The PGA Tour is in Bermuda this week as the fall season winds down here in the next month. There’s a lot on the line at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, where the field at Port Royal Golf Course will play for the $6 million purse with $1.08 million going to the winner. It’s two sponsor Read more…
With five events remaining in the FedEx Cup fall schedule, the PGA Tour heads to Bermuda for the eighth edition of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Situated on high ground along the western shore of Southampton Parish, Port Royal Golf Course offers sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean. The government-owned municipal course was designed by Robert Read more…
The PGA Tour resumes play for its final stretch of 2026, five straight weeks of events that will help determine who keeps their tour cards for 2027. It begins this week with the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, where Adam Schenk is back to defend his title after a one-stroke victory a year ago over Chandler Phillips. Read more…
Harry Arnett, who brought outside-the-box brand-building to both TaylorMade and Callaway for more than a decade including an unscripted talk show and corporate documentaries that turned golf marketing into entertainment, is coming back to Callaway as its new chief brand officer. Lingering in the golf space as the CEO and co-founder of Municipal, the apparel Read more…
President Donald Trump announced plans to begin construction at East Potomac Golf Links just two days after government lawyers told a federal judge no further work was imminent, prompting a tense courtroom confrontation Monday over the administration’s assurances. The hearing before Judge Ana Reyes followed Trump’s social-media attack on her and the Justice Department’s unsuccessful Read more…
Golf Digest is talking to the next generation of architects, whose names might be new to you but are popping up more and more with great projects. This interview has been edited for concision. The full Q&A is available on the “Feed the Ball” podcast with architecture editor Derek Duncan. Clyde JohnsonAge: 38Cunnin’ Golf Design: Read more…
One of my favorite all-time golf photographs was taken at Riviera in the 1950 Los Angeles Open. It pictures Ben Hogan putting from the edge of the sixth green and Sam Snead waiting impatiently, with the milling gallery behind them and a marine layer rolling in. It’s a big photograph and not just because the Read more…
What happens when someone asks for your handicap and you genuinely have no idea? There are plenty of things to be nervous about when starting a new job: meeting your co-workers, making a good first impression, remembering everyone’s names. For me, it was also answering one simple question: What’s your golf handicap? Ahead of my Read more…
Jackson Koivun’s rapidly rising profile in professional golf will reach another milestone next month: He’s playing in the made-for-TV Skins Game. The 21-year-old Koivun, who already has a PGA Tour victory and appearance in the Presidents Cup in a pro career that didn’t start until June, will join multiple-major winners Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas and Read more…
Every two years, Golf Digest recognizes the Best Young Teachers in America. For our most recent list, there were 197 teachers under the age of 40 recognized from across the country, including 77 who received this honor for the first time. Why did they make the list? For a lot of reasons, including their ability Read more…
It was a busy, noisy and destructive weekend at East Potomac Golf Links, where, according to reports, work crews felled hundreds of trees on Saturday. The 105-year-old municipal course became a political lightning rod this spring when the Trump Administration wrestled control of the course away from the National Links Trust, a non-profit group that Read more…
The most nervous round of golf I played this year came at Whistling Straits, where, amid the birch trees and sunflowers and towering windmills, surrounded by small glacial lakes and stark stony mountains, I survived a nervy start to shoot four under and win the tournament. I see you have questions. Questions like: What tournament Read more…
Blades Brown didn’t win the Korn Ferry Tour Championship, but the 19-year-old made history anyway, becoming the youngest Korn Ferry Tour graduate to earn a PGA Tour card.
Blades Brown was looking for his first professional victory, but Austin Hitt jumped up and shot a final-round 66 to capture the Korn Ferry Tour Championship at the Federal Club in Glen Allen, Va. Hitt took home $270,000 from the overall $1.5 million purse. It was his first Korn Ferry Tour victory and it helped Read more…
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