OAKMONT, Penn. — Brooks Koepka is a better golfer than most of us can ever dream of being. Yet golf, at some fundamental level, poses the same problems to every golfer. One of those is matching what you feel in your golf swing with what is actually happening. At the 2025 U.S. Open, Brooks Koepka Read more…
There are a lot of spots at Oakmont where you don’t want to hit your golf ball. But there’s one spot at Oakmont where you really don’t want to hit your golf ball because for most of the first round, it was an automatic bogey.
OAKMONT, Pa. — “Have you seen those things? They’re huge!” said one caddie to another. There are a few different storylines fluttering through Oakmont ahead of the U.S. Open, and one of them is the size of Michael La Sasso’s quads. La Sasso is the newly-crowned NCAA Division I individual champion and rising senior at Read more…
OAKMONT, Pa. — Scottie Scheffler’s practice routine is an exercise in discipline. He goes through the same checklist every time, with the same set of drills. And while some—or most—golfers would get bored doing that, Scheffler maintains focus. Throughout it all, his longtime coach Randy Smith monitors the World No. 1 from every angle, sniffing Read more…
OAKMONT, Pa. — If you’re a golfer who has landed on this article because you want to find out the 2025 U.S Open first and second round tee times, then you’re in luck! We are delivering you the information you so desperately need, in two forms. For a full list of 2025 U.S. Open tee Read more…
One year ago, Golf Channel analyst Johnson Wagner did something at Pinehurst that even U.S. Champion Bryson DeChambeau couldn’t. In the darkness after play had finished, Wagner dropped his ball a foot from the same spot in the bunker DeChambeau had effectively secured his second major from just a few hours earlier. DeChambeau was left Read more…
What’s a normal number of things to be thinking over the ball? It’s a good question. You’re standing over the ball, and your head is full of stuff. Where you want to hit the ball. Where you don’t want to hit your ball. The various swing feels you’re working with. Whether you’re sure you’ve got Read more…
It’s Match Play time in the Golf Digest offices. At the start of golf season every year, everyone in the company is randomly drawn into a big bracket. It’s a fun—and at times, heated—competition. And inevitably, it doesn’t take long for some drama to form around the subject of giving putts. Who should give whom Read more…
The results are in and the data is irrefutable: Distance is king in golf, and there’s no better time to build it than when you’re young. Left to its own devices, our bodies begin adding muscle in our late teens and through our 20s, then, conversely, begin shedding muscle mass at an increasingly rapid clip Read more…
CHARLOTTE — Scottie Scheffler has a strange kind of superpower. It’s hard to describe, because I can’t think of any other golfers who have it. The newly minted PGA Championship winner has this interesting quality where he seems more at ease when he’s leading a tournament. When he’s playing poorly—and by that I mean, somewhere Read more…
Scottie Scheffler and his longtime coach, the legendary Randy Smith, unveiled a new move at the PGA Championship this week. At least it was new to my eye, because I haven’t seen the player-coach do this before at a tournament. You can see it right here. Smith grabs hold of Scheffler’s hips and helps twist Read more…
CHARLOTTE — Admittedly, this article became a lot harder to write since I first conceived of it. Bryson DeChambeau was three back at the time I came up with this bright idea but the combination of a bogey-double bogey-par finish down the Green Mile paired with Scottie Scheffler’s par-birdie-birdie finish leaves him six back of Read more…
CHARLOTTE — The 36-hole leader of the PGA Championship works it into his practice swings routine on occasion. So do two former PGA Championship winners in the field. Two players in T-2 coming into Saturday use it during competition, to hit shots around the greens. We’re talking about gripping the club cross-handed. Rather than a Read more…
CHARLOTTE — When players approach the tee of the 577-yard 15th, they’re greeted with a sign informing them that the neighboring 16th hole, which runs left of a lake on the left side, has been declared out of bounds. Again, tournaments often employ internal OB in situations like this because players have been known to Read more…
CHARLOTTE — There’s no bigger red flag than when a pitcher starts losing his fastball. In golf, we measure that by ball speed. And the signs for Max Homa in recent years haven’t been good. Homa ended the 2022 season with an average ball speed of more than 178 mph—faster than 84 percent of the Read more…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It was exactly 362 days ago that I wrote about the scourge of mudballs at the 2024 PGA Championship, and now, here we are again, talking about the same issue during the first round of the 2025 PGA Championship. Let’s run through what’s happening… Mudball Basics Quail Hollow Country Club received more Read more…
There is no good reason to suspect Luke Donald would play well at Quail Hollow this week. That is not meant to disrespect a former World No. 1, and potential future Hall of Famer. Rather to underline the gravity of the task ahead of him this week. Quail Hollow is a long golf course, with Read more…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It wasn’t the biggest, most complicated, or even revolutionary lesson ever. But it was a good one. A reality check that the rest of us can learn from, and one that changed the course of 2025 PGA Professional Champion Tyler Collet’s golfing life. It came in 2022, on the range at Southern Read more…
Australian Golf Digest
