Welcome to Play Smart, a game-improvement column that drops every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from Game Improvement Editor Luke Kerr-Dineen to help raise your golf IQ and play smarter, better golf.

Welcome to another edition of the Fully Equipped Mailbag, sponsored by Cleveland/Srixon Golf, an interactive GOLF.com series in which we field your hard-hitting gear questions. I heard you guys ...

Answer: In a perfect world, we’d all be able to grab clubs off the rack and find immediate success with them on the course. But it doesn’t work that way. Spend the necessary time building a set of ...