JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Illness. That was the short yet unfortunate diagnosis the LPGA cited when announcing Thursday morning that Rose Zhang had to withdraw from the Mizuho Americas Open after playing just three holes in the opening round. The news was disappointing for everyone involved with the event as the 20-year-old rising LPGA star Read more…
Vijay Singh’s 2004 season was undoubtedly his best on the PGA Tour and one of the most memorable runs in modern golf history. At 41, Singh captured nine total victories that year, including the PGA Championship, and ascended to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking—a title held by Tiger Woods for the previous Read more…
To give you an idea of just how good Woods was that year, there hasn’t been a player on the PGA Tour who has hit greens at that high a percentage in the past decade.
Althea Gibson was one of the greatest athletes of all time and a groundbreaking woman in not one but two sports. Gibson was best known for her tennis career, as she was the first African American to compete at the U.S. National Championships and won 11 Grand Slam titles throughout her eight-year career. Her athletic Read more…
I always play my best when I’m paired with golfers who are better than me. Watching their technique, strategy and execution gives me a glimpse into what’s working for them and I always end up stealing something from their game by the end of the round. So when I saw that Ben Hadden, a pro Read more…
One of the things I miss most about playing college golf is the travel. Every few weeks, our team would arrive at an incredible golf course and play a minimum of 54 holes before packing up and heading home. It was like taking buddies trips every month with the additional luxury of having everything planned Read more…
Putting is an extremely personal part of golf. From the time you step foot on the green to the time the ball hits the bottom of the cup, the process is different for everyone. While green reading, setup and stroke are unique to each golfer, we can draw inspiration from others to test out different Read more…
Lilia Vu says she uses a couple of feel-based swing thoughts to maintain her backswing position and visualise her upper body movement in the downswing.
If you’ve ever had a really good round, it might have felt like you were more focused than usual. That’s likely because, whether you realized it or not, you were playing in your ideal performance state. Finding your ideal performance state is something that fellow play editor Drew Powell brought up earlier in the week, Read more…
Editor’s Note: Golf Digest is breaking down everything you need to know about college golf from the recruitment process to advice from pros who’ve been through it to the best collegiate courses. Check out the complete syllabus below. A lot of junior golfers dream about playing in college—traveling to top courses, training in state-of-the-art facilities, Read more…
Unless you’ve gone through it yourself, the college golf recruiting process can seem complicated and daunting. In a two-part series of Golf IQ, host Luke Kerr-Dineen and myself talk about the basics of college golf. In the first episode, we share the advice we’ve learned from college coaches on the recruiting process and help you Read more…
Part of the reason professional athletes generate so much power and speed in their golf swing is because they figured out how to apply their own athletic skills to the golf swing. Develop a more athletic swing with help from Top 50 Fitness Instructor, Milo Bryant. Bryant mentions the phases of throwing and how they Read more…
When it comes to nagging lower-back pain, stretching is a great start, but you need more than flexibility to have a healthy back. Warning: Back pain can indicate a serious problem that requires a doctor’s care, but for minor discomfort related to golf, adding strength training for the back into your routine can help. And Read more…
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