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It’s been quite a year in golf. A dramatic one, if nothing else. And like any good drama, the stage was set with different characters, hitting their lines, playing their parts in moving the story along. So, now, with that analogy not tortured enough, let’s dive into to the key plot points of the year,

9:32 AM ET The LIV Golf League will stage tournaments in Arizona, Oklahoma and West Virginia as part of its expanded schedule in 2023. LIV Golf announced on Wednesday that it will host events at the Gallery Golf Club in Tucson, Arizona, on March 17-19, Cedar Ridge Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on May 12-14,

If Rickie Fowler celebrating his 34th birthday on Tuesday didn’t make you feel old, try this one on for size: Wednesday marked 10 years since Jordan Spieth announced he was leaving college to turn pro. In December 2012, Spieth was a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Texas just finishing up his fall semester when

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The biggest news of March 29, 2022, at least in the golf world, came because of a website that tracks the flights of private aircraft. Thanks to ADS-B Exchange (tagline: “serving the flight tracking enthusiast”), it’s possible to know where your favorite celebrities, athletes and titans of industry are flying at any time, provided you

The Match is a very small sample size; we’ll know a bit more after this weekend’s Father-Son. Tiger certainly looked rusty under the lights, which makes sense because he hadn’t touched a club in the preceding 2½ weeks, or so he said. But his ball speed with the driver was solid, and that to me

Bailey Tardy didn’t plan on playing LPGA Tour Q School. It was only after a conversation with her coach that the 26-year-old former college All-American at Georgia agreed not to let frustration win the day and signed up. It’s a good thing she did. Tardy was one of 46 players to get LPGA Tour cards

It isn’t known how far along the PGA Tour had progressed towards its initiative to counter the LIV Golf Series with an expanded program of “elevated” high-dollar tournaments prior to the Aug. 16 players-only meeting in Wilmington, Del. But with four months’ worth of hindsight, it appears the gathering of nearly two dozen high-profile tour

Much as the outside world might define the golf world narrowly, we know it to cover a fairly broad spectrum. Golf Digest’s two podcast offerings speak to this better than anything. Our narrative podcast, Local Knowledge, applies a magazine sensibility to a half-hour audio documentary format, with subject matter as varied and nuanced as the

Roger Maltbie is returning to television in a limited role next year while Gary Koch is planning “to move onto the next stage of my life after two successful careers.” Both, however, are making their respective swan songs at NBC Sports at this week’s PNC Championship in Orlando. The two mainstays of the NBC golf

12:30 PM ET Associated Press MALELANE, South Africa — Ockie Strydom claimed his first DP World Tour title with a 2-shot victory at the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa on Sunday. Strydom made four birdies in his first five holes after the turn to seize the outright lead and finished with a 3-under 69

Sahith Theegala swears he had just one goal for 2022 as he played his rookie season on the PGA Tour—keep his card. No more, no less. The 25-year-old former national college player of the year at Pepperdine assured himself of that early in the year as he contended late into Sunday at the Waste Management

5:04 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Sahith Theegala made a 15-foot birdie putt on the final hole Sunday as he and Tom Hoge closed with a 10-under 62 in fourballs and became the first rookie team to win the QBE Shootout in 11 years. Ryan Palmer and Charley Hoffman each missed birdie putts

Confidential documents reviewed by the New York Times reveal a proposal put together by an outside consulting firm set fantastical, and borderline unrealistic, assumptions needed for Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf to achieve financial success. A 2021 plan called “Project Wedge” from the firm McKinsey & Company outlined a number of scenarios for the Saudi Arabian

Going low isn’t just recommended at the QBE Shootout, a two-player team event, it’s a requirement. A year ago the winning team of Jason Kokrak and Kevin Na made three bogeys for the entire 54-hole event (amazingly the most of all 20 teams) yet won thanks to their 12 birdies on the last 13 holes.

3:02 PM ET Associated Press MALELANE, South Africa — Ockie Strydom carded a 63 to equal the course record set by Scott Jamieson a day earlier and join the Scottish player in a share of the lead after three rounds of the Alfred Dunhill Championship on Saturday. Home player Strydom made a late bogey on

BELLEAIR, Fla. — Upon first sight of Tiger Woods on Saturday night at Pelican Golf Club, things seemed pretty dire. Ninety minutes before balls were in the air, Woods was literally using a golf club as a cane as he made his way to Bleacher Report’s “hot seat press conference,” where he, partner Rory McIlroy

6:50 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Charley Hoffman and Ryan Palmer had 10 birdies in modified alternate shot Saturday for a 10-under 62, setting the 36-hole record in the QBE Shootout and taking a 2-shot lead into the final day. Teammates for the first time, Hoffman and Palmer were at 26-under 118. That

The vision for Capital One’s The Match—being played for a seventh time this weekend—has always been to provide a made-for-TV product that’s a little different, pushing the boundaries of the traditionally buttoned-up sport to appeal to a wider audience, all while raising millions of dollars for charity. Originally conceived as a pay-per-view duel between Tiger

For 22 years, Tim O’Neal was haunted by one letter followed by one word: Q School. Twice, O’Neal came to the final hole of the PGA Tour’s Qualifying School tournament with a chance to earn fulltime playing privileges. Twice, he was crushed by not getting the job done. Today, all of those bad feelings and

9:37 AM ET If you were hoping for the venom of a Phil Mickelson–Tiger Woods showdown in previous iterations of The Match — or certainly what a rematch might bring today — then Saturday night’s made-for-TV clash featuring Woods and world No. 1 Rory McIlroy against Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas might seem more like

In the decade since Brandel Chamblee turned 50 and became eligible for the PGA Tour Champions, the Golf Channel analyst has preferred talking on TV to playing on TV—competing in just six senior circuit events. But that doesn’t mean the guy still can’t play at a really high level. Chamblee is giving PGA Tour Champions

Some history. Over the nearly half-century that it went by the European Tour rather than the DP World Tour it has become, the Old World circuit’s relationship with the Ryder Cup has undergone a dramatic about-face. When the team was filled with those hailing from “Great Britain & Ireland,” the biennial contest with the United

When players talk about Q School, there is no fondness involved. Playing for your card is stressful work. No one feels that more right now than the 75 players who advanced out of the first four rounds of LPGA Q School, called Q Series, last weekend and face another four rounds beginning on Thursday. Here’s

2:33 PM ET Associated Press MALELANE, South Africa — Dean Burmester made six birdies on the back nine to complete his 7-under 65 for a one-shot lead at the Alfred Dunhill Championship on Thursday. The 33-year-old South African, looking for his third European tour title, had managed just two birdies and a bogey by the

Will Zalatoris is close to returning to competition. What better place to reassimilate into work than Maui. Zalatoris, who has been sidelined since August due to injury, has committed to the Sentry Tournament of Champions beginning Jan. 5 at the Plantation Course at Kapalua. The 26-year-old is coming off a campaign highlighted by runner-up finishes

There are things you’ll never forget from 2022—LIV Golf, Phil Mickelson, Cam Smith over Rory at St. Andrews, etc. etc.—and there are things that felt memorable at the time, but are easy to lose in the shadow of the really big stories. Let’s take an end-of-year detour now and tip our caps to the moments

With Fred Perpall having served on the USGA Executive Committee in the role of President Elect for the last year, there was no surprise when the governing body announced this week that the 47-year-old Dallas resident was nominated to become the USGA’s 67th president starting in 2023. Yet with his expected election at the USGA

4:18 PM ET Tiger Woods is ready to go for the latest edition of “The Match” on Saturday night, even if his right foot isn’t fully healed. Woods, a 15-time major champion, will team up with world No. 1 Rory McIlroy in a 12-hole match against Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas under the lights at

More broadcast changes are coming to the NBC Sports/Golf Channel broadcast, according to multiple reports. A month after longtime voices Roger Maltbie and Gary Koch saw their extended runs with the network come to an end, former PGA Tour players Brad Faxon and Smylie Kaufman are expected to fill the vacated roles. The news was