Royal Birkdale returns to golf’s grandest stage to host the 154th Open Championship, welcoming the world’s elite for the 11th time. Renowned for its iconic white Art Deco clubhouse and dramatic towering dunes, the Southport venue is universally respected as one of the purest and fairest examinations in championship golf. Unlike traditional links layouts that Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — Aldrich Potgieter came in third in the Last Chance Qualifier on Monday morning, but later in the afternoon he found his way into the field of the 154th Open Championship anyway. That’s because South Africa’s Louis Oosthuizen announced he was withdrawing from the championship at Royal Birkdale, opening a spot for Potgieter, Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — With respect to the 2015 Masters and U.S. Open, the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale was the magnum opus in Jordan Spieth’s borderline artistic career. Much like Spieth himself, Royal Birkdale looks a lot different nine years later. MORE: Royal Birkdale looks like it’ll run firm and fast thsi week His Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — Joe Dean, an English golfer who grew up two hours from Royal Birkdale in Sheffield, hasn’t started writing his wedding speech despite the big day being next week. The 32-year-old will have a heck of a story to tell after a dramatic eagle helped him emerge as the winner among the 12 Read more…
The 154th Open Championship will be visiting Southport and Royal Birkdale for the 11th time in the past 72 years. Four men in the 156-man field have competed in the past three championships held on this heralded links (1998, 2008, 2017): Stewart Cink, David Duval, Padraig Harrington and Justin Rose. Some may have guessed Darren Read more…
My favorite Lee Trevino story, before I knew about the 1971 Open Championship, came from a Tony Jacklin quote about playing with him at the ’72 Open in Muirfield. Trevino was famous for his nonstop chatter, and Jacklin was sick of it, so when they were paired together on the weekend, he decided to nip Read more…
[Photo: Thibaut Durand] I was nursing a coffee, watching fellow scribes tee off at the Old Course, waiting behind the first tee for a St. Andrews local to arrive for an interview in the middle of a summer spent bouncing around the linksland. Because standing in front of the Old Course never gets old, or Read more…
Well, how can Haeran Ryu follow up her historic 11-under 60? That’s the drama set to unfold Sunday at the Amundi Evian Championship where the 25-year-old from South Korea is looking to win her second major championship in just three weeks after capturing the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship just two weeks ago at Hazeltine National 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. Through six holes of my 2026 golf season, I was two under par and feeling on top of the world. After Read more…
AKRON, Ohio — “Do you want me to go over my hole-by-hole?” Scott McCarron is wearing a mischievous grin as he asks the question, knowing that the response would be a polite “no thank you,” and that he would not be inclined to give it anyway. McCarron had just completed a disappointing 10-over-par 80 in Read more…
The ISCO Championship is the opposite-field event this week on the PGA Tour and like the Genesis Scottish Open, it’s also co-sanctioned with the DP World Tour. This is a chance for some on both tours to jump up and capture a victory and gain some points and money on their respective tours. Max Homa Read more…
Tis the season where the best players in the world are in Europe for the Scottish Open-British Open double. This week they’re at the Genesis Scottish Open, where a star-studded field is at the Renaissance Club in a co-sanctioned event between the PGA Tour and DP World Tour. The field is playing for a $9 Read more…
Mid Ocean Club is the only C.B. Macdonald design outside the United States, regarded since its opening as one of the world’s best, ranked 44th on our most recent list of the World’s 100 Greatest Courses. So when the club contacted Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner, who have tackled some of the world’s headiest restoration Read more…
For decades, sunglasses and golf had the kind of relationship best summed up by the viral Drake “No” meme. Sunglasses? No thanks. Golfers wore them everywhere except on the course. While nearly every other outdoor sport embraced eyewear as essential equipment, elite golfers held onto the belief that sunglasses interfered with performance. They said tinted Read more…
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