Walter Hagen once had a rival come out of the clubhouse mid-change just to watch him drain a putt he didn't even need to make yet. That's not nerves, that's a strategy.

Today's about the most underused weapon in casual match play, and it has nothing to do with being obnoxious on the course. It's actually kind of boring, and that's exactly why it works.

One six-foot putt decided an entire Ryder Cup in 1991. Bernhard Langer missed it by less than an inch, and what he did the very next week says more than the miss itself.

There's a study on golfers choking under pressure that genuinely surprised me, plus a ridiculously simple one-word fix from Harvard research that actually changes how you perform under pressure. Both are in today's episode.

Four down with seven to play, and Justin Leonard didn't just come back — he closed the door so hard it's still one of the most replayed moments in Ryder Cup history.

This is the last episode in the How to Win Match Play series, and it's about the quiet mental flip that turns a comfortable lead into a blown one, plus how to make sure it never happens to you.

In 2014 a former pro with three math degrees built a golf strategy system that turned an unranked amateur into a world top-3 player in three months — and it worked so well the NCAA banned him from teaching it to college golfers in person.

Part three of the Four Foundations of Golf series gets into the strategy behind that system: why you're actually playing with a shotgun instead of a sniper rifle, and how to pick targets that protect you even when you miss.

A scratch golfer and a 26-handicap golfer are separated by less than two birdies a round. The real gap, over five shots a round, is hiding somewhere almost nobody actually tracks.

Part two of the Four Foundations of Golf series gets into Jon Sherman's "war on double bogeys," the real math behind why a fairway bunker might be scarier than the trees, and a two-second GPS trick that quietly turns your worst misses into safe ones.

Down 10 to 6 with one day left. That's basically over, right? Except it wasn't, and what happened next is still called one of the greatest comebacks in golf history.

Today I get into what the players actually say was going on in their heads during that comeback, and it's a lot simpler — and more useful for your Saturday match — than you'd think.

The best putters alive only make about half their eight-foot putts, and even at the best events of the year, the leaders average under five birdies a round. That gap between what golf looks like on TV and what it actually is might be costing you more strokes than your swing ever will.

This is episode one of a brand new five-part series based on Jon Sherman's book The Four Foundations of Golf, and today I get into his ridiculously simple happiness formula, plus exactly what a good shot actually looks like for a real golfer, not a tour pro.

Ever notice how your opponent playing great golf suddenly makes YOU want to abandon your own smart play and go match them shot for shot? There's actual research on that exact impulse, and it explains a lot about your worst match play decisions.

Today I'm kicking off a brand new series, How to Win Match Play, with the single most repeated piece of advice in the sport's history, from the guy who might have been the best match player ever. Simple to say, brutally hard to actually do.