This week was HUGE for 37-year-olds across the world. No, mortgage rates didn’t drop. We didn’t get a new season of ‘X-Files’ and Sabrina Carpenter wasn’t spotted wearing flannel and ripped jeans, ushering in a new era of grunge. Instead, Gen-Xers and aging millennials from Salt Lake City to Shanghai got the momentous news that Read more…
The golf world has Happy Gilmore fever, and as Christopher Walken once quipped, the only prescription is more Happy Gilmore (or something like that). Sandler-worn Bruins jerseys are being auctioned off at astronomical prices, open-casting lines are winding for miles, Max Homa is wrecking trolls with gold-jacket jokes and even Shooter McGavin had to sign Read more…
Fantasy football season is here. Across the country, friends, family and co-workers are prepping their big boards for 16-team PPR superflex dynasty leagues. We here at Golf Digest even held our office draft this week, battling for the best sure-things, sleepers and busts to fill out our make-believe rosters. Our draft order was decided randomly, Read more…
Last weekend, a simple white Nike golf cap – unremarkable in almost every way except for one – sold at a Kids Cancer Alliance charity auction for a whopping $US2,375.
Last week we reported that Max Homa was back on Twitter after a summer sabbatical, barbequing haters like he was Sweet Baby Ray himself. On Monday, with a free week ahead of him after failing to qualify for the Tour Championship, Homa continued his resurgence by dunking on some dude named Craig with this ‘Happy Read more…
With Paige Spiranac’s rise to the top of the golf influencer charts, including appearances in the SI Swimsuit Issue and being named the World’s Sexiest Woman by Maxim, it’s easy to forget that she’s a damn good stick. Spiranac played D1 college golf at Arizona and San Diego State, earning All-Conference honors in back-to-back seasons Read more…
This week, the PGA Tour returned to Colorado’s Castle Pines Golf Club for the first time in 18 years. On Thursday at BMW Championship, the top 50 players in the FedEx Cup standings battled the unique challenge of altitude golf, with tee shots soaring well over 400 yards and routine short irons airmailing greens. While Read more…
The 2024 college football season is nearly upon us. This weekend, Week 0 begins in Dublin with a showdown of legendary Irish programs [cough, hack, wheeeeeze] Florida State and Georgia Tech. That means ball coaches all across this great football nation will soon be hanging up their sticks for their summer. It’s sure to be Read more…
On Sunday, five-time major winner Brooks Koepka and two-time major winner Jon Rahm faced-off in a sudden-death showdown with $4 million on the line. In some alternate reality where Koepka and Rahm were still duking it on the PGA Tour, this would have been must-see TV. Instead, it was the pro golf equivalent of a Read more…
On Monday night, Kim finally responded to backlash, posting an apology of sorts to his Instagram, calling his actions “clearly wrong” and claiming that he didn’t realise the severity of the damage he had done to the green in the moment.
In the US, there’s clearly a market of people who want a luxury vehicle that comes with two custom sets of Titleist golf clubs and a professional club-fitting experience at one of Titleist’s Performance Institutes.
How much does Hideki Matsuyama love Chick-Fil-A? So much that when the beloved chicken chain came up during his victory press conference at TPC Southwind on Sunday, he spontaneously started speaking perfect English. Matsuyama doesn’t let his guard down for much—and he certainly doesn’t speak to the media in his second language—but for Chick-Fil-A chicken, Read more…
Remember that ‘Seinfeld’ episode (yes, I’m old) where George gets caught by TV cameras attacking an ice cream sundae at the U.S. Open like a grizzly bear waking up from hibernation? If not, let’s refresh your memory. RELATED: Jerry Seinfeld reveals that George Costanza’s iconic golf ball speech was ‘never in the script’ It’s a Read more…
Xander Schauffele and Scottie Scheffler are currently in the throes of one of the best PGA Tour Player of the Year battles in recent memory Schauffele won the PGA and Open Championship while logging 12 top 10s and two runner finishes, including the Players. Scheffler, meanwhile, won the Players, the Masters and Olympic gold, plus Read more…
This week the FedEx Cup Playoffs kick off with the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind. The grounds crew has been hard at work prepping the course for the arrival of the PGA Tour’s postseason. That includes TPC Southwind’s beloved golf course dog Millie, an 11-year-old border collie who has presided over a whopping Read more…
Not to jinx anything, but it seems like we might actually witness ‘Happy Gilmore 2’ before the world ends. Nobody would have guessed as much a decade ago, with the Sandler-ssance still years off and the film industry amidst its most radical disruption since “the talkies,” but here we are, living in the bold, bright Read more…
The 2024 Paris Olympics are a wrap. Scottie Scheffler claimed gold on the men’s side while Rose Zhang was the top American woman, finishing T8. Absent in the medal mix, however, was women’s World No. 1 Nelly Korda, who had a rollercoaster week at Le Golf National. At times, she looked like the player that Read more…
It can be argued that no type of golfer on earth experiences more colorful snapshot of the sport than the muny single. Each round, they’re paired with new human beings from all walks of life. On those blessed days when the course is empty and they can go off solo, they enjoy self-reflection in its Read more…
Standing over her third shot on the par-4 15th on Friday, Slovakian Ladies European Tour pro Pia Babnik was just outside of the podium places. Her tee shot had just found the water, but at one-under on her round following a scintillating 66 on Thursday, Babnik just needed to salvage bogey to keep herself in Read more…