Articles by Brendan Porath

February 9th, 2022

Legendary photographer David Cannon receives huge award. Here are some of his best pics

Legendary photographer David Cannon will receive a PGA of America lifetime achievement award. Here are some of his best pics

December 14th, 2021

The Inanity Index: Tiger Woods is back (sort of) and Greg Norman goes behind enemy lines

Australian Golf Digest editors take a look at Greg Norman and Tiger Woods in the latest edition of the inanity index.

October 26th, 2021

New European Tour winner has his 6-year-old to thank for saving him from disastrously unlucky break

For Winther, it was 6-year-old Nora who came through in the clutch when he and his wife got trapped in the bathroom earlier in the day.

October 17th, 2021

Australia’s Min Woo Lee teams up with European Tour stars to shatter world record for fastest hole played

The European Tour is back at it. Their social channels have become regular stops for exotic golf feats of strength, speed, and persistence, whether it’s hitting golf balls into speeding cars or day-long hole-in-one challenges.

September 9th, 2021

R&A names Royal Portrush host of 2025 Open Championship

The rapid six-year gap between Opens is nothing like the wait from 1951 to 2019 and a further endorsement of the triumph of that staging two years ago.

August 30th, 2021

Patrick Cantlay outlasts Bryson DeChambeau in epic duel at the BMW Championship

A deadpan Cantlay got off the ropes time and again against DeChambeau both in regulation and throughout an exhilarating six-hole playoff.

August 26th, 2021

What makes Caves Valley, set for its PGA Tour debut, a golf ‘fairytale land’

Caves Valley may be getting its first taste of the tour, but it is no stranger to championship golf.

July 7th, 2021

Hundreds descend on golf club in Norway after news of a Viktor Hovland tee-time goes viral

Hovland, who flew to Europe after the US Open and promptly won the BMW International Open in Munich, is back in Norway, where word got out that his name appeared on the timesheet for what was a planned quiet home game.

July 2nd, 2021

Open Championship 2022: R&A opens ticket lottery for 150th edition at St Andrews

Even with the 149th Open Championship still a few weeks away, you can already put your name in the hopper for tickets to the 150th Open.

July 1st, 2021

Dutch Ladies Open reaches the creative tee marker summit with mini Big Green Eggs

These otherwise insignificant accoutrements are perfect for the social media age, where little bits of whimsy crash ashore and then recede back out of our consciousness into the great data lakes.

June 11th, 2021

How a THREE-SHOT slow-play penalty cost this tour pro a spot in next week’s US Open

Family, friends and fans of John Catlin, currently 85th in the Official World Golf Ranking and a three-time winner on the European Tour in the last eight months, may have a new foe.

June 1st, 2021

Japan Tour pro plays his way into British Open with only 11 clubs and no caddie

Juvic Pagunsan needed only 11 clubs and no caddie to get his first win on the Japan Tour.

May 6th, 2021

Korn Ferry Tour announces huge prizemoney increase for all events

The explosion in purse increases at the highest levels of the men’s professional game don’t often translate into any significant purse increases on lower level tours, specifically the Korn Ferry Tour. That’s about to change.

April 28th, 2021

Korn Ferry Tour: New Zealand’s Nick Voke nearly DQ’d after getting stuck in a lift

The hotel was unresponsive at first, but tour officials weren’t and they made it clear Voke would be disqualified if he did not make it to the course on time.

April 28th, 2021

Kiwi Nick Voke nearly DQ’d after getting stuck in a lift, winds up making the cut

The two confronted the predicament with amusement, but that turned to agony as time passed and the threat of missing the resumption of their second round became real.