Author name: Stan Wade

You stand over a 130-yard approach, squint at a faded sprinkler head, and guess wrong. I have made that mistake

What is the point of hitting a great shot if you never learn where it went? I have spent years

Last December I stood on a frosty first tee, pushed a wooden tee at the ground, and watched it snap

A typical round means four to six miles on your feet, and by the 14th hole a poor pair of

You stand over a 150-yard shot, guess the distance from a sprinkler head that might not even be accurate, and

Nothing tanks a scorecard like a chunked chip from 20 yards, and I have made that mistake more times than

The first time a watch told me to take one more club into a headwind, I laughed, hit the shorter

Reading a 150-yard shot as 150 yards is the fastest way to come up short on an uphill approach. I

Hitting off a mat is hard on tees, and a tee that pops out or snaps after two swings ruins

Range mats chew through wood tees, and picking up a fallen tee after every shot wrecks your rhythm. I have

Last summer I stood on a par 5 tee box, took my usual big swing, and watched a snapped wood

New golfers snap, lose, and bend more tees in a month than experienced players do in a season, and a

You reach for a tee up to 18 times in a single round, and a loose handful rattling in your

Few golf habits save as much time as keeping a tee where you can reach it without breaking stride. I

Golf is played on more than 30,000 courses worldwide, yet on almost every one of them you will see someone