Lost Rail, a private, stand-alone golf club near Omaha, earned second-place honors in Golf Digest’s 2023 Best New Private Course awards. It’s a remarkable property of uplands and ravines, prairies and clusters of hardwoods. A namesake abandoned railroad line cuts through a deep gully in one corner of the land, forming a dramatic hazard that Read more…
Time is linear. Every day ends, and another one starts. We’re so ingrained in our little worlds doing our little tasks just trying to get by that we don’t think about the years speeding along every second, but then you see two photos of Rory McIlroy winning the Dubai Desert Classic 15 years apart and Read more…
For Kim, the Farmers Insurance is a homecoming having gone to high school in the San Diego area. But whoever put this week’s notes together missed that – and Michael wasn’t too pleased about it.
In 2010, Andy Gardiner spent a feverish three days scribbling out an idea on yellow legal pads. A decade later, those ideas would begin to rock the world of professional golf, and lead to the defining schism of the modern era—LIV Golf vs. the PGA Tour. But here at the start of 2024, with the Read more…
As head coach for the almighty Alabama Crimson Tide, every second of Nick Saban’s life was dedicated to keeping his program at the very top of the sport. But now the 72-year-old is retired, which means this time he’d normally be spending recruiting the next crop of five-stars is now filled with … nothing. It’s Read more…
Titleist’s wedge team, led by master craftsman Bob Vokey, believes there are three keys to great wedge play: shot versatility, distance and trajectory control, and maximum spin. All three have been addressed in Vokey’s latest creation, the SM10.
The Mizuno ST-Max 230 line-up of driver, fairway woods and hybrids makes the commitment to the largest footprints in company history in their respective categories.
Bridgestone’s latest version of its Tour B line of golf balls offers four versions: the X, XS, RX and RXS. Each uses what the company refers to as “Reactiv X”, which combines impact modifiers the company refers to as “Reactiv iQ” with a denser mid-layer to alter the performance attributes of each ball.
With Nick Saban’s recent retirement, there’s an opening at the University of Alabama for the title of Big Man on Campus. But a golfer, Nick Dunlap, is certainly a good candidate for the position after etching his name into the PGA Tour history books. Just don’t expect the college sophomore to be cracking open any 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, and Week 3. The thing about golf swings is that they don’t actually matter. They’re a delivery system. A means to an end. The golf ball doesn’t know what your backswing Read more…
In a matter of seconds, the Alabama men’s golf team might have just lost one of the best golfers in program history to the pros, and yet the players celebrated as if they had all won the NCAA Championship. Or maybe the Super Bowl. With 20-year-old Crimson Tide sophomore Nick Dunlap trying to nail down Read more…
Dunlap rebounded from what looked like a crushing double-bogey at the seventh hole in the final round to make three birdies coming in – the last two on holes 14 and 16 thanks to impressive 10-foot makes with his Odyssey O-Works Tank 7 putter.
Among the (many) exciting things about Dunlap contending at the American Express is that he’s the latest in a growing class of up-and-coming talents who have learned the game with advanced technology fuelling better understanding about the golf swing than ever before.