Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you play smarter, better golf. If you want to hit crisp iron shots, you have to make ball-first contact. When you do ...

When you watch high-level golfers hit their irons, you’ll notice they typically take a chunk of the ground with them. That’s because when they are hitting the ball, they’re also hitting the ground, ...

It's that time of year when conditions at courses around the country can make actually playing golf a bit of a challenge. Everything from trying to get a tee into frozen ground to dealing with ...