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HONG KONG, CHINA - MARCH 09: Bryson DeChambeau(L) of Crushers GC greets Jon Rahm of Legion XIII on the tee of 2nd hole on day three of LIV Golf Hong Kong at The Hong Kong Golf Club on March 09, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Zhizhao Wu/Getty Images)

Major winners reject PGA Tour's offer to return from LIV

Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and Cam Smith say they'll stick with LIV after Brooks Koepka decided to make his tour return

Stupid Golf Problems: What’s the appropriate punishment for reselling pro shop merchandise?

The PGA Tour brilliantly walked a tightrope of acceptance and punishment to bring Brooks Koepka back into the fold

PGA Tour announces FedEx Cup Fall schedule: 3 events added and 2 are out

Latest

Wyndham Clark 'torn' over Brooks Koepka's PGA Tour return, thinks there should have been 'a few more repercussions'

How chicken farming helped William Mouw become a PGA Tour winner

Work is underway at Old Shores, Michael Keiser’s new course in Florida, where Tom Doak is working with features ‘unlike anything I’ve seen on a golf course’

PXG 0311 T, P and XP GEN8 irons: What you need to know

Pair of PGA Tour players jump to LIV Golf; Dustin Johnson re-signs with Saudi league

Previewing 2026

Looking ahead

Golf events to circle on your calendar for 2026

Scottie Scheffler goes for the career Grand Slam at Shinnecock and the first U.S. Women's Open at Riviera highlight a packed golf season for 2026

Tiger @ 50

Tiger @ 50: State-of-the-art tech reveals an important metric in Tiger's golf swing

Tiger @ 50: Advanced stats reveal key insights about Tiger Woods' peak years

Tiger @ 50: What Woods’ radical swing change revealed about his competitive mindset

Tiger @ 50: Testing Woods’ iconic Titleist 975D driver against his modern gamer

Tiger @ 50: Peak Tiger Woods stayed fit with this jaw-dropping training schedule

Tiger @ 50: The secret to Woods' clutch putting wasn't perfection, but something more important

How To

Rules of Golf Review: My opponent says I can't take relief from a hole dug by the club's working dog. True?

3 things Michelle Wie West says to look for when using this popular putting aid

Low Net: How to set goals you can stick to

2 steps to hitting a draw off the tee

This type of swing looks over the top, but it can work—golf’s top teacher shows you how

Training for golf this year? These 3 exercises are your starter kit

Uphill Lie Checklist

Two golf legends both trusted this same unusual swing move

Rules of Golf Review: My opponent dug his feet in a bunker, then got another club and did it again. Isn't that building a stance?

Pick one of these simple New Year's resolutions and you'll be a better golfer in 2026

The simple—yet critical—lesson to learn from Charley Hull’s range session

How good at golf could you get if you really practiced?

Here’s how the USGA answered two of the strangest Rules of Golf questions it got in 2025, according to a rules expert

Rules of Golf Review: I just played from the wrong tee box and pumped it OB. Do I have to hit it again from the correct tee?

How to make your New Year’s golf resolutions stick

Ageless Golf(er)

Bernhard Langer's advice for playing this game for decades to come

Swing Sequence: Tony Finau

Finau explains the key feelings that have helped him hone his power fade.

Lie Detector

Lie Detector: The simple downgrain chip

Lie Detector: The 'teed up' in rough chip

Lie Detector: The unpredictable mudball

Lie Detector: Buried in nasty rough

Lie Detector: The flyer lie

Girls Gone Mild

How golf bachelorette parties became a thing

Where to Play

Work is underway at Old Shores, Michael Keiser’s new course in Florida, where Tom Doak is working with features ‘unlike anything I’ve seen on a golf course’

How David McLay Kidd doubled down on fun with new Scarecrow course at Gamble Sands—giving him another Best New winner

The Fall Line is golf's next great exclusive club—and our experts got a first look

Best New Courses of 2025: Thousands of ratings from our experts determined the latest winners

The 25 best locker rooms in golf, ranked

6 new courses on our bucket list for 2026

The 10 best new holes I saw in 2025

Aussie tour pro's dream is realized with spectacular 7 Mile Beach course in Tasmania

An architecture Q&A with Tyler Rae: ‘Maybe we’re going to become the Raynor guys’

How Walter Hagen’s unlikely 54-hole loop in 1920 inspired my own

Why do so many new courses look the same?

The St Andrews Links Trust adds an eighth course to its portfolio

Best Winter Golf Trips: 11 underrated trips we're booking now

13 of the best holes our writers played this year

Tom Fazio thinks 'outside the box' in building his first course in the Middle East

'every hole at'

‘An almost supernatural backdrop for golf’: Inside the gates of Sleepy Hollow Country Club

The best conditioned courses in the U.S., ranked

ACS Experiences Auction

How anybody can play Trout National, Crystal Downs and other exclusive private golf courses

Panther National: A rare peek inside the gates of the Skins Game host with photos and reviews from our experts

Trout National is one of the most hyped new courses in recent memory. And we got a first look

Golf Digest's 50 Best Teachers in America

We've updated our definitive list of golf's best teachers, as voted by their peers

What to Play

Every driver used by a winner on the PGA Tour in the 2025 season

Every putter used by a winner on the PGA Tour in the 2025 season

The clubs Sami Valimaki used to win the 2025 RSM Classic

The clubs Adam Schenk used to win the 2025 Butterfield Bermuda Championship

The clubs Ben Griffin used to win the 2025 World Wide Technology Championship

The clubs Michael Brennan used to win the 2025 Bank of Utah Championship

The clubs Xander Schauffele used to win the 2025 Baycurrent Classic

The clubs Steven Fisk used to win the 2025 Sanderson Farms Championship

Hot List Extra: The best-looking mallet putters on the 2025 Hot List

Your Questions Answered

The equipment steps you can take to get back age-related distance loss

Golf Digest Videos

The latest videos on how to play, what to play, and where to play, along with analysis of what's happening in the game.

59 Questions, 59 Answers from Tour Pros

Why Rory McIlroy Dominates Quail Hollow

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The Secret of Fred Couples’ Smooth Swing | Film Study

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Need a Driver With More Spin? Consider Callaway’s Elyte TD Max

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Scottie Scheffler Proves Phil Mickelson Wrong

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Going for the Screen

The Loop

Woman goes viral for hitting hundreds of flop shots at her husband, and it's peak entertainment

Bryson DeChambeau says doing YouTube full time is an ‘incredibly viable option’ as LIV Golf negotiations rumble on

Watch Will Ferrell roast PGA Tour pros during TGL intros

Sony Open picks 2026: This Englishman will open the season with a win in Hawaii

Stupid Golf Problems: What’s the appropriate punishment for reselling pro shop merchandise?

Decisions, Decisions

Bryson DeChambeau posts cryptic message regarding his pro golf future

Haotong Li delivers most electric ending ever during 15-minute simulator ace challenge on TPC Sawgrass’ 17th hole

The best PGA Tour pro reaction to Brooks Koepka’s return, the craziest golf fan on the planet and Anthony Kim’s latest message to the haters

You can buy this 30-acre Scottish golf course (with four cottages!) for just over $2 million

Philadelphia golf simulator space allows angry Eagles fans to blow off steam by hitting golf balls at offensive coordinator’s face

TGL 2026: Can Tiger Woods’ presence influence the outcome?

Sony Open DFS picks 2026: The disrespect for this new PGA Tour star continues

Close But No Cigar

The subtle way the PGA Tour’s ‘Brooks Koepka’ reinstatement policy leaves Phil Mickelson out in the cold

Anthony Kim sends NSFW message to the ‘keyboard warriors’ after clinching LIV Golf status for 2026

The Feed: The greatest saga in YouTube golf rolls into 2026