A surprisingly star-studded field descends on Palm Springs this week for The American Express, which features a three-course rotation and a 54-hole cut. Scottie Scheffler leads the way as the favorite, while Ben Griffin, Russell Henley, Robert MacIntyre and Ludvig Aberg round out the rest of the top five on the odds board. Historically, longshots Read more…
The PGA Tour returns to the mainland as players head to the Coachella Valley desert in La Quinta, Calif., for The American Express at PGA West. The first stop on the annual West Coast swing is one of the few remaining pro-ams on the PGA Tour schedule, featuring three rounds played alongside amateurs on a Read more…
Will Zalatoris likes to refer to himself as “kid,” and at 29 he no doubt feels, with good reason, like the best years of his life are ahead of him. It’s just that in the golf world, it seems like the Californian has been around a long time—and maybe, ironically, that’s because he hasn’t been Read more…
When you’re looking at almost 27,000 shots, it’s easy to get lost in all the numbers. That’s why for this year’s Hot List we brought in the expertise of our team of scientists to quantify the performance differences that our players were seeing. Their conclusion: The differences are not vast, but they provide subtle clues Read more…
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler will make his 2026 debut this week at The American Express, spearheading a loaded field featuring four other top-10-ranked pros: Russell Henley, Robert MacIntyre, Ben Griffin and Justin Rose. Scheffler was supposed to make his 2025 debut here last year, but was taken out by a ravioli incident. Hopefully, he Read more…
For many years, players at the Hot List Summit tested equipment using a variety of golf balls. All were multilayer, urethane-cover, tour-caliber models. Recently, we went to a single ball to enhance the consistency of our testing process. That said, there’s a reason ball manufacturers offer multiple models at the high end of their lines: Read more…
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: The Bettinardi BB Series, the classic one-piece milled shapes that have been the touchstone for the company’s putter line for more than two decades, takes a modern technology step forward for 2026. Each model sports a redesigned milling pattern on the face that features a range of variable depths and Read more…
Because we all should hit it farther, every year Drivers is the most-read section of the Hot List. What began as a not particularly profound assumption about audience behavior in 2004 when the Hot List debuted as a magazine-only review of new clubs has since become proven fact. Every website nowadays counts its clicks and Read more…
Standing over a three-foot putt on the 18th hole at the Lima Golf Club in Peru’s capital city, with a chance to win the Latin America Amateur Championship on the second playoff hole, Mateo Pulcini did his best to stick to a relatively quick routine. He adopted it for moments like these, when spending too Read more…
The mission of Andrew Green’s work at Chevy Chase Club north of Washington, D.C. was to return the course design to its historical roots. The question was, which ones? The original nine holes laid out by Willie Davis in 1896 were expanded to 18 two years later, most likely by club professional Willie Tucker. Donald 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 practice and playing. Read more from his “Late Scratch?” series here. I was thrilled to get the green light to chase shooting red scores, but how was I actually going to go about Read more…
Golfpocalypse is a meandering collection of words about golf (professional and otherwise) that sometimes, but not always, has a point. Reach out with your questions or comments on absolutely anything at [email protected]. We’ll publish the best emails here. I have a distinct memory of being in my 20s and thinking about the moment, many years Read more…
Looking to learn what you need to know about the latest new products from XXIO? These handy thumbnails will keep you up to date on the company’s new releases across all club and ball catetgories. XXIO Hyper RD golf balls: XXIO expands its golf ball line with a product that fits its ethos as a Read more…
It was another quiet in the world of golf where nothing ever changes and the vibes are always super chill … PSYCH. Actually, it was bat sh*t crazy, just as it at least 40 weeks out of the year. The circus began Monday, when the PGA Tour announced a new reinstatement policy that will allow Read more…
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