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May 17th, 2026

PGA Championship 2026: Alex Smalley’s incredible resilience sets up the chance of a lifetime

Alex Smalley started Saturday tied for the lead at Aronimink with, perhaps expectations and pressure of his own, but not necessarily from anyone watching either in person or on television. That’s not to be disrespectful. But Smalley, the 29-year-old from North Carolina who played college golf at Duke, is playing in only his fifth major Read more…

May 17th, 2026

PGA Championship tee times 2026: Sunday’s final-round pairings at Aronimink

The last hour of competition Saturday at Aronimink changed the PGA Championship quite a bit. The whole story focused around how many players were packed near the top of the leaderboard, with some 30 men within three shots of the lead at one point. Then Alex Smalley, the leader after Round 2, rattled off three Read more…

May 17th, 2026

PGA Championship 2026: Jordan Spieth explains the incredible shot everybody is still talking about

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — The grounds were still buzzing almost 24 hours after it happened. Jordan Spieth won’t win this PGA Championship, but he quite possibly hit the defining shot of the tournament. “I don’t think most amateurs understand how incredible it was,” says coach Josh Gregory. “It was an unbelievable golf shot. Unbelievable,” says Read more…

PGA Tour

May 12th, 2026

The reason you’ll soon be seeing more social media content from the PGA Tour’s top players

The tour’s new policies are designed to update the content allowances for players while on tournament grounds.

May 11th, 2026

‘Fearless’ Brandt Snedeker’s 10th PGA Tour win and first in 8 years sends him to the PGA Championship

Brandt Snedeker claimed an emotional one shot win at the ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic, securing his 10th PGA Tour title and a return to major championship golf.

May 11th, 2026

New Norwegian star makes most of unlikely chance, scores first tour win with ice-cold finish at Truist Championship

Kristoffer Reitan delivered a composed final round at Quail Hollow to win the Truist Championship, outlasting Rickie Fowler, Nicolai Hojgaard and others for his first PGA Tour title.

The Masters

8:06

Why Augusta National is killing the viral Masters gnome

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15:24

The hidden history of Augusta National’s 16th hole

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17:43

The strategy pros use to play Augusta’s trickiest hole

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LIV Golf

May 13th, 2026

PGA Championship 2026: Rory McIlroy says ‘we almost knew before [LIV] players did’ that Saudi Arabia was pulling out

Rory McIlroy once advocated for the PGA Tour to make a deal with Saudi Arabia in the throes of professional golf’s civil war. He’s now glad he was misguided.

May 13th, 2026

PGA Championship 2026: Jon Rahm now says he didn’t think his move to LIV would be a tipping point for deal

Depending on your perspective, there are two stories you can tell about Jon Rahm’s jump to LIV Golf in late 2023.

May 11th, 2026

Jon Rahm made an albatross at LIV Golf Virginia that somehow got past, well, almost everybody

Video footage from the X account of Rahm’s LIV team, Legion XIII, managed to capture the shot from distance.

AGD All-Access Pass articles

April 23rd, 2026

Editor’s letter: Golf’s next frontier

Why better vegetation and improved biodiversity is the logical new ground for golf courses.

April 23rd, 2026

Keep your eye on…

Several golf courses caught our course-ranking panellists’ attention despite not making the final Top 100 list.

April 23rd, 2026

News you may have missed: May 2026

Aussie of the Month: Hannah Green Hannah Green loves to win in bursts. The West Australian was not content with winning the LPGA Tour’s HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore, so she parlayed that into twin victories at home at the Women’s Australian Open and Australian WPGA Championship. The 29-year-old became the first Australian since Read more…

AGD All-Access Pass videos

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The swing fix that sparked Rickie Fowler’s comeback

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The hidden history of Tree Island at TPC Sawgrass

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The clever way tour pros use data to aim

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How to play

May 15th, 2026

PGA Championship 2026: This mistake is torturing pros at Aronimink

There are good misses, and bad misses. And at Aronimink Golf Club on the opening day of the 2026 PGA Championship, there was one miss that was worst of all.

May 14th, 2026

What tour pros actually do before a major – and why it’s the opposite of what most amateurs do

Golf coach and skill-acquisition specialist Stuart Morgan wants golfers to become what he calls “system thinkers”.

May 9th, 2026

10 easy ways to boost testosterone and pick up a club or two of distance

If your blood tests indicate low levels of testosterone, you might be able to avoid synthetic steroid supplements – and their nasty side effects – by making lifestyle changes to boost levels naturally.

What to play

May 17th, 2026

PGA Championship 2026: Justin Rose rallies, says of iron switch: ‘I won’t be doing anything stupid’

What changed? Was it inevitable that his irons would click into gear, and that the narrative of him making some drastic, disastrous change to tank the sunset of Rose’s career was overblown?

May 16th, 2026

TaylorMade to hold off introducing a new driver in 2027, moving to two-year product cycle

The switch to a two-year launch cadence for its woods lineup likely will mark the first year since 2001 that the company has not launched a new driver.

May 14th, 2026

Has Cameron Young’s golf ball flipped the script on the rollback?

Cameron Young has been quietly torching the whole premise of a rollback for 15 months.

Where to play

May 14th, 2026

PGA Championship 2026: The real story behind the complicated architecture of Aronimink

Aronimink’s history poses a philosophical question for architects and old clubs: should designers honour and resurrect the course that the original architects drew, or are they better off restoring the features that were actually built?

May 8th, 2026

Moore Park Golf Course to be cut to 12 holes from July

The NSW Government has confirmed Moore Park Golf Course will be reduced from 18 holes to a reconfigured 12-hole layout from July 1, marking a significant shift in one of Sydney’s most contentious golf and public-space debates.

May 1st, 2026

Second cypress tree planted in fairway of Pebble Beach’s 18th hole

According to Pebble Beach, the tree is 30 paces further down the fairway from the other cypress and is slightly more to the right, which brings more strategy into play for most players.

Women in Golf

May 11th, 2026

It’s not just Nelly’s world. Jeeno Thitikul defends Mizuho title to collect ninth LPGA title

May 8th, 2026

Victoria sweeps Australian Interstate Teams titles in dramatic final win

May 8th, 2026

‘Nervous’ Michelle Wie West shoots 82 in first competitive round in 3 years

Golf Rules

May 7th, 2026

Rules Review: 5 rules most golfers get wrong

May 1st, 2026

A frustrating rules blunder costs Adam Scott a two-shot penalty at Doral (and it could have been worse)

April 30th, 2026

Rules Review: To take relief for a chip shot, I measured the club-length with my driver. Was I supposed to use a wedge?

Opinion

May 6th, 2026

OPINION: Why LIV Golf Adelaide MUST continue for the good of Australian golf

May 1st, 2026

Opinion: LIV Golf is dying. The damage is permanent

April 30th, 2026

Top 100 Courses 2026: The myth that is public-access golf