Australian Golf Digest
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Editor’s letter: A more impactful way to spend $40 million
The PGA Tour marches to its own beat but can never be accused of not looking after its own.
Undercover caddie: Minor leagues, major changes
Just last year a player fired me, and I can’t find another full-time bag on the PGA Tour. That’s why I’m here. It’s not where I want to be. Hell, it’s where I can’t be – not for very long, at least. The truth is this: I can’t make a living as a caddie on the Korn Ferry Tour.
The Premier Golf League hasn’t gone away, but neither have questions about its ultimate viability
The latest news from the upstart golf league that won’t go away diffused slowly throughout Quail Hollow Club on Tuesday, just barely beating the rainstorm that washed away an afternoon of practice for the Wells Fargo Championship.
The worst break in golf: When your favourite golf club meets its demise
She didn’t deserve this fate. Not then, not there, not like that. The only golf club I have ever loved is gone.
Masters 2021: The Murder Of The Par 5
There’s something about the symphony of a par 5 that makes it greater than the sum of its shots.
James Sutherland: Why we need to protect public golf
The critics of golf – and there are a few – are inclined to harvest low-hanging fruit when it comes to attacking our game.
Just how ‘back’ Brooks Koepka and Jordan Spieth are all depends on your perspective
Having Brooks Koepka back on leaderboards is good for golf because he’s a great player and refreshing to talk to, especially one-on-one. The same is true of Jordan Spieth, albeit in a different way.
Ignore the haters and spread golf’s joy
Golf’s renaissance is in full swing. Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is refusing to look at the evidence at hand.
Staying on the shark’s tail
From his meteoric rise and world domination on the fairways to becoming a swashbuckler in the business world, Australian Golf Digest has been there to cover every step of Greg Norman’s 50-year journey to the top. Here, he shares some of the key lessons he’s learnt along the way.
Undercover Caddie: I’ve been fired 17 times… so far
Grabbing a bag on a professional tour means you’re perpetually on the hot seat.
An Aussie pro was kicked off a course for wearing black socks. Reasonable or ridiculous?
Former player and current Australian broadcaster Ewan Porter spurred a fiery social-media debate (is there any other kind on Twitter?) with his experience at a Sydney golf club this week. Specifically, that Porter was shunned from the property due to a fashion faux pas.
50 YEARS & COUNTING: A half-century of publishing proves some subject areas are more resilient in print than others
Australian Golf Digest is one of the great survivors in the history of Australian sporting magazines.
Undercover caddie: Politics vs money? Money wins
Golf, compared to other pro sports, is mostly a controversy-free game. There are rules disputes, and slow play can really get on people’s nerves, but it’s nothing to get that worked up over.
EXCLUSIVE: How Australia tried to host this week’s US PGA Championship
And why we’ve put our hand up for more PGA Tour events in the face of COVID-19.
OPINION: The downside of the Bryson DeChambeau experiment
How can a game that all-but eliminates those who play with the artistic style of a Seve Ballesteros or a Lee Trevino be said to be improving?
OPINION: Is this 100-metre masterpiece REALLY Australia’s greatest par 3?
Here’s why Tom’s Little Devil is unlike any other short hole in the country, if not the world.
OPINION: Should professional golfers be allowed to wear shorts?
In our latest installment of the “Great Golf Debates” writers Mike Johnson and Daniel Rapaport tackle the pressing question: Should professional golfers be allowed to wear shorts?
Offering a solution to the Vijay Singh/Korn Ferry ‘problem’
There is a way to resolve all this and to ensure that no one goes home unhappy.
