EVANS, Ga. — If Spain’s Carla Bernat Escuder goes on to win the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, she may have last year’s U.S. Amateur champion, Josele Ballester, to thank. Escuder enters Saturday’s final round at Augusta National just one shot behind leaders Kiara Romero and last year’s champion Lottie Woad. Escuder, 21, grew up just Read more…
EVANS, Ga. — Lottie Woad is a different person than one year ago, but the defending Augusta National Women’s Amateur champion’s game remains the same. After the first two rounds at Champions Retreat, Woad, the world’s top-ranked amateur, is tied for the lead at nine under par alongside the 2023 U.S. Girls’ Junior champion Kiara Read more…
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: BGT (Breakthrough Golf Technology), the company that has made inroads with its Stability putter shafts designed to improve consistency, now steps into the full putter business with the new Paradox. Again, the theme is consistency. The company touts the putter’s high-toe/low-heel weighting as being a fundamental improvement in the zero-torque Read more…
An additional perk of winning the media lottery to play Augusta National the Monday after the Masters is the permission to be reasonably obnoxious about it afterward. Usually, detailed descriptions of my golf rounds are the easiest way to clear a room. Here, people even ask questions. At Golf Digest, we’ve covered the dynamic from Read more…
Comparing golfers of different eras, even on an iconically consistent layout like Augusta National, is usually like trying to predict how a toddler might react to seeing the Easter Bunny for the first time, rife with conjecture and suppositions that cannot be verified in any way that might be considered scientific. So what? We think Read more…
There are club drops and there are shanks. While conventional wisdom suggests the two should go hand in hand, that’s not always the case (see: Hideki Matsuyama). On the rare occasion the two do cross paths, however, they make for one of the most powerful forces in golf. Just ask Justin Rose, who found himself Read more…
The LPGA has moved from Arizona to Las Vegas, where 64 players are competing in the fifth-year match play event, the T-Mobile Match Play at Shadow Creek. The field is playing for an overall $2 million purse with the winner taking home $300,000 for a victory. Nelly Korda captured the win last year, topping Leona Read more…
After four events overseas, LIV Golf has finally reached its first event in the U.S. The league is in its fourth year and this week’s event is at Trump National Doral in Miami. The same cast of characters are in South Florida playing for the customary $20 million purse, with the winner taking home $4 Read more…
Australian Golf Digest has learned the DP World Tour is finalising a deal to bring a tournament to one of US president Donald Trump’s Scotland golf courses, beginning this August.
Looking to learn what you need to know about the latest new products from LA Golf? These handy thumbnails will keep you up to date on the company’s new releases across all club catetgories. LA Golf Face ID Drivers: LA Golf, the high-end shaft manufacturer that has started to dip its toe into golf clubs, Read more…
Everything about Scottie Scheffler, both the golfer and the person, screams “simple.” And yes, we mean that as a compliment. Just take a look at both of his Masters Champions Dinner menus, which are nearly identical save for an additional appetizer and a soup switchup: Simple, simple, simple. Meat and potatoes. 99-mph fastball on the Read more…
When you reach 89 editions of anything, you’re going to develop some traditions. The Masters, an event steeped in lore, rituals and traditions “unlike any other” is the quintessential example of that and part of what makes it the golf treat of all golf treats. It’s one thing to see a beautiful drive or a Read more…
The entire Augusta National property resonates aesthetically, especially during the Masters when everything is in bloom, but the par-3 16th is a focal point. Just steps off the 15th green, it sits in a kind of amphitheater with the hillside under the neighboring sixth hole (which is not visible) providing bleacher-like seating for patrons and Read more…
Timing is everything, as they say, so credit goes to Golf Digest for having great timing in speaking with Jack Nicklaus on the topic of, well, timing. Shortly before his legendary one-shot victory over Johnny Miller and Tom Weiskopf in the 1975 Masters, Nicklaus was asked about getting his golf swing tuned-up for spring. Before Read more…
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