Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you play smarter, better golf. PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Mondays at PGA Tour events are the slowest days of the week.

Now that we’re finally rid of the dreaded ‘straight back, straight through’ putting stroke, can you tell me what regulates the path of the stroke? Is it the shaft plane or an area of the body? You ...

You miss putts you should make. We all do. I find the major culprit is overactive hands and wrists, which, in the putting stroke, tend to unduly manipulate the putterface and path. Good strokes rely ...