Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you play smarter, better golf. I’ve long had the goal of becoming a scratch golfer. There’s no greater clout among ...

That means that the 60,000 golfers who are scratch are better make up 1.6 percent of handicap index-carrying golfers. However, only approximately 13 percent of American golfers have a recognized ...

Jack Nicklaus famously identified golf as 90 percent mental. Now playing the game between your ears has taken on an entirely new meaning with GOLF+, the official golf virtual reality game of the PGA ...

Attaining the status of a scratch golfer is an impressive achievement, placing an individual among the top one percent of amateur players. However, achieving par at a local course does not signify ...