If your golf ball is wet at all, you'll want to know how it impacts the shot. Getty Images Welcome to Shaving Strokes , a GOLF.com series in which we’re sharing improvements, learnings and takeaways from amateur golfers just like you — including some of the speed bumps and challenges they faced along the way.
For the next few weeks, I’m visiting my wife’s parents in central Canada, which is usually a beautiful reprieve from the unpredictable summer weather this time of year in our home city of Seattle. Having done this trip a couple of times in years past, we usually get sunny and blue skies, with mid-70s temperatures to boot. As you’d imagine, my father-in-law and I love this for one reason: It’s pristine golf weather.
Unfortunately, Mother Nature hasn’t quite cooperated this time around, with wet, soggy, and cooler conditions taking over for the usual sunshine. But we’re both golf nuts, so a little rain can’t keep us from sneaking in 9 between some light-to-heavy rainfall. Just yesterday, we made the trek out to his country club to take the storm head-on.
After watching dark clouds roll in and 30 mile-per-hour winds kick in right as we teed off on No. 1, we knew this day wouldn’t be our finest performance on the golf course. Hell, we didn’t even bother keeping score! By the time we hit No.
4, it was a torrential downpour. As you might expect, our golf balls weren’t quite performing as they would during a sunny and dry day. That got me thinking: How m.
