Playing third fiddle to maritime misfortune and aviation glory on North Carolina's Outer Banks has its benefits: speedy rounds on immaculately conditioned courses.

Looking to gain more yardage on your drives? Brent Bishop takes you through a golf workout designed to get you there.

Over the years, the game itself hasn't changed but thank the golf gods that fashion has. Here's a look at some items to help you make a statement on the course.

With Spring in the air and the azaleas at the Masters getting ready for their annual close-up, it's high time to slake some rust off your own game and the best way to do that is with some shiny new stuff.

Winter can be a cruel time for those of us who live in snowy climes because golf season seems so very far away. Never fear, the Masters and spring are always just around the corner. In the meantime, you can keep the dream alive with these gift ideas for golf lovers.

It's only fitting that a town known for conjuring Lady Luck would also provide the setting for the game’s greatest player of our generation to jumpstart his pro legend.

Sure, practice can help shave strokes off your game but so can some pretty cool gadgets. Take a look at these serious accessories for the season.

Whether you walk or ride, you need to start with a good pair of golf shoes. And these days, you need not focus only on comfort and performance, you can also define your style. Classic, street, sport?

Blame it on television, if you like – the precious and buttoned-down game that golf has become. (Pricey too, in case you hadn’t noticed.) Blame it on colour television, to be exact, because in ushering out the grainy shadows of old black and white and bringing us instead a bright range of greens, it suddenly put more emphasis on how a golf course looked than on how it played.

Spring has sprung and many of you will be anxious to get those clubs out and shake off the winter's rust. Don't let your game be spoiled by those who aren't quite as savvy to the etiquette of the game. Better yet, don't be one of those golfers.