To say golf is more entwined with its equipment innovations than other sports isn’t opinion. It’s numbers. During the past 40 years, of the tens of thousands of patents granted in sports, golf ideas have numbered twice as many as those for football, baseball, basketball, hockey, tennis, swimming, bowling, soccer, lacrosse and skiing combined. Feverishly
Month: June 2020
If you’ve finally started playing golf, then you almost surely have started to feel those familiar pangs golfers know just as surely as they know the way to their course. No, we’re not talking about back pain or golfer’s elbow, we’re talking about the natural yearning for new clubs that hits at the start of
Golf club technology is constantly progressing. So much so, it’s sometimes difficult to keep up with the latest equipment. We compiled a quick rundown of equipment on the market right now that can help you improve your game. Whether you’re looking at buying your first set of clubs, or you have a standing monthly appointment
In late April, Nova Scotia experienced the deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history when a gunman took the lives of 22 victims. The tragedy was felt across the globe, hitting especially hard during the COVID-19 Pandemic. In an effort to support the families of those victims, Nova Scotia-based Dormie Workshop raised more than $20,000 through
Several winners emerged from the TaylorMade Driving Relief charity match this weekend. Of course, those who helped raise $5.5 million for COVID-19 relief were the biggest winners, with Rory McIlroy and Dustin Johnson winning the competition over Rickie Fowler and Matthew Wolff in an exciting closest-to-the-pin playoff. But Wolff emerged to a larger sports fanbase
Memorial Day may feel a little different this year, but one major aspect is still the same—the sales. The early summer holiday traditionally brings big sales and deals, but you don’t have to wait until Monday because most companies have started slashing prices now. We’ve rounded up the best online shopping promotions on everything from
Johnson is also part of a campaign launching from sports drink company BODYARMOR. The “Only you can make you better” campaign features Johnson and six other athletes on the team–James Harden, Mike Trout, Megan Rapinoe, Naomi Osaka, Skylar Diggins-Smith, and Carlos Vela. Johnson signed with and invested in BODYARMOR in 2016. We caught up with
With the Memorial Day holiday upon us in the U.S., Adidas golf has released an ultra-patriotic golf shoe design to help celebrate at home and abroad. The Nations Pack features five limited edition models of the CODECHAOS golf shoe, each representing a different part of the world: the U.S., Canada, U.K., Japan and South Korea
If you’re a golfer looking to play with golf courses opening in most states, it’s likely you’ve searched the internet for available pushcart options. And most likely, you’ve struck out in that attempt. The gold rush of pushcarts is upon us with most courses enacting walking-only rules and restricting the use of traditional golf carts.
As summer heats up and temperatures rise, the battle between sun protection and style on the golf course will commence. Preventing over-exposure to the sun’s harmful rays is not only about health and safety, but it can be a challenge for maintaining comfort, style and mobility. There are a variety of ways to stay safe
Golf GPS watches have come a long way in utility and appearance. Thoughtful designs allow golfers to access data more efficiently, with less distractions and without sacrificing style. On-course wearables range in price, but one luxury timepiece turning heads this summer is the third generation Tag Heuer Connected Golf Edition watch that launched Wednesday. The
There’s no shortage of cool, new golf products being released on a weekly basis. Whether it’s modern, fashion-forward apparel; stylish but ultra-comfortable shoes; useful accessories; sleek tech; or some other sort of on-course gear, we have eyes everywhere. We’re combing through the best of it all to pinpoint the best new golf stuff we’re talking
Let’s take a step back and consider what it means to slice a putt. It’s no different than slicing a drive: The club cuts across the ball from out to in with the clubface open. And just like with the driver, the result is a weak shot that veers off line. The difference in putting
Golf Digest published its first article on how to play this magnificent and infuriating game in the spring of 1950. Fittingly, it was titled “How to putt.” Can’t get that right, the editors must have figured, and there’s no sense in learning the rest. But since that time, the rest has been covered in this
A few weeks ago, we asked fans to take the ultimate leap of faith by submitting a video of their swing to be critiqued by none other than Tiger Woods himself. Quite a few took the plunge, and Woods didn’t hold back with his analysis. Case in point: the first swing Woods is shown is
Tony Caine was watching his golf swing in a mirror, as he often did. Yet this day he saw something different. “I suddenly noticed I could turn more without stressing my shoulders and back,” recalls the 63-year-old who previously endured back problems so severe they required surgery. “With that improved range of motion, my clubhead
One simple way to keep your swing on track is to review the fundamentals in step-by-step order. That allows you to check your technique in small pieces and identify where you might be getting out of position. In many ways, each part of the swing is only as good as the parts that come before
It has literally never been easier to either start learning how to play golf or improve the skills you already have. Golf Digest has been the leading authority on finding the best instructors nationwide for more than 20 years, through our 50 Best Teachers and Best Teachers in Your State programs, but a traditional face-to-face,
Seminole Golf Club, a mainstay in Golf Digest’s biennial ranking of America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses, will be center stage during the TaylorMade Driving Relief Skins Game pitting Rory McIlroy and Dustin Johnson against Rickie Fowler and Matthew Wolff. What will viewers see when the vaunted course makes its television debut? Veteran architecture editor Ron
How much thought does an average golfer give to the way holes are laid out on a golf course? Does the routing matter, or at least does it matter more than the quality of the individual holes? Can a golf course be great if the routing is poor, and conversely, can a wonderful routing save
For the last five years, nearly everything Gil Hanse touches seems to turn to gold. Hanse is arguably the hottest, and hardest working, golf architect in the business and has had an incredible string of successes, with both original designs and restorations of storied courses, since the debut of his Rio Olympics course in 2016.
Every architect yearns to work on a great site, and almost all of them will tell you that good land is one of the top requirements for building a good golf course. Over the last 25 years, places like Bandon Dunes, Sand Valley and Barnbougle Dunes, in Tasmania—several of the most incredible sites to ever
While golf is still a ways from normal, the feeling of normalcy brought to us by a return to our beloved game cannot be understated. Golf is now being played in all 50 states, and tee sheets are filling up as demand increases. New players in the form of juniors and adults who have either
BC—Before COVID-19—Sungjae Im was on a roll. The 22-year-old Korean won the Honda Classic, was in contention at the Arnold Palmer Invitational before finishing third, and climbed to the top of the FedEx Cup standings [and is still there]. Then the Players Championship, where he opened with a respectable three-under 69, was canceled and the
FORT WORTH — On the 10th tee at Colonial Country Club Wednesday, Mike “Fluff” Cowan stood apart from the golfers and caddies in his group, some of whom were getting reacquainted in slightly closer proximity. Cowan practiced the standard six feet of recommended social distance—“two club lengths,” according the signage around the Charles Schwab Challenge,
Brooks Koepka has already made his feelings known about the idea of September’s Ryder Cup being held without fans. He doesn’t like it. Wednesday, he took things a step further. Asked at the Charles Schwab Challenge if he could see a scenario in which a player protests no spectators at Whistling Straits by opting not
The way 2020 was going, Brooks Koepka needed something to happen. When he arrived at TPC Sawgrass for the Players Championship, he had played just three tournaments in the calendar year: T-43, T-47 and a missed cut. He was struggling with a nagging knee injury, one which required surgery last fall, and felt like he
As chairman and chief executive of Dick’s Sporting Goods, Ed Stack oversees golf’s largest retail footprint, which includes about 100 Golf Galaxy locations. Before the pandemic forced his stores to close, the golf business in 2020 was off to one of its best starts ever. Then, as Dick’s Sporting Goods and Golf Galaxy stores began
The PGA Tour resumes operations this week, and one of its players will do so with a heavy heart. On Wednesday, an emotional Camilo Villegas—who is playing in the Korn Ferry Tour event at TPC Sawgrass—announced his 20-month-old daughter Mia is battling tumors. “She went through surgery and obviously needed treatment. She just started her
FORT WORTH — More than 900 volunteers originally were scheduled to work this week at Colonial Country Club. They couldn’t wait to put on their new uniform shirts, reunite with old friends and do their parts, whether it be making sure practice balls were washed, players got safely to the first tee, corporate hospitality was
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