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March 7th, 2025

Xander Schauffele ‘got my a** kicked’ in his return following a hiatus due to a rib injury

ORLANDO – The good news is that he wasn’t in pain. Not physically, anyway. After resting for eight weeks to allow a nagging rib injury to heal, Xander Schauffele returned to competitive Thursday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and his first round on the PGA Tour since the season-opener at The Sentry went—unfortunately—much like he Read more…

March 7th, 2025

Rory McIlroy couldn’t have made this fried-egg bunker shot look any easier

Every golfer knows the feeling of finding out your golf ball in a fried-egg lie in the bunker. It’s absolutely deflating, although as we saw on Thursday at Bay Hill, things could be much worse. You could hit your golf ball into a bunker and not find it. Sorry, Adam Hadwin. That was brutal. But Read more…

March 7th, 2025

Birdie off the rocks at Bay Hill’s treacherous 18th hole? No problem for Si Woo Kim

ORLANDO — Making birdie on the vaunted par-4 18th hole at Bay Hill Club is always going to make a player feel like he gained a stroke on the field. In that regard, Si Woo Kim has to feel like he stole at least a few shots to complete his opening round on Thursday in Read more…

PGA Tour

March 7th, 2025

‘A stupid game of chicken’: Inside the PGA Tour/Saudi PIF negotiation breakdown and the state of a potential deal

Professional golf teetered on a historic reconciliation. So, what happened?

March 6th, 2025

Rory McIlroy offers counter opinion on progress of PGA Tour–Saudi talks: ‘It doesn’t feel any closer’

Whatever promising developments were achieved in a February 4 meeting at the White House between the PGA Tour and the LIV Golf League apparently have evaporated after a follow-up meeting with US president Donald Trump on February 20.

March 6th, 2025

Players 2025: Everything you need to know about the PGA Tour’s flagship event at TPC Sawgrass

What’s TPC Sawgrass like? How much money does the winner get? Will Tiger Woods tee off?

LIV Golf

March 7th, 2025

‘A stupid game of chicken’: Inside the PGA Tour/Saudi PIF negotiation breakdown and the state of a potential deal

Professional golf teetered on a historic reconciliation. So, what happened?

February 27th, 2025

LIV Golf: Foreign Legion

Get to know Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII team, which this year is made up of players from four different countries.

February 21st, 2025

Anthony Kim regarding drug use: ‘It’s hard playing in majors making porta potty stops every few holes’

Anthony Kim posted a lengthy, revealing message to his Instagram page on Thursday. In it, he celebrated two years of sobriety and went into detail about his past drug use.

AGD All-Access Pass articles

February 27th, 2025

Editor’s Letter: Demand And Supply

Reciprocal-play offerings have quietly changed in the wake of golf’s boom

February 27th, 2025

Community: He’s The Boss

Legendary jockey Glen Boss was hit in the head by a golf ball,
yet still won the inaugural Maserati Masters at Barnbougle

February 27th, 2025

Top 100 Spotlight: Woodlands Golf Club

Woodlands Golf Club is proof that nothing in the realm of golf courses truly stands still. The time-honoured layout on the edge of the Melbourne Sandbelt is revered for its short-yet-exacting challenge and how it has continued to remain relevant even as equipment technology has accelerated unrelentingly. Yet even as those in golf applaud Woodlands’ Read more…

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‘I don’t know where it comes from’: Tyrrell Hatton can’t explain his anger management issues

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LIV Golf Adelaide 2025: Rick Shiels’ best interview yet since joining LIV Golf

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‘Definitely Poults’: Ripper GC boys take aim at whinging Poms ahead of 2025 Ashes Series

How to play

March 7th, 2025

Adam Scott started this grip check trend. Now other pros are doing it

Adam Scott was patient zero as far as I can tell. Starting sometime around 2022, before each shot Scott would place the club to his side, with the clubface facing towards the target, and grip the club with his left hand.

March 6th, 2025

He’s the most accurate driver on the PGA Tour – this is his basic advice for you

Aaron Rai led the PGA Tour in Driving Accuracy last season. We asked him what some golf-swing priorities for him are – and what the rest of us can learn from him.

March 5th, 2025

The truth about AimPoint – why pros trust it and some fans hate it

AimPoint is a modern green-reading technique based primarily on feeling the slopes on the greens, rather than trying to spot them with your eyes. We take a deeper dive into the system here.

What to play

March 7th, 2025

Ricky Ponting’s new golf bag reveal proves he’s the biggest golf nerd on the planet!

Ricky Ponting might be a cricket legend, but if you saw him breaking down his Callaway golf bag in Queenstown recently, you’d swear he was a Tour rep.

March 6th, 2025

Why Viktor Hovland is switching to an old pair of golf shoes to help with his putting(?)

In a bid to resurrect his game, the Norwegian has decided to take matters into his own… feet.

March 5th, 2025

Titleist’s Vokey Design WedgeWorks 44F wedge fills an important carry gap

If you’re currently playing a pitching wedge from the iron set you purchased but the idea of trying out a blade version has piqued your interest, just make sure you’re taking a few things into consideration.

Where to play

March 4th, 2025

Walker Cup to return to Pine Valley, but we’ll have to wait a while

During its annual meeting last weekend, the governing body solidified that Pine Valley will host the prestigious amateur match pitting the United States against Great Britain & Ireland in 2044.

March 3rd, 2025

Why Cabot Citrus Farms’ new course is like playing an old version of Augusta National

Something very uncommon happened in the design of Cabot Citrus Farms’ Roost course. A collaboration between three architects from different firms—Mike Nuzzo, Kyle Franz and Rod Whitman (plus architecture guru Ran Morrissett)—worked together to reimagine the second 18-hole course at Cabot Citrus Farms on the site of the old Rolling Oaks at World Woods. Franz Read more…

February 28th, 2025

Adelaide clubs give turf second life

It is often said one person’s trash is another’s treasure, and so when Glenelg Golf Club had some turf leftover from recent course upgrades, the Adelaide club knew there would be somewhere nearby that could make use of it.

Women in Golf

March 6th, 2025

Golf Rules

February 27th, 2025

Opinion

February 28th, 2025

Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	Wyndham Clark	-5	F	1
T2	Keegan Bradley	-3	F	1
T2	Corey Conners	-3	F	1
T2	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	-3	F	1
T2	Shane Lowry	-3	F	1
T6	Cam Davis	-2	F	1
T6	S.W. Kim	-2	F	1
T6	Max Greyserman	-2	F	1
T6	Rory McIlroy	-2	F	1
T6	Justin Rose	-2	F	1
T11	Scottie Scheffler	-1	F	1
T11	Collin Morikawa	-1	F	1
T11	Justin Thomas	-1	F	1
T11	Patrick Cantlay	-1	F	1
T15	Ludvig Åberg	E	F	1
T15	Jackson Koivun	E	F	1
T15	Tony Finau	E	F	1
T15	Russell Henley	E	F	1
T19	Hideki Matsuyama	+1	F	1
T19	Maverick McNealy	+1	F	1
T19	Mackenzie Hughes	+1	F	1
T19	Brian Harman	+1	F	1
T19	Denny McCarthy	+1	F	1
T19	Tom Hoge	+1	F	1
T25	Aaron Rai	+2	F	1
T25	Eric Cole	+2	F	1
T25	Austin Eckroat	+2	F	1
T25	Andrew Novak	+2	F	1
T25	Robert MacIntyre	+2	F	1
T25	Nick Dunlap	+2	F	1
T25	Chris Kirk	+2	F	1
T25	Patrick Rodgers	+2	F	1
T33	Jacob Bridgeman	+3	F	1
T33	J.J. Spaun	+3	F	1
T33	Adam Hadwin	+3	F	1
T33	Tommy Fleetwood	+3	F	1
T33	Matthieu Pavon	+3	F	1
T33	Ben Griffin	+3	F	1
T33	Michael Kim	+3	F	1
T33	Nick Taylor	+3	F	1
T33	Thomas Detry	+3	F	1
T33	Adam Scott	+3	F	1
T33	Will Zalatoris	+3	F	1
T33	Joe Highsmith	+3	F	1
T45	Sungjae Im	+4	F	1
T45	Jason Day	+4	F	1
T45	Byeong Hun An	+4	F	1
T45	Max McGreevy	+4	F	1
T45	J.T. Poston	+4	F	1
T45	Sam Burns	+4	F	1
T45	Harris English	+4	F	1
T52	Davis Thompson	+5	F	1
T52	Viktor Hovland	+5	F	1
T52	Lucas Glover	+5	F	1
T52	Isaiah Salinda	+5	F	1
T52	Sepp Straka	+5	F	1
T52	Xander Schauffele	+5	F	1
T58	Tom Kim	+6	F	1
T58	Min Woo Lee	+6	F	1
T58	Sahith Theegala	+6	F	1
T58	Daniel Berger	+6	F	1
T58	Sam Stevens	+6	F	1
T58	Matt Fitzpatrick	+6	F	1
T58	Stephan Jaeger	+6	F	1
T65	Brian Campbell	+7	F	1
T65	Aldrich Potgieter	+7	F	1
T65	Taylor Pendrith	+7	F	1
T65	Billy Horschel	+7	F	1
T65	Akshay Bhatia	+7	F	1
70	Rafael Campos	+8	F	1
71	Max Homa	+9	F	1
72	Cam Young	+10	F	1

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