| Give me your slicers, your three-putters, your huddled masses yearning to break 80...
Hey! I’m Sam Weinman, Golf Digest’s Digital Editorial Director. My Low Net newsletter will take on the typical dynamics faced by average golfers like me—why we can hit it great on the range then terribly on the course; why we make dumb decisions late in rounds; how we can still get better even when it feels like we’re getting worse. The newsletter will be for Golf Digest+ members, but you're getting this one free. If you like it, sign up for Golf Digest+ right here and we can do this every week.
Golf Digest has a staff filled with impressive golfers. I wish I could say I was one of them. I am erratic off the tee, miss more greens than I hit, but I chip and putt reasonably well enough to play to an 11 handicap. The Low Net newsletter does not dismiss the possibility that you might be better than its author.
What I am, however, is someone who spends too much time thinking about the game the way most of us play it, and who is just self-absorbed enough to believe everything in golf somehow relates to me.
The benefit to you is I am habitually exploring topics that might relate to your game as well. It’s why I wrote a cover story about my round with tour pro Joel Dahmen last year in which he hit my drives and I hit his; why I have been known to call up leading sports psychologists ahead of my B-flight tournaments; and why I recently embarked on an ambitious speed-training program (I’m also tired of being ridiculed on social media).
My scratch golfer colleagues and the elite players we cover are all better players, but let’s face it: There are a lot more golfers like me than there are of them. The goal, then, is to share here in weekly installments the lessons and advice that resonate for the beefy middle of the bell curve—tips and strategies ranging from squeezing out more yards to squeezing in more rounds.
Writing this in early January, I am convinced the golf season ahead will be my best one yet, and I suspect plenty of others feel the same way. I can’t guarantee that will actually happen. But one thing I do know is there’s just as much you can learn from the struggle along the way.
Have a topic you want me to explore? Send me an email at Samuel.Weinman@wbd.com with your feedback. |
