Editor’s Note: Golf Digest is recapping and analyzing every episode of the second series of the Netflix golf series Full Swing. Last season’s recaps can be found here. Season 2 Recaps: Ep. 1: The Game Has Changed Part 1 | Ep. 2: The Game Has Changed Part 2 | Ep. 3: Mind Game | Ep. Read more…
Editor’s Note: Golf Digest is recapping and analyzing every episode of the second series of the Netflix golf series Full Swing. Last season’s recaps can be found here. Season 2 Recaps: Ep. 1: The Game Has Changed Part 1 | Ep. 2: The Game Has Changed Part 2 | Ep. 3: Mind Game | Ep. Read more…
Before he passed, the billionaire businessman Herb Kohler liked to tell a story about working with Pete Dye, the designer he employed to build Blackwolf Run, the first of the Sheboygan-area courses and a precursor to Whistling Straits, host of several majors and the Ryder Cup. In their initial project, they had a disagreement about Read more…
I don’t smile much, and I never laugh. If you’d been through what I’ve been through, you wouldn’t be smiling either. Charlie Sifford said these words to Guy Yocom in his late 70s, a little more than a decade before he died in 2015, and they might be the best summation of everything he endured Read more…
Are you an American NFL fan? Did you watch the Super Bowl? If so, you’re part of a demographic that just watched the second-most viewed TV program in the history of the country, after the moon landing. Which means you may have missed the scenes in the desert, where a weather-delayed WM Phoenix Open culminated Read more…
After another wild week in Phoenix, where alcohol sales were cut off on Saturday and some ticketholders weren’t admitted to the grounds, it’s the understated Canadian Taylor who reaps the rewards of winning.
This week, we attempted to compile every public quote Rory McIlroy has made about LIV Golf, its predecessor the Premier Golf League, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and all the related drama in the golf world over the last four years. We scoured press conference transcripts, interviews with various media sources in the United States Read more…
When Anthony Kim withdrew from the Wells Fargo Championship in 2012 after just one round, plagued by injuries and poor play, nobody had a clue that it would be his last round on the PGA Tour—including Kim. But a month later, when he tore his Achilles tendon jogging on the beach, it was the straw Read more…
Bonjour, mon ami, and bienvenue to the latest edition of THE C.E.L.E.B.R.A.T.I.O.N. SCALE, our highly advanced scientific method for determining the quality of each victory celebration on the PGA Tour. This week, we honor the out-of-nowhere French sensation Matthieu Pavon, the 31-year-old Toulouse native who triumphed on Saturday at Torrey Pines. It was a shocking Read more…
How often does the best story that could possibly play out at a PGA Tour event actually play out? At this past weekend’s American Express, the only amateur golfer in the field actually won the thing, becoming the first am to do so since Phil Mickelson in 1991. His final round was amazing, and should Read more…
In 2010, Andy Gardiner spent a feverish three days scribbling out an idea on yellow legal pads. A decade later, those ideas would begin to rock the world of professional golf, and lead to the defining schism of the modern era—LIV Golf vs. the PGA Tour. But here at the start of 2024, with the Read more…
The redemption of Grayson Murray is now complete, at least as far as PGA Tour success goes—the man has come from the depths, and on Sunday he won the Sony Open. There’s an interesting parallel here with Chris Kirk, last week’s winner, who also took time off from playing to manage problems that included alcoholism, Read more…
The fact that these two golfers commanded the day’s biggest stages just a few hours apart is, of course, a cosmic accident. We shouldn’t read into it very deeply on any level, karmic or otherwise, or we risk mis-defining a pure coincidence. But it does give us a chance to examine what these two golfers represent.
Murray’s big breakthrough came last year, with two victories on the Korn Ferry Tour, and now, after an improbable 38-foot putt on the first playoff hole at the Sony Open in Hawaii, he can add a PGA Tour win to his remarkable comeback story.
Late at night, when normal human beings are sleeping, one writer spends literal hours on Reddit Golf, a treasure trove of humor, whining, equipment scores, outright lies and occasionally some great advice. It also led him, once upon a time, to Bucket Hat Guy. Each Friday, he will bring the site’s best content to you, Read more…
When last we left you, Ludvig Aberg was setting a brand new C.E.L.E.B.R.A.T.I.O.N. Scale record with his maiden victory at the RSM Classic, and the cold winter loomed. Now the fallow weeks have passed, and we are BACK. This time, it was Chris Kirk taking down The Sentry in sunny Hawaii and adding another chapter Read more…
There are questions that matter, and questions that don’t, but the questions that don’t can still be fascinating. For instance: Was there a guardhouse in 1981 at Southern Hills? Opinion today is divided; either it wasn’t there yet, or it was there, but nobody was in it. When Johnny Martorano drove his rented Ford sedan Read more…
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