No matter what problem plagues your game, there is something at the PGA Show to help you shoot lower scores. That is why for a golf nerd, the Show can be sensory overload. With aisles and aisles at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando filled with new equipment, technology and training aids, it can Read more…
SAN DIEGO — This is the ultimate lineup test on the PGA Tour. If we put the top nine players on the Farmers Insurance Open leaderboard heading into Saturday’s final round side by side and asked even an ardent golf fan to identify them, the success rate would not be pretty. If you knew even Read more…
Perhaps my favorite trend in the soft goods side of the golf industry in recent years is the rise of custom and handmade golf headcovers. Any time I see a cool one I get an itch to add another one on the bag. So on site at the 2024 PGA Show, a quick pit stop Read more…
The MLB’s hot stove didn’t produce any notable transactions on Thursday, but rather one juicy rumor. It comes from former All-Star catcher A.J. Pierzynski and it involves ex-Yankees outfielder Aaron Hicks. We’ve written about Aaron a lot through the years because in addition to being a big leaguer, he’s a big-time golfer who once had Read more…
Follow this circuit, and you’ll find newfound ability in your ankles, hamstrings, hips and mid-back to do what they’re supposed to do in a proper golf swing.
SAN DIEGO — Back in professional golf’s era of oversized bellies and visions of Arnold Palmer more than occasionally puffing on a cigarette, if a player sought medical treatment at a tournament, he had probably just tweaked a back muscle or wrenched a knee. A few stretches and a couple of aspirin later, he was Read more…
As a kid stuck watching the news I could only hope that it was a night where the local CBS affiliate would run a “Shame on You” segment. In these reports, Arnold Diaz (RIP) would take the case of an upset or defrauded consumer and go after the perpetrator. Suffice it to say, you did Read more…
The Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in San Diego is no longer “that tournament where Tiger Woods starts his season.” Instead, it has taken on a different identity that Golf Digest senior writer (and live long San Diego resident) Tod Leonard explored with players earlier this week. The South Course, two-time host of the Read more…
It’s been extremely smooth sailing for Ludvig Aberg so far in his PGA Tour career. Such is life when you hit the ball as long and straight as the young Swede does off the tee. RELATED: Famous island green hole morphs into hockey rink after cold freeze In 18 career PGA Tour starts, Aberg has Read more…
Every January, the golf industry comes together at the annual PGA Show in to share new products, technology and ideas at a four-day exhibition in Orlando. This year, in its 71st year, the show included almost 1,000 brands displaying best and newest equipment, apparel, accessories from across the world. Our editors hit the convention floor—a Read more…
A random video went viral on the nerdier side of the golf Internet last week which was both unintentionally funny and fascinating. There’s a lot golfers can learn from it — even though the video has nothing to do with golf. I don’t know about you, but whatever social media algorithm I’m on has gotten Read more…
This story first appeared in Low Net, a weekly newsletter dedicated to golf through the eyes of average players. The newsletter will be for Golf Digest+ members. To receive yours weekly sign up for Golf Digest+. Have a topic you want me to explore? Send me an email at [email protected]. One of my more embarrassing Read more…
When players the calibre of Hideki Matsuyama make a hole-in-one, it’s hardly a shock. But when you hear that it’s the first one in a veteran’s career—now, that raises our eyebrows a little bit.
Sometimes the best new things I see at the PGA Merchandise Show are not new at all, but instead something I have missed in prior years. So forgive the delay in putting this forth until now. That said, if you travel for golf at all, Sun Mountain’s Kube travel bag is one of the most Read more…
From our magazine’s founding in 1950 to our multiple-channel brand today, we’ve always celebrated the very best, from the astonishing feats of professionals to the altruistic acts of average golfers and vice versa. Golf is magical because the people who pay to play often do things that are just as compelling as the people who Read more…
This year, we launched the first edition of the Golf Digest Honors, which recognizes extraordinary on-course and off-course accomplishments. In weighing impressive feats by pros and amateurs alike, we’ve given honors for “Best Round,” “Best Putt,” “Best Par,” and many more. These honors are not simply reserved for tour pros; in fact, of our 10 Read more…
From 2003 through 2006, the Coral Mountain Golf Club, also known as Trilogy at La Quinta, hosted the Skins Game, which featured illustrious tour pros from Tiger Woods to Phil Mickelson to Annika Sorenstam. Well, the times have changed, and bankruptcy and poor management forced the course to close in September 2022. Until now, that Read more…
Bing Crosby’s legacy puts him at icon status is many ways. In addition to having a major influence on the music, radio and television industries during his 50-year career, he was an avid golfer and left a major impact on the golf world. The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am actually started out as a play day Read more…
Regardless of how good your short game is, we don’t recommend testing your skills by hitting flop shots over actual human beings. We saw this go hilariously wrong for Kevin Kisner recently, and he’s, you know, A PGA TOUR PRO. RELATED: This story about Randy Moss clowning Bill Belichick about Tiger Woods is all-time Apparently Read more…
In a decision that seemed inevitable from the time the last putt dropped in his historic win, Nick Dunlap announced overnight (Australian time) at a press conference in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, that he has decided to become a professional golfer.