Category: Golf

This article first appeared in Low Net, a Golf Digest+ exclusive newsletter written for the average golfer, by an average golfer. Have a topic you want me to explore? Send me an email at [email protected]. My favorite example of people not understanding handicaps is from the golf tournament I organized on my wedding day. Working...

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: TaylorMade moves its utility irons under the “P” family, providing more of a definitive better players look, feel and performance to the longer section of the bag. The new, sleeker P·UDI and wider-soled P·DHY aim to replace the long irons, hybrids or high-lofted fairway woods in the bag by offering...

This is Si Woo Kim. A four-time PGA Tour winner, Kim is best known for capturing the 2017 Players Championship. What separates him from many golfers is that he’s able to swing aggressively through impact, letting the clubface close noticeably without fear of hooking the ball. He and his coach, Chris Como, will explain why....

Peter Oosterhuis made people comfortable. He was a flinty but friendly competitor, an authoritative but empathetic broadcaster, a stimulating but relaxing dinner companion. His gift for counterbalance allowed him to leaven even the horrible experience of Alzheimer’s disease. The urbane Englishman’s life well lived ended peacefully early Thursday morning in his longtime home of Charlotte,...

Australian golfer Hannah Green has broken into the top 10 in the latest Women’s World Golf Rankings following her successful title defence at the LA Championship 2024 at the Wilshire Country Club in Los Angeles, California on Sunday. Thanks to her fifth win on the LPGA Tour, Green jumped 10 places to go from No....

Jack Nicklaus’ best year on the PGA Tour was 1972. He won two major championships, the Masters and U.S. Open, and claimed seven total victories. He also lapped the tour in earnings and took home his second (of five) PGA Tour Player of the Year awards. In the 1970s, Nicklaus was known for his power...

A couple of Adelaide locals have gone viral after recording themselves sneaking into Grange Golf Club during the second edition of LIV Golf Adelaide and, well, living it up on the tournament’s famous party hole. Footage circulating on social media shows Aussie TikTokkers ‘Aussie’ Edwards, Sam Patterson, Sam Young and Alex Triplow pulling off random...

Justin Bieber was spotted playing golf without a shirt while on vacation in the Bahamas earlier this week, causing quite the fashion stir, looking relaxed and happy, not at all “sorry.” The Canadian singer paired his topless look with vibrantly colored patterned crochet shorts that hit below the knee, plus a Balenciaga cap to top...

Editor’s note: Peter Oosterhuis, celebrated player and broadcaster, died at 75 on May 2, 2024. The following is a look back at his incredible career and documented health struggles from Golf Digest’s September 2015 issue. Things happen to golfers they’d just as soon forget. If Doug Sanders could erase the memory of missing a short...

Peter Oosterhuis had a memorable career—three of them in fact—the sum of which echoed a movie title, a wonderful life until it slowly was eroded by an insidious disease. Oosterhuis died Thursday, one day shy of his 76th birthday and 10 years after having been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease. Born just outside London, Oosterhuis...

There are two weeks until the first round of the 2024 PGA Championship gets underway at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky., and the full field for the second men’s major of the year is starting to take shape. Sixteen past champions are expected to compete in the event. Among them is Brooks Koepka, winner...

BETWEEN 650 AND 750 COURSES IN AMERICA use caddies. Most run some sort of caddie tournament. Formats and eligibility vary widely. At River Forest Country Club in Chicago members loop for caddies in a qualifier to decide 12 spots for the Noonan Cup—inspired by caddie champion Danny Noonan of “Caddyshack” who famously bested Tony D’Annunzio...