And just like that, PGA Tour golf is back with the 2022 Sentry Tournament of Champions, held annually on the Plantation Course at Kapalua in Maui, Hawaii. The tournament that serves as the official turning of the page to a new season once again has a star-studded field of PGA Tour winners from 2021. Most
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How did the PGA Tour’s best players spend their “winter breaks?” Relaxing? Working on their games? A little of both? These are the question we’ll be asking beginning at this week’s Sentry Tournament of Champions, as the tour resumes the 2021-22 season in Maui. Ahead of that, our Golf Digest staff spent its winter break
Dustin Johnson is uncharacteristically missing from this week’s Sentry Tournament of Champions, having failed to win a PGA Tour event in the 2021 calendar year. It’s the first time he hasn’t qualified to play at Kapalua’s Plantation Course since 2015 and just the third time in the last 13 years he won’t be starting in
After two seasons of Local Knowledge, Golf Digest’s deep-dive narrative podcast, our audience has come to expect stories that open their eyes to undiscovered elements of the golf world. Although each episode endeavors to shine light on a worthy topic, these five were the biggest hits in 2021. 5. The inside story of how “Tin
The PGA of America announced Tuesday that it has settled a dispute with the Trump Organization regarding the PGA’s decision to cancel its contract with Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., to host the 2022 PGA Championship. The PGA of America awarded its flagship event to Trump Bedminster in May 2014, prior to Donald
In a restaurant at an upscale San Diego outdoor mall bustling with post-Christmas shoppers at lunch time, Marty Gorsich considers his good fortune between bites of his salmon and salad. Gorsich is the executive director of the PGA Tour’s Farmers Insurance Open, and just a few miles up the road in La Jolla, he’s got
Grace Summerhays is no stranger to tournament golf. In fact, she has tested herself at almost every level of competitive play there is: junior golf, amateur championships, women’s professional events, even men’s Korn Ferry Tour qualifiers. But there’s one stage she has yet to step on: college golf. Next month, Summerhays will take care of
Phil Mickelson said on Twitter on Wednesday that he has won the $8 million grand prize for the PGA Tour’s Player Impact Program. A well-placed source confirmed Mickelson’s likely victory to Golf Digest, though the results don’t become official until Dec. 31 and won’t be revealed until February, when the tour will distribute a list
A review of Golf Digest’s 10 most popular longform stories from 2021 does not necessarily reveal the most “important” stories of the year. Sure, there were accounts of Brooks vs. Bryson, takeouts on Tiger Woods’ long road to recovery, as well as a profile of one of the game’s most inscrutable figures. But great golf
Pierceson and Parker Coody might be taking this identical twins thing a bit too far. The 21-year-old star senior golfers at the University of Texas are both expected to miss the start of the spring college season after each broke a bone in his right arm in a fluke non-golf accident. First reported by GolfChannel.com,
In the golf betting game, there are quite literally no days off. However, the Christmas season does serve as a nice little respite from sweating your outrights, top 10s and matchup bets for 40-plus weeks of the year. This downtime can be used wisely, though. With no golf on, prospective golf bettors always have their
For the third straight year, U.S. Curtis Cup captain Sarah LeBrun Ingram is making a winter trip to Florida to help scout American players for the upcoming match. The USGA announced on Tuesday the 12 invitees who will be to participating in a practice session ahead of the 2022 Curtis Cup at Merion Golf Club
The golf world lost some prominent figures in 2021, individuals who made lasting contributions to the game and its community. From tour pros to business leaders and international golf ambassadors, each could boast a unique and important impact on the sport. Among the passings that has resonated the loudest from the sport over the last
You remember the major champions, the major beefs and the major breakouts from this year in golf. But what about all the other details that made this season in the game such a rich pageant? This brief quiz on “The Year in Golf, 2021” will touch on and test your knowledge of some of the
Ed Ibarguen is easy to talk to, that much is immediately apparent during a phone call after he’d been inducted into the PGA of America Hall of Fame in November. He has a lot of stories to tell, and a humble, optimistic outlook that makes conversation flow. You can imagine what a lesson with him
Beauty, it’s said, is in the eye of the beholder. The same, perhaps, with beautiful memories. When we asked our writers to think back over the past year and reflect on their favorite golf moments of 2021, many recalled events witnessed by the entire golf world. Others captured more personal vignettes with the game—from trying to find time to
The package arrived sometime in late October, in a long tube of the kind used to ship paintings. Life was busy, so I put it in some forgotten corner, where it sat unopened. When I finally remembered it, after a month, I was sorry it took so long, because inside was a gorgeous print that
Phil Mickelson will be getting an unusually early start to his competitive season in 2022. For the first time in 21 years, he will be playing in the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. Mickelson qualified for the winner’s only event with his historic victory at the PGA Championship last May, where he became the
Karl Kimball, the Director of Golf at Hillandale Golf Course in Durham, N.C., and a former PGA Tour professional, has been living the paradox of the COVID-era golf industry for almost two years now: It’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times. He remembers one recent email that made him laugh in the
The last time Ole Hojgaard played golf with his identical twin sons at their home course of Gyttegaard in Denmark, they both gave their father eight shots. A typical parent-child arrangement, the lads hoped to bequeath their old man at least a fighting chance of ultimate victory. Ole played to his 1-handicap over the par-70
It’s long been said that Tiger Woods is the ultimate needle-mover in golf. He proved that with his return to the PNC Championship this past weekend, though his son Charlie—the potential next needle-mover—certainly played a role, too. According to NBC Sports, the PNC Championship drew its largest audience in over two decades. Its live two-day
3:42 PM ET Associated Press KAPALUA, Hawai’i — Phil Mickelson is headed back to Hawai’i for golf, not a vacation, committing to play the Sentry Tournament of Champions at Kapalua for the first time in 21 years. Mickelson won the winners-only tournament at La Costa Resort in 1998, then has played only twice since it
The unique family atmosphere baked into the PNC Championship makes the two-day exhibition stand out in the minds of most participants. Yes, the 20 pros in the field this week are all highly competitive sorts—you don’t win a major title, a requirement for entry into the event, without having that club in your bag. And
Bryson DeChambeau has never been one for subtlety. So when it comes to the question of his physical transformation over the last two years—and whether steroids potentially played a part in that process—DeChambeau not surprisingly attempted to quell that notion in dramatic fashion. On Monday, DeChambeau announced on Twitter “I am releasing my medical information
Players switched companies, changed gear, ran low on gear, had too much gear. Yes, it was an insanely crazy—and entertaining—year to be an equipment writer covering the world of clubs, balls and contracts on the professional tours. Here’s eight equipment stories from the past 12 months that are worth repeating. Jon Rahm leaves TaylorMade, joins
The PGA Tour has granted conflicting-event releases to members who have petitioned to play in the Saudi International, an Asian Tour event whose Feb. 3-6, 2022 date coincides with the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Phil Mickelson and Xander Schauffele are among a number of PGA Tour players committed to playing in
The formal invitations to the 2022 Masters aren’t expected to go out for another week or so. And for 10 golfers who hadn’t yet locked up a spot in the first men’s major of the new year, well they should be keeping their eye on the mailbox. The Official World Golf Ranking for this week
3:04 PM ET Associated Press The top 50 from the final world ranking of the year was set on Sunday, adding 10 players to the field for the Masters in April. The list includes Matthew Wolff, Mackenzie Hughes of Canada and Ryan Palmer, who are exclusive members of the PGA Tour. The final ranking, along
ORLANDO — The switch flipped around the turn. Tiger Woods had been in hit-and-giggle mode for the previous two-plus days of the PNC Championship, content to play a few shots and crack a few jokes. Let us not forget that the man nearly lost his leg in February. But Tiger felt better from the moment
5:04 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods accomplished both of his goals this weekend at the PNC Championship — having fun with his son, Charlie, and managing to play the scramble format of the event without making a bogey. But along the way, the old competitive fire burned bright as Woods not only played