If there has been one weakness in Scottie Scheffler’s game, it has been the putter. The World No. 1 player ranks 96th on the PGA Tour in SG/putting for the year, but given how well he hits the ball, if he happens to gain strokes on the greens any week, he’s very likely to win. Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Attending the Masters is rightfully a bucket-list thing. Watching actual golf shots can be challenging—but the people-watching, celebrity-spotting and the mystique and history make it one of the hottest tickets in sports. RELATED: Masters 2024: Max Homa won’t feel great on Monday morning—but not for the reason you think It’s safe to assume—with Read more…
We’ve gotten to know Scottie a bit since 2022, as he has amassed nine PGA Tour wins and now two Masters. But you still might not know too much about him off the course. Allow us to tell you all about golf’s superstar.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — A glorious Sunday greeted patrons after a wind-swept couple of days at Augusta National. Roasting hot temperatures with a great leaderboard delivered a perfect palate for viewing for the final round of one of golf’s greatest days. We walked around for much of the final day to capture some of the best Read more…
Happy Masters Sunday. The Golf Digest team is live from Augusta National, bringing you minute-by-minute updates from the final round of the Masters. Tiger Woods is off early, so we’ll update you on his final round before the leaders get going later. (Scroll down for the latest updates from our crew at Augusta National.) RELATED: Read more…
It’s officially the weekend at Augusta National, and Moving Day is bound to be a great one. We have three tremendous co-leaders to start Day 3—Scottie Scheffler, Max Homa and Bryson DeChambeau all share the lead heading into Saturday. (Scroll down for the latest updates from our crew at Augusta National.) RELATED: Masters 2024: Jon Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Extremely blustery conditions created a surreal scene on Friday afternoon—with wind gusts getting up to 30-35 miles per hour—causing sand from the bunkers at the 18th hole to blow out of the hazards and onto the green. Players like Tiger Woods had to shield their faces from the sand as it blew Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Patrick Cantlay is always searching for history at the majors—looking for the elusive first major of his career. He’s played great thus far at the 2024 Masters, finding himself on the first page of the leader board Friday afternoon—thanks to making some unexpected history in his second round. Cantlay holed out from Read more…
Neal Shipley is the envy of every golfer in the world right now. Not only was he just one of five amateurs in the 2024 Masters field, but he wrapped up his second round inside the projected cut line—meaning he’ll have two more rounds at Augusta National this weekend.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — We’d bet you’ve heard that Scottie Scheffler and his wife, Meredith, are expecting their first child. And with their due date being in a few weeks, Scheffler is ready to leave the Masters to be with his wife if she goes into labor early. Even if he’s in the middle of his Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — As a colleague earlier this week put it, every time you come to Augusta National you have to approach it like it might be your last. Enjoy yourself and appreciate the experience. That seems to be how patrons approached Thursday at Augusta National. Wet weather in the early morning cleared way for Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The routine for most professional golfers is planned out minute-by-minute. A weather delay can throw that entire process off. When it comes to Tiger Woods, that routine is already nearly twice as long as any other competitor—due to everything his body has gone through and the preparation he must put in to Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. – It’s tough to get golf to agree on much these days, but any Masters competitor or caddie we’ve talked to this week has said—the greens at Augusta National might be faster than any year in recent memory. RELATED: Masters 2024: Our interactive shows every important change made to every hole to Augusta Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The 2025 Ryder Cup captaincy is a big one for the United States team. Coming off the disappointment of Rome, the U.S. squad is in search of a leader to help secure a victory at Bethpage. It appears the U.S. team might go to the most recognizable figure in the game. Sources Read more…
We are you. Somehow they let us play Augusta National—a couple of jabronis from New Jersey pulling down Magnolia Lane blasting a YouTube video of Jim Nantz Masters calls. One problem: CP was in shorts, and had to change. It was the day’s first bogey, and we hadn’t even hit a shot. After that, though, Read more…
Scottie Scheffler might’ve won The Players, but Johnson Wagner walked away the media star of the week. Wagner’s segments on Golf Channel’s “Live From” were TV gold—most notably on Thursday night when Wagner started firing golf balls into the slope of the seventh hole where Rory McIlroy’s water ball landed. The videos were instantly lauded on Read more…
Call it what you want: Whether The Players Championship is the fifth major or not, betting operators are treating the PGA Tour’s flagship event like a major with the plethora of prop bets and other markets available. Golf bettors are spoiled this week with a ton to bet on. We’re here to help you navigate Read more…
It’s been a weird year betting golf. Scottie Scheffler finally broke the long run of longshot winners with his dominant performance at Bay Hill. But as a heavy favorite last week, it’s unlikely most golf bettors were dipping into the Scheffler outright market. Before that, the lowest odds for a champion was Jake Knapp (40-1) Read more…
By now, we’ve all binged enough video content to recognize when some creative editing might be overdramatizing a moment. Our radars went up during one of the first trailers for Season 2 of Netflix’s ‘Full Swing’ series, and we had to ask PGA Tour player Joel Dahmen and his caddie Geno Bonnalie about it. In Read more…
There’s many reasons to be excited about The Match 9, the latest in the Capital One’s The Match series, which will air at 6:30 p.m. eastern on Monday on TNT. First, the participants—for the first time in the five-plus year history of The Match, we have female golfers. Lexi Thompson and Rose Zhang will tee Read more…
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