Welcome to Play Smart, a game-improvement column that drops every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from Game Improvement Editor Luke Kerr-Dineen to help raise your golf IQ and play smarter, better golf.

There are few things more frustrating in golf than having a short iron or wedge into a green, feeling like you make the perfect swing, and then watching the ball as it sails right or left of your ...

Answer: In a perfect world, we’d all be able to grab clubs off the rack and find immediate success with them on the course. But it doesn’t work that way. Spend the necessary time building a set of ...

Editor’s Note: This is the latest in a weekly Q&A feature from The Golf Channel’s Chief Technical Advisor Frank Thomas. To submit a question for possible use in this column, email ...

Answer: Ask most golfers what they pay attention to when looking at a new set of irons, and you’ll hear the usual suspects: loft, shaft flex, maybe even swing weight. But there’s one spec that quietly ...

Specs: Aluminum body mallet putter with stainless-steel face insert. Available in 10 lie-angle configurations (65 to 74 degrees). Who it’s for: Golfers who like the traditional look and flow of a heel ...

L.A.B. Golf's OZ.1i HS is a heel-shafted mallet putter designed for stability and a traditional look. It utilizes lie angle balance technology to keep the putter face square to the stroke path, ...