Pro golf is a big, unwieldy, inefficient business. The rules are set by amateurs based in New Jersey and Scotland. The mega events are operated by three organisations that are not the PGA Tour, plus an independent golf club in Georgia. The tournaments are owned by unconnected non-profits and local charities, and the workforce is Read more…
Golf Digest writers Shane Ryan and Joel Beall examine whether Bradley’s latest win has created the US team’s biggest headache – or handed them their secret weapon.
Taking a glance at the 72-man event at this week’s Travelers Championship in Connecticut, Jake Knapp and Australia’s Karl Vilips are not automatically in the field.
Now, there are some obvious instances when abandoning a round is totally fine. Playing alone? Sure, walk off at your leisure. Nobody gets hurt. With strangers? They don’t care about me, I don’t care about them. Good day, sirs.
Over 18 holes of Rory McIlroy’s ball-striking, on a Sunday evening that seemed to stretch on forever, I fell in love with golf. When I applied for an internship at Golf Digest in America, I skirted furtively around my own limited experience playing the game. Though I had played only five or six times, I Read more…
What the future holds for the Masters is not entirely obvious The 100th anniversary of the first Masters Tournament is fast approaching, just nine years away. The modern juggernaut once labelled by Peter Thomson as “the greatest con job in golf” (but the great man also mused in print “is there a better show on Read more…
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