Making history is making history. But for a brief few minutes it looked N.C. State’s Lauren Olivares Leon had joined a truly elusive club. On Monday afternoon in her first round of the 2023-24 season, Golfstat’s live scoring from the opening round of the Cougar Classic originally listed the junior from Mexico as having shot Read more…
A run-of-the-mill round at Hillcrest Golf Club in Durango in August turned to violence after a dispute over golf balls being hit by one group into another.
The 2023 Ryder Cup is on the horizon—a thunderous storm cloud forming in the blue skies above Rome. This week, both the European and U.S. teams got their first taste of Marco Simone Golf & Country Club, showing up Monday for name games, ice breakers and, of course, plenty of range reps. The atmosphere, in Read more…
The 2023 Ryder Cup is still more than a couple weeks away, but if the scoring was based on calf muscles, the U.S. would already hold an edge. And a HUGE one at that. Zach Johnson’s squad gathered in Rome over the weekend for a scouting report of Marco Simone, but it was one particular Read more…
For the first time in a decade, the autumn series does not signal the start of the PGA Tour’s regular season. And that will be far from the only change fans will see over the coming months.
The 54-hole leader of the Irish Open is a 28-year-old German with only modest results on the DP World Tour. On Sunday at The K Club in Straffan, Hurly Long, ranked 252nd in the world, will be paired in the final group with home-country hero Rory McIlroy, with the World No. 2 shooting up the Read more…
Most golfers think the only way to make the ball go up is to lift the ball into the air. This mistaken idea can make chip shots off downslopes very scary.
Editor’s Note: On Sept. 10, Arnold Palmer would have celebrated his 94th birthday. In honor of the occasion, we republished this interview with Palmer that first appeared in the January 2000 issue of Golf Digest. At age 70, Arnold Palmer can’t wait until tomorrow, and it shows. One of the most important athletes of the Read more…
Steph Curry knows great golf shots. That was evident in all of its glory a few weeks ago when, in the American Century Championship on the shores of Lake Tahoe, the NBA star produced a hole-in-one (and a rousing celebration to go with it), and then rolled in an eagle putt on the last hole Read more…