Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you become a smarter, better golfer. I’d always heard that Parker McLachlin, aka the Short Game Chef, was a genius ...

Watching the pros around the greens, you might be fooled into thinking these delicate little short-game shots are easy to execute. But if you’ve hit them? You know these shots are rarely as easy as ...

This will take a little patience, but please bear with us: Many elite swing coaches and biomechanists agree that if you want better sequencing in your swing and to hit the ball farther, copy the short ...