From Travis Smyth’s blunt first-tee confession to Bryson DeChambeau refusing all TV interviews, here are 19 things learned from four straight hours in the Open Championship media room at Royal Birkdale.
There is no official clock measuring this, but I am fairly certain my golf practice time has eclipsed the 10,000-hour barrier. That is the magic number for greatness, they say, which leads to the uncomfortable question of why I remain so stubbornly average. Probably because not all 10,000 hours should be graded the same. If Read more…
Golf Digest senior writer Alex Myers is on a one-year mission to see how good he can get at golf through daily training, practice and playing. Read more from his “Late Scratch?” series here. As I struggled around the beautiful, but difficult CC of Darien during my second official tournament round of the year, I Read more…
Playing in the wind is hard work. Every shot comes with an added calculation: How is the wind going to affect the flight? Average golfers know to add some club when hitting into the wind, and club down when the wind is helping, but there’s something many miss. Megan Padua, a Golf Digest Best Young Read more…
Wyndham Clark was standing in the right rough of the 18th hole on Sunday, needing a par to win the U.S. Open, when microphones captured his caddie David Pelekoudas offer his final instructions. They were the same two words Pelekoudas said on the tee minutes earlier, and the same words he said to Clark dozens Read more…
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — “Viktor Hovland is on the range right now.” My colleague Jamie Kennedy turned to me and said that, looking mildly confused and pleasently surpirsed. The U.S. Open’s range tracker was on his computer screen in the media center and it was lit up with rows of pink. Each row represents one shot, Read more…
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — The 2026 U.S. Open is going to be one of the best chipping majors in recent times. I’m convinced of it. The wind means players are going to miss a lot of them; the slopes around the greens mean they’re going to hit some interesting chip shots to get up and down. Read more…
First-time LPGA winners Yana Wilson and Gina Kim took out the 2026 Dow Championship and Wilson’s lesson from alternate shot golf is one every golfer should hear.
Some good golf shots are obvious. Hit it to five feet from 140 yards, and every level of golfer would be happy with it. But do you know what else counts as a good shot? Hitting the same shot to 20 feet. That’s still better than the PGA Tour average. So is a 20-yard bunker Read more…
Former U.S. Open champ Wyndham Clark is the reigning king of fun-looking range drills. While some players prefer chasing feels, Wyndham and his coach, Pat Coyner, use obstacles and training aids to get his swing in the positions he wants. Avoid the obstacles, and your swing will be moving the way you want it to. Read more…
Golf Digest senior writer Alex Myers is on a one-year mission to see how good he can get at golf through daily training, practice and playing. Read more from his “Late Scratch?” series here. My ultimate goal—let’s call it more of a dream—is to become a scratch golfer, and I’ve put in a lot of Read more…
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