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Golf tips, equipment deep-dives, and coaching insights to help you play your best.
For golfers stuck at the same handicap
How GolfSalt coaches golfers stuck at the same handicap
Golf Swing Tempo: An Honest Guide to Finding, Training and Keeping Yours
Good tempo isn't a slow swing. It's a ratio you can repeat. What 3:1 really means, why your short game runs on a different clock, what a couple of drinks does to your rhythm, and how badly fit clubs quietly push your tempo around.
When to Actually Change Your Golf Equipment: A Practical Guide for Golfers Who Don't Want to Be Sold Something
New clubs are rarely the answer — but sometimes they are. From worn-out wedge grooves and body changes to clubs you were sold that never fit, here's a practical framework for knowing when to adjust, when to replace, and when to save your money.
How to Choose Golf Grips: Size, Taper, Material, and Weight
Choose a starting grip size, understand standard versus reduced taper, account for grip weight, and know when wear calls for replacement. Test one club before committing to the full set.
Zero Torque vs Face-Balanced Putters: What Actually Changes, and Who It Helps
Zero torque putters keep the face from twisting during the stroke — but they are not magic, and they are not for every stroke. What actually changes, how zero offset differs, who benefits, and how to find out before you buy.
For golfers adapting to a changing body
How GolfSalt coaches golfers adapting to a changing bodyLosing Weight on a GLP-1? What It Does to Your Golf Swing, and How to Keep Your Distance
GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro can cost you 25-40% of weight lost as lean muscle — and that changes your swing. Here's how to protect your game, retrain your body, and what next-gen drugs mean for golfers.
Golfing with Type 2 Diabetes: The Complete Guide to Blood Sugar, Energy, and Playing Your Best
Walking 18 holes is a 4-5 hour endurance event that burns 1,200-1,600 calories. Learn how to manage blood sugar, fuel properly, and play your best golf with type 2 diabetes — backed by research and practical on-course strategies.
For golfers with a launch monitor
How GolfSalt coaches golfers with a launch monitor
Golf Simulator Practice: How to Make Indoor Golf Transfer to the Course
Your simulator is honest about start line, speed and gapping, and generous about lies, turf, greens and second balls. Here's how to practise indoors so it shows up on the course, and when a focused session beats just playing a round.
How to Build a Bag That Actually Fits Your Game: A Data-Driven Guide to Optimizing Your 14 Clubs
Wedges or woods? Three wedges or four? Long irons or hybrids? Most amateur bags are accidents, not designs. Here's the data-driven framework for building a 14-club bag that fits the golfer you actually are — with tighter gaps where you score and fewer clubs you can't hit.
Golf Mat Practice: The Lie Your Range Mat Tells You (And How to Stop Believing It)
Golf mats forgive fat shots and inflate your distances — but they're still one of the best tools you have. Learn exactly what mats hide, which clubs are most affected, and the simple drills that make mat practice actually transfer to the course.
For golfers working with a coach
How GolfSalt coaches golfers working with a coachDesk Exercises for Golfers: What You Can Actually Build in the 10 Minutes Between Meetings
Seated strength, hip work, and grip training that fit in a calendar gap — organized into four 10-minute sessions. Plus the honest truth about what a chair can and can't do for your golf game, and what changes if you have a standing desk.
Eye Dominance and Your Golf Game: Why the Ball Looks Different at Address Than You Think
Your brain favors one eye for aiming — and that bias changes what you see when you look down at the ball. Here's why eye dominance matters for alignment, what the research says about putting, and the simple adjustments that match your setup to your visual system.
How to Practice Golf: A 60-Minute Range Session That Transfers
A practical 60-minute golf practice plan that combines a dynamic warm-up, focused repetition, changing clubs and targets, a scored game, and a short review.
The Soundtrack of Better Golf: How Music, Rhythm, and Tempo Can Transform Your Game
Sam Snead hummed waltzes. Tour pros wear AirPods on the range. Science says your swing already has a beat — here's how to find it and use it for better tempo, sharper focus, and more consistent golf.
For golfers coming back to the game
How GolfSalt coaches golfers coming back to the gameGolf Keeps Rewriting Its Own Rulebook: The Big Rule Changes That Reshaped the Game
The flagstick has been governed three different ways. The club limit used to be "however many your caddie can carry." A longer-flying ball was legal in Britain and illegal in America for 38 years. Here's the full history of golf's biggest rule changes — and where the ball rollback actually stands right now.
From Feathers to the Moon: The Surprisingly Wild History of the Golf Ball
Boiled goose feathers, a statue of a Hindu god, a pile of rubber bands, and a 6-iron on the Moon. The little ball in your pocket has the strangest backstory in sports — here's the whole tale, era by era, myths busted and all.
Coming Out of Winter: The Complete Guide to Starting Your Golf Season Right
Your body needs a ramp-up, not a launch. Here's how to safely rebuild your swing, set realistic expectations for early rounds, navigate spring course conditions, and build a season plan that leads to your best golf by summer.
For golfers fitting golf around real life
How GolfSalt coaches golfers fitting golf around real lifeThe Golf Parent's Guide to Getting Better While Your Kid Pitches: How to Turn Softball Practice into Your Best Training Session
Your 12U pitcher is drilling the same rotational patterns your golf swing needs — hip-shoulder separation, kinetic chain sequencing, ground force production. Here's the science, the shared exercises, and a 38-minute field-ready workout for both of you.
The 10-Minute Golf Warm-Up for People Who Hate Warming Up
Over 70% of golfers never warm up. If that's you, here's how to get 80% of the benefit in 10 minutes or less — with a priority stack, dynamic movement protocol, and the putting green cheat code that saves 2-4 strokes.
The Work-From-Home Golfer's Playbook: How to Build a Better Game Between Meetings
Your desk job is actively hurting your golf game — tight hips, locked-up spine, dormant glutes. Here's how to use remote work flexibility to fight back with desk mobility routines, carpet putting drills, grip work, and mental game practice.
Backyard Golf for Kids: 20+ Games That Build Real Skills While They Think They're Just Playing
Fun, creative yard games that quietly develop hand-eye coordination, balance, focus, and every fundamental your kid needs to fall in love with golf — no lessons, no range, no pressure required.
For golfers preparing for an event
How GolfSalt coaches golfers preparing for an eventFor competitive golfers
How GolfSalt coaches competitive golfersFor golfers new to the game
How GolfSalt coaches golfers new to the gameThe Complete Guide to Iron Types: From Blades to Game Improvement (And Why Most of What You've Heard Is Marketing)
Blades, players cavity backs, players distance, game improvement, super game improvement — what actually separates them, why the forged-vs-cast 'feel' difference is a myth, and the one thing that matters more than any category: how your set is gapped.
Links, Parkland, Heathland, Desert, Stadium: How to Play Each Course Type
The style of course under your feet quietly dictates how you should play it — ground game or aerial, run it or fly it, where the real trouble hides. Here's how to read any layout, from true links to desert target golf, and adjust your game to match.
Modern Golf Etiquette: A Friendly Refresher for a Game That's Still Worth Getting Right
Golf's culture is evolving and 3.4 million new golfers joined the game in 2024 alone. This is the friendly refresher on modern etiquette — pace of play, music, filming, bunkers, greens, and the small courtesies that keep the game fun for everyone.