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Rules Review: How you can drop your ball in the fairway after hitting it OB (and it’s perfectly legal)
It’s never a bad time for a refresher on how to take this penalty option.
Valero Texas Open picks 2024: Why Ludvig Aberg’s game is a perfect fit at TPC San Antonio
With the season’s first major looming, our expert panel picked the perfect time to start to heat up. Two weeks after our anonymous caddie called Scottie Scheffler’s victory at the Players Championship, Andy Lack got on the board at the Houston Open, correctly predicting Stephan Jaeger would win in our longshots section. We’re just getting Read more…
Rules Review: Can you pass our 10-question quiz?
If you think you know the rulebook well, let’s find out. Take this quiz and see if you know how to resolve some tricky rules situations.
Houston Open picks 2024: A betting cheat sheet for Memorial Park
The last Texas Children’s Houston Open took place in November of 2022. In fact, Memorial Park Golf Course has hosted the last three Houston Opens and they were all played in November. A fantastic public layout renovated by Tom Doak and Brooks Koepka in 2019, the move to March is a great warm-up for the Read more…
Houston Open picks 2024: Can someone not named Scottie Scheffler get it done in Texas?
Just when we figured we’d start to get hot, another out-of-nowhere, mega longshot in Peter Malnati won the Valspar Championship at Innisbrook. Unless Scottie Scheffler is in the tournament, it’s become an impossible-to-predict PGA Tour week in and week out in 2024. RELATED: Houston Open DFS picks 2024: Is Scottie Scheffler a lock for lineups? Read more…
PGA Tour: ‘I’m Loving Life In Las Vegas’
Basing himself in ‘Sin City’ is a gamble worth taking for Australia’s newest PGA Tour star, Min Woo Lee
LIV Golf Adelaide: Behind The Creation Of The ‘World’s Best Golf Event’
From humble beginnings, here’s what made LIV Golf Adelaide in 2023 such a memorable experience. Now it shapes as being an even greater spectacle this April.
Take 2 for Tiger/Rory’s indoor golf league officially set for January 2025
The opening night for take two of TGL’s inaugural season has been set, with the new tech-infused team golf league slated for a prime-time debut on Tuesday, January 7, 2025.
Western New South Wales: Out Of The Ordinary
Western New South Wales surprises with a range of epic golf experiences, rural gems and memorable locals.
Rules Review: I’m hitting a 6-iron on a par 3. Can I use my driver to measure the teeing area?
You can play from up to 2.4 metres, give or take a centimetre, behind the markers and still be considered in the teeing area.
Valspar Championship picks 2024: Can the big-game hunter tame Innisbrook?
It wasn’t exactly going out on a limb, but it still took some guts for our anonymous caddie to take Scottie Scheffler to win the Players Championship last week. No player had ever gone back-to-back, and it was a roll of the dice to expect him to back up his strong putting week at Bay Read more…
Golf strategy ‘genius’ reveals some of the worst mistakes he sees amateur golfers make
This article originally appeared in the Golf IQ newsletter, which is available exclusively for Golf Digest+ members. You can sign up for Golf Digest+ right here. Eduardo Molinari and Arccos announced last week that they were joining forces. It’s the kind of news that may glide under the radar, but is actually pretty exciting for Read more…
Rules Review: Here’s a crafty (but legal) way to take relief and get your ball into a much better lie
When it comes to the Rules of Golf, a little research in what you can and can’t do will often result in you thinking you just hacked the system.
Players Championship DFS picks 2024: To Scheffler or not to Scheffler?
After a thrilling week in Orlando where the PGA Tour finally received a much-needed infusion of star power, we now head north to Ponte Vedra Beach for The Players Championship. The “fifth major” remains the flagship event of the PGA Tour season, and it now features the largest purse in golf, a whopping $25 million, Read more…
Nine tee-to-green tips to help you get the most out of your equipment
There’s never a bad time to investigate buying new clubs, so to help you actually swing those new sticks the way they’re designed, we compiled some equipment-related tips from some of our Best in State and Top 50 coaches.
Rules Review: What’s it called now? A quick refresher in rules terminology
Since the Rules of Golf have been greatly modified in the past five years, many terms we’ve all been accustomed to saying are technically no longer considered part of the game.
Arnold Palmer Invitational DFS picks 2024: Rory McIlroy is peaking
The PGA Tour’s fourth signature event of the season, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, remains one of the year’s best tests with a great field at Bay Hill Club and Lodge in Orlando, a Dick Wilson design that has featured numerous renovations by the King himself over the years. It’s the second year in a row Read more…
It’s the ‘foolproof’ aiming method that’s popular on tour. Here’s how to do it
Golf Digest’s Luke Kerr-Dineen, a scratch golfer, has a confession: “I am one of those amateur golfers who sucks at aiming,” he tells me on the latest episode of the Golf IQ podcast. Seeing that Luke is my work superior, please note that I mentioned he is a stick before highlighting his relatable observation about Read more…
A tour-proven way to play smarter golf, with Scott Fawcett
When Scott Fawcett was playing mini tours in the early 2000s, he was just like us, finishing his rounds and realizing that he should have shot a much better score. The frustration of making “dumb” mistakes prompted Fawcett to dive into Strokes Gained statistics to uncover a definitive strategy for how golfers should play. The Read more…
Rules Review: When taking relief, when do I drop the ball and when should I place it?
Luckily, the Rules of Golf is fairly cut-and-dried when it comes to when to do either.
