Depending on your personal style and head shape, the perfect hat can be hard to find. “Hats continue to grow as a fashion statement off the course,” says Niall Kelly, golf professional and shop manager at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y., which carries roughly two dozen styles of various colors and logo applications Read more…
Over 18 holes of Rory McIlroy’s ball-striking, on a Sunday evening that seemed to stretch on forever, I fell in love with golf. When I applied for an internship at Golf Digest in America, I skirted furtively around my own limited experience playing the game. Though I had played only five or six times, I Read more…
Well, the robots aren’t quite taking over yet. Professionals in many injuries might be scared about the way that artificial intelligence will change their jobs, but fortunately as a golf journalist—this won’t be the piece that will bury sportswriters. We got a strange email on Masters Eve: As pundits and golf fans were busy discussing Read more…
The Masters attracts a certain clientele on a regular basis. Sure, you can scoop a pimento cheese sandwich for $1.50, but this is an event heavily attended by America’s rich. You’ll believe us if you get a glimpse of Augusta’s private jet scene at Augusta Regional Airport (formerly Bush Field). According to an X post Read more…
A year ago England’s Lottie Woad boosted her status as one of golf’s great amateur players with her victory at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. The next great women’s amateur player will hope to follow in her footsteps as a field of 72 of the most talented female golfers in the world prepares to compete Read more…
It’s a bygone memory for the rosy-cheeked 11-year-old, but a little over ten years ago, Madelyn Quinn sat in a surgery room at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital awaiting a new heart. Next month, thanks to the Round of a Lifetime (ROAL) Foundation, Maddie — joined by her father Greg, mother Alyson, and sister Andrew Read more…
As the calendar turns to March, the PGA Tour heads east to begin its Florida swing at the Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches. It’s the first of four straight weeks with events in the Sunshine State, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the Players Championship and the Valspar Championship to follow. Austin Eckroat is back at Read more…
It may have been a social-media joke on Thursday that we couldn’t find Rickie Fowler in his bold camo outfit. But folks truly won’t be able to spot Fowler at all on Friday. A day after shooting 3-over 74 in the opening round of the WH Phoenix Open, and generating a ton of buzz on Read more…