First, make sure you’ve got clean grooves and then set up with an open clubface. Move the handle back just a touch and stay ...

As a mid-handicapper, it can be tricky to learn how to compress the golf ... what your fault is, you can just put the ball in a different place - no matter if you're struggling with fat shots ...

The thing is, these shots are cool, but they're also tricky. It's hard to hit your golf ball the exact distance you want on a perfectly flat surface, let alone when you're navigating huge uphill ...

Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com ... you step to your ball in the fairway or on the tee box of a par-3, you probably grab your rangefinder and zap the pin. That’s all fine and dandy ...

It makes sense, after all. Nobody wants to look stupid, which is why golf can be a pretty embarrassing game when you hit bad shots. Worse, that embarrassment can leak into your next shots.