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…
Luiten is apparently out of the Paris Olympics again because of a ruling by the International Olympic Committee that went against the wishes of the International Golf Federation.
There is an equally poignant and inspiring Instagram post that Max Togisala put up on his account in March. There are five swing sequences shown over the course of five years from 2020 to ’24. In the first two, a strapping teenager with plans to play college golf blasts drives with a mighty left-handed move. Read more…
If Davis Thompson keeps up the streak, there is a house in the Quad Cities area of Illinois that PGA Tour pros will be clamoring to get into next year. Has anybody called the couch yet? The 25-year-old Thompson heads into the final round of the John Deere Classic at TPC Deere Run holding a Read more…
With eight birdies and two eagles – including a an unexpected 50-metre pitch-in for eagle at 17 and birdie at 18 – Hayden Springer shot a 12-under-par 59 on the par-71 course.
It was not immediately clear what impact Joost Luiten’s court victory would have on the two other Dutch golfers who qualified for Paris – Darius van Driel on the men’s side and Dewi Weber for the women.
Be careful what you wish for? Luke Clanton, a junior-to-be at Florida State this fall, has traveled in the same elite golf circles with Nick Dunlap. Clanton, of course, watched, along with the rest of the sporting world, in utter disbelief as Dunlap captured The American Express Championship in January to become only the third Read more…
The Cromwell Fire Department has reported that a lightning strike on a tree affected three people during a delay due to dangerous weather on Saturday (US time) at the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Connecticut.
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