Fully Focused On YOUR Golf Hi Reader, ⛳ Does this hole really need a draw? Water left. Start it right and draw it back. Sounds sensible. But what if your fade is much more reliable? Adam Young’s latest example illustrates why the shape alone can’t make that decision for you. He places different shot patterns over the same hole, then adjusts their aim. The tighter fade produces a better projected score than the wider draw, even though some fades miss the intended shape. Tighten the draw...
4 days ago • 1 min read
Fully Focused On YOUR Golf Hi Reader, ⛳ Never up, never in. But then what? Your 20-foot putt stops a foot short. Frustrating? Of course. But would you rather be six feet past? “Never up, never in” is 100% 'technically' true. It’s just not a good way judge the putt. Lou Stagner’s latest analysis looked at five years of PGA Tour data. From 20 to 24 feet, 26% of putts finished short. From 30 to 34 feet, it was 40%. From 45 to 49 feet, it was 49%. That’s almost half from longer range, even among...
11 days ago • 2 min read
Fully Focused On YOUR Golf Hi Reader, 🏌️♂️ Which hybrids belong in your bag? If your longest iron rarely produces the shot you want, a hybrid deserves a look. And the latest release isn’t the only place to start. GOLF’s Jack Hirsh reports that Austin Smotherman won the recent Bank of Utah Championship carrying a TaylorMade SIM Max 3-hybrid from 2020. Last week we linked our club-replacement guide. And right here’s a timely example of an older club still earning its place even at a time when...
18 days ago • 1 min read
Fully Focused On YOUR Golf Hi Reader, ⛳ How much spin survives the rain? Last week we looked at what headwinds do to scoring. This week, there’s another reason your usual shot might behave differently. In MyGolfSpy’s 11,400-shot wedge test, the wedge with the highest spin on dry 50-yard shots produced 7,217 rpm. Add moisture and that fell to 3,506. Another model went from 6,857 dry to 6,860 wet. Almost no change. That’s quite a difference if you’ve bought a wedge expecting the same stopping...
25 days ago • 2 min read
Fully Focused On YOUR Golf Hi Reader, 🏌️♂️ Your golf game does not simply 'decline' with age Golfing Focus has consistently noted how clear the data is that driving distance declines with age. While it is positive that the decline in distances is gradual and only accelerates as players head over the 60 year age mark it is clearly there to see across the amateur ranks. But when MyGolfSpy recently looked at other Arccos data comparing golfers by age they found it's not all one way traffic for...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Fully Focused On YOUR Golf Hi Reader, 🏌️♂️ Mini drivers are not just for big hitters GOLF.com’s 2026 PGA Tour review found mini drivers in five winning bags, three for Chris Gotterup. We've analysed the top 100 bags too over the years. No mini driver appeared in 2022. Three were found in 2024 and at least 16 in Tour bags this year, including Tommy Fleetwood. The club has clearly moved beyond novelty among the pro ranks. But that does not mean everybody needs one. A 2nd Swing fitter says he...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Fully Focused On YOUR Golf Hi Reader, ⛳ How rare your great rounds actually are Think of the best round you played this season. Here is how unusual it actually was. The R&A and USGA have finally published their 2025 World Handicap System report, built from 150 million rounds, more than 6.5 million golfers and 57 national associations. In all of that, 96.9% of golfers produced no exceptional score at all. Not one round good enough to trigger a handicap reduction. Just 1.2% triggered a one...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Fully Focused On YOUR Golf Hi Reader, The second way an iron fails your bag audit Last week I asked you to check whether any of your 14 clubs are doing nothing by measuring the yardage gaps between them. But that is only the first test. Your 5-iron might sit exactly where it should between your 4 and 6. But if you can’t produce that distance reliably, the gap exists only on paper. That is what MyGolfSpy examined this week. Their normal score when testing an iron set combines results from a...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Fully Focused On YOUR Golf Hi Reader, Which of your 14 clubs are doing nothing? A few weeks ago we told you the neat 10-yard ladder between your irons probably doesn't exist. This week someone put a number on it. Golf Digest went to Cobra, whose Connect sensors feed into Arccos, and asked how common the problem really is. And they found ... 42% of golfers have one gapping problem. Two clubs sitting within two yards of each other. 19% have two. 38% have three, four or five. Now look at how far...
2 months ago • 1 min read