In a year that the news on television viewership for golf hasn’t always been the best, there was a big positive coming out of last weekend. As noted on X by the Sports Business Journal’s Josh Carpenter, ratings for the Sunday singles in the American win over Europe in the Solheim Cup saw a massive Read more…
In the current Major League Baseball season, the sport’s biggest star, Shohei Ohtani, has already played 134 games for the National League West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers, and he’s having a campaign for the ages. He’s tied for second in the NL in home runs (44), third in RBIs (98) and eighth in hits (155). He Read more…
After thousands and thousands of miles walking, there are only so many aches and pains a person can take, and arguably the world’s most famous caddie had to finally give in. Mike “Fluff” Cowan underwent surgery earlier this week on his left hip and is recovery at home, according to a report from Golfweek. “I Read more…
The scenes late on Saturday afternoon at Castle Pines were those that make the hair stand up your neck, just as they did a dozen years ago for the 39th Ryder Cup at Medinah. There was Keegan Bradley, looking only a smidge older, waving his hands to an enormous Colorado crowd to orchestrate “USA! USA!” Read more…
For a couple of years, second-year LPGA player Alexa Pano has been the only woman in professional golf sporting an NFL logo on her clothes and bag. The story goes that the 20-year-old Pano and her family, who hail from the Boston suburbs, are rabid New England Patriots fans, and when she qualified for 2022 Read more…
It’s been a long season. Scottie Scheffler has played in 17 PGA Tour events and finished an astounding 16 times among the top 10. The World No. 1 has his six wins in 2024, and every shot of every round seems like it could be the difference in whether he lifts a trophy. Scheffler also Read more…
Change comes with its own challenges, and Scott has done about as much tinkering as any player of his level. He says he’s gone through four sets of irons this year.
The 37-year-old announced on social media that he played his last round on Friday in the Korn Ferry Tour’s Magnit Championship in New Jersey, where Saunders missed his 15th cut in 19 starts this season.
The hole-in-one was the third of the season for Joe Highsmith, and dating back to the PGA Tour’s modern record-keeping in 1983, no one has pulled off a trio of aces in a single season.
A lingering thumb injury has knocked Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick out of the Olympics. The International Golf Federation announced on Saturday that the 2022 U.S. Open champion had withdrawn with a right thumb strain. Fitzpatrick pulled out after persevering through a third round of 81 at Le Golf National to put him at five over. That Read more…
Only two weeks after Fortinet bowed out early from its contract with the PGA Tour to sponsor the event in Napa, California, on the upcoming schedule, Procore Technologies is stepping in.
Australian Marc Leishman was in a surprisingly jovial mood on social media considering his fate in this week’s LIV Golf-U.K. event. “I came to England with an appendix and will leave without it! Appendicitis is no joke,” Leishman posted on Saturday, smiling and laying in a hospital bed with his Ripper GC hat on. Sure Read more…
It’s a predictable reaction. People watch the major championships and then want to get out and hit some balls at the driving range. The beauty of our time is that at the right facility, you can actually hit shots on the golf course you just saw on TV. Last week, that was the case with Read more…
Like numerous peers of a certain age, Mark Carnevale transitioned from his professional playing career into broadcasting, so there are fans in younger generations who have no idea that he even played—and won—on the PGA Tour. It was an eventful journey, with Carnevale bouncing around the mini tours before, at the age of 31, finally Read more…
Another fruitless major season is over for Rory McIlroy. Struggling to find fairways and greens in the high winds at Royal Troon, the Irishman didn’t survive the British Open battle into the weekend after shooting four-over-par 75 on Friday. McIlroy got off to a bad start to the tournament with a 78, and his 11-over Read more…
Hitting a tee shot into any one of the five deep bunkers on the Postage Stamp par 3 at Royal Troon can lead to a nightmare. Finding all three in just one appearance there? Dastardly, as Joaquin Niemann experienced on Friday in the second round of the British Open, seeing his hopes to hoist the Read more…
Single-shot stories don’t get much more incredible in pro golf than the one authored by Timmy Crawford on Saturday in the Korn Ferry Tour’s The Ascendant at TPC Colorado. A 23-year-old who played most of his college golf at Loyola Chicago before transferring to Illinois as a grad student, Crawford Monday qualified this week and Read more…
It was one of those cool golf shots that only the pros can pull off. Collin Morikawa had one on Friday in second round of the Genesis Scottish Open, and the fact he had a fun back story for it made it all the better. As we all know, with slopes and pot bunkers on Read more…
The omission is as head-scratching now to us at Golf Digest as it was to reader Mike Clayton, a former top Australian amateur and professional golfer who has designed golf courses and writes and speaks about architecture frequently. Clayton, who obviously was perusing the fabulous Golf Digest archive, tweeted on July 7 a photograph of Read more…
A year ago, Bailey Bish played in her first U.S. Adaptive Open and struggled to finish 18 holes each of the three days. With a neurological condition contracted in high school that limits the use of the right side of her body, the 24-year-old from Tucson, Ariz., takes a cart to traverse the course and Read more…
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