Just eight years since its inception, the Augusta National Women’s Amateur has established its place as one of the premier amateur tournaments in the world. That was made clear once again on Wednesday when officials at Augusta National Golf Club revealed that among the 72-player field set to compete in this April’s edition are 48 Read more…
The new year brings new hope for PGA Tour pros as they embark on the 2026 PGA Tour regular season, the promise of a career changing/defining victory awaiting each and every week. In chronicling each tournament, it’s notable—and fun—to explore what equipment the pros used to capture victory. In this case here, we’re specifically curious Read more…
The question of whether the old axiom “Drive for show and putt for dough” is based in fact or fiction remains a great source of debate in golf circles. There is no denying, however, that a good week with a putter can go a long way to winning on the PGA Tour. Knowing then what Read more…
Better late than never won’t make up for the fact that the Rules of Golf were a bit unkind to Shane Lowry in 2025. But we have to think the Irishman is taking some solace in a pair of changes from the USGA and R&A to the model local rules that took effect on Jan. Read more…
For the first time since 2001, Matt Kuchar found himself on the outside looking in regarding the PGA Tour. Well, sort of. The 47-year-old tour veteran finished the 2025 season at 118th on the FedEx Cup points list, with the top 100 retaining full status for 2026. That ended a run of 19 straight seasons Read more…
A member of the Italian national golf team is believed to be among the 40 people who died in a fire at a Swiss ski resort in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
Over the course of a year, Todd Stice estimates the USGA receives upwards of 20,000 rules questions, either via phone call, email or the Rules of Golf app. Many of them are fairly common according to the association’s manager of rules, content and education: How do you determine the nearest point of complete relief from Read more…
The USGA is sending a little gift to all golfers once again this holiday season. To all golfers who have an official handicap index, that is. As has become a bit of tradition since the development of the World Handicap System, the USGA is once again releasing its GHIN Rewind feature in the GHIN app. Read more…
The website for Oklahoma City University’s athletic department proudly touts the NAIA school as the “Home of Champions | 73 National Championships.” Nineteen of those come from its men’s and women’s golf teams, but they’ll no longer be adding to the total after this season following Friday’s announcement from the university president that the school Read more…
The 2020 Masters will forever be a visual anomaly, the typically sparkling green fairways of Augusta National Golf Club still present, but framed not amid blooming white and pink spring azaleas but orange and brown autumn foliage.
You don’t have to look any further than Instagram to understand why the most notable player at this week’s LPGA Tour event isn’t one of the top women’s professionals in the field, but rather an 18-year-old high school senior with a famous last name.
In 2025, Black Desert Resort could boast of being the lone venue that hosted both a PGA Tour and LPGA event in the same year after hold in inaugural LPGA Black Desert Championship in May. Yet that distinction will be short lived after the LPGA Tour and the Ivins, Utah, facility agreed to change the Read more…
Bruce Heppler doesn’t need to win a NCAA team title to be considered among of the best coaches in college golf history. His record during his three decades overseeing the Georgia Tech men’s golf program speaks for itself—73 tournament wins, 25 All-Americans, 14 ACC titles, 27 straight NCAA regional appearances, 22 trips to the NCAA Read more…
Gianna Clemente, a high school senior and acclaimed junior golfer from Estero, Florida, doesn’t celebrate her 18th birthday until March 28. But she is aiming to earn an LPGA Tour card at next month’s LPGA Q Series
Headlining the field this week are a pair of U.S. Ryder Cup team members in J.J. Spaun and Ben Griffin. Both have competed at this event previously, Spaun finishing T-30 a year ago and Griffin posting back-to-back top-25s in his two starts. Joining them is the newest PGA Tour winner, Michael Brennan, fresh off his Read more…
On Wednesday, Golf Digest confirmed news first reported by Sports Illustrated that the PGA Tour will not grant conflicting event or media rights releases to any tour member competing in the LIV Golf Promotions event.
LIV officials announced that two spots in the league will be up for grabs. Of more intrigue is that the LIV Golf Promotions tournament will be played in prime PGA Tour heartland in Florida.
The DP World Tour has provided the two-time European Ryder Cup player some relief in announcing Friday it would make an exception to its rule regarding minimum starts to retain tour membership.
With 50 worldwide wins, including two Masters victories, Bernhard Langer was a Hall of Famer well before he ever put a peg in the ground to play on the PGA Tour Champions.
More than halfway through the second round of last month’s Sahalee Players Championship, Chris Zambri allowed a tantalizing thought to race through his mind. The head coach of the U.S. National Development Program had tried to minimize expectations as five members of the U.S. National Junior team were making history by playing for the first Read more…
When she tees off today in the opening round of the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur, Stephanie Kono will be playing in her 23rd USGA championship. It’s an impressive total made even more notable given her last USGA start came more than 14 years ago at the 2011 U.S. Women’s Amateur. How long ago was that? Consider Read more…
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