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January 23rd, 2026

Girls Gone Mild: How golf bachelorette parties became a thing

Features, February 2026, Golf bachelorette, News

January 10th, 2026

Who are golf’s five-tool players? The 2025 update

All sports are built like pyramids. A mass of players at the bottom, trying and working to rise through the levels to become the best of the best, the elite in their field. Golf is no different. The PGA Tour has 180 active players, each striving to improve every area of their game in order Read more…

January 9th, 2026

Is the PGA Tour being excessively cruel in disciplining anyone who plays in the LIV Q School?

Starting today, the LIV Golf League is holding its version of Q School, dubbed LIV Golf Promotions, at Black Diamond Resort in Florida.

January 9th, 2026

Is this the end of the PGA Tour’s Hawaiian swing? On the uncertain future of Kapalua

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…

January 1st, 2026

Scottie’s slam search, women take on Riviera and a summer of Philadelphia freedom: Golf events to circle on your calendar for 2026

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…

December 31st, 2025

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

December 31st, 2025

Meet the First Tee Game Changers who helped golf grow in 2025

They number in the thousands around the country—an army of volunteers at golf courses who plant seeds of love for golf in children and then nurture that interest in the game and its life lessons. Golf Digest once again recognizes and honors the First Tee Game Changers—the recipients of the highest awards given out by Read more…

December 30th, 2025

Our favorite Golf Digest portraits of 2025

We’ve said this for a few years now: The secret to good storytelling is more than simply smart and insightful words on a page or screen. It also calls for images that capture the essence of the subject, whether the demeanor of an individual, the mood of a moment or richness of place or thing. Read more…

December 29th, 2025

Lewis Chitengwa and the career that might have been

It was December 1992, and the first chapters in the legend of Tiger Woods were being written. Already he had won countless AJGA titles, claimed two of an unprecedented three straight U.S. Junior Amateurs and, as a high school junior, played in his first U.S. Amateur where, in the second round of stroke-play qualifying, he Read more…

December 27th, 2025

Paying tribute to those golf lost in 2025

In 1997, Judy Bell became the first female president of the USGA in its then 102-year history. The standout amateur turned golf trailblazer was asked the morning after her election how it felt to be a woman leading one of the most influential associations in sports, to which she responded, “I don’t know yet how Read more…

Our favorite golf memories from 2025

Painting provides peace for LPGA’s retired Jane Park amid the care for her special needs daughter

What the American Ryder Cup team can learn from USA Basketball

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

2025 Newsmakers of the Year

Australian Open: Ernie Els, Royal Melbourne and one of golf’s greatest rounds ever

November 27th, 2025

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…

November 26th, 2025

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.

November 25th, 2025

The Shot of His Life

There are shots worth millions of dollars, shots that build legacies and shots that spark careers. But away from the tours, far from the big money and the cameras, there are shots that carry a different kind of pressure. Those are the shots that nobody will ever know about, but that define entire lives. And Read more…

November 14th, 2025

It’s been five years since the November Masters, and the photos are still mind-blowing

The 2020 Masters will forever be a visual anomaly, the typically sparkling green fairways of Augusta National Golf Club still present, but framed not amid blooming white and pink spring azaleas but orange and brown autumn foliage.

November 6th, 2025

This player is close to pulling off golf’s version of the Triple Crown

The idea of a “triple crown” isn’t really something associated with golf. We have tournament titles, scoring leaders, major champions and grand slam winners. But what if it did exist golf? In other sports, the designation is typically used to highlight a player’s all-around game, mostly within a single season. In baseball, winning the hitters’ Read more…

November 1st, 2025

How Gary Player plays four rounds a week at age 90 and why he thinks he’ll still be playing at 100

We caught up with Player as he reflected on his latest milestone and his remarkable career.

Leaderboard

The American Express - 2026

Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	Scottie Scheffler	-27	F	4
T2	Jason Day	-23	F	4
T2	Ryan Gerard	-23	F	4
T2	Matt McCarty	-23	F	4
T2	Andrew Putnam	-23	F	4
T6	Sam Stevens	-22	F	4
T6	S.W. Kim	-22	F	4
T8	Sahith Theegala	-21	F	4
T8	Haotong Li	-21	F	4
T8	Russell Henley	-21	F	4
T8	Austin Smotherman	-21	F	4
T8	Tom Hoge	-21	F	4
T13	David Ford	-20	F	4
T13	Zach Bauchou	-20	F	4
T13	Jacob Bridgeman	-20	F	4
T13	Patrick Cantlay	-20	F	4
T13	Wyndham Clark	-20	F	4
T18	S.H. Kim	-19	F	4
T18	Karl Vilips	-19	F	4
T18	Pi Coody	-19	F	4
T18	Rickie Fowler	-19	F	4
T18	Will Zalatoris	-19	F	4
T18	Blades Brown	-19	F	4
T24	Adam Scott	-18	F	4
T24	Ben Griffin	-18	F	4
T24	Harry Hall	-18	F	4
T27	Max Homa	-17	F	4
T27	Jordan Smith	-17	F	4
T27	Matthieu Pavon	-17	F	4
T27	Harris English	-17	F	4
T27	Nick Taylor	-17	F	4
T27	Johnny Keefer	-17	F	4
T27	Sam Ryder	-17	F	4
T27	Max McGreevy	-17	F	4
T27	Sam Burns	-17	F	4
T27	Billy Horschel	-17	F	4
T27	Eric Cole	-17	F	4
T38	Min Woo Lee	-16	F	4
T38	Robert MacIntyre	-16	F	4
T38	Joel Dahmen	-16	F	4
T38	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	-16	F	4
T38	Tom Kim	-16	F	4
T38	J.T. Poston	-16	F	4
T44	Dylan Wu	-15	F	4
T44	Rasmus Højgaard	-15	F	4
T44	Ryo Hisatsune	-15	F	4
T44	A.J. Ewart	-15	F	4
T44	David Lipsky	-15	F	4
T44	Keith Mitchell	-15	F	4
T44	Alex Smalley	-15	F	4
T44	Matt Kuchar	-15	F	4
T44	Car Young	-15	F	4
T44	Ricky Castillo	-15	F	4
T44	Patrick Rodgers	-15	F	4
T44	Rafael Campos	-15	F	4
T56	Davis Riley	-14	F	4
T56	Max Greyserman	-14	F	4
T56	Daniel Berger	-14	F	4
T56	Taylor Moore	-14	F	4
T56	John Parry	-14	F	4
T56	Denny McCarthy	-14	F	4
T56	Michael Brennan	-14	F	4
T63	Chad Ramey	-13	F	4
T63	Seamus Power	-13	F	4
T63	Chandler Phillips	-13	F	4
T63	Matt Fitzpatrick	-13	F	4
T63	Davis Chatfield	-13	F	4
T63	Mac Meissner	-13	F	4
69	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	-12	F	4
T70	Adrien Saddier	-10	F	4
T70	Zach Johnson	-10	F	4
72	Gary Woodland	-9	F	4
73	Zecheng Dou	-6	F	4
CUT	Brice Garnett	-10	F	3
CUT	Camilo Villegas	-10	F	3
CUT	Austin Eckroat	-10	F	3
CUT	Brandt Snedeker	-10	F	3
CUT	Taylor Pendrith	-10	F	3
CUT	Keita Nakajima	-10	F	3
CUT	Kris Ventura	-10	F	3
CUT	Bud Cauley	-10	F	3
CUT	Takumi Kanaya	-10	F	3
CUT	Doug Ghim	-10	F	3
CUT	Andrew Novak	-10	F	3
CUT	Davis Thompson	-10	F	3
CUT	Kurt Kitayama	-10	F	3
CUT	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	-10	F	3
CUT	Michael Kim	-9	F	3
CUT	Harry Higgs	-9	F	3
CUT	Chris Kirk	-9	F	3
CUT	Jason Dufner	-9	F	3
CUT	Hank Lebioda	-9	F	3
CUT	Adam Svensson	-9	F	3
CUT	Stephan Jaeger	-9	F	3
CUT	Kevin Roy	-9	F	3
CUT	Kevin Streelman	-9	F	3
CUT	Tony Finau	-9	F	3
CUT	Peter Malnati	-8	F	3
CUT	Beau Hossler	-8	F	3
CUT	Steven Fisk	-8	F	3
CUT	Lee Hodges	-8	F	3
CUT	Jesper Svensson	-8	F	3
CUT	Lanto Griffin	-8	F	3
CUT	Erik van Rooyen	-8	F	3
CUT	Matt Wallace	-8	F	3
CUT	Justin Rose	-8	F	3
CUT	Emilio Gonzalez	-8	F	3
CUT	Kevin Yu	-7	F	3
CUT	Danny Walker	-7	F	3
CUT	Alex Noren	-7	F	3
CUT	Patton Kizzire	-7	F	3
CUT	Brian Harman	-7	F	3
CUT	Dan Brown	-7	F	3
CUT	Michael Thorbjornsen	-7	F	3
CUT	Vince Whaley	-7	F	3
CUT	Emiliano Grillo	-7	F	3
CUT	Jeffrey Kang	-7	F	3
CUT	Sami Valimaki	-7	F	3
CUT	Frankie Capan III	-7	F	3
CUT	William Mouw	-6	F	3
CUT	S.T. Lee	-6	F	3
CUT	Aldrich Potgieter	-6	F	3
CUT	John VanDerLaan	-6	F	3
CUT	Kensei Hirata	-6	F	3
CUT	Marcelo Rozo	-6	F	3
CUT	Chan Kim	-6	F	3
CUT	Nico Echavarria	-5	F	3
CUT	Gordon Sargent	-5	F	3
CUT	Neal Shipley	-5	F	3
CUT	Jhonattan Vegas	-5	F	3
CUT	Mackenzie Hughes	-5	F	3
CUT	Chandler Blanchet	-4	F	3
CUT	Joe Highsmith	-4	F	3
CUT	Isaiah Salinda	-4	F	3
CUT	Mark Hubbard	-3	F	3
CUT	Patrick Fishburn	-3	F	3
CUT	Matti Schmid	-3	F	3
CUT	Sepp Straka	-2	F	3
CUT	Jackson Suber	-2	F	3
CUT	Michael Block	-2	F	3
CUT	Akshay Bhatia	-1	F	3
CUT	Brian Campbell	-1	F	3
CUT	Justin Lower	E	F	3
CUT	Charley Hoffman	E	F	3
CUT	Adam Long	E	F	3
CUT	Adam Schenk	+2	F	3
CUT	Jimmy Stanger	+3	F	3
CUT	Cam Davis	+3	F	3
CUT	Christo Lamprecht	+4	F	3
CUT	Alejandro Tosti	+5	F	3
CUT	Andrew Landry	+6	F	3
CUT	Pontus Nyholm	+10	F	3
WD	Luke Clanton	-	-
WD	Rico Hoey	-	-
WD	Ludvig Åberg	-	-
WD	Nick Dunlap	-	-