Austin Lemeiux, the son of a famous hockey player, was in the field this week at the PGA Tour’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Despite the attention that Mario Lemieux’s boy got, the amateur missed the cut by shooting four over for 36 holes. The hockey them, however, is not going away on the island in the Read more…
First things first, don’t get too excited. You will likely NOT be able to use this tip to make millions of dollars unless you’re a Nike-sponsored athlete. But Charles Barkley once was. And, obviously, so was Michael Jordan. And them being golf buddies led to the most lucrative round of golf of Sir Chares’ life. Read more…
After a decade of planning, petitions, hearings and appeals, one of the most coveted and contested pieces of golf ground in the world appears to have run out of road. On Friday, the Scottish government rejected plans to build a golf course at Coul Links, a rumpled stretch of dunes along the Highlands coast near Read more…
“The magazine that once gave us Peter Dobereiner, Dan Jenkins and Tom Callahan is currently canvassing people to identify the most picturesque place in golf where one might urinate … I kid you not.”—Former World No. 1 golfer Lee Westwood, on Twitter “The portable toilet outside the media center has signs with tips on putting Read more…
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…
The LPGA is in Asia for the first of four events, playing its fall Asian Swing. It all starts with the Buick LPGA Shanghai, where Jeeno Thitikul is the defending champion, although it’s being played at a new venue this year, Sheshan Golf Club, which has hosted 14 versions of the WGC-HSBC Champions. Eleven of Read more…
As an avid golfer, OCD freak, keeper of score and follower of rules, I’ve always felt it is the bare minimum task to know what golf ball you are playing on any given hole. It should be easily identifiable to you with a marking of your choice, though nowadays you can get your damn name, Read more…
Golf Digest senior writer Alex Myers is on a one-year mission to see how good he can get at golf through daily training, practice and playing. Read more from his “Late Scratch?” series here. My first foray into caddying earlier this year was both a fun and eye-opening experience. By the end of that day Read more…
Remember the Internet Invitational? Luke Kwon oversleeping his tee time? The Jon Gruden speech? Chazzy? Beef (RIP)? Slope-gate? It’s been almost a year since Barstool Sports/Bob Does Sports brain child took over the golf world, introducing many to this “YouTube golf” thing they’d been hearing about. In the wake of the golf influencer Super Bowl, Read more…
On a warmer-than-expected fall Tuesday, at Tamarack Country Club in Greenwich, Conn., 44 employees of Golf Digest gathered for what they thought would be a fun, competitive day of Ryder Cup-style golf. Instead, they got a bloodbath … a merciless whooping that led to a bitter round of second-guessing and recrimination for the losers, and 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…
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