Welcome to Play Smart, a game improvement column and podcast from editor Luke Kerr-Dineen to help you play smarter, better golf. The wonderful, and maddening, truth about swinging a golf club is that ...

The golf swing can be broken down into four phases: backswing, downswing, acceleration and ball strike, and follow-through. It is a complex, coordinated movement of the of the hands, wrists, arms, ...