Even after Rose’s blowout seven-shot win yesterday at the Farmers Insurance Open, there’s an argument to be made that we’re not appreciating enough just what he’s doing.
Justin Rose steamrolled the field at the Farmers Insurance Open to win by seven shots, top a Tiger Woods record and do something that hasn’t happened since 1955.
The LPGA Tour has a tall task in topping the history-making season of a year ago, but with such young talent and a global reach, it’s a season with promise and possibilities.
Golf has long been a mainstay for bachelor parties, but now it’s popular for bachelorette parties, too. Any successful bachelorette party starts with a slogan, a catchy little play on words that drives the weekend.
This is when Hawaii extends its annual Aloha to golf, a greeting warmly reciprocated. The PGA Tour’s traditional two-week swing through the islands stands as one of the rare non-major rituals on golf calendar. The vibrant, dramatic topography of Maui and Honolulu set against the forever-blue Pacific explodes through winter, shaking us from post-holiday malaise. Read more…
Remember when the bowl games on January 1 put a period on the end of the college football season? Or when the Super Bowl was always played in January? Or the pro golf year started with those gorgeous views of Kapalua and the Maui coastline? The sports calendar has changed dramatically over the past decade, Read more…
Welcome again to Golf Digest Honors, our annual tradition where pros, amateurs and weekend golfers are judged as equals. All year long we fawn over prize money and polished skill, but once a season we strive to recognize even more. Who among us produced feats that flashed the ethereal magic of this universal game? As Read more…
It is a time of reckoning for the American Ryder Cup team, brought by an embarrassing collapse during the first two days at Bethpage Black that, three months later, remains no less dispiriting. That may seem hyperbolic after a singles-session surge nearly produced a historic comeback in the 45th edition of the match back in Read more…
In the afterglow of his career Grand Slam triumph in 2025, McIlroy stands at a career inflection point. The question isn’t what he wants to achieve anymore. It’s what he wants to leave behind – and where he wants to leave it.
To describe the sentiment that dominated the game of golf for much of the last 12 months, this one-word phrase likely suffices: FINALLY! Indeed, in ways large and small, 2025 turned out to be a year in which patience was rewarded. The most obvious example came in April, when Rory McIlroy ended an 11-year winless Read more…
Scanning through some of the best modern players in the game and their best statistical rounds in that period, Els’ 60 at Royal Melbourne in 2004 betters them all.
It is Thanksgiving and I’m visiting family in Cincinnati, which means the worst golf hole in America is down the street. Fernbank Golf Course’s opener stretches 254 yards, a modest dogleg with a bunker stationed near the green. In isolation, it qualifies as the proverbial gentle handshake welcoming you to the round. But it’s not Read more…
As if there hasn’t been enough upheaval in professional golf, news emerged last week about the possibility of a future 20-odd tournament schedule for the PGA Tour – a model that could cut the current number of events the tour holds roughly in half. You have questions, we have… well, we have a lot of questions, too, but also some answers. We do our best to explain what exactly is going on.