You hit a good approach shot to 25 feet and leave your first putt eight feet short. Next hole, similar distance, and you blow ...

A truly essential skill for scoring well is controlling distance on the greens and getting your first putt close enough to tap in. Distance control starts with solid technique and a simple principle: ...

Before every shot, every golfer makes the same decision: they judge distance. In the fairway, range finders, GPS devices and even the occasional sprinkler head help calculate the distance to the flag.

To see success with putting, distance control is everything. Sure, it helps to have the ability to read greens and to understand slopes, but when your speed is precise, you make a very difficult sport ...

Becoming a great bunker player requires sound technique and a solid understanding of how different adjustments affect your shot outcome. Let's start with the fundamentals and then explore the key ...

When you're hitting balls on the driving range, there's a good chance you don't have a good plan that actually helps you improve your golf game. That's not a knock, but the cold hard truth, as most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this video, PGA Professional Katie Dawkins offers a ladder drill to help improve your distance control when you chip Winter ...

Welcome to Shaving Strokes, a GOLF.com series in which we’re sharing improvements, learnings and takeaways from amateur golfers just like you — including some of the speed bumps and challenges they ...

Professional golfers are better than amateur golfers at literally everything—that's why they're professional golfers—but they're especially good at distance control. But exactly how good are they?