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PGA Championship 2024: Answering the most frequently asked questions about the year’s second major
After a quiet stretch on the PGA Tour schedule following the Masters, the season is about to get another dose of major excitement with the 2024 PGA Championship set to be held at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. This will be the fourth time this course will host the PGA Championship, tied for second Read more…
This 236-yard missile at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson might be the purest ace you see all year
All hole-in-ones are special, but not every ace is created equal. There’s various factors at play. Distance, wind and pin position are big ones. Then there’s the course, the tees and, of course, lady luck—a big kick or a fortuitous ricochet count the same on the scorecard but are worth less in social currency. None Read more…
PGA Championship 2024: Here’s everyone who has qualified for the field at Valhalla (so far)
There are two weeks until the first round of the 2024 PGA Championship gets underway at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky., and the full field for the second men’s major of the year is starting to take shape. Sixteen past champions are expected to compete in the event. Among them is Brooks Koepka, winner Read more…
Ben Polland avenges an 18th-hole disaster nine years earlier with a three-stoke victory in the PGA Professional Championship
Ben Polland entered the PGA Professional Championship with an impressive club pro resume that includes a stint at Deepdale Golf Club in Manhasset, N.Y., and his current job as director of golf at Shooting Star Jackson Hole in Wyoming, that also contained a disturbing blemish that he erased on Wednesday. Polland, 33, won the club Read more…
A female teaching pro is contending at the PGA Professional Champ. Here’s why she can’t qualify for the PGA Championship
There’s big-time golf happening this week in Texas, and we’re not talking about the CJ Cup Byron Nelson at TPC Craig Ranch. About 20 minutes down the road in Frisco, a major championship is taking place—the club pro’s major, AKA the PGA Professional Championship. What makes this one so important to the teaching pros of Read more…
2024 PGA Championship Preview: Is 20 Plenty?
Are 20 club pros in the PGA Championship field too many? Australians have benefitted from the much-maligned exemption category through the years, but does it really dilute golf’s only all-pro major?
Grass League founders explain the humble origins of the par-3 night-golf league you didn’t know you needed
Maybe you think golf needs another league like a Pro V1 to the head. As the pro-golf schism has pressed into its third year, the furor has turned to fatigue, TV ratings plummeting faster than LIV pros’ OWGR rankings. Meanwhile, TGL remains a 3D rendering on the simulator horizon line as its biggest benefactors struggle Read more…
Why Nick Dunlap’s feel-good story is the best argument against the planned golf-ball rollback
Whether it’s a longer or shorter ball, Nick Dunlap is a strong reason we should all play the same one.
2024 Farmers Insurance Open tee times, TV coverage, viewer’s guide
The PGA Tour is back in San Diego, at the renowed courses at Torrey Pines for this week’s Farmers Insurance Open. Max Homa returns to defend his title from a year ago. The West Coast kid trailed 54-hole leader Sam Burns by five shots on the final day in 2023 but came through with a Read more…
2024 American Express tee times, TV coverage, viewer’s guide
There’s certainly room to improve for Justin Thomas coming out of 2023. He finished 71st in the FedEx Cup standings and was off by his standards. Well, now’s the chance as JT will make his 2024 debut at The American Express, a tournament he last played in 2015 with a seventh-place finish. World No. 1 Read more…
The Koepkas’ wild New Year’s Eve, a painful Christmas lesson and one person we know NBC won’t be hiring
Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we are never ordering Christmas gifts from random Instagram ads again. I got suckered into buying two things for my wife from companies I’ve never heard of, and (Shocker!) neither arrived by Christmas. Then when one of the two purchases finally got to my house on New Read more…
Golf’s most underappreciated moments of 2023
Each of the nine items listed below had its moment of newsiness, and each had the potential to be even more memorable (for better or worse) with even the slightest additional twist of fate.
Our favorite golf memories from 2023
The PGA Tour vs. LIV/PIF vs. fans vs. pro golf’s future took up much of the oxygen again in 2023, with a resolution to the mess still to come. Thankfully, there were plenty of more pleasant memories to sustain members of our Golf Digest staff this past year. Once more, we asked our writers and Read more…
Tiger Woods (duh) again tops Google searches of golfers, though other popular choices are surprising
Tiger Woods and LIV Golf were Google’s most searched-for golf subjects in the US in 2023, according to data provided by the search engine. At least with 15-time major winner Woods, that comes as no surprise. But break the search interest down by month and there are some eyebrow raisers—Sam Ryder, Sam Bennett and even NBA legend Steph Curry.
January 2024: News You May Have Missed
Aussie of the month: Min Woo Lee We let him cook. Now, we let him rest. Lee had a huge year; he finished 10th on the DP World Tour ranking after a T-15 at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai right before his return to Australia. He secured a PGA Tour card for 2024, Read more…
Opinion: What We Learnt From 2023
It was something of a limbo year, as the professional game braces for more changes ahead
Our favorite (and least favorite) golf stories of 2023
This is hardly a unique take, but 2023 was just about the wildest year in golf that we can remember. And we probably said the exact same thing about 2022. But 2022 didn’t have Michael Block, nor did it have the stunning news of reigning Masters champion Jon Rahm announcing his move to LIV on Read more…
10 things from 2023 we’ll be talking about in 10 years (and 5 we won’t)
It’s hard to know what will resonate through the sands of time. Certainly there are things that seem to matter in the present, though the past has shown that the future may wonder what all the fuss was about. On the other end there are moments that are seemingly inconsequential that ultimately prove momentous. All Read more…
54 things that happened to Brooks Koepka in 2023
You could make a case that Brooks Koepka had the best year of any professional golfer in 2023. There’s an even stronger argument, however, that he had the most interesting year. Sure, there was plenty of good golf, but there was also a lot of other stuff going on, including probably the biggest life change a Read more…
The best (and most outrageous) screenshots from the year in golf
From January to December, these are the best screengrabs of the year in golf. The grainier, the better. Professional photographers need not apply. Screenshots are taken by the people, for the people.
