Of all the aids that PGA Tour players use to make their jobs easier – from TrackMan to alignment rods to mirrors on the practice green – green-reading books have become, all of a sudden, the most ...

Behind the books sit a father-son duo who’ve just had their business upended. On Wednesday, Golfweek reported that the PGA Tour was moving toward banning green-reading materials, which have been a ...

Putting has become too easy. Since the advent of green-reading books, 1-putt percentage has skyrocketed, 3-putts have virtually been eliminated, and players and their caddies have no homework around ...

Eight-foot putts are not typically stressful for PGA Tour pros, but the 8-foot par putt that Max Homa faced on Friday morning on the fifth at Augusta National had to be made if he was going to stay ...

Learning how to read greens in golf is one of the most important lessons an amateur can learn, but some are oblivious to the key information that can be gathered on and around the putting surface.

If you play golf, you’ve likely heard this one before: If you’re unsure of which way a green breaks, look around for the nearest body of water, because that’s where the ball will want to travel.

You have a 10-foot putt. Sensing it will break a little right-to-left, you aim just outside the hole, and it misses on the right. Did you push it, misread it, or simply have too much speed? Or was it ...

Only once in his career has Kevin Na cracked open of those detailed green-reading books. It was last year, on the 17th green at Waialae Country Club, where Na needed a birdie-eagle finish to shoot 59 ...

Thank you, Mike Purkey, for putting into words what I have been saying for some time (“PGA misses mark with its pace-of-play move,” May 19). No, not about the use of rangefinders. I think eventually ...

Green reading is an art — and an under-appreciated one at that. With all the resources available these days — greens books, caddies, etc. — it can be easy to take for granted how huge an element green ...

SAN DIEGO -- The PGA Tour is close to banning green-reading books before next season, but four-time major champion Rory McIlroy isn't sure that's enough to even the playing field on the greens.