LPGA 2026 Preview: 15 players to watch

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 Digest Honors: Recapping the best golf ‘accomplishments’ of 2025

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…

What the American Ryder Cup team can learn from USA Basketball

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…

Rory McIlroy’s future could be very different than you think

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.

2025 Newsmakers of the Year

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…

Giving thanks for ‘bad’ golf

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…

How real is the possibility of a 20-event PGA Tour season? Let’s lay it out

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.