Category: Golf

You step up to a wide-open par 5, tee it high, swing as hard as you can and what happens? The ball spins off to the right and flies 30 yards shorter than normal. That’s because when many of us try to increase distance, we don’t understand the moves necessary to crank up clubhead speed....

The slam dunk in golf is a rare sight, but every once in awhile, the stars, golf gods—and physics—align perfectly for a golf ball to drop into the cup on the fly. Yes, Michael Block, we’re talking about you. Of course, we’ve also seen golf balls bounce out of the hole unfortunately. Ouch. But on...

Calvin Peete was an amazing guy, and it’s hard to overstate just how amazingly straight he hit the golf ball. We made a whole video about Peete, but in a nutshell: Peete broke his arm irrevocably when he was young, didn’t take up golf until he was in his 20s, then led the tour in...

A spectacular 7-under-par 65 on the country Victorian course gave Henkel a two-shot margin over two of the Australian tour’s most experienced professionals, Matt Griffin and Marcus Fraser, as well as fellow Victorian Bradley Kivimets and NSW’s James Gordon. A  joint winner at Clermont and Maryborough in Queensland over winter, Henkel has been in solid...

[PHOTOS: Getty Images] World No.1 Scottie Scheffler put the bow on a magical season when he lifted the PGA Tour’s ultimate prize, the FedEx Cup for the first time at the Playoffs finale, the Tour Championship. His four-stroke triumph made it a grand total of seven victories in 2024 where he was also the gold...

In his first interview since undergoing surgery Aug. 21 on his left wrist, Jordan Spieth says he’s hoping to be able to take full swings again by mid-November and is confident he won’t miss any time when the 2025 PGA Tour season begins in January. Spieth was a guest on Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz’...

Welcome to MythBusters, a Golf Digest series where we explore answers to some of golf’s most common questions through a series of tests with real golfers. While our findings might fall short of definitive, they still aim to shed new light on topics that have consumed golfers for years. Walk down any PGA Tour driving...

Golfpocalypse is a weekly collection of words about (mostly) professional golf with very little in the way of a point, and the Surgeon General says it will make you a worse person. Reach out to The Golfpocalypse with your questions or comments on absolutely anything at [email protected]. I absolutely love most of the marshals at...

The numbers get you close to a story but are too indifferent to describe a life. From 1997 to 2008, King Oehmig might have been the most successful high school golf coach in America. At his alma mater, Baylor School, a private boarding and day school in Chattanooga, Tenn., Oehmig’s teams won 21 state championships....

[PHOTO: Stuart Franklin/Getty Images] Victorian David Micheluzzi has adopted the mindset employed by F1 superstar Max Verstappen to play his way into contention for the season-ending DP World Tour playoffs. In his first full season on the DP World Tour, Micheluzzi currently sits 63rd in the Race to Dubai rankings heading into this week’s Omega...

My club championship was last weekend, and I did not have my best stuff. It was pretty disappointing—I knew going in I wasn’t playing my best golf, but I couldn’t help hoping something would change. But it didn’t. I stumbled into the match play, found a small semblance of good golf, but lost a hard-fought...

When the Rules of Golf was updated in 2019, the USGA and R&A aimed to improve it in a manner in which they covered all aspects of the game while being as clear and succinct as possible. Yet, avid golfers like yourself know a lot of things happen on the course that still fall into...