“The magazine that once gave us Peter Dobereiner, Dan Jenkins and Tom Callahan is currently canvassing people to identify the most picturesque place in golf where one might urinate … I kid you not.”—Former World No. 1 golfer Lee Westwood, on Twitter “The portable toilet outside the media center has signs with tips on putting Read more…
With five tournaments remaining on the PGA Tour schedule and a few bonus events afterwards, here are the seven things we’re looking forward to the most as 2026 winds down.
On a warmer-than-expected fall Tuesday, at Tamarack Country Club in Greenwich, Conn., 44 employees of Golf Digest gathered for what they thought would be a fun, competitive day of Ryder Cup-style golf. Instead, they got a bloodbath … a merciless whooping that led to a bitter round of second-guessing and recrimination for the losers, and Read more…
The most nervous round of golf I played this year came at Whistling Straits, where, amid the birch trees and sunflowers and towering windmills, surrounded by small glacial lakes and stark stony mountains, I survived a nervy start to shoot four under and win the tournament. I see you have questions. Questions like: What tournament Read more…
The One-Year-To-Go press conference is not always a very engaging day in the larger Ryder Cup calendar, but this time it offered seeds of hope for American fans.
I’m going to do something that will probably annoy anyone affiliated with the Presidents Cup, which is, of course, to immediately assess the weekend’s results in the context of next year’s Ryder Cup. I also will not feel guilty about it, because until the International Team can access a deeper talent pool (maybe in the Read more…
Ladies and gentlemen, this is unprecedented: An individual vibes ranking of a team golf event??? Is that even allowed??? You better believe it, pops: Vibesmen like me are the rebels of golf, and the usual rules don’t apply. For those of you who are new to the scene, the Vibes Guide is a gut-check ranking Read more…
In the context of team match-play golf events like the Ryder Cup and the upcoming Presidents Cup, “loading the boat” means sending your best players out at the beginning of the lineup, and it’s mostly used in reference to a final singles session. Over time, collective team-golf strategy has evolved to a place where it’s Read more…
As the professional golf calendar starts to wind down for the year, the Presidents Cup is fast approaching at Medinah, and we’ve already had some fun with the Walker Cup and Solheim Cup. Times are good in Europe too, with the Race to Dubai coming down to a blood feud between Rory McIlroy and Patrick Read more…
The longer you play golf, the more its specific rhythms become second nature: the rules, the etiquette, the language. It’s easy to forget that for somebody who comes to the sport with no background, especially as an adult, it can feel like landing on a foreign planet. Outside of the simple act of striking the Read more…
The debate about including rookie Jackson Koivun on this year’s Presidents Cup team often centered on a false dichotomy: Either you pick him as preparation for future competitions, like the Adare Manor Ryder Cup next fall, or you take someone with “experience” who can help you immediately. This, of course, was always wrong. Koivun is Read more…
While the players will deliberate in a few months on their vote for PGA Tour Player of the Year, we aren’t waiting. It’s time to hand out some awards of our own, from the serious to the tragic to the comical.
The PGA Tour’s new matchplay format arrives in 2028. We simulated how this year’s Tour Championship would have played out under the new system, hole by hole.
Last summer, on a magical day at a course here in Durham, NC, I shot a personal best 74 and ascended to the heavens on a white cloud, surrounded a choir of glowing angels. It may sound strange, but if you play golf, you know exactly what I mean. I was truly happy. I had Read more…
This week’s Ten Things digs into the newly wide-open Player of the Year race between Scottie Scheffler and Wyndham Clark, previews the Tour Championship at East Lake, and asks whether Rory McIlroy’s BMW Championship form signals a late-season resurgence.
The hardest part of this for you, if you disagree with the headline, is that I’m going to start by bludgeoning you with statistics. I’m going to bludgeon you so thoroughly that you’re punch drunk and reeling, and whatever you say next is going to sound feeble and desperate. You should just agree with me Read more…
This week’s Ten Things covers Scottie Scheffler’s statement win at Memphis and the case for Player of the Year, Jordan Spieth’s narrow miss on the top 50 cut, a breakdown of Bellerive Country Club ahead of the BMW Championship and why the current playoff format might be lacking in stakes.
As the FedEx Cup Playoffs get underway at TPC Southwind, here’s a look at the biggest storylines to watch, from a stacked field to a genuinely unpredictable Player of the Year race.
On Saturday night, sitting in a tie for the lead at the Wyndham Championship, Michael Brennan briefly allowed himself to think about what it would mean to win—not only would he rise 58 spots in the FedEx Cup standings and make the playoffs, but he’d get such a boost that he’d be in position to Read more…