It won’t quite have the same pop as the Ryder Cup, but for diehard golf gamblers, the Sanderson Farms Championship is here to suck us right back in. Only one Ryder Cupper—future star Ludvig Aberg—will be in the field this week, and, coincidentally, he is the favorite to win at 11-1. It’s a wild price Read more…
In a Ryder Cup career that spanned six years and featured one giant win and two painful losses, Hunter Mahan has experienced all the good, bad and ugly that the event has to offer. That resume makes him extremely qualified to speak on two things: 1. What went wrong in Rome this past week, and Read more…
If you watched even just a single second of this year’s Ryder Cup, you heard about Patrick Cantlay’s hat. Or should we say the absence of a hat? There were rumours circulating about why the American wouldn’t don his Team USA cap and reports of a “fractured” locker room due to the decision.
Swag lovers beware, True linkswear’s new limited-edition “Dead Golfer” release has launched, just in time for spooky season, and in small batches, so you’ll want to snatch yours while the links are still live, so to speak. The release includes the brand’s signature dead golfer logo—a skeleton frozen mid-swing—on a series of hybrid and knit Read more…
Cobra debuts the latest version of its Air-X line of clubs, including drivers, fairway woods, hybrids and irons designed with lighter weights to appeal to more moderate swing speeds.
It has been a banner year for Nick Dunlap. He qualified for the U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club in June, won the U.S. Amateur in the August (after winning the Northeast and North & South Amateur before them) and played for the victorious U.S. Walker Cup team at St. Andrews in September. Yet on Read more…
If there were ever a time to go full Kobe Bryant, it would be right now for every member of the losing United States Ryder Cup team. Get right back in the gym, or on the range. Use the latest loss on European soil as motivation. Rise and grind. No days off. Mamba mentality. Rory Read more…
Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we are kicking ourselves for missing out on a golden opportunity to show off all that Italian we learned from seventh grade through freshman year of college. OK, so finishing that final final exam was one of the greatest days of my life, and I don’t remember Read more…
It has become a televised golf ritual: A player and his or her caddie toss some blades of grass and look thoughtfully at the trees around them—or the flag on an adjacent hole, like at Augusta National— to try to divine how the wind will affect the next shot. It might be good theater—or a Read more…
The latest new clubs from Cobra Golf. Cobra Air-X metals, irons (2023): Cobra debuts the latest version of its Air-X line of clubs, including drivers, fairway woods, hybrids and irons designed with lighter weights to appeal to more moderate swing speeds. Among the notable improvements is a major boost in off-center hit forgiveness (moment of Read more…
Nature can be beautiful, magical and serene. It can also be brutal, bloody and unforgiving. Just ask this golfer, who came across a massive gator lurking in the bushes during a recent tournament in Naples, Florida. Ordinarily this would be “get the hell out of there” situation, but there was some good news for the Read more…
Golf has always been up for a bit of folklore and storytelling. Whether it’s a leathery teaching pro passing on swing wisdom to an eager apprentice, a playing legend recounting exploits from decades gone by, or an architect creating a golf hole from divine inspiration, all of it adds to the game’s mystical appeal. It’s Read more…
Nothing mystifies reigning PGA Teacher and Coach of the Year Kevin Weeks more than watching players stand behind the ball and dangle a putter in front of them as they try to plumb-bob, an old-school method used to ascertain a putt’s break. “I get that it would be nice to know the overall slope of Read more…
Two-time World Long Drive champion Kyle Berkshire swings his driver 145 miles per hour and can generate 230 miles per hour of ball speed. It’s OK for him to tee the ball high and launch it into outer space, but what about you? Berkshire’s coach, Golf Digest 50 Best Teacher Bernie Najar, says you’re most Read more…
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