How one frustrated golfer built a tour-quality putting mat that’s helping amateurs practice at home the same way the pros do — and why the quality of your practice surface matters more than you think.

Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you become a smarter, better golfer. There’s an old golf cliche that says you “drive for show [and] putt for dough.” ...

The claw. It was a putting grio that used to be seen as a kind of act of desperation, but now more and more players keep switching to the claw—and it keeps working. Justin Rose is perhaps the best ...

I’ve tried my fair share of golf training aids over the years, and while some have been total flops, there was one this year that became my best purchase of 2025: the Short Game Gains Trigon Toolkit.

Put options are a type of option that increases in value as a stock falls. A put allows the owner to lock in a predetermined price to sell a specific stock, while put sellers agree to buy the stock at ...