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Better Golf Daily: The Game Series - Choking for Two

Some of the best soccer players in the world react to the referee's whistle almost as fast as Usain Bolt reacts to a starting gun. That stat stuck with me, because I'm pr

Better Golf Daily: The Team Game Series - High Fives Win Matches

Some researchers at Berkeley spent a season counting high fives in the NBA, and what they found actually predicted which teams would play better. I laughed when I first r

Better Golf Daily: The Team Game Series - Every Shot Is a Pass

The best golfer in the world has an alternate-shot record that looks like a typo. And on Friday at the Presidents Cup, the whole format went sideways for the Americans in

Better Golf Daily: The Team Game Series - Banker and Gambler

There's one swing I only ever make in a best ball, and it's usually the best swing I make all day. That tells me something about my golf that I didn't really want to hear

Better Golf Daily: The Team Game Series - Someone's Got It

There's a swing I hit in almost every scramble I've ever played, and I'm not proud of it. It happens right after somebody else already hit a great one, and it turns out a

Better Golf Daily: Atomic Habits Series - The Habit You Actually Keep

Two golfers start at the same level, same goals, practically the same handicap. A year later, one of them is a completely different player, and the other is standing in t

Better Golf Daily: Atomic Habits Series - The Cafeteria Experiment

A hospital cafeteria changed nothing except where the water bottles were sitting, and soda sales dropped over eleven percent in three months. Nobody's willpower changed.

Better Golf Daily: Atomic Habits Series - Twenty-Nine Degrees

There's an ice cube sitting in a room that's slowly heating up, one degree at a time, and for a long stretch, absolutely nothing happens. Then, seemingly out of nowhere,

Better Golf Daily: Atomic Habits Series - Every Session Is Evidence

Two golfers get asked about practicing before a big tournament. One says he's trying to practice more. The other just says that's what he does on Tuesdays. Same intention

Better Golf Daily: Atomic Habits Series - Thiry Seven Times Better

A fifteen-year-old gets hit square in the face with a baseball bat, ends up in a medically induced coma, and gets cut from his high school team a year later trying to com

Better Golf Daily: Golf Needs A Village Series - Building the Village

Five episodes of looking backward would be a pretty rough way to spend a week, so today I'm telling you what we should actually do with all of it. The finale of Golf Ne

Better Golf Daily: Golf Needs A Village Series - The Doors I Didn't Knock On

This is the episode in the series I've had the hardest time figuring out how to talk about, because it's the one that's actually on me, not on my circumstances. Episode

Better Golf Daily: Golf Needs A Village Series - More Than a Ride in the Van

There's one image from my childhood I keep coming back to while building this series, and it's not dramatic, it's a school van. Someone drove the van to away games every

Better Golf Daily: Golf Needs A Village Series - The Twenty-Year Game

I always assumed I started golf too late, and for years that assumption just sat there unquestioned. Then I found the actual research on how long this game takes to devel

Better Golf Daily: Golf Needs A Village Series - The Path That Wasn't There

Two weeks ago I ended up in an ambulance with a hundred percent blocked artery, and it's the real reason I'm finally telling this story. Episode one of a five-part seri

Better Golf Daily: Golf Grip Pressure Series - Training Soft Hands

Imagine finishing eighteen holes with your hands feeling just as calm and soft on the last tee as they did on the first. That's not a fantasy, it's an actual trainable sk

Better Golf Daily: Golf Grip Pressure Series - Don't Transition Squeeze

Ever make a smooth backswing and then completely lose it on the way down for no reason you can point to? There's a real, physical reason, and it's not your swing plane.

Better Golf Daily: Golf Grip Pressure Series - Which Hand Should Be In Charge?

Back in episode one, I promised we'd actually settle the lead-hand-versus-trail-hand debate that got this series made. It turns out real data on tour pros flips a piece o

Better Golf Daily: Golf Grip Pressure Series - Psychology of the Squeeze

I just finished watching Josh Hill sink a three-foot putt to win the Walker Cup for Great Britain and Ireland, and while everyone else was watching the moment, I was watc

Better Golf Daily: Golf Grip Pressure Series - The Debate

I went looking for one clean answer on grip pressure for this series and instead found an actual argument playing out across golf instruction, including real disagreement