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Xander Schauffele: Get your swing closer to neutral
During COVID, I played a lot of golf at a little course in San Diego called The Farms. The fairways there are super-tight, so I started hitting low cuts for control. Problem was, I got into a groove of swinging out to in, with the club laid-off at the top (pointing left of the target). Read more…
Rory McIlroy’s Masters win solved one problem but created another
Jack Nicklaus said what many were thinking after Rory McIlroy won the Masters: “It will take the world off his shoulders and you’re now going to see a lot more of really good golf out of Rory McIlroy,” Nicklaus said during the CBS broadcast. After 11 years of trying to complete the Grand Slam, McIlroy Read more…
Bandon Dunes: 18 things you must know before planning your trip
A golf trip to Bandon Dunes is nirvana. It’s the only resort with five 18-hole courses ranked among our 100 Greatest Public Courses, and getting here is so coveted, Bandon Dunes recently instituted a lottery system just for the chance to make reservations. Once you do secure time at one of golf’s greatest locales, what Read more…
Step away from the hot dog: A sports nutritionist explains how the right food can lead to better golf
The bogeys and double bogeys at the U.S. Open earlier this month were usually attributed to the same factors: Oakmont’s dense rough and slick greens, plus a little bit of major championship pressure. No one thought to consider if the golfer might have had a lame breakfast. It would be a stretch to say the Read more…
Former NBA All-Star Blake Griffin brings his witty humor to the course—and to the TV desk
Blake Griffin played his final NBA game in April 2023 but didn’t take long to produce a different kind of athletic highlight a few months later at Brentwood Country Club. The six-time NBA All-Star used a 7-iron to make a hole-in-one on the 187-yard second hole and started leading another fast break. “I threw my Read more…
A Quest For Perfection
When David Leadbetter met a student of equal intensity Editor’s note: In June 1985, instructor David Leadbetter teamed with Nick Faldo. Faldo willingly suffered through a difficult transition period that threatened to derail his career. But under Leadbetter’s steady guidance, the fiercely determined Faldo won the 1987 Open Championship and then five more majors. The Read more…
Ryan Peake: Not His Peake
Former gang member and convict Ryan Peake has qualified for The Open but wants to be known for more.
Titleist: Having A Ball
Exploring New Bedford, Massachusetts: the birthplace of Titleist and the Pro V1.
Ryder Cup 2025: Is Keegan Bradley as playing captain a nightmare scenario or a big deal about nothing?
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.
Hot List 2025: Softest-feeling irons
More and more of the quotient for success in iron design today lies squarely not in a rush toward more ball speed but in that most elusive of intangibles: feel. It’s why when we conduct our testing for the Hot List, we ask our player-testers to elucidate what they mean when they say a particular Read more…
New LPGA commissioner finds warm welcome in Texas heat at Women’s PGA Championship
FRISCO, Texas — Craig Kessler has made quite an impression around here, working the driving range in the sweltering heat and humidity at PGA Frisco. He’s shaking hands, giving hugs and introducing himself to many of his newest clients—LPGA players—at the KMPG Women’s PGA Championship, the third major of the season. He went to the Read more…
A ‘steal’ and ‘really positive’: Tour stars react to Brian Rolapp being named PGA Tour’s first CEO
Among the things that’ve stood out to four of the PGA Tour’s brightest stars about incoming CEO Brian Rolapp has an impressive background, and he’s said all the right things.
For most, the 4-iron is dead. Here’s why and what you need to replace it with. Hint: It’s not a 4-hybrid
For the high majority of everyday players, the 4-iron is dead. Fullstop. Only about 20 percent of LPGA Tour players carry a 4-iron that’s not a utility iron.
The Return of The Ryder Cup Radicals: How the U.S. and European teams look after the U.S. Open
Believe it or not, we’re just three months and change from the 45th Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black, which means it’s just about time to start obsessing about every detail—who’s making it automatically, who’s getting a captain’s pick and, of course, which team will win on Long Island. Today, we’ve assembled two of our greatest Read more…
Gil Hanse reflects on Oakmont U.S. Open and admits it wasn’t a relaxing watch
Gil Hanse is, quite literally, everywhere. Last week, he stopped at Oakmont Country Club, which he and his team restored in 2023, to take in a few days at the U.S. Open. Then, Seminole Golf Club, where Hanse is working on another restoration project, came calling, filling up what he thought might be a free Read more…
Nelly Korda has ‘rough’ start to KPMG Women’s PGA week, suffers neck spasms after hitting shot from thick stuff at PGA Frisco
Turns out Korda sustained neck spasms after hitting out of the rough on the front nine at Fields Ranch East at PGA Frisco during Monday’s practice round.
8 things I learned from pros at the 2025 U.S. Open
OAKMONT, Pa. — Viktor Hovland followed a long, grueling U.S. Open round on one of the world’s most difficult golf courses with a high-intensity range session. While most of his peers were at home on the sofa, Hovland was slamming drives into the darkening sky. Hovland’s game over the past year or so has been Read more…
U.S. Open 2025: Beware of Viktor Hovland, the most uncomfortable contender at Oakmont
OAKMONT, Pa. — There always seems to be enough rattling around in the brain of Viktor Hovland that it’s not far-fetched to wonder how he does what he does as well as he does it. What Hovland does well is play golf, and he appears more capable than many of his peers to play better Read more…
US Open 2025: Adam Scott seeking ‘exclamation mark’ with second major win
Adam Scott can cement his legacy as an icon of Australian golf and take a place among the game’s greats after playing his way into the final group for championship Sunday at the US Open.