Seth WenigJeongeun Lee (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)BEDMINSTER, N.J. — The rain came down hard during the first two rounds at the U.S. Women’s Open. Trump National Bedminster is set-up at 6,687 yards, which is rather stout to begin with. Add in wet fairways that give up no roll, and you’re looking at a golf course that’s playing long. The obvious assumption then would be that to be successful, you’d have to be a long hitter. But the stats tell a different story. Four of the women sitting T-6 or better after 36 holes did not rank inside the top 75 in average driving distance in both the first and second rounds of the national championship: leader Shanshan Feng (ranked 106th in driving distance), Jeongeun Lee (T-80), In Gee Chun (T-76) and Seon Woo Bae (133rd).
One of Golf Digest's Best Young Teachers, Bill Schmedes III of Fiddler's Elbow G.C., taught under Gary Gilchrist. Through that experience, he spent time around multiple top-10 LPGA players. He wasn’t surprised that a lot of the..

Andrew Redington/Getty ImagesIan Poulter smiles on the 18th hole during day three of the 2017 Scottish Open at Dundonald Links.TROON, Scotland — Four years ago, a poll of Scots found that the nation’s favorite word is “dreich,” which says much about the Caledonian character. The definition: A combination of dull, overcast, drizzly, cold, misty and miserable weather. At least four of those adjectives must apply before the weather is truly dreich.
Sad to say, the third round of the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open over the Dundonald Links qualified comfortably. In fact, some might say the weather was “double-dreich,” so severe was the combination of wind, rain and plummeting temperatures at times. Still, as is inevitably the case, some players managed the conditions better than others. On a day that ended with a three-way tie at the top—Ian Poulter, Andrew Dodt and Callum Shinkwin on nine-under 207—the average score for the 65-man field was a commendable 73.77. European Ryder Cup ..

FacebookPinterestTiger Woods greets his old instructor John Anselmo in China in 2011. (Photo courtesy of Dan Anselmo)

John Anselmo was already in his mid 60s, a respected but otherwise obscure teaching professional at a nondescript public golf course, when he was asked to take on another student, a 10-year-old as thin as a 1-iron.
They went to the range at Meadowlark Golf Club in Huntington Beach, Calif., after which Anselmo phoned his son, Dan, also a teaching professional.
“I have this new kid named Tiger Woods,” Anselmo told Dan. “He’s a tour player in a little boy’s body. He just needs to grow into it.”
Anselmo oversaw Tiger’s growth for the next seven years, coaching him to the brink of greatness before handing him off to Butch Harmon.
On Friday, word came down that Anselmo had died. He was 96.
“He was just an encouraging person whoever he was with,” Dan Anselmo said on Friday. “He worked with arguably one of greatest players ever, but for me as a teacher what I appreciate most a..