Ron Kaspriske

1 week ago | golfdigest.com | Ron Kaspriske

You've hit your ball into the rough, fescue, gorse, anywhere but the fairway and are anxious to go see just where it wound up. Can't blame you; there's only three minutes of search time before the ball is considered lost (Rule 18.2). That said, some golfers don’t even bother to look, presuming they’ll be better off taking the stroke-and-distance penalty and replaying from where they just hit.

2 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | Ron Kaspriske

The often-repeated comment about watching the Masters is that TV doesn't capture the elevation changes at Augusta National. It's true, it's not an easy walk. Going from the 12th green back up to the clubhouse while carrying a lawn chair will definitely get your heart rate up. So will carrying your clubs for 18 holes on any hilly golf course—and that's good thing. Not just for your cardiovascular health, it's also great for your feet.

3 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | Ron Kaspriske

Timing is everything, as they say, so credit goes to Golf Digest for having great timing in speaking with Jack Nicklaus on the topic of, well, timing. Shortly before his legendary one-shot victory over Johnny Miller and Tom Weiskopf in the 1975 Masters, Nicklaus was asked about getting his golf swing tuned-up for spring.

3 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | Ron Kaspriske

The story seems to be told and re-told every time a young bomber reaches the professional ranks. When asked how they got so long off the tee, they'll say as junior golfers, they just swung as hard as they could and then figured out over time how to find the fairway with that swing. From a golf-performance perspective, it makes perfect sense. There's no use trying to train for power using a textbook. Most people inherently know how to create power and speed without instruction.

4 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | Ron Kaspriske

Two balls colliding while both are in motion is highly unusual—unless you're at Topgolf—but it does happen. Perhaps the most common scenario would be when shots are hit around the green or from blind spots on the course where seeing the other golfer swing is impossible. In fact, since the Rules of Golf began including the term "ready golf," giving tacit approval to playing out of order (it was updated in 2023), the chances of balls colliding has only increased.