Welcome to MythBusters, a Golf Digest+ series where we explore answers to some of golf’s most common questions through a series of tests with golfers and robots. Sometimes definitive, other times less so, our findings aim to shed new light on topics that have consumed golfers for years. Wouldn’t it be nice if every time Read more…
There’s a reason why slices and pulls are the plague of amateur golf, and it doesn’t have to do with how much time average players spend on the driving range. Most recreational golfers struggle to initiate the downswing with their lower bodies and have an even a tougher time rotating their pelvis without their torsos Read more…
Mel Robbins has a phrase for everything that is outside your control on a golf course. It is two words. And it might be the most useful thing you take onto the course. When Mel Robbins returned to her parents’ golf course on a recent visit, a simple change in the landscape caught her off-guard. Read more…
I am frequently asked how to set up for a fairway-wood shot. The first step is standing the correct distance from the ball. An easy way to check is to grab a spare glove and lodge it between your left bicep and the side of your chest, with the fingers pointing outward (below). Allow your Read more…
The last event of the season on the DP World Tour featured 52 players, not the customary 50. The field is made up of the top 50 on the Race to Dubai season list, plus Ludvig Aberg and Shane Lowry as members of the Ryder Cup team. Rory McIlroy, Marco Penge and Tyrrell Hatton top Read more…
One of the best games on the NFL slate this weekend pits the 6-3 Tampa Bay Buccaneers against the 6-3 Buffalo Bills. Though there’s no rivalry or playoff seeding at stake in the cross-conference showdown, you wouldn’t have known listening to Baker Mayfield and Josh Allen sling some shade this week. On Wednesday, Mayfield mocked Read more…
There are only two more opportunities for PGA Tour glory this year as we’ve reached the penultimate event of 2025, the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Rafael Campos is the defending champion, winning the title last year six days after his wife gave birth to their first child. Campos will be looking to be the first to Read more…
The Golf Channel is adding several shows to its television lineup in 2026. The network, which is undergoing several changes as the NBC offshoot is rebranded as USA Sports, announced Thursday that podcasts helmed by on-course reporter Smylie Kauffman, Full Swing executive producer Chad Mumm and reporter Jimmy Roberts will be simulcast in the new Read more…
And then there were two … as in two remaining official PGA Tour events on the 2025 schedule. The penultimate is this week’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship, being held for the seventh year at Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton, Bermuda. A 120-player field will be competing for valuable FedEx Cup points as many tour pros Read more…
It’s not overstating it to say that last year’s Wednesday pro-am of The Annika was the most-watched non-competitive round in LPGA Tour history. All thanks to the presence of Caitlin Clark the basketball star who had just finished an WNBA rookie season with the Indiana Fever that changed the landscape in women’s sports. Ticket demand for Read more…
The Butterfield Bermuda Championship is a relatively new addition to the Fall Swing that debuted in October 2019. Port Royal Golf Club, originally designed in 1970 by Robert Trent Jones, has been the host course for all six editions of the event. The Jones design is one of the shortest courses on the PGA Tour, Read more…
Once the dust finally settled with Luke Kwon at the Internet Invitational, there was room for some other characters to draw some eyeballs. Enter Chaz Bowker, AKA Chazzy Golf, who quickly became the breakout star with his performance in Episode three. At the time that dropped, Bowker had just over 80,000 followers on Instagram. One Read more…
Ben Griffin’s season was already considered a rousing success. In April, the 29-year-old teamed up with Andrew Novak to win the Zurich Classic of New Orleans for his maiden PGA Tour title. He followed it a month later with his first individual title at the Charles Schwab Challenge. Griffin qualified for the Tour Championship for Read more…
In 2025, Black Desert Resort could boast of being the lone venue that hosted both a PGA Tour and LPGA event in the same year after hold in inaugural LPGA Black Desert Championship in May. Yet that distinction will be short lived after the LPGA Tour and the Ivins, Utah, facility agreed to change the Read more…
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