NAPLES, Fla. — The LPGA has seen an emergence of talented rookies and international players winning this season. So far, there are 29 different event champions heading into this week’s CME Tour Championship. But one thing that’s been lost in all the parity on tour is the drought American players have experienced. With only three Read more…
Stand-up comedy is as pressure-packed of an environment as there is. Yet there may not be a gig or room on the planet that could possibly dial up the nerves quite like trying to play golf on camera for one million dollars, as comedian and Barstool Sports personality Francis Ellis came to find out in Read more…
Henrik Stenson, whose Ryder Cup captaincy was stripped due to his defection to LIV Golf, is returning to play on the DP World Tour next season. Ben Parsons of Bunkered was the first to report Stenson’s move.
The end of my golf season was a mess. I played poorly when I was away, and then when I got home, I hit the ball … even worse. My instinct when stuck in this sort of rut has always been to persist further—hit more balls, analyze more swings, search harder for answers wherever I Read more…
Sometimes one word has very different meanings. And for this specific example, we’re talking about “range.” For most Golf Digest readers, it’s the place you go to figure out your game—and swear a lot. For Broadway stars, it’s how high or low you can go while singing comfortably. In this case, the ranges are coming Read more…
It’s hard to pick any one line as my favorite in the 1998 cult classic “The Big Lebowksi,” because there are far too many to choose from, but I think I most enjoy the moment when John Goodman’s character Walter Sobchak sees a man named Smokey go “over the line” while rolling an eight in Read more…
Jordan Smith should take a look at this quote from himself, if earning one of 10 PGA Tour cards Sunday from the DP World Tour’s Race to Dubai rankings wasn’t sweet enough. Because a year ago, he was the victim of a cruel gap in the system. As part of the Strategic Alliance between the Read more…
Rory McIlroy lost in a playoff to Matthew Fitzpatrick at the DP World Tour Championship, yet still won the season-long Race to Dubai for the fourth year in a row and seventh of his career.
Golf course superintendents spend all season trying to avoid and curb criticism from nit-picking golfers. What’s their reward? Well, at many clubs, the end of the season is the traditional time for “Superintendent’s Revenge” tournaments, where the goal is flipped. How can I set up the course in the most brutally unforgiving way possible? That’s Read more…
Welcome to MythBusters, a Golf Digest+ series where we explore answers to some of golf’s most common questions through a series of tests with golfers and robots. Sometimes definitive, other times less so, our findings aim to shed new light on topics that have consumed golfers for years. Wouldn’t it be nice if every time Read more…
The tournament will switch in 2026 from The Club at Carlton Woods outside Houston across the city to Memorial Park Golf Course, where the PGA Tour holds its Texas Children’s Houston Open in March.