Despite what a lot of fans think, professional golf isn’t all courtesy cars and private jets. The vast majority of golf’s upper echelon is made up of carpet-bagging mini-tour pros hoping to scrounge up enough money …
While golf courses in Canada were closed due to COVID restrictions, it appears some of the wildlife got a little more comfortable on the well-manicured fairways of Swaneset Golf Course and Country Club in British Columbia. …
The game of golf can be a cruel sport. We’ve seen some of the best players in the world have blowup holes, which are not only embarrassing but can also slow the pace of play drastically. …
There’s a long-running hypothetical that takes place in grille rooms and bars around the world: what would a Tour pro shoot at your home course? It is so talked-about, in fact, that Golf Digest has enlisted …
Bryson DeChambeau found himself back in the headlines this past weekend at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational following his withdrawal to the men’s Olympic Golf competition two weeks ago due to a positive COVID-19 test. After …
Si Woo Kim made the wrong kind of history on Sunday at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, recording the highest score in competition at TPC Southwind and the highest-ever score on a par-3 in PGA Tour …
On July 18, Paula Reto was on the outside looking in at the Olympic Games this week. By July 19, she had gained entry as two of her South African compatriots opted out. On July 24, …
Here’s how to hit your putts solid. The key is to hit the ball in the middle of the putter face. Try hitting some balls without a hole. With the no-hole drill, step over your putter …
The beauty of golf is that it’s a meritocracy. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from or what you’ve done previously; all that matters is whether you can get the ball into the hole …
Putting is 40% of the game at virtually every handicap level. The higher the scoring level, the more putts are needed, but the ratio of the number of putts to score holds steady – that is, …
I want to talk to you about the difference between an iron and a driver. The reason why you do pretty well getting the face square with an iron and getting the face open with the …
We often hear that golf — and other professional sports — is a game of inches. Those inches, as Al Pacino says in his Any Given Sunday speech, are everywhere around us. Perhaps given golf’s small …
Different golfers play the game in different ways. Collin Morikawa, for example, the winner of this past weekend’s Open Championship, is as stoic as they come on the course, while golfers like Jon Rahm and Jordan …
Marcus Meloan was having a dream week at the U.S. Senior Open when weather blew in on Saturday and rained on his parade. The 56-year-old sectional qualifier from San Diego was disqualified after playing 14 holes …
To be a great putter you have to control the speed of how hard you hit the putt. One of the ways that we can practice our putting and get a little bit more feedback is …
Vijay Singh is famous for hitting more golf balls than any rational human being would even consider, but you’d be hard-pressed to find one that he has hit with such little conviction that resulted in more …
After a disappointing opening round at the abrdn Scottish Open, Rory McIlroy’s second round started even more bizarrely as a fan stole a club from McIlroy’s bag on his first tee of the day. Standing on …
The fourth iteration of The Match, the made-for-television series that benefits a number of charitable endeavors, took place in Montana at the Reserve at Moonlight Basin on Tuesday featuring Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady facing off …
For golfers and fans of golf, there is a clear chasm between the game that the pros we see on television play and the one that is present on golf courses around the world on a …
Bubba Watson can do things with a golf ball that most amateurs can only dream of doing. However, on Friday at the Travelers Championship, he did something that often makes its way into amateur golfers’ blooper …
