of the most important areas in golf, for both pros and amateurs. Pros don't actually hit that many shots from here, but when they do, it's high stakes stuff. The margins are thin and the stakes are high. Their performance here can be the difference between winning and losing a golf tournament or earning hundreds of thousands of dollars. The rest of us kind of live in this zone.

3 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | Luke Kerr-Dineen

There's an interesting phenomenon happening in baseball: Ball players are getting bigger. A study from Harvard University found that the percentage of baseball players with an above average BMI has increased from 46 percent to close to 60 percent in the last sixty years. Muscle; fat; whatever combination of extra weight it is, it seems to be helping. Hitters with a higher BMI hit more home runs, and pitchers with a higher BMI have a lower ERA. As the saying goes, mass is fast.

3 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | Luke Kerr-Dineen

What's a normal number of things to be thinking over the ball? It's a good question. You're standing over the ball, and your head is full of stuff. Where you want to hit the ball. Where you don't want to hit your ball. The various swing feels you're working with. Whether you're sure you've got the right club in your hands. Some lingering thoughts about what happened during the previous holes, and what may happen next.

1 month ago | golfdigest.com | Luke Kerr-Dineen

How do you get good with your wedges? That's what I asked Luke Donald at the PGA Championship a few weeks ago. The answer is a very specific kind of practice. Donald paid his bills with his wedges in the best of times, and he paid them well: He rode them all the way to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking, and multiple Ryder Cup victories. We got a glimpse of the old magic at Quail Hollow.