At his PGA Tour peak, Abraham Ancer climbed all the way to 11th in the Official World Golf Ranking. He won a World Golf Championship, amassed 25 top-10 finishes (including two in the majors) and made over $15 million. He even threatened at the 2020 Masters, playing in the final group on Sunday but ultimately Read more…
Bonjour, mon ami, and bienvenue to the latest edition of THE C.E.L.E.B.R.A.T.I.O.N. SCALE, our highly advanced scientific method for determining the quality of each victory celebration on the PGA Tour. This week, we honor the out-of-nowhere French sensation Matthieu Pavon, the 31-year-old Toulouse native who triumphed on Saturday at Torrey Pines. It was a shocking Read more…
There ain’t much in Iowa. City living, elevation change, college football teams with functional offenses. All are tough to come by in the Hawkeye State. If you’re looking for corn, caucuses and midwestern mega-mansions with private 9-hole golf courses in the backyard, however, you might just be in the luck. Enter 7395 N.W. 100th St., Read more…
There are so few traditions left in this world, most of them dying for one of two reasons: 1. it was time to die, or 2. the tradition itself was deemed problematic by a vocal minority and thus had to be discontinued. One tradition that continues to persist, however, is the Masters, a tradition unlike Read more…
We’ve all participated in some iteration of the cocktail party conversation that starts with “If I had my own golf-themed bar, this is what I’d do.” Greg Bartoli did, too. He just had more firepower to make it a reality. Fifteen years of success on Wall Street had given Bartoli enough cushion to invest in Read more…
Lost amid the NFL’s Championship Sunday was a pretty crazy finish on the LPGA Tour between two golfers who are no strangers to lifting big trophies themselves. Lydia Ko looked like she’d swiped the Drive On Championship from Nelly Korda with a late eagle before Nelly finished eagle-birdie to force a playoff. Then things got Read more…
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: L.A.B. Golf’s new DF3 mallet putter is a reimagined and gently downsized version of the company’s original Directed Force putter that established the idea of “lie angle balanced.” The arrangement of sole weights in the extremely perimeter weighted design, the orientation of the shaft in the head and the angled Read more…
Editor’s Note: The Golf Digest 1 Percent Challenge will present a new challenge every weekday in January. Catch up on Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, and Week 4. At the bottom of every golf swing is an arc. Track the movement of the clubhead, and you’ll quickly be able see it: The clubhead approaches Read more…
SAN DIEGO — Michael Herrera had 14 long hours on the flight home from Thailand to process the crushing disappointment. Just over a week ago in Thailand, the California mini-tour pro missed a six-foot birdie putt on the last of 80 holes in Asian Tour Q School to not get full status by one shot. Read more…
Victory, it seemed, was out of the question for the hometown favorite. Nelly Korda stood on the 17th tee Sunday three strokes behind Lydia Ko, with the Kiwi’s Hall of Fame procession feeling all but guaranteed. Instead, Korda finished eagle-birdie, playing her way into a playoff and serving as the gatekeeper between Ko and the Read more…
Nelly Korda started the final round of the LPGA Drive On Championship with a four-shot lead at Bradenton (Fla.) Country Club. After making eagle on the par-5 17th hole, however, she was one behind Lydia Ko with one hole remaining. Ko’s steady play combined with a three-hole stretch for Korda in which she was four Read more…
Because Kim – more specifically, the legend of Anthony Kim – is the closest thing professional golf’s had to a folk hero, his possible emergence has many a golf fan on social media salivating at the prospect.
Frenchman Matthieu Pavon birdied the 72nd hole of the Farmers Insurance Open to win his first PGA Tour title in only the third start of his rookie season.
On the greens Pavon ranked fifth in strokes gained/putting, bettering the field average by more than five strokes. His putter is a centre-shafted Ping Cadence TR Tomcat – a mid-mallet model Ping introduced in 2015.
One of the great things about the PGA Show is that it’s not just a place where cool and interesting new products. It’s a place where the wider golf world can come together and exchange ideas about how to play better golf. During a busy week looking around at the latest and greatest golf products Read more…