Golf Guidebook

The transition in the golf swing—the split-second move from the top of the backswing into the downswing—is where good swings are made or ruined. Get the sequence right and you deliver the club with effortless speed and square contact. Get it wrong and you cast, come over the top, and lose power. This guide breaks down what the transition is, the correct order of movement, the faults to avoid, and the drills that build it.

Japan’s Aki Iwai lit up the opening day of the 2026 Amundi Evian Championship, firing an eight-under-par 63 to take a commanding first-round lead at Evian Resort Golf Club. Her round set the tone for a low-scoring start to the penultimate major of the LPGA season — while world number one Nelly Korda and defending champion Grace Kim both stumbled out of the gate.

Early extension is one of the most common and destructive faults in golf, and it affects a large share of amateur players. It happens when your hips and spine thrust toward the ball during the downswing and you lose the posture you started with, wrecking your contact and consistency. This guide explains what early extension is, why it happens, how to tell if you have it, and the drills that fix it — so you can deliver the club with the space and posture you set up with.

While the game’s biggest names chase links glory across the Atlantic at the Genesis Scottish Open, a crowded, wide-open leaderboard has taken shape much closer to home. The PGA Tour’s ISCO Championship got underway Thursday at Hurstbourne Country Club in Louisville, Kentucky, and by the end of the opening round four players were knotted together at the top — led by a familiar, ice-cool closer in Lucas Glover.

Connection in the golf swing is the feeling of your arms and body moving together as a single unit rather than working independently. It is one of the least glamorous but most powerful concepts in golf, because a connected swing produces more consistent strikes and effortless speed. In this guide you’ll learn what connection means, why it matters, and the exact drills and feels to build it into your own swing.

A powerful, repeatable golf swing depends on one thing more than almost any other: proper weight shift. Learning how to shift your weight in the golf swing lets you compress the ball, add effortless distance, and strike your irons cleanly. In this guide you’ll learn what good weight transfer feels like, the faults that ruin it, and simple drills to groove it for good.

Eighteen years ago, Anthony Kim was one of the most electrifying young players in golf. Now he is up for one of sports’ most feel-good honours: the American has been nominated for Best Comeback Athlete at the 2026 ESPY Awards, capping one of the most improbable returns the game has ever seen. ESPN has placed Kim on the shortlist for Best Comeback Athlete, with public voting open now and the winners revealed at the ceremony on Wednesday, July 15, live from Lincoln Center in New York on ABC.

Golf club offset is one of the most misunderstood design features in the bag, yet it quietly shapes how straight, high, and forgiving your shots are. In this guide you’ll learn exactly what offset is, how it is measured, how it influences ball flight, which clubs use it, and how to decide whether more or less offset suits your game. Offset describes how far the leading edge of the clubface sits behind the front edge of the hosel or neck.

If you want free distance without swinging harder, the swoosh drill is one of the simplest ways to find it. This classic training move teaches you to deliver maximum clubhead speed where it counts: at and just past impact. In this guide you will learn what the swoosh drill is, why it works, how to do it step by step, useful variations, and how to carry the extra speed into your real swing on the course. What Is the Swoosh Drill?

Golf’s most talked-about putter brand has teamed up with the game’s most beloved on-course snack. L.A.B. Golf and Uncrustables have announced a limited-edition collaboration—cheekily named “A Match Made at The Turn”—that pairs high-tech putters with the crustless peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches that live in half the golf bags in America. It is equal parts marketing stunt and genuine gear drop, and it lands right in the middle of golf’s hottest equipment trend of 2026.