The saying goes experience is the best teacher. If that’s the case, then an awful lot of tour pros are going to learn some lessons on Sunday at the 2026 PGA Championship. Entering the final round at Aronimink Golf Club, Alex Smalley has a two-stroke edge on the field. However, there are 21 players within Read more…
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — The grounds were still buzzing almost 24 hours after it happened. Jordan Spieth won’t win this PGA Championship, but he quite possibly hit the defining shot of the tournament. “I don’t think most amateurs understand how incredible it was,” says coach Josh Gregory. “It was an unbelievable golf shot. Unbelievable,” says Read more…
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — The one and really only thing you need to know about hole locations is that there’s no such thing as an illegal one. There are no rules, only norms. The most interesting setups are when the golf course begins flirting with those norms. That’s what we have at Aronimink Golf Club Read more…
No one who played with Alex Smalley in college is surprised to see him contending in the PGA Championship. I should know—I was his teammate at Duke and was lucky enough to practice and play alongside him, learning plenty along the way. Smalley winning on tour—or a major championship—is just a matter of time. At Read more…
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — Pros don’t wing it when it comes to the distances they hit their clubs. They deal in incriments. Tommy Fleetwood’s club distances book proves it. It may look overwhelming to the rest of us—but it’s not qute as confusing as it looks. All the numbers in black are Tommy’s stock carry Read more…
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — Earlier this week I watched one of the kind of little miracles that pop up from time-to-time on the driving ranges of professional golf. After a few wedge shots, Tommy Fleetwood pulled his 8-iron and started hitting three-quarter, hold-off finished shots. I witnessed five consecutive shots where the club path was Read more…
There are good misses, and bad misses. And at Aronimink Golf Club on the opening day of the 2026 PGA Championship, there was one miss that was worst of all.
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. Part of my plan for improving at golf this year involves getting more official rounds under my belt. But while I Read more…
Statistically, chip shots that don’t even find the green rank only behind shots struck out-of-bounds for scorecard damage. Here are six common strategies pros use to avoid chipping woes.
Sleeping probably shouldn’t be a competition, but a wearable device at least presents the option. Maybe you know the deal: Wake up, roll out of bed, and in my family at least, check for proof you did a better job overnight than the other people at the breakfast table. That this is juvenile and pointless Read more…
JD Cuban Many holes at TPC Sawgrass, where I teach, have run-off areas around the greens. Miss your target by just a few yards or catch an unlucky hop, and you can easily find yourself with a delicate little uphill chip from one of these collection areas. Now, you could grab your wedge or even Read more…
Did you ever notice in those big-box commercial gyms that there always seems to be a few pieces of gym equipment no one ever uses? Perhaps you’re guility of breezing past an aparatus or two that you can’t quite figure out what it’s used for.That is often the case with flywheels, which are truly unique Read more…
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