WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Evnroll’s new Zero line takes on the idea of designing putters with what’s called “low-torque” with three models, the Z1 extreme-stability mallet, Z2s widebody blade and Z5s modern mallet. The concept is designed to align the shaft more directly with the putter head’s center of gravity, allowing the face to Read more…
We here in the equipment department at Golf Digest don’t really believe it’s our place to tell you precisely what to do. We’re just presenting information, and we invite you to investigate solutions and take action with a foundation of knowledge that leads you to a better game. But sometimes we uncover a little bit Read more…
Arccos data from 2023 shows the amount of distance golfers of all skill levels gain from hitting an iron off a tee versus fairway-height grass, and the smarter choice is pretty clear.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: PXG launches its second generation of multilayer, urethane-covered golf balls, the PXG Xtreme Tour and Xtreme Tour X. Both are three-piece designs with the Tour offering a softer feel, a lower trajectory and less spin off the driver, and the Tour X presenting a firmer feel, a higher trajectory and Read more…
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: With its new Allan putter, PXG becomes the latest putter maker to see if the right tool for putting isn’t something that just makes the ball roll better, but perhaps more importantly makes the putting stroke more efficient. The idea is that through internal weighting and a special S-shaped hosel, Read more…
The TaylorMade Hi-Toe 4 wedge continues the company’s larger-faced, high centre-of-gravity design with the same original mission: pushing mass higher helps to produce a lower-flighted, higher-spinning design.
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — Forgive yourself if you haven’t been paying attention to Esther Henseleit. She wasn’t exactly expecting to find herself with an Olympic medal, either. Even as it was being placed around her neck. The new face of German golf, who rallied to finish second behind Lydia Ko and take home the silver medal Read more…
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — The Olympic ideal long has been about how the real measure of the event is the experience of participating. That’s all well and good for slogans and speeches and Wikipedia pages. When you’re Team USA and you bring three of the top 10 golfers in the world to the Games, mere participation Read more…
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — They’re handing out medals at the women’s golf here outside Paris on Saturday, but it feels like they should be awarding Oscars. The final round is set up for the kind of movie fairy tale that usually involves Disney princesses (there are 12 women legitimately in medal contention with the final 18 Read more…
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — The most decorated current female Olympian from Team USA, Katie Ledecky attended the third round of the Olympic women’s golf competition, checking in with friends and giving a boost to U.S. golfers Nelly Korda, Lilia Vu and Rose Zhang, who are lurking in medal contention of their own. Ledecky, the long-distance swimming Read more…
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — For the moment, and perhaps for the foreseeable future, the Olympics are not a team event, but for the three American women, all of whom are lingering near the medal stand, the team game might be the best way to attack the final 36 holes at Le Golf National. World No. 1 Read more…
Ko sees the Olympics as a special opportunity not merely because it might be her last in the quadrennial event, but because the Albatros course demands the kind of precision and focus that rewards a more measured, discerning mind of someone who’s been there before.
For the Australians at the Olympic women’s golf event, Minjee Lee fought hard to to remain under par and in the mix while Hannah Green struggled to a five-over 77.
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — It has become commonplace, almost to the point of being hackneyed, to talk about how golf reveals character. That the game’s demands of dealing with bad breaks toughens the soul to navigate the challenges of real life. When India’s Diksha Dagar three-putted the 18th green to drop out of a tie for Read more…
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