One of my favorite all-time golf photographs was taken at Riviera in the 1950 Los Angeles Open. It pictures Ben Hogan putting from the edge of the sixth green and Sam Snead waiting impatiently, with the milling gallery behind them and a marine layer rolling in. It’s a big photograph and not just because the Read more…
All eyes are on Rory McIlroy this week as the DP World Tour is in New Delhi for the DP World India Championship at Delhi Golf Club. The World No. 2 hasn’t played in three weeks and is back for play in this event for the second consecutive year after playing in the inaugural event Read more…
The LPGA is in Asia for the first of four events, playing its fall Asian Swing. It all starts with the Buick LPGA Shanghai, where Jeeno Thitikul is the defending champion, although it’s being played at a new venue this year, Sheshan Golf Club, which has hosted 14 versions of the WGC-HSBC Champions. Eleven of Read more…
As an avid golfer, OCD freak, keeper of score and follower of rules, I’ve always felt it is the bare minimum task to know what golf ball you are playing on any given hole. It should be easily identifiable to you with a marking of your choice, though nowadays you can get your damn name, Read more…
Remember the Internet Invitational? Luke Kwon oversleeping his tee time? The Jon Gruden speech? Chazzy? Beef (RIP)? Slope-gate? It’s been almost a year since Barstool Sports/Bob Does Sports brain child took over the golf world, introducing many to this “YouTube golf” thing they’d been hearing about. In the wake of the golf influencer Super Bowl, Read more…
During a legal hearing last week regarding the LIV’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, Rahm’s lawyer informed a New Jersey judge that his client had reviewed the proposals for “LIV 2.0” and had no interest in being part of the league’s next iteration.
On a warmer-than-expected fall Tuesday, at Tamarack Country Club in Greenwich, Conn., 44 employees of Golf Digest gathered for what they thought would be a fun, competitive day of Ryder Cup-style golf. Instead, they got a bloodbath … a merciless whooping that led to a bitter round of second-guessing and recrimination for the losers, and Read more…
Will Zalatoris will play the Austin Championship in November, then undergo spinal-fusion surgery that will rule him out for the whole of 2027. It will be his third major back surgery since 2023.
Those still with LIV must apply for DP World Tour membership by November 16, and guidelines now stipulate that double-dipping between tours is not allowed.
The most nervous round of golf I played this year came at Whistling Straits, where, amid the birch trees and sunflowers and towering windmills, surrounded by small glacial lakes and stark stony mountains, I survived a nervy start to shoot four under and win the tournament. I see you have questions. Questions like: What tournament Read more…
Blades Brown didn’t win the Korn Ferry Tour Championship, but the 19-year-old made history anyway, becoming the youngest Korn Ferry Tour graduate to earn a PGA Tour card.
The weather was awful on Sunday at the Korn Ferry Tour Championship in Virginia, but they got all 72 holes in and thus, the season-long list has been finalised, giving the top 20 players PGA Tour cards for 2027.
Blades Brown was looking for his first professional victory, but Austin Hitt jumped up and shot a final-round 66 to capture the Korn Ferry Tour Championship at the Federal Club in Glen Allen, Va. Hitt took home $270,000 from the overall $1.5 million purse. It was his first Korn Ferry Tour victory and it helped Read more…