WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Tour Edge launches its first golf ball, the Exotics, with a focus on improved consistency in the wind. The three-piece entry features a cast urethane cover, which is designed to work with a high-resiliency core to yield lower long-game spin and maintain high short-game spin. PRICE: $40 per dozen. Available Read more…
Mark Blackburn was voted No. 1 by his peers on Golf Digest’s 2026-’27 ranking of The 50 Best Teachers in America. In this series, “What the Pros Do That You Don’t,” Blackburn highlights the key adjustments that tour players make to play the right shot at the right time. The best wedge players typically flight Read more…
The Ryder Cup isn’t subject to quite as much equipment intrigue these days now that the conundrum of which golf ball a two-man team uses in alternate-shot matches no longer exists (players can switch balls on each hole) and with Phil Mickelson not playing. Still, there plenty of curiosity regarding the bats and balls of Read more…
The 45th Ryder Cup, played this week at New York’s Bethpage Black, features 24 players, 28 matches … and more than 100 hours of live tournament and studio coverage on NBC, USA Network, Peacock and NBCSports.com utilizing more than 35 analysts and commentators. Indeed, there might not be a golf tournament in the world that’s Read more…
Some golfers wait their entire lives for a hole-in-one. The seasons change, one after the next. Their hair turns gray, their backs stiffen. They go from walking to riding—from the back tees to the forwards—and still the wait goes on. But not for this kid. This weekend, Reddit user r/haydenantal posted video of his son’s Read more…
This morning, out of nowhere, a middle-aged man appeared in the kitchen of the Golf Digest AirBnB on Long Island while the rest of us were eating breakfast. As you might imagine, everyone was pretty shaken—this was our first time seeing the laws of physics violated so blatantly—but nobody was quite as shaken as the Read more…
Golf Twitter darling Michael Kim was on top of the golf world on Sunday after winning the French Open. But a big victory celebration had him bracing for a potential ‘brutal’ hangover on Monday. Hey, that’s the cost of doing business. Or, something like that. RELATED: Michael Kim’s perfect reaction to being knocked out of Read more…
Editor’s Note: This story first appeared in the June 2002 issue of Golf Digest. Since then, Golf Digest has listed Joseph H. Burbeck as the architect of Bethpage Black and A.W. Tillinghast as a consultant. The course was ranked 38th on Golf Digest’s most recent ranking of America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses, and seventh on Read more…
It could have been argued that the game owed one to both finalists in the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur, notwithstanding golf’s inclination to disregard its debts. Dawn Woodard’s was paid in full on Thursday by virtue of her first victory in her 35th start in USGA events. Woodard, 51, from Greenville, S.C., defeated Australian Sue Read more…
Just the other day, our very own Luke Kerr-Dineen broke down “3 sneaky (but legal) tactics pros use to annoy their Ryder Cup opponents” in his latest edition of video series “The Game Plan.” A subtext of his piece was the fact that when it comes to match play, anything goes … well, within reason. But Read more…
The biggest news of the week on the LPGA already happened, even before the first ball went in the air at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship. Former World No. 1, a four-time All-American at Arkansas and two-time major champ, announced Wednesday that she was going to retire at the end of the year. Now age Read more…
The only constant in fashion is change. By the decade, by the year, by the season. Trends come and go (and come back and go again), leaving the non-nudists of earth scrambling to catch up. That includes the U.S. Ryder Cup team, who face off against Team Europe every other year in a showdown of Read more…
Unfortunately, Johnny Miller is not making a surprise return to the television booth for the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black. A shame, since he’d apparently fit right in with the “partisan” style NBC is employing during the biennial match-play event between Europe and the U.S. As NBC’s lead golf producer Tommy Roy announced on Wednesday, Read more…
The Ryder Cup is one of golf’s most storied competitions, with the 2025 version arguably the most highly anticipated event in the game’s history. But one longtime caddie turned broadcaster thinks there’s a way to “buck tradition” to make it even better. Jim “Bones” Mackay is as familiar with the biennial event as anyone, having Read more…
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