Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you play smarter, better golf. Picture this very real scenario. You show up to the driving range before a round, ...

That’s not a knock, but the cold hard truth, as most amateur golfers just whip out their driver and try crushing drives over and over. But if you really want to translate your golf practice from the ...

Cameron Young’s one of the longest hitters on the PGA Tour, with the one-time winner averaging a whopping 313.2 yards off the tee during the 2025 season — which ranked him 20th in driving distance.

My favorite hole-in-one story involves my buddy Patrick and Montclair Golf Course, a time-capsule facility just up the road from me in Oakland, Calif. Depending on your priorities, Montclair is either ...

Golf Monthly's Jonny Leighfield has real reservations about heading back out onto the course again for a full round after a much-needed lesson - here's ...

In the more than six years he spent working on real estate development at Topgolf, Devin Charhon kept asking himself the same questions. Is this a place where people come to practice and get better at ...