Ben Cowan-Dewar needed to see Castle Stuart. This was 2008, a year before Castle Stuart would open then go onto host four Scottish Opens and become a mainstay on most top-100 lists (it’s #51 on our most recent World 100). Cowan-Dewar admired Mark Parsinen’s work at Kingsbarns, and now Parsinen had partnered with Gil Hanse Read more…
We expected New Yorkers to redefine what next-level obscenities and outrageousness could look like from golf fans at the Ryder Cup. No one could’ve predicted things escalating quite this far. Video of Rory McIlroy’s wife, Erica, being beaned with a beer can in the aftermath of Day 2 of the Ryder Cup went viral on Read more…
The global competition among golf resorts continues to accelerate with the popularity of golf. It’s dizzying but exciting to reflect on the development happening both at golf’s most popular destinations and also new ones popping up. Dozens of new courses have entered our ranking of America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses since the last time we Read more…
Scottie Scheffler has changed the landscape of outright betting over his torrid stretch the past two seasons—winning at a 32.4 percent clip across his 12 wins, not even counting his victories at the Olympics and the Hero World Challenge. It might be tough to envision a scenario where Scheffler doesn’t cap off this five-victory, two-major Read more…
If it feels like Megha Ganne has been around for a long time, she kind of has. Four years ago, the then-17-year-old played in the final pairing of the 2021 U.S. Women’s Open, competing alongside eventual winner Yuka Saso while earning top amateur honors. Ganne has also competed at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur five Read more…
We have some great intel this week at Caves Valley. Keith Stewart, CEO of Read the Line and a member of our Golf Digest betting panel, travels to all the big PGA Tour events—getting boots-on-the-ground insights into how the players are prepping for the week. He’s had his eye on Rory McIlroy this week. He’s Read more…
Did somebody say playoffs? Before everyone’s attention shifts to football and the Ryder Cup, the PGA Tour will dish out a bunch of cash after this three-week run that will culminate in the Tour Championship at East Lake. First, we have the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind, which has been a mainstay host Read more…
You probably assumed the over-the-top scenes during the Maxi Golf tournament in Happy Gilmore 2 were produced by artificial intelligence. Who could blame you? Who would think that a golf course would allow a film crew to cover a fairway with six inches of sand to create a desert golf scene that took up just Read more…
Golf trips are good for the soul. They’re also getting harder on our wallets. Travel to any top-tier resort, and you expect to pay thousands of dollars for golf, lodging, food, etc.—and that’s before travel. The boom in golf post-COVID has led to green fees increasing by 20 percent since 2019, per the National Golf Read more…
A golf trip to Bandon Dunes is nirvana. It’s the only resort with five 18-hole courses ranked among our 100 Greatest Public Courses, and getting here is so coveted, Bandon Dunes recently instituted a lottery system just for the chance to make reservations. Once you do secure time at one of golf’s greatest locales, what Read more…
You shouldn’t be intimidated as a guest at a country club. Maybe in the past, but more than ever, private club regulations are changing to be increasingly inclusive. Still, it’s nice to have some guidelines on what you can and can’t do. Can you take that phone call? Should you be taking photos? In general, Read more…
If you’ve been in a wedding party recently, you know how much of a financial commitment it ends up being. Renting a suit or tux, traveling to a bachelor/bachelorette party, wedding gifts, lodging for a hotel … you might be in the hole for a couple grand to celebrate your good friend. One groom is Read more…
It’s been a year of chalk at golf’s biggest events this year. Rory McIlroy winning the Players at 12-1 was the best payday. McIlroy was way shorter at the Masters, and Scottie Scheffler went off around +500 at the PGA Championship. Our experts have predicted each of those successfully. Blah blah. It would be easy Read more…
This is a first for our Golf Digest betting panel—which has been making picks on PGA Tour events since gambling was legalized in 2018. We’ve had consensus bets to win with three or more of our experts picking the same player to win. We’ve also had consensus fades of players that we’ve predicted would not Read more…
The Block Party has been called off this weekend at Quail Hollow. Michael Block played in his seventh PGA Championship this weekend, but it was nothing like the fairy tale in 2023 at Oak Hill. There were a few highlights—sticking his approach on the difficult par-3 17th hole to six feet on Thursday and hitting Read more…
Like we predicted last week, our betting panel stayed hot with our anonymous swing coach, reporting from the grounds of Augusta National, nailing Rory McIlroy (+650) at the Masters! He’s now predicted Rory’s wins at the Players and the Masters. We’ll be paying close attention to the rest of his major picks this year. There’s Read more…
Only an hour into the leaders being on the course on Saturday for the third round of the Masters, all the build-up of how historic this weekend at Augusta National might be proved true very quickly. In fact, the opening hour will go down as one of the most memorable in recent Masters weekends. All Read more…
It’s an absolutely stacked leader board heading into the weekend of the 2025 Masters—Rory, Bryson, Scottie … you will be surprised to hear the name that has officials at one Las Vegas sportsbook most nervous. Some casual golf fans might not be familiar with Matt McCarty, but there’s at least one believer in the Masters Read more…
It might surprise some people that Augusta National is not the top-ranked course in America. It has earned the No. 1 spot before—three times in our ranking’s history, the last time being 2015. Most times, Augusta National has been ranked second in our ranking of America’s 100 Greatest Courses list. Though the home of the Read more…
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