Golf Digest Global

August 11th, 2026

Will bomb and gouge work at Merion? The answer could change during the week at the U.S. Amateur

ARDMORE, Pa — The U.S. Amateur poses a formidable test—physically and mentally—for all 312 players in the field, as Noah Kent can personally attest. The first time the 21-year-old University of Florida senior played in the championship was 2024, where he played 155 holes over the course of seven days, reaching Sunday’s final match before Read more…

August 11th, 2026

FedEx St. Jude Championship 2026: The major champion with ‘disrespectful’ odds is a must-bet

The top 70 players from the PGA Tour in 2026 are walkin’ in Memphis as the FedEx Cup playoffs kick off a three-week run to the Tour Championship. A loaded field, a familiar course and high stakes are on deck as fewer bodies are fighting for top-50 status to advance to next week. TPC Southwind Read more…

August 11th, 2026

MLB star’s team-bonding golf outing at hyped new course turns into trade-deadline trainwreck

The new Tiger Woods-designed Trout National is a private course that only the luckiest golfers have had a chance to see. It’s known for its $100 million budget, as well as The Dugout, an amenity station built into the ground behind the 14th and 16th teeing areas, so you can watch tee shots from ground level. Read more…

PGA Tour

August 10th, 2026

Brooks Koepka: ‘Pretty pathetic’ he couldn’t qualify for tour’s playoffs

Brooks Koepka’s PGA Tour season is over. And he’s not happy about it.

August 8th, 2026

Jason Day sees one of the most impressive streaks in PGA Tour history come to an end

Jason Day’s streak of 18 straight FedEx Cup Playoffs appearances has ended after missing the cut at the Wyndham Championship, with the Australian opening up on the back issues that have hampered his season.

August 8th, 2026

Rory McIlroy is confirmed for next week’s FedEx St Jude after skipping playoff opener last year

After skipping three signature events this season, Rory McIlroy has confirmed he’ll tee it up at next week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship, the opening event of the FedEx Cup Playoffs.

US Open

July 2nd, 2026

How Bobby Jones’ 1926 US Open win at Scioto Country Club inspired this all-time famous quote about tournament golf

A century ago, Jones was moved to make an observation about his 1926 US Open experience and the challenges of tournament golf that echo through the decades and remains pointed and pertinent today.

June 25th, 2026

Tiger wins the 2026 US Senior Open. You mean, there’s a chance?

More history beckons Tiger Woods post-50, if he can summon the energy and will.

June 23rd, 2026

9 things I learned from pros at the 2026 US Open

Among the lessons: a balanced approach to your golf swing is the best one.

LIV Golf

August 10th, 2026

Despite his worst LIV Golf finish, Jon Rahm wins league’s individual title for the third consecutive season

Joaquin Niemann has cruised to a wire-to-wire win at LIV Golf New York, as Jon Rahm locked up a third consecutive season-long points title despite his career-worst result in the league.

August 10th, 2026

Joaquin Niemann continues to LIV the dream with victory No.9

Joaquin Niemann has gone wire-to-wire to win LIV Golf New York, his ninth title in three years, as Jon Rahm secured a third consecutive season points title despite a disappointing final round.

August 7th, 2026

Red-hot Lucas Herbert shines again in LIV Golf

Lucas Herbert’s purple patch continues, the Australian firing a bogey-free five-under 66 to move within two shots of leader Joaquin Niemann at LIV Golf New York.

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July 24th, 2026

Editor’s letter: Less can be Moore

There’s potentially a silver lining to Moore Park’s reduction in holes.

July 24th, 2026

Behind the scenes

Where our editors ventured in compiling this issue More women are taking up a club than ever and a new wave of groups is making sure they feel welcome when they do. Golf Fore Her is one of them. I spent a Sunday at Cronulla Golf Club, on Sydney’s southern beaches, at one of their Read more…

July 24th, 2026

Top 100 Spotlight: Eastern Golf Club

Since relocating from suburban Doncaster to the outskirts of Melbourne in the Yarra Valley 11 years ago, Eastern Golf Club has built a new home for itself and garnered a renewed spirit – along with new golf courses.

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How to play

August 8th, 2026

Why being unrealistically positive doesn’t work on the golf course

When I was playing Division III college golf, I went through a particularly uninspiring stretch of putting. Someone advised me to tell myself, ‘I’m the best putter in the world’ each time I set foot on the green. He was trying get me to create confidence so big that it removed any doubt from my Read more…

August 5th, 2026

Slice the ball? The fix is ‘knuckles down,’ says No. 1 Teacher

Chronic slicers often blame their swing path, but the real culprit is usually an open clubface. Tour coach Mark Blackburn shares the simple cue to fix it for good.

July 30th, 2026

Do This, Not That: Hitting quality iron shots comes down to these two things

Solid iron play comes down to two things: where the low point of your swing hits the ground, and how the clubface rotates. Here’s a step-by-step breakdown to get both right.

What to play

August 10th, 2026

The clubs Michael Brennan used to win the 2026 Wyndham Championship

Michael Brennan claimed his second PGA Tour title at the Wyndham Championship, locking in his first FedEx Cup Playoffs appearance and a trip to the Masters.

August 9th, 2026

You get 14 clubs. Here’s how to know if you’re wasting spots in your bag

The number of clubs you need is determined by the ones that are useful to you.

August 4th, 2026

Cleveland RTZ 2 wedges: What you need to know

Cleveland’s new RTZ 2 wedges pair updated ZipCore iQ technology with the return of company founder Roger Cleveland and his nearly 40-year-old 588 grind, offering more consistency and shot-making versatility across five sole options.

Where to play

August 11th, 2026

Top 6 golf courses in Tasmania

Tasmania punches well above its weight in Australian golf, anchored by Cape Wickham and the Barnbougle courses. Here’s the definitive ranking of the state’s best, according to Australian Golf Digest’s Top 100 Courses list.

August 11th, 2026

Top 9 golf courses in Western Australia

Western Australia’s golf scene punches above its weight, anchored by Lake Karrinyup and a growing crop of coastal and regional gems. Here’s the definitive top 10, according to Australian Golf Digest’s Top 100 Courses ranking.

August 6th, 2026

We got a first look at Pinehurst No.11, the latest special new design from Bill Coore

I’ve been fortunate to walk a handful of brand-new golf courses now with architect Bill Coore. As we traversed his latest design at Pinehurst Resort, I could tell Pinehurst #11 has a special place in his heart. RELATED: Rodeo Dunes will be golf’s next great resort, and I was one of the first people to play Read more…

Women in Golf

August 10th, 2026

Golf Rules

August 5th, 2026

Opinion

August 11th, 2026

Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	Michael Brennan	-22	F	4
2	Beau Hossler	-19	F	4
3	Ben James	-18	F	4
4	Kevin Yu	-16	F	4
T5	Harry Hall	-15	F	4
T5	Tom Kim	-15	F	4
T7	Andrew Novak	-14	F	4
T7	Matt Wallace	-14	F	4
T7	Hideki Matsuyama	-14	F	4
T7	Alex Noren	-14	F	4
T7	Alex Smalley	-14	F	4
T12	Billy Horschel	-13	F	4
T12	Nico Echavarria	-13	F	4
T14	Sungjae Im	-12	F	4
T14	Justin Thomas	-12	F	4
T14	Zach Bauchou	-12	F	4
T14	Jordan Smith	-12	F	4
T14	Davis Thompson	-12	F	4
T19	Doug Ghim	-11	F	4
T19	Jordan Spieth	-11	F	4
T19	Kevin Roy	-11	F	4
T22	Jackson Suber	-10	F	4
T22	Chandler Phillips	-10	F	4
T22	David Skinns	-10	F	4
T25	Maverick McNealy	-9	F	4
T25	Davis Chatfield	-9	F	4
T25	Rafael Campos	-9	F	4
T25	Rico Hoey	-9	F	4
T29	Mackenzie Hughes	-8	F	4
T29	Matt McCarty	-8	F	4
T29	Tom Hoge	-8	F	4
T29	Aaron Rai	-8	F	4
T29	Hayden Springer	-8	F	4
T29	Eric Cole	-8	F	4
T29	Denny McCarthy	-8	F	4
T29	Ben Kohles	-8	F	4
T29	Jackson Koivun	-8	F	4
T38	Marco Penge	-7	F	4
T38	Taylor Pendrith	-7	F	4
T38	Keith Mitchell	-7	F	4
T38	Trace Crowe	-7	F	4
T38	Chad Ramey	-7	F	4
T38	Kevin Streelman	-7	F	4
T38	John Parry	-7	F	4
T38	Austin Eckroat	-7	F	4
T38	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	-7	F	4
T38	Joel Dahmen	-7	F	4
T38	Webb Simpson	-7	F	4
T49	Rasmus Højgaard	-6	F	4
T49	Keegan Bradley	-6	F	4
T49	Ricky Castillo	-6	F	4
T49	Patrick Fishburn	-6	F	4
T49	Sahith Theegala	-6	F	4
T54	Danny Walker	-5	F	4
T54	Andrew Putnam	-5	F	4
T54	Kristoffer Ventura	-5	F	4
T54	Patton Kizzire	-5	F	4
T54	Michael Kim	-5	F	4
T54	Bud Cauley	-5	F	4
T54	Tyler Collet	-5	F	4
T61	Adrien Saddier	-4	F	4
T61	Cam Young	-4	F	4
T61	Alex Fitzpatrick	-4	F	4
T61	Tony Finau	-4	F	4
T61	Thorbjørn Olesen	-4	F	4
T61	Brandt Snedeker	-4	F	4
T67	Pontus Nyholm	-3	F	4
T67	Brooks Koepka	-3	F	4
T67	Neal Shipley	-3	F	4
T67	Austin Smotherman	-3	F	4
T67	Erik van Rooyen	-3	F	4
T72	Nick Taylor	-2	F	4
T72	Chris Kirk	-2	F	4
T72	Kensei Hirata	-2	F	4
T72	Matti Schmid	-2	F	4
T72	Lee Hodges	-2	F	4
T77	Max Greyserman	-1	F	4
T77	Joe Highsmith	-1	F	4
T77	Justin Lower	-1	F	4
80	Peter Malnati	E	F	4
81	Kihei Akina	+3	F	4
CUT	Brian Harman	-2	F	2
CUT	Ryan Gerard	-2	F	2
CUT	Karl Vilips	-2	F	2
CUT	Ben Griffin	-2	F	2
CUT	C.T. Pan	-2	F	2
CUT	Emiliano Grillo	-2	F	2
CUT	Mac Meissner	-2	F	2
CUT	Brian Campbell	-2	F	2
CUT	Zac Blair	-2	F	2
CUT	Brice Garnett	-2	F	2
CUT	Johnny Keefer	-1	F	2
CUT	A.J. Ewart	-1	F	2
CUT	Takumi Kanaya	-1	F	2
CUT	J.T. Poston	-1	F	2
CUT	Marcelo Rozo	-1	F	2
CUT	Luke Clanton	-1	F	2
CUT	Matthieu Pavon	E	F	2
CUT	Patrick Rodgers	E	F	2
CUT	Lucas Glover	E	F	2
CUT	Max McGreevy	E	F	2
CUT	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	E	F	2
CUT	Jeffrey Kang	E	F	2
CUT	Alejandro Tosti	E	F	2
CUT	Sam Stevens	E	F	2
CUT	Harris English	E	F	2
CUT	Stefano Mazzoli	E	F	2
CUT	Lanto Griffin	E	F	2
CUT	Ben Silverman	E	F	2
CUT	Gordon Sargent	E	F	2
CUT	Zecheng Dou	E	F	2
CUT	William Mouw	+1	F	2
CUT	Matt Kuchar	+1	F	2
CUT	Mark Hubbard	+1	F	2
CUT	Ryo Hisatsune	+1	F	2
CUT	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	+1	F	2
CUT	William McGirt	+2	F	2
CUT	Seamus Power	+2	F	2
CUT	Hank Lebioda	+2	F	2
CUT	Camilo Villegas	+2	F	2
CUT	Steven Fisk	+2	F	2
CUT	John VanDerLaan	+2	F	2
CUT	Troy Merritt	+3	F	2
CUT	Stephan Jaeger	+3	F	2
CUT	Sepp Straka	+3	F	2
CUT	Christo Lamprecht	+3	F	2
CUT	Jimmy Stanger	+3	F	2
CUT	Adam Svensson	+3	F	2
CUT	Jason Day	+4	F	2
CUT	Blades Brown	+4	F	2
CUT	Keenan Huskey	+4	F	2
CUT	Dylan Wu	+5	F	2
CUT	Davis Riley	+5	F	2
CUT	Haotong Li	+5	F	2
CUT	Chandler Blanchet	+5	F	2
CUT	Jesper Svensson	+5	F	2
CUT	Aldrich Potgieter	+8	F	2
CUT	David Lipsky	+8	F	2
CUT	Lorenzo Rodriguez	+9	F	2
CUT	Cooper Hrabak	+9	F	2
CUT	Cam Davis	+9	F	2
CUT	Vince Whaley	+11	F	2
CUT	Luke List	+11	F	2
CUT	Nick Dunlap	+13	F	2
WD	Pi Coody	–	–
WD	Adam Schenk	–	–
DQ	Aaron Wise	–	–

Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	Joaquin Niemann	-16	18	4
2	Harold Varner III	-13	18	4
T3	Scott Vincent	-9	18	4
T3	Lee Westwood	-9	18	4
5	Byeong Hun An	-7	18	4
T6	Paul Casey	-6	18	4
T6	Thomas Pieters	-6	18	4
T6	Tom McKibbin	-6	18	4
T9	Branden Grace	-4	18	4
T9	Younghan Song	-4	18	4
T11	Laurie Canter	-3	18	4
T11	Richard T. Lee	-3	18	4
T11	Sergio Garcia	-3	18	4
14	Danny Lee	-2	18	4
T15	Peter Uihlein	E	18	4
T15	Caleb Surratt	E	18	4
T17	Brendan Steele	+1	18	4
T17	Thomas Detry	+1	18	4
T17	Marc Leishman	+1	18	4
T17	Anirban Lahiri	+1	18	4
T17	Richard Bland	+1	18	4
T22	Victor Perez	+2	18	4
T22	David Puig	+2	18	4
T22	Charl Schwartzel	+2	18	4
T22	Yosuke Asaji	+2	18	4
T22	Lucas Herbert	+2	18	4
27	Talor Gooch	+3	18	4
T28	Cameron Smith	+4	18	4
T28	Charles Howell III	+4	18	4
T28	Dustin Johnson	+4	18	4
T28	Ian Poulter	+4	18	4
T32	Martin Vorster	+5	18	4
T32	Josele Ballester	+5	18	4
T32	Michael La Sasso	+5	18	4
T32	Abraham Ancer	+5	18	4
T36	Tyrrell Hatton	+6	18	4
T36	Björn Hellgren	+6	18	4
T38	Bryson DeChambeau	+7	18	4
T38	Carlos Ortiz	+7	18	4
T38	Travis Smyth	+7	18	4
T41	Adrian Meronk	+8	18	4
T41	Matthew Wolff	+8	18	4
T41	Dean Burmester	+8	18	4
T41	Jon Rahm	+8	18	4
T45	Do-Yeob Mun	+10	18	4
T45	Miguel Tabuena	+10	18	4
47	Minkyu Kim	+11	18	4
T48	Cameron Tringale	+12	18	4
T48	Sebastian Muñoz	+12	18	4
50	Bubba Watson	+14	18	4
51	Anthony Kim	+16	18	4
T52	Jason Kokrak	+17	18	4
T52	Martin Kaymer	+17	18	4
54	Sam Horsfield	+18	18	4
55	Luis Masaveu	+24	18	4
56	Graeme McDowell	+26	18	4
	Ben Campbell	+13		4

Pos	Team	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	CRUSHERS GC	+6	18	4
T2	LEGION XIII	+8	18	4
T2	TORQUE GC	+8	18	4
4	HYFLYERS GC	+9	18	4
T5	KOREAN GOLF CLUB	+10	18	4
T5	MAJESTICKS GC	+10	18	4
7	SOUTHERN GUARDS GC	+11	18	4
8	RIPPER GC	+14	18	4
9	4ACES GC	+15	18	4
T10	FIREBALLS GC	+28	18	4
T10	CLEEKS GOLF CLUB	+28	18	4
12	OKGC	+33	18	4
13	RANGEGOATS GC	+37	18	4

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