Perhaps you’ve heard the big Farmers Insurance Open news: Last year’s Latin America Amateur Championship winner, Justin Hastings, will be making his 2026 PGA Tour debut. He finished T-2 at The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic last week and is searching for his first professional win. Oh, also, Brooks Koepka will be teeing it up. The Read more…
The moral of the story here is to not bet against Scottie Scheffler. Don’t think about it. Don’t even think about thinking about it. You say something silly about the World No. 1, and the next thing you know, he has six birdies over his first nine holes to start the year, and you’re being Read more…
This was supposed to be a casual, late-afternoon round on a pretty little par-3 course so new its seventh hole wasn’t finished. I took a deep breath as magic-hour sunshine spread across the island of Barbados as I stepped into my first tee shot on the Little Apes Golf Course. But wait. I couldn’t shake Read more…
It was another year of crowded aisles and sustained enthusiasm for the golf industry at this week’s annual PGA Show in Orlando. The game’s business leaders and those hopeful to cash in on the golf’s consistently buzzy momentum gathered on the heels of the latest National Golf Foundation report that highlighted an unprecedented eighth straight Read more…
You won’t be surprised to hear the 2026 PGA Merchandise Show was massive. Golf’s continued growth has brought more products and innovation from different arenas to match the new players in the game. There seemed to be more exhibitors than ever at the Orange County Convention Center last week. Even the line to register for Read more…
It was a Friday afternoon that had golf fans, reporters and historians scrambling for their record books. Or googling as fast as their fingers could fly. Blades Brown, the 18-year-old who made his professional debut at this time last year in The American Express, got off to an incredible start in the second round on 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. If tracking your stats is an important step for anyone looking to make meaningful improvements in their golf games, some numbers Read more…
With much of the country slammed by snow, ice and sub-arctic cold this week, the only golf most of us will be getting will be on our favorite retina-frying doom boxes. The good news is that there’s plenty of YouTube goodness to keep you comatose until the cart paths clear, so throw on those sweats, Read more…
The Indiana Hoosiers football won the College Football National Championship. One more time because it’s literally never happened before: IU won the College Football National Championship. Now that we’re a few days removed from that historic, world-changing event, it’s time to find a way to make it about golf. As an Indiana grad and former Read more…
It’s no secret that Carlos Alcaraz is a golf sicko. The men’s tennis no. 1 has been seen practicing his swing and heard talking about the game on my occasions. We also know that Rafael Nadal is a golfer, even (somewhat dubiously) crediting the game for his otherworldly fitness. One tennis great we have rarely Read more…
Putting together an issue of Golf Digest typically involves hanging out with cool people in nice places, but February 2026 stands out. Cover star Ben Griffin and feature interviewee Jim Murphy are both great guys coming off banger seasons. Griffin won three times on the PGA Tour, made the U.S. Ryder Cup team and got Read more…
“Why are you doing this?” That was the general response from Ben Griffin’s friends on the PGA Tour upon learning he was switching to the Maxfli Tour X golf ball in early 2024. After all, the brand had not registered a win on tour in more than two decades. “There were a lot of questions Read more…
Justin Rose made TGL history on Tuesday night. By Wednesday morning, he’d sparked the latest debate on Golf Twitter. RELATED: Chris Gotterup’s stinger is the coolest shot in TGL history The Ryder Cup star holed a 4-iron from 227 yards for the first albatross in the simulator league’s history. It was a heckuva shot—and a Read more…
There was a time when the most common questions you’d get from a playing partner on the first tee were “what’s the game?” or “how many strokes are you giving me?” Nowadays, you’ll instead often hear something like this: “You good with music?” To be clear, I’m not saying this is a bad thing. In Read more…
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