Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you play smarter, better golf. A poor putting stroke can absolutely crush a round of golf. Just when you start to drive ...

Ben Crenshaw’s putting stroke is one of the best ever. The long and languid move brought him tons of success, including 19 PGA Tour titles and two green jackets, culminating in a spot in the World ...

When it comes to putting, an ordinary grip sometimes just won't cut it. That's why some golfers, including the best in the world like Scottie Scheffler this week, turn to unconventional grips to ...

It doesn't take much for things to catch on among tour players. One player does something differently, and others take notice. That player starts experiencing some early success, and suddenly others ...

One of the fastest and easiest ways to make more putts is to ensure your set-up is fundamentally solid. Too many players rely solely on feel to help them putt better. If there is too much compensation ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Launch monitors revolutionized our understanding of the golf swing by measuring things that were once unmeasurable, replacing guesswork with objective analysis. That’s why those ...

Bob Labbe's "Putting by the Numbers: A Quantitative Method of Lag Putting" offers golfers a science-based approach to ...

DORAL, Fla. – Early Wednesday morning, Rory McIlroy unveiled via Instagram that he’d spent his time since missing the cut at last week’s Honda Classic practicing a new putting stroke. On Wednesday ...

Putting is all about feel, yet the trend that has emerged on greens all across golf in recent years is using putters that take a certain amount of feel out of the stroke. The quirky Oregon-based L.A.B ...