LOUISVILLE—Valhalla’s architecture pedigree is something of a schismatic subject, although there’s nothing divisive about the drama that’s unfolded on the Louisville stage. There was a sudden-death showdown between Mark Brooks and Kenny Perry at the 1996 PGA Championship and a three-hole playoff pitting Tiger Woods against Bob May in 2000, and Rory McIlroy had to Read more…
Golf Digest has long been a bastion for instruction, tips and tricks to improve your game. It’s kind of what we’re known for. No big deal or whatever. The one problem with giving incredible teachers a platform and providing detailed analysis on how to improve your game is that some golfers out there are looking Read more…
Take a scroll through Michael Block’s Instagram page and you’ll see that the man has had himself a YEAR. Everybody and their mother wanted a piece of the 2023 PGA Championship folk hero after his performance at Oak Hill, and he was more than willing to give it to them on some advice from golf Read more…
A terrifying video of a tornado tearing through Big Cedar Lodge in Branson, Miss., made the rounds on social media Monday. Big Cedar Lodge has become one of golf’s biggest destinations with three courses ranked inside Golf Digest’s America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses—Ozarks National, a Coore/Crenshaw total redesign of an existing course, ranked 33rd, Payne’s Read more…
LOUISVILLE — I think the best decision in professional golf came nearly 10 years ago when the PGA of America decided to move their championship from August to May. The first May edition took place in 2019, just one month after Tiger Woods won his fifth green jacket. If that magic moment didn’t heighten the Read more…
It’s hard to believe that we have already reached the year’s second major, but PGA Championship week is upon us. The Wanamaker Trophy returns to Valhalla Golf Club this week in Louisville for the venue’s fourth major championship. We last saw the Jack Nicklaus design at Rory McIlroy’s most recent major championship victory in 2014, Read more…
LOUISVILLE — Valhalla is hosting the 2024 PGA Championship, the fourth time the course has served as the venue for the PGA of America’s flagship event. And while the Louisville course has produced a number of indelible scenes as PGA host, it’s worth remembering one of Valhalla’s weirder moments: A protest over a long drive Read more…
CARLSBAD, Calif. — On a Thursday in mid-April, University of Texas men’s golf coach John Fields arrived at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa with a small entourage in tow. Fields’ Longhorns wrapped up play the day before in a college tournament at Pasatiempo, and on the school’s private jet, Fields and his group Read more…
The journey for this journeyman has seldom been mundane, Doug Barron having run a gamut from lowlights to highlights in a meandering career that reached its apex on Sunday. Barron, 54, coming off a year in which he underwent surgery on both elbows, went head-to-head with two World Golf Hall of Famers, Ernie Els and Read more…
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA – MAY 11: Doug Barron of the United States waves after sinking a putt for birdie on the 15th green during the third round of the Regions Tradition at Greystone Golf and Country Club on May 11, 2024 in Birmingham, Alabama. (Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images) This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
In a classic “This Is SportsCenter” commercial, Landon Donovan—clad in his Team USA uniform—gets frustrated with ESPN’s office copier, prompting the machine to print out a red card for the soccer star. In real life, Donovan received only one red card in his illustrious career, but it was some bad behavior early in his life Read more…
Nelly Korda’s bid for an historic six wins in a row on the LPGA are all but gone in the Cognizant Founders Cup. The World No. 1 shot a one-over 73 on Saturday at Upper Montclair Country Club and sits 11 shots off the lead of Swede Madelene Sagstrom heading into the final round. The Read more…
If you could get the most creative minds at the PGA Tour and CBS to script how things would go on an ideal Saturday at the Wells Fargo Championship, they might have drawn up exactly what happened in real life at Quail Hollow: Rory McIlroy digging into Xander Schauffele’s four-shot lead, tightening things up at Read more…
Is golf a brutal game, or a beautiful one? The answer is “yes”—just ask Sungjae Im. Late in the third round at the Wells Fargo Championship, Im stood on the par-3 17th tee just four shots behind leader Xander Schauffele. His towering shot went right at the hole, and when we say right at the Read more…
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