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May 4th, 2024

This feel-good story will get you excited for college golf’s postseason

Seventy-two schools begin play at six NCAA Women’s D-I regional sites starting Monday, but no program has more reason to be grateful for its tee time than the Dartmouth women’s golf team. The Big Green are making their maiden NCAA postseason appearance after winning the Ivy League title last month for the first time in Read more…

May 4th, 2024

Why Jake Knapp’s ultra-powerful golf swing looks so smooth

If there’s such a thing as a modern throwback swing, Jake Knapp’s is it. The PGA Tour rookie’s long, syrupy backswing is of a bygone era but with the ball speed-boosting elements of today’s high-powered swings. The new-old combination helped the 29-year-old California native capture his first PGA Tour win—the Mexico Open at Vidanta—in just Read more…

May 4th, 2024

Tom Weiskopf’s desperate hours trapped in a bog

Editor’s note: In celebration of Golf Digest’s 70th anniversary in 2020, we revisied tthe best literature and journalism we’ve ever published. Catch up on earlier installments. Weiskopf died in 2022 at age 79 from pancreatic cancer. Tom Weiskopf of Columbus, Ohio, and Ohio State had the misfortune of playing in the same picture frame as Jack Read more…

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May 5th, 2024

LIV Golf Singapore: All-Aussie Ripper GC win, Cam Smith and Marc Leishman second to Brooks Koepka

Cameron Smith and his all-Australian Ripper GC have rounded into sensational form in time for the remaining three majors of this year, bagging a second consecutive teams victory on LIV Golf at its Singapore event.

May 3rd, 2024

WATCH: Fake TikTok ‘tradies’ sneak into LIV Golf Adelaide, approve of party hole

A couple of Adelaide locals have gone viral after recording themselves sneaking into Grange Golf Club during the second edition of LIV Golf Adelaide and, well, living it up on the tournament’s famous party hole.

May 2nd, 2024

WATCH: Lucas Herbert is the latest loser of Ripper GC’s ‘bad shirt’ prank

WARNING: Some viewers may find the following footage offensive.

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April 24th, 2024

Editor’s Letter: And The Winner Is… Australian Golf

SPOILER ALERT! Royal Melbourne West is not the No.1 golf course in Australia.

April 24th, 2024

News You May Have Missed: May 2024

Aussie of the month: Jesse Linden The 12-year-old from Campbelltown in Sydney travels regularly to the US to compete against the best junior golfers in the world. His parents’ investment, and Jesse’s hard work on his game, paid off in April when he became the first Australian to compete in the 10-year history of Augusta Read more…

April 24th, 2024

Journeys: ‘I Am Such A Nobody So It’s Pretty Much A Free Crack At The Open’

Crowned the PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit winner in his rookie season, Kiwi Kazuma Kobori now has the world’s best in his sights

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How to play

May 3rd, 2024

How to protect your wrists

Injuries such as sprains, tendinitis, carpal-tunnel syndrome – and even fractures of a delicate bone called the hook of hamate – are common wrist issues that golfers experience.

May 3rd, 2024

How this backswing ‘fault’ supercharged Jack Nicklaus’ golf swing

What looked like bad form to some was actually a key to Nicklaus’ huge tee shots.

May 1st, 2024

Why Lee Trevino trusts this go-to power move for older golfers

With your trail foot dropped back, you’re so far away from the ball on the backswing that the only way to get back to the ball is to shift aggressively into your lead foot on the downswing.

What to play

May 3rd, 2024

TaylorMade P•UDI, P•DHY utility irons: What you need to know

The new, sleeker P•UDI and wider-soled P•DHY aim to replace the long irons, hybrids or high-lofted fairway woods in the bag by offering a flatter, more penetrating flight, but still exhibiting the ball speed of a flexible-face iron.

May 2nd, 2024

Why Tiger Woods wants to ‘ruin the logo’ of his new Sun Day Red apparel line

Classic Tiger. And we’re guessing whoever is in charge of Sun Day Red’s marketing has sketched out tweaked logos using 16-plus stripes.

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April 30th, 2024

Which is more important for maximising driver distance, the club or the ball?

In order of importance, especially with the driver, the club plays a more important role than the ball. Here’s why.

Where to play

May 1st, 2024

The perfect location for a Scottish golf hideaway just came up for sale

If you have the means and the interest to build the ultimate Scottish golf Shangri La, the ideal property might have just come on the market.

April 26th, 2024

An exclusive look at Ohoopee Match Club: Gil Hanse narrated our new hole-by-hole video

Ohoopee Match Club is in rare air among modern courses. Only five new designs have debuted higher on our America’s 100 Greatest Courses ranking over the past 30 years, putting the Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner design in the same conversation as some of the highest-ranking courses of the modern era, such as Sand Hills Read more…

April 24th, 2024

Top 100: The King Rises

A new No.1 is indicative of an ongoing tight tussle at the top in our
19th biennial ranking of Australia’s Top 100 Golf Courses.

Women in Golf

May 2nd, 2024

Golf Rules

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May 2nd, 2024

Opinion

April 28th, 2024

Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	Taylor Pendrith	-19	F	3
2	Jake Knapp	-18	F	3
T3	Ben Kohles	-17	F	3
T3	Matt Wallace	-17	F	3
T5	Alex Noren	-15	F	3
T5	Kelly Kraft	-15	F	3
T7	Kevin Tway	-14	F	3
T7	Vince Whaley	-14	F	3
T7	Byeong Hun An	-14	F	3
T7	Troy Merritt	-14	F	3
T11	Sung Kang	-13	F	3
T11	Min Woo Lee	-13	F	3
T11	Stephan Jaeger	-13	F	3
T11	Ben Griffin	-13	F	3
T11	S.W. Kim	-13	F	3
T11	Zach Johnson	-13	F	3
T11	Nick Dunlap	-13	F	3
T11	Aaron Rai	-13	F	3
T11	S.H. Kim	-13	F	3
T11	Keith Mitchell	-13	F	3
T21	Chris Gotterup	-12	F	3
T21	Patton Kizzire	-12	F	3
T21	Justin Lower	-12	F	3
T21	Andrew Novak	-12	F	3
T21	Daniel Berger	-12	F	3
T21	Alex Smalley	-12	F	3
T21	Adam Schenk	-12	F	3
T28	Luke List	-11	F	3
T28	Aaron Baddeley	-11	F	3
T28	Nico Echavarria	-11	F	3
T28	Maverick McNealy	-11	F	3
T28	Adam Scott	-11	F	3
T28	Jorge Campillo	-11	F	3
T28	Taiga Semikawa	-11	F	3
T35	Mark Hubbard	-10	F	3
T35	Dylan Wu	-10	F	3
T35	Ryo Hisatsune	-10	F	3
T35	Rafael Campos	-10	F	3
T35	Kevin Dougherty	-10	F	3
T35	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	-10	F	3
T35	Davis Riley	-10	F	3
T42	Ryan McCormick	-9	F	3
T42	Henrik Norlander	-9	F	3
T42	Car Young	-9	F	3
T42	Tom Hoge	-9	F	3
T42	David Skinns	-9	F	3
T42	Austin Cook	-9	F	3
T42	Max McGreevy	-9	F	3
T42	Harrison Endycott	-9	F	3
T42	K.H. Lee	-9	F	3
T51	Tom Kim	-8	F	3
T51	Kris Kim	-8	F	3
T51	Tyson Alexander	-8	F	3
T51	Martin Laird	-8	F	3
T55	Sam Stevens	-7	F	3
T55	Joel Dahmen	-7	F	3
T55	Scott Piercy	-7	F	3
T58	Ben Martin	-6	F	3
T58	Jason Day	-6	F	3
T58	Mackenzie Hughes	-6	F	3
T58	Kevin Chappell	-6	F	3
T58	Hayden Buckley	-6	F	3
T63	S.Y. Noh	-5	F	3
T63	Brandt Snedeker	-5	F	3
T63	Beau Hossler	-5	F	3
66	Tom Whitney	-3	F	3
CUT	Jacob Bridgeman	-5	F	2
CUT	Rico Hoey	-5	F	2
CUT	Robert MacIntyre	-5	F	2
CUT	Thomas Detry	-5	F	2
CUT	Doug Ghim	-5	F	2
CUT	Nate Lashley	-5	F	2
CUT	Chesson Hadley	-5	F	2
CUT	Kevin Yu	-5	F	2
CUT	Matti Schmid	-5	F	2
CUT	Alejandro Tosti	-5	F	2
CUT	Harry Hall	-5	F	2
CUT	Nick Hardy	-5	F	2
CUT	Brad Hopfinger	-5	F	2
CUT	Quade Cummins	-5	F	2
CUT	Thorbjørn Olesen	-5	F	2
CUT	Bronson Burgoon	-4	F	2
CUT	Justin Suh	-4	F	2
CUT	Kevin Kisner	-4	F	2
CUT	Joe Highsmith	-4	F	2
CUT	Greyson Sigg	-4	F	2
CUT	Matt Kuchar	-4	F	2
CUT	Bill Haas	-4	F	2
CUT	Chan Kim	-4	F	2
CUT	Wilson Furr	-4	F	2
CUT	Hayden Springer	-4	F	2
CUT	Zecheng Dou	-4	F	2
CUT	Michael Kim	-4	F	2
CUT	Mac Meissner	-4	F	2
CUT	Callum Tarren	-4	F	2
CUT	Austin Smotherman	-4	F	2
CUT	Sam Ryder	-4	F	2
CUT	Joseph Bramlett	-4	F	2
CUT	Jordan Spieth	-4	F	2
CUT	Lanto Griffin	-4	F	2
CUT	Bud Cauley	-3	F	2
CUT	Carl Yuan	-3	F	2
CUT	Brice Garnett	-3	F	2
CUT	David Lipsky	-3	F	2
CUT	Jhonattan Vegas	-3	F	2
CUT	Chez Reavie	-3	F	2
CUT	Matt NeSmith	-3	F	2
CUT	Cameron Champ	-3	F	2
CUT	Brandon Wu	-3	F	2
CUT	Raul Pereda	-3	F	2
CUT	Ben Silverman	-3	F	2
CUT	Pi Coody	-2	F	2
CUT	David Nyfjall	-2	F	2
CUT	Pa Coody	-2	F	2
CUT	Davis Thompson	-2	F	2
CUT	Erik Barnes	-2	F	2
CUT	Alexander Björk	-2	F	2
CUT	Nicholas Lindheim	-2	F	2
CUT	Seamus Power	-2	F	2
CUT	Sami Valimaki	-2	F	2
CUT	Ryan Fox	-2	F	2
CUT	J.J. Spaun	-2	F	2
CUT	Trace Crowe	-1	F	2
CUT	Chad Ramey	-1	F	2
CUT	Zac Blair	-1	F	2
CUT	Robby Shelton	-1	F	2
CUT	Max Greyserman	-1	F	2
CUT	Stewart Cink	-1	F	2
CUT	Ryan Moore	-1	F	2
CUT	Peter Kuest	-1	F	2
CUT	Richy Werenski	-1	F	2
CUT	Jimmy Walker	-1	F	2
CUT	Jimmy Stanger	E	F	2
CUT	KK Limbhasut	E	F	2
CUT	Roger Sloan	E	F	2
CUT	Patrick Fishburn	E	F	2
CUT	Garrick Higgo	E	F	2
CUT	Paul Barjon	E	F	2
CUT	Nick Watney	E	F	2
CUT	Cody Gribble	+1	F	2
CUT	Ryan Brehm	+1	F	2
CUT	Camilo Villegas	+1	F	2
CUT	Ryan Palmer	+1	F	2
CUT	Chandler Phillips	+2	F	2
CUT	Vincent Norrman	+2	F	2
CUT	Wesley Bryan	+2	F	2
CUT	Martin Trainer	+3	F	2
CUT	Josh Teater	+3	F	2
CUT	Blaine Hale, Jr.	+3	F	2
CUT	James Hahn	+3	F	2
CUT	Scott Gutschewski	+4	F	2
CUT	Ben Taylor	+4	F	2
CUT	Kevin Streelman	+5	F	2
WD	Taylor Montgomery	–	–
WD	Norman Xiong	–	–
WD	C.T. Pan	–	–

Tot

Thru

Rnd

Taylor Pendrith

-19

Jake Knapp

-18

Ben Kohles

-17

Matt Wallace

-17

Alex Noren

-15

Kelly Kraft

-15

Kevin Tway

-14

Vince Whaley

-14

Byeong Hun An

-14

Troy Merritt

-14

T11

Sung Kang

-13

T11

Min Woo Lee

-13

T11

Stephan Jaeger

-13

T11

Ben Griffin

-13

T11

S.W. Kim

-13

T11

Zach Johnson

-13

T11

Nick Dunlap

-13

T11

Aaron Rai

-13

T11

S.H. Kim

-13

T11

Keith Mitchell

-13

T21

Chris Gotterup

-12

T21

Patton Kizzire

-12

T21

Justin Lower

-12

T21

Andrew Novak

-12

T21

Daniel Berger

-12

T21

Alex Smalley

-12

T21

Adam Schenk

-12

T28

Luke List

-11

T28

Aaron Baddeley

-11

T28

Nico Echavarria

-11

T28

Maverick McNealy

-11

T28

Adam Scott

-11

T28

Jorge Campillo

-11

T28

Taiga Semikawa

-11

T35

Mark Hubbard

-10

T35

Dylan Wu

-10

T35

Ryo Hisatsune

-10

T35

Rafael Campos

-10

T35

Kevin Dougherty

-10

T35

Adrien Dumont de Chassart

-10

T35

Davis Riley

-10

T42

Ryan McCormick

-9

T42

Henrik Norlander

-9

T42

Car Young

-9

T42

Tom Hoge

-9

T42

David Skinns

-9

T42

Austin Cook

-9

T42

Max McGreevy

-9

T42

Harrison Endycott

-9

T42

K.H. Lee

-9

T51

Tom Kim

-8

T51

Kris Kim

-8

T51

Tyson Alexander

-8

T51

Martin Laird

-8

T55

Sam Stevens

-7

T55

Joel Dahmen

-7

T55

Scott Piercy

-7

T58

Ben Martin

-6

T58

Jason Day

-6

T58

Mackenzie Hughes

-6

T58

Kevin Chappell

-6

T58

Hayden Buckley

-6

T63

S.Y. Noh

-5

T63

Brandt Snedeker

-5

T63

Beau Hossler

-5

Tom Whitney

-3

CUT

Jacob Bridgeman

-5

CUT

Rico Hoey

-5

CUT

Robert MacIntyre

-5

CUT

Thomas Detry

-5

CUT

Doug Ghim

-5

CUT

Nate Lashley

-5

CUT

Chesson Hadley

-5

CUT

Kevin Yu

-5

CUT

Matti Schmid

-5

CUT

Alejandro Tosti

-5

CUT

Harry Hall

-5

CUT

Nick Hardy

-5

CUT

Brad Hopfinger

-5

CUT

Quade Cummins

-5

CUT

Thorbjørn Olesen

-5

CUT

Bronson Burgoon

-4

CUT

Justin Suh

-4

CUT

Kevin Kisner

-4

CUT

Joe Highsmith

-4

CUT

Greyson Sigg

-4

CUT

Matt Kuchar

-4

CUT

Bill Haas

-4

CUT

Chan Kim

-4

CUT

Wilson Furr

-4

CUT

Hayden Springer

-4

CUT

Zecheng Dou

-4

CUT

Michael Kim

-4

CUT

Mac Meissner

-4

CUT

Callum Tarren

-4

CUT

Austin Smotherman

-4

CUT

Sam Ryder

-4

CUT

Joseph Bramlett

-4

CUT

Jordan Spieth

-4

CUT

Lanto Griffin

-4

CUT

Bud Cauley

-3

CUT

Carl Yuan

-3

CUT

Brice Garnett

-3

CUT

David Lipsky

-3

CUT

Jhonattan Vegas

-3

CUT

Chez Reavie

-3

CUT

Matt NeSmith

-3

CUT

Cameron Champ

-3

CUT

Brandon Wu

-3

CUT

Raul Pereda

-3

CUT

Ben Silverman

-3

CUT

Pi Coody

-2

CUT

David Nyfjall

-2

CUT

Pa Coody

-2

CUT

Davis Thompson

-2

CUT

Erik Barnes

-2

CUT

Alexander Björk

-2

CUT

Nicholas Lindheim

-2

CUT

Seamus Power

-2

CUT

Sami Valimaki

-2

CUT

Ryan Fox

-2

CUT

J.J. Spaun

-2

CUT

Trace Crowe

-1

CUT

Chad Ramey

-1

CUT

Zac Blair

-1

CUT

Robby Shelton

-1

CUT

Max Greyserman

-1

CUT

Stewart Cink

-1

CUT

Ryan Moore

-1

CUT

Peter Kuest

-1

CUT

Richy Werenski

-1

CUT

Jimmy Walker

-1

CUT

Jimmy Stanger

CUT

KK Limbhasut

CUT

Roger Sloan

CUT

Patrick Fishburn

CUT

Garrick Higgo

CUT

Paul Barjon

CUT

Nick Watney

CUT

Cody Gribble

CUT

Ryan Brehm

CUT

Camilo Villegas

CUT

Ryan Palmer

CUT

Chandler Phillips

CUT

Vincent Norrman

CUT

Wesley Bryan

CUT

Martin Trainer

CUT

Josh Teater

CUT

Blaine Hale, Jr.

CUT

James Hahn

CUT

Scott Gutschewski

CUT

Ben Taylor

CUT

Kevin Streelman

Taylor Montgomery

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Norman Xiong

–

C.T. Pan

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Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	Brooks Koepka	-15	18	3
T2	Cameron Smith	-13	18	3
T2	Marc Leishman	-13	18	3
4	Talor Gooch	-12	18	3
T5	Tyrrell Hatton	-11	18	3
T5	Thomas Pieters	-11	18	3
T7	Dustin Johnson	-10	18	3
T7	Joaquin Niemann	-10	18	3
T7	Kevin Na	-10	18	3
T10	Jon Rahm	-9	18	3
T10	Eugenio Chacarra	-9	18	3
T10	Abraham Ancer	-9	18	3
T10	Adrian Meronk	-9	18	3
T14	Kalle Samooja	-8	18	3
T14	Patrick Reed	-8	18	3
T14	Sergio Garcia	-8	18	3
T14	Dean Burmester	-8	18	3
T14	Cameron Tringale	-8	18	3
T19	Carlos Ortiz	-7	18	3
T19	Martin Kaymer	-7	18	3
T19	Sebastian Muñoz	-7	18	3
T22	Phil Mickelson	-6	18	3
T22	Peter Uihlein	-6	18	3
T22	Richard Bland	-6	18	3
T22	Louis Oosthuizen	-6	18	3
T22	Kieran Vincent	-6	18	3
T27	David Puig	-5	18	3
T27	Bryson DeChambeau	-5	18	3
T27	Lucas Herbert	-5	18	3
T30	Anirban Lahiri	-4	18	3
T30	Matthew Wolff	-4	18	3
T32	Branden Grace	-3	18	3
T32	Paul Casey	-3	18	3
T32	Harold Varner III	-3	18	3
T35	Charl Schwartzel	-2	18	3
T35	Ian Poulter	-2	18	3
T37	Matt Jones	-1	18	3
T37	Graeme McDowell	-1	18	3
T37	Scott Vincent	-1	18	3
T40	Brendan Steele	E	18	3
T40	Charles Howell III	E	18	3
T40	Caleb Surratt	E	18	3
T40	Jason Kokrak	E	18	3
44	Henrik Stenson	+1	18	3
T45	Andy Ogletree	+2	18	3
T45	Bubba Watson	+2	18	3
T47	Sam Horsfield	+3	18	3
T47	Mito Pereira	+3	18	3
T49	Danny Lee	+4	18	3
T49	Hudson Swafford	+4	18	3
T49	Lee Westwood	+4	18	3
T52	Pat Perez	+6	18	3
T52	Anthony Kim	+6	18	3
54	Jinichiro Kozuma	+8	18	3

Pos

Player

Tot

Thru

Rnd

Pos	Team	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	RIPPER GC	-32	18	3
T2	FIREBALLS GC	-29	18	3
T2	CLEEKS GC	-29	18	3
4	SMASH GC	-28	18	3
5	LEGION XIII	-26	18	3
T6	TORQUE GC	-25	18	3
T6	RANGEGOATS GC	-25	18	3
T8	4ACES GC	-21	18	3
T8	HYFLYERS GC	-21	18	3
10	STINGER GC	-19	18	3
11	CRUSHERS GC	-17	18	3
12	IRON HEADS GC	-6	18	3
13	MAJESTICKS GC	E	18	3

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