The secret to good storytelling is more than simply smart and insightful words on a page or screen. It also calls for images that capture the essence of the subject, whether the demeanor of an individual, the mood of a moment or richness of place or thing. Golf Digest has long prided itself on capturing Read more…
Grayson Murray withdrew with two holes to play in the second round of the Charles Schwab Challenge in May. A day later, Murray’s parents released a statement that the 30-year-old tour pro was lost to suicide. Murray battled anxiety and depression throughout his life, yet didn’t let his struggles overshadow his love for the game, Read more…
In 1989, Ray Floyd expressed hope that the PGA Tour might shave 25 spots from its annual all-exempt structure that it had instituted seven years earlier. Floyd argued that the all-exempt tour, in which the top 125 money winners retained their tour cards for the next season, had facilitated mediocrity. Too many players could make Read more…
There were no shortage of golfers hitting the links in 2024, the recreational game continuing to ride a post-COVID surge. In turn, there was no shortage of fun stories about playing golf from our team of writers, who aimed to join those hitting the links whenever time permitted. As is our tradition, we asked staffers Read more…
When he first took up golf – long before he launched the criminally underrated Not A Scratch Golfer and became my favourite YouTuber – Adam Fine had just four months to get hooked
Scottie Scheffler won everything. So did Nelly Korda. Bryson DeChambeau turned around his public perception, and the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund … well, the schism is still ongoing, yet there is hope the end may be approaching. While these stories dominated golf’s headlines in 2024, there was plenty that went under Read more…
In the painful aftermath of Grayson Murray’s suicide, the people who loved him describe a man with immense talent, a kind heart and a burden he couldn’t shed.
In a wide-ranging interview at the end of his tenure, R&A chief executive Slumbers cautions: “The constant dialogue of money has damaged the reputation of the sport.”
At the end of the first act of the hit Broadway musical “Wicked,” Elphaba, the so-called Wicked Witch of the West, belts out the song “Defying Gravity” as she flies on a broom for the first time to escape the Wizard of Oz and the rest of a cruel world that has turned against her. Read more…
After your last putt drops on the 18th, it’s possible the rest of your day proceeds exactly like a tour pro’s—from the 1970s, that is. Some sequence of burger, shower, cocktail to cap a long walk in the sun. Maybe a few pulls on a heater with deep thoughts about how you could do better Read more…
Kalia Bonawitz didn’t think there was NIL money for her. She was playing at Hawaii Pacific University, a DII program, and shooting mostly in the 80’s when the rules changed in June of 2021 to allow college athletes to profit from name, image and likeness deals. “It seemed like more of an opportunity for people Read more…
Scott is about to complete a season in which he has, at a time of competitive life when most players are entering inevitable decline, risen from 44th to 20th on the Official World Golf Ranking.
Australian Golf Digest
