As golf season kicks up, so does spring style. For discerning golfers, this means taking stock of tired basics or outdated silhouettes, re-energizing wardrobes with thoughtfully designed accessories, apparel and essentials. We’ve rounded up five trends currently taking over the golf world: quiet luxury, savvy spending, 1990s resurgence, arm candy and power pastels. Read on for Read more…
Fabric can be organized into three categories: natural, synthetic and semi-synthetic. Natural fibers are older than golf itself and derive from plants and animals. With plants, think of fabrics like cotton, flax for linen and bamboo. Animal-based fibers include wool, cashmere and leather. Synthetic, or manmade, fibers are chemically based and derive almost always from Read more…
In the old days, a week after a major championship was a time to relax. That’s not the case now, as the PGA Tour just simply moves onto another signature event, its fourth of the season. Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head Island, S.C., again is host to the RBC Heritage where eight of Read more…
Sure, the golf at the Masters is dissected and broken down on a sub-atomic level, but at this point, it feels like it pales in comparison to the Champions Dinner critiques. Especially when it comes to Rory McIlroy’s recent (and first!) Augusta National meal. ESPN analysts ripped the feast, as did our very own podcasters, Read more…
We hope you took advantage of Rory McIlroy’s odds drifting up to a glorious 12-1 to cash a Masters outright winner. We had great gambling content all week at Golf Digest, including our Joe Idone from Read the Line touting him, but for us in the experts picks column, we’re back to grinding on our Read more…
“What am I going to wear?” is a dilemma we all face every day. If we’re playing golf, it’s a decision that probably gets made twice before the sun sets, and that can be exhausting. We use clothes to tell stories about ourselves, so the question of what to wear becomes “What do I want Read more…
The sheer drama and magnitude of the Masters is a heavy weight to off-load, but the PGA Tour is right back at it with a signature event in the Lowcountry of South Carolina for the 2026 RBC Heritage. Held at the iconic and demanding Harbour Town Golf Links, this tournament serves as a highly lucrative, Read more…
The PGA Tour heads southeast a couple of hours up the road toward the Atlantic coast for its traditional post-Masters event, the RBC Heritage. With a reputation as one of the most beloved events by players, Harbour Town Golf Links presents a relaxed vibe compared to the pressure cooker that is the Masters. For a Read more…
My kids say that for one of my favorite weeks of the year, I don’t seem to enjoy the Masters very much, and my wife says I’m unusually curt and anxious. They’re right, of course, but they don’t have to figure out the wind at Golden Bell. I love the Masters. It’s the Holy Grail Read more…
Course logos didn’t appear on golf shirts until the 1970s. Before then it was a radical idea, almost unthinkable, for a brand to embroider anything other than its most valuable marketing asset—its own commercial logo—on a front left breast. But a legendary salesman named Ernie Sabayrac, whose many innovations included convincing club pros to sell Read more…
Ryanair is the Spirit Airlines of Europe, so you have to take everything its team says with a grain of salt. But, this seemed a little too harsh a viral dagger not to point out, especially right after a come-from-behind runner-up Augusta National finish for Scottie Scheffler. In the most out-of-nowhere social media post of Read more…
Masters Sunday is golf’s Super Bowl. Unfortunately, CBS treated it like a Thursday Night Football Game between the Jags and the Titans, particularly in the day’s biggest moments. There was, of course, the total debacle that occurred on the final hole, where McIlroy’s second shot came to rest in a tricky lie in the greenside Read more…
Editor’s Note: This article was Golf Digest’s cover story in 2015 ahead of McIlroy’s first attempt at completing the Career Grand Slam. The in-depth profile by Jaime Diaz is a fascinating read after McIlroy completed the slam last year and followed it up with a second Masters title in 2026. Amid the steel beams and Read more…
Augusta National is always a bastion for fashion. From the very-much-not-approved Malbon bird-watching get-up to the new golf sweater substitute sweeping the nation, the Masters has become a runway of sorts for the rest of the year in golf. Whether other major champions’ parents follow Rory McIlroy’s mother’s fashion-forward lead is yet to be seen. Read more…