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…
Ask any golf course superintendent what the toughest aspects of their job are and near the top of any list would be 1) staying within their budget and 2) managing golfers’ lofty expectations. To help supers deliver on both of those responsibilities (while also helping them making their courses more sustainable), the USGA has released Read more…
The Rules of Golf allow you to remove loose impediments, like stones, from the bunker, but it turns out golf course superintendents have a strong preference for where you should put them.
In 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton and his 27-man crew set sail on a journey to Antarctica. Their mission? To become the first people to ever cross the entire continent, which is roughly 1.3 times the size of Europe. I, too, recently journeyed to the White Continent … aboard a 264-person luxury cruise ship as part Read more…
ORLANDO — There tends to be a unique trend that permeates throughout the annual PGA Merchandise Show each year as you walk across the show floor. Last year, the dominating trend was the widespread adoption of AI tech infused into a variety of different products—from simulators to game-improvement apps. That trend has continued, of course, 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. On a typical drive, how hard Read more…
There was a time when a beer and a dog at the turn were as sure of a thing as a three-putt after a birdie. Heck, Golf Digest even did a definitive* ranking of the best golf hot dogs in the country. The days of the on-course glizzy, it seems however, might be over. A Read more…
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