There’s nothing better than a good beach read. A murder mystery? Maybe a corny romance? Perhaps an insider trader’s autobiography featuring wild anecdotes about one of the most famous athletes of the 21st century? Well, you’re certainly in luck if you’re looking for that last option.
Wherever one stands on the debate over how far leading professionals should be able to hit modern golf balls, one aspect is undeniable: the biggest victims of the distance explosion have been so many of the game’s truly great courses, including Walton Heath, the venue for this week’s AIG Women’s Open.
There remains so much uncertainty about the future of professional golf, but, for Jon Rahm, one thing remains very clear. No matter where the sport goes from here, he will need to go to the bathroom numerous times while playing it.
We are one step closer to Italy, and while it wasn’t a huge step—the PGA Tour held its regular-season finale at the Wyndham Championship, while the DP World Tour is off for two weeks—there was more than enough drama for a shakeup. Let’s see where both teams stand as we enter the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
Bryson DeChambeau, who has always been part pro golfer, part long-drive competitor and part YouTube star, challenged Lefty to a nine-hole match during a practice round at The Old White and had the cameras rolling the whole time.
The 2023 Ryder Cup is less than two months away. The US Team hasn’t won on European soil in 20 years. They will need all the help they can get next month in Rome, but thankfully a new dynamic duo has emerged just in time.
TaylorMade’s fourth-generation P·790 irons continue the trend of bringing high-speed face flexing and a progressive approach to forgiveness across the full set in the guise of compact shaping that better players prefer as much as those aspiring to be better players.
It’s not often you’ll see a training aid immediately sweep through the top ranks of professional golf. But that’s what the ProSENDR training aid has done upon its launch earlier this year.
After a week of frantic movement as players ricocheted up and down the projected rankings, Glover didn’t just win; he was the only player who started the week outside the FedEx Cup Playoffs cutline who managed to change his fortunes.
Hend, chasing his 11th win on the Asian Tour and first in four years, came closest to catching the winner but hit his tee shot on the par-5 18th out-of-bounds and made a costly double-bogey.
If the Wyndham Championship winds up being Justin Thomas’ final tournament of the 2022-2023 PGA Tour season, the man quite literally went down swinging.
Drive for show and putt for dough. That motto, and DeChambeau’s first LIV victory, are what the analytical Californian hopes propel him to a Ryder Cup captain’s pick later this month.
Australian Golf Digest
