AUGUSTA, Ga. — At age 67, two-time Masters champion Bernhard Langer is playing in his 41st and final tournament at Augusta National. “The course is just getting too long, and I’m getting shorter and shorter, and I’m hitting hybrids where the other kids are hitting 9-irons and 8-irons, maybe even wedges,” he said earlier this Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Over the past decade, Masters week at Augusta National has become more like “Masters 10 days,” with the creation of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur and the Drive, Chip and Putt. For golf fans, each competition presents a unique opportunity to see all ages compete at Augusta National. The DCP National Finals, Read more…
Welcome to MythBusters, a Golf Digest+ series where we explore answers to some of golf’s most common questions through a series of tests with real golfers. While our findings might fall short of definitive, they still aim to shed new light on topics that have consumed golfers for years. That Augusta National Golf Club has Read more…
New Augusta National Women’s Amateur champion Bernat Escuder joins a historic list of Spanish winners at Augusta National, which includes Masters champions Seve Ballesteros and Jose Maria Olazabal, as well as her golf idols Sergio Garcia and Jon Rahm.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The Augusta National Women’s Amateur has the greatest consolation prize in sports. Missing the 36-hole cut is disappointing, but all players in the field this week still had the opportunity to play a practice round at Augusta National on Friday. MORE: Inside the crucial decision ANWA players must make before their final Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — One of the most important decisions players face on Saturday in the final round of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur actually occurs before they tee off: Should you take a local Augusta National caddie or opt for a familiar face in a family member, friend or coach? Given the heightened importance of Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — With a bunched leaderboard at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur heading into Saturday’s final round, the storylines are as numerous as we’ve seen in the six-year history of this championship. From a defending champion and World No. 1 to a 16-year-old “veteran,” here’s the case for (and against) each player inside the Read more…
EVANS, Ga. — If Spain’s Carla Bernat Escuder goes on to win the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, she may have last year’s U.S. Amateur champion, Josele Ballester, to thank. Escuder enters Saturday’s final round at Augusta National just one shot behind leaders Kiara Romero and last year’s champion Lottie Woad. Escuder, 21, grew up just Read more…
EVANS, Ga. — Lottie Woad is a different person than one year ago, but the defending Augusta National Women’s Amateur champion’s game remains the same. After the first two rounds at Champions Retreat, Woad, the world’s top-ranked amateur, is tied for the lead at nine under par alongside the 2023 U.S. Girls’ Junior champion Kiara Read more…
EVANS, Ga. — University of Virginia senior Amanda Sambach had no business making par on her first hole Wednesday in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Teeing off on No. 1 at Champions Retreat, the three-time All-American snap-hooked her tee shot into a bunker, where she drew a mudball. A blocked 6-iron went well right of Read more…
EVANS, Ga. — On a day of record-low scoring at Champions Retreat in the first round of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, Stanford junior Megha Ganne shot nine-under 63, the lowest round in the six-year history of the championship, to take the early lead. Ganne bested the previous record (65) set by former Stanford teammate Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Phoebe Brinker’s typical day doesn’t look quite like that of her 70 fellow competitors at this week’s Augusta National Women’s Amateur. As a paralegal for Ropes & Gray, a law firm in Boston, Brinker, 23, handles a lot of administration tasks, like getting pages signed for important deals and handling paperwork for Read more…
Free. A term typically reserved for things you don’t want or don’t need. Or, if you do want them/need them, there’s a catch in the fine print. Neither are the case here. Capital One cardholders currently have the opportunity to book a three-day golf trip to Northern Ireland, May 14-16, 2025, to play at Royal Read more…
Attention, (at-home) patrons. Your Masters watch party is about to get a whole lot better this year. For a few years now, Augusta National has made many of their famous concession items (pimento-cheese sandwiches, BBQ pork, moonpies, etc.) available to the public through its “Taste of the Masters” packages. Having been a proud purchaser in Read more…
Welcome to MythBusters, a Golf Digest+ series where we explore answers to some of golf’s most common questions through a series of tests with real golfers. While our findings might fall short of definitive, they still aim to shed new light on topics that have consumed golfers for years. Should you tee up an iron Read more…
Nearly every golfer understands it’s their responsibility to rake a bunker after they hit from it, but what should they do after that? Should they place the rake inside or outside the bunker? That’s the question we put to Shannon Wheeler, the director of agronomy at The Plantation at Ponte Vedra Beach. Wheeler has worked Read more…
Having the ball hit the back of the cup and bounce out is one of the worst breaks in golf, but did you know it can often be caused by how we remove the flagstick?
“We’re going to Ireland!” said Marc Engellenner, turning to his girlfriend, Sophia, after he hit the clinching bunker shot in a playoff at the second annual Golf Digest Open, played at Streamsong Resort in Bowling Green, Fla., in November. Engellenner and his partner Drazen Trkulja (ter-kool-yuh), both former mini-tour pros from California, shot nine-under over Read more…
I’ve got a pull-draw problem. Slicers, I know you think this a humble brag, but you can score from short and right of the green. Long left? Nope. The real frustration is that I’ve tried everything to fix this miss that has plagued my approach play over the last few years. Nothing has worked. I Read more…
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