Did you have fun watching and playing golf in 2025? We hope so, because we sure did. Granted, it’s our “job” to cover all things golf—professional events, personalities, instruction, equipment, the recreational game, etc.—yet it’s also something our entire staff takes joy in. Like most of you, the game isn’t just a sport for us Read more…
Jane Park retired from professional golf in 2020 to give full-time care to her daughter, Grace, who suffered brain damage through seizures in the first year of her life. Like most professional athletes who are in a second phase of life, Park needed something to fulfill her competitive fire. For Park, that became art. The Read more…
It is a time of reckoning for the American Ryder Cup team, brought by an embarrassing collapse during the first two days at Bethpage Black that, three months later, remains no less dispiriting. That may seem hyperbolic after a singles-session surge nearly produced a historic comeback in the 45th edition of the match back in Read more…
In the afterglow of his career Grand Slam triumph in 2025, McIlroy stands at a career inflection point. The question isn’t what he wants to achieve anymore. It’s what he wants to leave behind – and where he wants to leave it.
Scanning through some of the best modern players in the game and their best statistical rounds in that period, Els’ 60 at Royal Melbourne in 2004 betters them all.
It is Thanksgiving and I’m visiting family in Cincinnati, which means the worst golf hole in America is down the street. Fernbank Golf Course’s opener stretches 254 yards, a modest dogleg with a bunker stationed near the green. In isolation, it qualifies as the proverbial gentle handshake welcoming you to the round. But it’s not Read more…
As if there hasn’t been enough upheaval in professional golf, news emerged last week about the possibility of a future 20-odd tournament schedule for the PGA Tour – a model that could cut the current number of events the tour holds roughly in half. You have questions, we have… well, we have a lot of questions, too, but also some answers. We do our best to explain what exactly is going on.
There are shots worth millions of dollars, shots that build legacies and shots that spark careers. But away from the tours, far from the big money and the cameras, there are shots that carry a different kind of pressure. Those are the shots that nobody will ever know about, but that define entire lives. And Read more…
Nobody likes listening to a golfer go through his or her entire round shot by shot, but allow us some indulgence as we near the end of our 75th anniversary year. We were very selective. To choose the 75 moments that tell our story—from a naval officer named Bill Davis getting a taste for magazine publishing after writing an account of a kamikaze attack, to Read more…
Nobody likes listening to a golfer go through his or her entire round shot by shot, but allow us some indulgence as we near the end of our 75th anniversary year. We were very selective. To choose the 75 moments that tell our story—from a naval officer named Bill Davis getting a taste for magazine publishing after writing an account of a kamikaze attack, to Read more…
Five Japanese golfers have won on the LPGA Tour this season, a contingent of immensely talented young players who entered the tour with a big splash this season.
More than halfway through the second round of last month’s Sahalee Players Championship, Chris Zambri allowed a tantalizing thought to race through his mind. The head coach of the U.S. National Development Program had tried to minimize expectations as five members of the U.S. National Junior team were making history by playing for the first Read more…
On Wednesday of Ryder Cup week, Collin Morikawa noticed that the crowds at Bethpage Black felt pretty tame—a lot of us noticed it, actually—and he hoped to find a more intense atmosphere two days later when the match officially began. “I hope Friday is just absolute chaos,” Morikawa said. “I’m all for it. I think Read more…
Golf wasn’t supposed to be for me. Let’s be honest about that. Golf was supposed to be for men in khakis who went to prep schools and belonged to country clubs their grandfathers helped found. Golf was supposed to be for people who looked nothing like me, who came from nothing like my background, who Read more…
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