AUGUSTA, Ga. — The 2025 Masters was a war between Rory McIlroy and himself. On every possible level. A mental level. An emotional level. And at various points during the final round, a strategic level. “My battle today was with myself,” he said. “It wasn’t with anyone else.” Rory, in many ways, is simply too Read more…
Rory McIlroy was off to an inauspicious start in the final round of the 2025 Masters. He began Sunday with a two-shot lead over Bryson DeChambeau, shouldering the expectation and hope of completing the career Grand Slam. This is his 11th attempt. Those cheering for him couldn’t help but feel a twinge of fear that Read more…
The practice area before the final group plays its final round is a kind of strategy hotbed. Gamesmanship abounds. Who arrives on the tee first? Who walks in front of whom? And by how much? We saw Jon Rahm put on a gamesmanship masterclass a few years ago, and he ended up winning. Is it Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — It’s become a Masters tradition all of its own. Scottie Scheffler’s feet spinning, sliding out from under him. His right shoulder twirling around him. And his golf shots flying exactly where he wants them to, lifting him towards the top. There’s no golfer, now or perhaps ever, who swings the golf club Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga.— Practicing and warming up are distinctly different things. And the data Augusta National is collecting from the practice area this week proves it. You see all sorts of interesting things during pre-tournament practice sessions, some of which we wrote about here. Players alternating technical work with more artful stuff. Different driver-wedge splits, and Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — How high do you tee your driver up? If you’re like many golfers, you don’t give it much thought, but it’s something many pros constantly tinker with to suit the unique demands of each hole. That’s especially true at Augusta National, which requires a variety of trajectories and shot shapes off the Read more…
Augusta, Ga.—It was all going so well for Rory McIlroy during his first round of the 2025 Masters—until it wasn’t. Two double bogeys three holes apart tumbled him down the leaderboard into territory that, if recent history is to be believed, has effectively ended his chances of winning a green jacket. It’s easy to be Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — At age 67, two-time Masters champion Bernhard Langer is playing in his 41st and final tournament at Augusta National. “The course is just getting too long, and I’m getting shorter and shorter, and I’m hitting hybrids where the other kids are hitting 9-irons and 8-irons, maybe even wedges,” he said earlier this Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Over the past decade, Masters week at Augusta National has become more like “Masters 10 days,” with the creation of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur and the Drive, Chip and Putt. For golf fans, each competition presents a unique opportunity to see all ages compete at Augusta National. The DCP National Finals, Read more…
Welcome to MythBusters, a Golf Digest+ series where we explore answers to some of golf’s most common questions through a series of tests with real golfers. While our findings might fall short of definitive, they still aim to shed new light on topics that have consumed golfers for years. That Augusta National Golf Club has Read more…
For those of us who have played Augusta National – it’s a small club that meets once a week and mostly just high-fives each other – the tournament takes on a new light once you’ve navigated the same holes.
Timing is everything, as they say, so credit goes to Golf Digest for having great timing in speaking with Jack Nicklaus on the topic of, well, timing. Shortly before his legendary one-shot victory over Johnny Miller and Tom Weiskopf in the 1975 Masters, Nicklaus was asked about getting his golf swing tuned-up for spring. Before Read more…
Golf Digest’s No. 1-ranked teacher Mark Blackburn came on the Golf IQ podcast recently and dropped some serious knowledge. Knowledge about what many golfers consider the ugliest part of their golf swing: Early Extension According to stats from the AI-driven Mustard Golf App (which you can download right here), about 17 percent of all golfers Read more…
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