Major championships are going to play harder than your average week on tour. It’s not surprising to see players at the U.S. Women’s Open missing more fairways and greens at Riviera, the ultimate strategic design. But there’s something interesting in Nelly Korda’s stats through three rounds that shows a player can miss a lot of Read more…
One of the most unique architectural features at Riviera C.C. is the bunker that sits in the middle of the green on the par-3 sixth hole. If that bunker is between your ball and the pin, you have to choose whether you’re going to putt around it or chip over it. During Thursday’s first round Read more…
Who should be on your radar for the year’s second women’s major? Here are 10 players we’ll be watching, appearing in their order on the Rolex Women’s Rankings, from lowest to highest.
The 11-time LPGA Tour winner qualified for her first US Women’s Open in 2007 as a 12-year-old amateur and has competed every year since, a streak ending this week at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles.
It was the first week of August, hot and humid. And I was playing in a three-day tournament. The nerves mixed with the heat in a way that made my appetite vanish. I didn’t feel hungry, and when it did occur to me that I should eat something, nothing sounded good. My stomach churned at Read more…
Lauren McMillin, a Golf Digest Certified Fitness Trainer, says doing the popular yoga move known as the “Tree Pose” is a great way to improve stability in your golf swing.
A small posture change can completely alter your golf swing. Here’s a simple drill from coach Molly Braid to help you stay in posture, strike the ball cleaner and eliminate wild misses.
With some luck, there will be a time in your life when you’re invited to a nice golf club. And you might find that at this club, there’s a somewhat strict dress code. Perhaps you already play golf in long skirts and shorts, but if you’re like me, your go-to golf skirts are a little Read more…
As the 2026 PGA Championship plays out at Aronomink, we’ll be watching the best players in the world take on a classic Donald Ross design. Like many Ross courses, Aronomink features crowned—also known as turtleback—greens. These greens, whose highest points are in the center, can be difficult to navigate. Because of the design, the ball Read more…
Judy Rankin was at an LPGA Tour event in the mid-1970s. But instead of focusing all of her energy on preparing for the competition, the Hall of Famer was hustling on the phone. She needed a babysitter, and not just anyone. Rankin’s son had come down with the chicken pox, so it had to be Read more…
It’s easy to joke that perhaps golf, as frustrating and confounding as it can be, isn’t good for our mental health. But the benefits are obvious. Just ask the founder of the golf snack company, Bunchies. Hally Leadbetter, who also runs a golf content company (working with Golf Digest, her former full-time employer) and played Read more…
Nelly Korda continues her red-hot 2026, winning the Riviera Maya Open just one week after her Chevron Championship victory, proving a refreshed mindset is paying off.
Marvin Hall had an idea. It was 2009, and a doctor had advised him that his daughters, Hope and Alana, needed an activity to help their development. The girls, ages 4 and 2 at the time, were healthy but both had been born prematurely, each weighing less than a pound and a half at birth. Read more…
Sheila Johnson had recently bought Innisbrook Resort and was at the 2009 Super Bowl in Tampa. It was there that Condoleezza Rice told Johnson she should pick up golf. On one of their first outings, it started pouring rain. “I am soaked down in my drawers, and a Secret Service agent says, ‘If you think Read more…
On Sunday, tied for the lead heading into the final round of the Masters, Cameron Young faced a dilemma: acknowledge the magnitude of the opportunity, or treat it like any other round? The answer ended up being both. The PGA of America shared this quote from David Young, Cameron’s father and coach: “Although we all Read more…
Ami Gianchandani stood on the first tee of her first golf practice at Yale University in 2018 and had no idea what her coach was talking about. The coach had told her, “Keep your stats,” and Gianchandani was at a loss. She hadn’t kept stats before. She learned that Yale used an app, but she Read more…
A little more than a quarter century ago, the New York City Parks Foundation created a golf program. How did they find a way to let kids hit golf balls in New York City, you wonder? Baseball fields. “We were bringing the game right to them in their local neighborhood parks,” Jonathan Gamberg, the Director Read more…
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