Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you become a smarter, better golfer. Payne Stewart was one of the best ball strikers of his generation. This much is ...

Payne Stewart's golf swing remains one of the smoothest, silkiest golf swings of all time. We don't need more of an excuse than that to watch Payne's golf swing again, so here it is. For obvious ...

PINEHURST, N.C. – A few months before Payne Stewart holed that 15-foot putt on Pinehurst’s 18th green to win the 1999 U.S. Open, he was rolling putts with the same putter, a SeeMore Bronze FGP, on the ...

PINEHURST, N.C. – As Bryson DeChambeau hit the shot of his life and polished off his second U.S. Open title Sunday evening at Pinehurst No. 2, Lamar Haynes, one of Payne Stewart’s best friends and ...

It’s been 25 years since Payne Stewart’s legendary finish at the 1999 U.S. Open at Pinehurst. Phil Mickelson finished one stroke behind Stewart at the conclusion of the 1999 U.S. Open on June 20, 1999 ...