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America’s Best New Courses for 2023
Each year Golf Digest honors the highest scoring new or remodeled courses in four categories: Best New Public Course, Best New Private Course, Best Renovation (courses that undergo conventional improvements like tree removal, new bunkers, altered tees and expanded or relocated greens) and Best Transformation (courses that are fundamentally remodeled with new or rerouted holes). Read more…
Rules Review: When am I allowed to substitute a golf ball on the course?
You might be wondering when the Rules of Golf allow you to exchange a golf ball during a round. The good news is there are a lot of opportunities.
Sony Open picks 2024: Watch out for this wily veteran at Waialae
The Sentry was a nice little appetizer, but the Sony Open is the first full meal of the 2024 season. And while it may not be a signature event like Kapalua had, a number of stars, and soon-to-be stars, are showing up to make their ’24 debuts at Waialae. Will Zalatoris, Ludvig Aberg, Matt Fitzpatrick Read more…
Rules Review: I stopped my swing before hitting the ball. Does that count as a stroke?
What is the ruling when you intentionally stop your swing halfway down but the club still passes by the ball? The Rules Of Golf has the answer.
Lee Trevino reveals the secret to ‘the best chipper I’ve ever seen’
It’s funny how the game’s truly great players never stop trying to get even better. Lee Trevino is perhaps the best example there is. The 84 year-old hits balls on the range almost every day. He still tinkers with his technique, and is constantly learning lessons from the past. He shared a couple of those Read more…
Rules Review: I hit myself with my own ball. Embarrassment aside, is that a penalty?
Now, according to Rule 11.1, there is no penalty if you accidentally hit yourself with your shot. Furthermore, there is no penalty if you hit your equipment, your caddie, your opponent, your opponent’s equipment, etc. In most cases, you just play the ball as it now lies.
My 17 favorite modern Punchbowl greens in America
Of all of the notable templates holes that architects C.B. Macdonald, Seth Raynor and Charles Banks popularized in the 1910s and 20s (what Macdonald called “ideal holes” including the Redan, Biarritz and Cape), the Punchbowl is usually the most whimsical and enjoyable to play. Because of their strange shapes with sunken greens surrounded on three Read more…
10 things I learned from tour players in 2023
In a year marked by division in the golf world, one longer-standing (and admittedly lower-stakes) divide I’ve never understood is that between range rats and golfers who hate the driving range. How can you hate the driving range? For me, it’s always been a place of refuge. A place to go and think, figure things Read more…
PGA Tour wife shares hilarious story about backyard green installers having no idea who her husband was
Although Jessica Hadwin is one of our favorite better halves on the PGA Tour, cracking us up with one brutally honest anecdote after the next, Adam Hadwin’s star power could be better. When your biggest claim to fame is getting tackled by a security guard after being mistaken for a random fan, it’s safe to Read more…
PGA Pros: Network Connection
Through the Women’s Golf Network, PGA professionals are providing an entry into golf catering specifically to women
Tour player overcomes recent tragedy to earn his first PGA Tour card
After he’d run away to earn the top spot in the weather-delayed PGA Tour Q School that ended on Monday, Australian Harrison Endycott spoke of the hours he spent over the last couple of weeks preparing tto possibly re-earn full-time status for 2024. That’s what good pros do to make a living, but unlike Endycott, Read more…
Best Golf Gifts: The best golf home, lifestyle and kitchen gifts for the foodie, bourbon-buff and design junkie in your life
Though we may try to spend our every waking hour on the golf course, these creative and useful golf gifts make that dream a little easier, with fun training aids for your office or yard, clever (and punny!) golf-related kitchen items, art-sy prints and games with golf iconography to brighten any home decor, and statement Read more…
Tiger looking healthy, Charlie hitting BOMBS and everything else you missed from Team Woods’ Friday PNC Pro-Am
ORLANDO, Fla. — Thursday at the PNC Championship was about as chill as it gets when it comes to a professional golf event. Then, on Friday, Tiger and Charlie Woods arrived. While the mob scene made the vibe decidedly less chill, you wouldn’t know it by the way Tiger was carrying himself. The man was Read more…
‘That was f***ing NASTY’: Tiger Woods loved this mega flop shot from son Charlie at the PNC Championship
Tiger’s jaw literally dropped on one of Charlie’s high lobbers, a shot so impressive that dad – much like any of us would – declared that it was time to end the warm-up.
Rules Review: What happens in a match when no one knows how to apply a rule?
Can you just come to a mutual agreement among the sides and play on?
12 new golf terms you need to learn, from ‘Spin Loft’ to ‘CT Creep’
Here’s a quick breakdown for some noteworthy words and terms that we’ve seen pop up with some regularity in 2023.
How America’s hottest spot for new golf – right outside Augusta – just got even better
Just across the border from Augusta, Georgia, the town of Aiken in South Carolina is a growing hotspot in American golf.
Best Gifts for Golfers: 43 gift ideas for kids and junior golfers
Get your little ones (and not-so-little one!) excited about golf with these adorable and fun gifts this holiday season. These gifts, which range in price and size, will keep your junior golfer stylish and course ready. From lush quilted pants to glow-in-the-dark golf balls, we’ve curated a list of the best gifts to guide you Read more…
Rules Review: My opponent stopped my ball from rolling on purpose. Is that a penalty?
Rule 11.2 has this situation covered, including the few times when it is not a penalty to stop a moving ball.
7 golf habits worth breaking next year, ranked from bad to really bad
Any discussion of bad golf habits can quickly spiral out of control considering how often golfers define their games by what they’d prefer not to do. I’d love to not pull tee shots into someone’s backyard. It’d be great to not miss any more absurdly short putts. You get the point. There are bad habits, Read more…
