If you don’t recognize the golfer in the photo above, it’s Cameron Champ. Albeit he was a bit younger in this photo—he’s 30 now—Champ has aged well. How well? If you missed the RBC Canadian Open this past June, then you might be interested in knowing how far Champ drove the ball on the ninth Read more…
There have been 62s shot before at Pebble Beach and plenty more recorded in PGA Tour history, but none have ever looked like the one Ryo Hisatsune fired on Thursday. The 22-year-old Japanese star went super low to take the lead at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on Day 1 despite not hitting his golf Read more…
PEBBLE BEACH — It’s quite strange how success—especially the life-changing kind—can sometimes lead to doubts. It isn’t doubts about ability but stability. It isn’t doubts about who you are but who you are supposed to be. Somewhere in that murky fog walks J.J. Spaun. He is the reigning U.S. Open champion, but he is not Read more…
PEBBLE BEACH — PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp missed his first Super Bowl in 23 years on Sunday, settling for watching it on television rather than in person—a perk that went with the job as a top NFL executive for 22 years. Instead, he spent the day in Scottsdale, Ariz., at the WM Phoenix Open. Read more…
It’s Signature Season, and that means it’s time for the return of Golfpocalypse, your weekly guide to the most intriguing storylines on the PGA Tour and major calendar, and also whatever random golf content is on my mind. Today, we are hyper-focused on the first signature event of the season, and these are the 10 Read more…
Fresh off his second PGA Tour win of the year, Gotterup reflects on his journey from a 13-year-old playing Pebble Beach with his dad to one of golf’s hottest rising stars.
There’s a big myth in golf that has lasted for most of the last century: to be a good putter, you have to prevent deceleration. The putterhead can’t slow down as you get closer to hitting the ball. In fact, it needs to speed up. The only problem is—that’s not true, and one needs to Read more…
Justin Rose has been playing so well recently that it sent me down a mini rabbit hole, which is where I found this interesting little video. And now I want to try it. The video is from Rose’s offseason training camp at his home in the Bahamas. Golf Digest No. 1-ranked coach Mark Blackburn joined Read more…
If you’re going to miss an old friend’s wedding, you better have a damn good excuse. This weekend, Chris Gotterup had exactly that when he missed one of his former Rutgers gofl teammate’s weddings to not just play at the WM Phoenix Open but win the whole enchilada. Thankfully, there were no hard feelings. Following Read more…
Paige Spiranac and the guys who make up Good Good are raking in the dough with millions of followers. Sure, they had a first-mover advantage as golf influencers. But that’s no different than any other nascent industry, where someone has outsized success before others decide to take a chance on a career that follows a Read more…
When Brandt Snedeker was 8 years old, his parents bought a pawn shop in a gritty section of Nashville. After school he would assist his mother, Candice, behind the counter and receive an accelerated education in real life. “My mom was probably the worst and best pawn shop owner ever,” Snedeker recalled, now 45, a Read more…
Given how he’s started 2026, Chris Gotterup has emerged as the biggest 2025 U.S. Ryder Cup team “snub” by American captain Keegan Bradley. At the time, though, Gotterup was not even among the top 16 players in the points ranking despite his late-summer push. The far bigger snub was Maverick McNealy, who sat at 10th Read more…
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