This article originally appeared in The Undercover Newsletter, where we grant anonymity to people who work in golf who’ve got something to say. Here a current PGA Tour player is interviewed by Senior Writer Joel Beall. You can sign up via Golf Digest+ to make sure you receive this newsletter regularly. Most tour players regard Read more…
Hannah Green has fallen an agonising one shot short of a historic medal for Australia as the women’s golf competition came to an enthralling finale at Le Golf National on Saturday.
Editor’s Note — On Aug. 8, Juan Antonio “Chi Chi” Rodriguez died at age 88. Born in Puerto Rico one of six children and raised in poverty, he would go on to become a champion golfer who won eight times on the PGA Tour and 22 senior tour titles. His showmanship on the course elevated Read more…
After Zika in Rio and COVID in Tokyo, the Olympics in Paris have been golf’s traveling Mulligan. With the target a veritable island green, the sport’s purposely struck ball hasn’t quite landed yet, but it’s tracking like a Scottie Scheffler 7-iron. Before contact, golf’s leaders were under plenty of pressure to show their game can Read more…
There are high stakes at this week’s Wyndham event, specifically for those players trying to finish inside the top 70 of the FedEx Cup standings, which last year became the new cut-off point to qualify for the playoffs.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story first ran in June 2021 when pole vaulter Armand “Mondo” Duplantis was just becoming a phenomenon in the world of track and field. He subsequently went on to claim the gold medal in the sport at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and has broken the world record eight times in the Read more…
TROON, Scotland — In the fall of 1963, four years into his time in America, Gordon Murray was giving a lesson to a woman named Janet Lee Auchincloss at Maryland’s Chevy Chase Country Club. She had brought her granddaughter Caroline, just 5 years old, and the girl played behind them. In the middle of the Read more…
We all have family heirlooms. Maybe a set of opulent pearl earrings, Beanie Babies from the late ‘90s or blurry photos of our great-great-great-grandparents. Very few of us have a signed 1934 Augusta National Invitation Tournament badge (it wasn’t even officially called the Masters yet!) in our house, gathering dust and waiting to break nearly Read more…
The U.S. Girls’ Junior Amateur Championship begins Monday, and it’s a special one for the USGA as it marks the 75th playing of the event. (Only five other USGA championships have been held longer.) Scheduled from July 15-20, the championship boasts a diverse field of 156 competitors ages 12 to 18. This year’s venue, El Read more…
Forgive us the easy layup question we asked Stephen Curry on our shoot with him back in January for the June cover of Golf Digest. “Is there anybody in the NBA who can beat you in golf?” “Negative. No chance,” Curry said. “I’m taking those bets all day long.” So let’s accept that as a Read more…
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